Just a heads up, English is not my first language so apologies in advance for any weird grammar or whatever.
First rated season. Yes I am a ret paladin. Its my only character at 60 and I decided on this spec before I even knew what covenants were. I want to try to get as much success as I can with this character. If you Gladiators can help me here on this forum, I would appreciate it a lot as this goal of getting Gladiator has now become very important to me. If I do achieve it, I would like to try to achieve it again on other classes.
LFG- How can I use LFG better to have higher success? I usually just try to join groups near my cr because when I try to make my own group it takes too long for anyone to join.
Addons- I use sarena, omnibar, and bigdebuffs. Should I be using any others like gladiatorlossa? Some say its good some say its for noobs.
Communication- I’ve been playing voice and no voice and it doesn’t seem to matter all that much but I also don’t know what to say sometimes in the action. What should I be communicating if in voice? What should my partners communicate to me?
How do you beat good rogue mage priest teams?
What comp are you playing?
1 Like
I’m not a gladiator on this character, I was a gladiator back in BC and just rejoined for SL so take what I say with a grain of salt.
LFG is going to be tough to get glad in unless you run a solid comp. I recommend Fire Mage/Ret/X healer pretty fun comp to play with big burst. My only other piece of advice is to not rush to join groups but find a solid one instead… the time you’ll save by rushing is not worth the potential lack of quality players you’ll play with.
1 Like
you wait for stealth conduit nerfs lol.
3 Likes
I’m not a glad but maybe some advice from a 2200 player will be helpful.
To be completely honest, I think LFG only works successfully for high-xp players. These people are completely comfortable with their classes and arenas to the point where they don’t need to build “synergy” with randoms to win. Someone at your level really needs to put in the seat time and just play as many games as you can with as many people as you can to build your awareness and ability to position yourself well.
My recommendation is to join a guild that focuses on PvP and has a solid group of arena players you can talk to and play/network with. Let them know you’re still fairly new and would like some coaching. Be open to what people tell you, and listen. Watch them play too - you will learn a lot. Once you’ve got some people in your network that you can start pushing with, play with them and build some synergy. Practice, practice, practice. Unless you’re getting carried, you don’t go from beginner to glad when you’re a fresh arena player - you get there from months or years of games played and building on your skills and network.
Gladiatorlosa, I think, it great for beginners. That being said, I think it’s even better when paired with an addon where you can visibly see the CDs being popped as well to help you build that awareness. Gladiatorlosa is there to help give you the verbal cue while you’re developing your visual cues. After a while, you won’t need it anymore.
I’m also a fan of flyPlateBuffs, which make CC icons on targets huuuuge. This is important for lining up CCs and not breaking certain CCs your team uses against the enemy (blinds).
If you’re playing with voice (and to be honest, at your level, you should) the basics of communication to me come down to a few things:
- CDs. When are my teammates about to pop their big cooldowns? As a healer, I need to know if you’re going to bubble yourself so I don’t overlap with a Pain Sup or dome.
- CCs. Getting ready to HoJ the enemy healer? Great, I can get ready to run over a line up a fear.
- Positioning. Are you in a bad spot, CCd behind a pillar away from your team? Is one of the enemy players in a bad spot, out in the open where we can do a swap to them?
Obviously it’s situational, but generally speaking your whole team needs to rotate defensives and/or shut down the mage on combust, while stopping the rogue from getting a re-stealth. Line polys from the mage where possible and try to take down the rogue. This is a CC team that relies on a strong opener, so if you can shut down that opener and try to match their CCs, you give yourself a good chance of winning.
2 Likes
I just LFG so any comp. I have heard warrior goes good with ret but I haven’t had too much success with it yet. I would like to win more than lose ofc, but I want this Achievement bad enough that I will play as many games as it takes, even if I have to fall below 50% win rate.
Arms/Ret is a solid comp… try Ret/Fire or Ret/rsham ret/disc if you prefer heals
1 Like
Don’t take advice on getting gladiator from non-gladiators.
2 Likes
Arms/Ret/Any healer (pref rsham).
Enjoy your new mount!
Fair warning, though: LFG is straight up trolls 99% of the time.
You have to sift through it, painfully, to find the 1% that are unicorns.
1 Like