The Kidnap Meta: Blood DK's Removing Priests from Rated BGs at 2300+MMR

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Priests cannot climb the ladder beyond 2k-2,2k in Rated Battlegrounds, since they will be permanently removed from the fight by Blood Death Knights, on all maps.

The combination of multiple grips and chains of ice makes it impossible for a priest to escape this.

My friends warned me that this could happen if I queued as a priest.

Of course, it happened the first game.

They are still willing to play with me, but I was instructed to change healing class to Dragon or MW or rsham in order to not be removed from the game.

Hpal can escape this for the first teamfight with early divine shield+steed and resto has no problem with it, however they are not desired in rbg’s atm.

Thus, one of the highest throughput classes, that isn’t fotm (hpriest), and another healing class that got buffed (disc priest), cannot play rbgs.

In shadowlands, priests averted this by using the Legendary Ring to grip themselves to teamates, and playing the Leap of Faith PvP talent (2 self grips+faster recharge).

All during Shadowlands I considered how powerful a Laming Blood DK would be if priests lost the Legendary Ring effects in a new expansion (Dragonlands).

And my prediction from last expasnion came true; without the Leggo double self grip ring, Frost/Unholy dk’s will switch to blood and remove priests from the battleground.

Here are screenshots of the fourth game this happened (fourth game in a single session, unholy dk’s switch to blood if there’s a priest on the enemy team; the meta even has a nickname right now called “Blood Lame”).
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Oh, and goblin priest is the only priest can withstand knock pressure in EOTS and Lumber Mill in AB, because we don’t have a counter knock. Thank god I was goblin until I hit 2k.

My suggestion to counter this is simple.

Priests can self root themselves for a 5% increase in healing. The self root is a commitment, and cannot be canceled for 10 seconds, to punish self rooting in bad scenarios. Can be refreshed after 7 seconds without triggering GCD (if already self rooted)

Any increase to priest mobility to counter this would make priest OP. There is a reason priest has low mobility. Self rooting is the best option.

I just returned to this expansion.

I very much like this expansion.

Dragon Riding is awesome.

But if I cannot play my main class in Rated BG’s (the only game mode I 've played in the past several expansion), than I cannot continue subscribing until this is fixed, since RBG’s are the only content that I subscribe for.

Thank you.

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You kill the blood dk

Disarm does wonders

A little ironic your name is “trainmeplz” and you’re complaining about getting trained

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It’s so rare that you get a real BDK…

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Have you ever played Rated BG’s at high level?

Interesting.

You achieved 1500 rating in on August 8th, 2021; took you three more weeks to get 1600 in the same month.

Ten months later, on June 19th, 2022, you finally got to 1700.

And then all of sudden, in a single week, at the start of April 2023 (this month and year), you suddenly soared to 2100.

You don’t think we can’t recognize a paid carry?

No one has even heard of you.

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im 500 cr higher than you

with a 20% higher win rate

I would prob pvp check before you run your mouth

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Have you ever played Rated BG’s at high level?

Interesting.

You achieved 1500 rating in on August 8th, 2021; took you three more weeks to get 1600 in the same month.

Ten months later, on June 19th, 2022, you finally got to 1700.

And then all of sudden, in a single week, at the start of April 2023 (this month and year), you suddenly soared to 2100.

You don’t think we can’t recognize a paid carry?

No one has even heard of you.

And there are people higher CR than you, every season, for the past four expansions, that have instructed me to change class.

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Sorry not many people at 1800 know who I am

I play with Jaker

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It would have happened in Shadowlands if Priests didn’t have the leggo ring to double grip themselves to teamnates.

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https://imgur.com/a/s1Z6avv

Made you a collage

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Why don’t they prevent changing specs in RBGs?

They do that for arenas.

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because you dont want a tank on a base map

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The other team would also have a tank that can’t swap specs.

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Just leads to boring games and a lot of RNG

Certain maps you wanna be a certain spec, if they removed your ability to swap you’re stuck on a sub optimal spec purely because of RNG

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I’m sure skilled arena players would also like changing specs based on the other team’s comp and the map.

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Map matters a lot more in RBG’s than arena

  • Your thought process is you want a well rounded comp

  • My thought process is I want to face everyteam with their best comp

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And right now the best comp is to remove priests from rbgs

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blood dk is pretty rare

You’re being a little hyperbolic

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Four times in one day (three hours playtime).

Did you see the screenshots in the OP?

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You’re prob just qing into the same person over and over again lol

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No. Unless they are playing four different characters.