I rarely say much in shuffle or blitz. Other than praising good play, asking for kill targets or asking dot classes if they want me to forego trapping. However, the 1950-2150 MMR range appears to be professional dads that seem to take out their home or work life stress on any given lobby. And I’m saying that as a jaded old man.
Say when. We either have to kidnap Doors to play or my bff Tigerlady will join us.
As a fellow jaded old man, I see the most toxicity at lower lobbies. I played a game on my mage yesterday and didnt iceblock the first game because my healer wasnt in CC and I was pain supped. I saw myself dip to 20% and thought about blocking, but I went for a shimmer back instead… I greeded and died through PS (admittedly it was pressed when I was already at 40%).
Next lobby I got the priest and said, “yo, my bad. I should’ve blocked. Sorry about that, I’ll do better this game”
His response was:
“Sigh
Every game I get stuck with hardstuck idiots who cant press buttons”.
I proceeded to 5-1 the lobby and said “nice!” Or “wp!” After every round… afterwards, the priest rage messaged me and accused me of wintrading and griefing his lobby, making him go 2-4 and lose points and that he hopes I enjoy 30 minute Queues. It’s really unbelievable.
The fact that these players can just Q with no repercussions is insane.
I can after work today (~4:30 ESTish), but I’m going to a friend’s hockey game at 9:30!
Had a hunter decide to chase an enemy warrior around a pillar on the opposite side of the arena ignoring the enemy hunter he ran past that stun–>trapped me.
This same hunter than proceeded to berate me for “no heals.” I simply responded “cannot do that while stunned” and he went into an entire diatribe about how I should of been able to avoid the insta-stun–>trap combo and when he got called our for how stupid that is by the other player that round, he started ranting that I wasn’t really CCed.
And people wonder why there is a lack of healers in SS.
Were you in my lobby? I was on my dh with a bm hunter vs fury war and survival hunter. The warrior was at like 20% and leapt behind the pillar. The survival hunter (no trinket, no turtle) pushed up and trapped out healer and then the bm hunter with no trinket and no turtle chased behind the pillar to try and kill the war using his disengage AND cheetah to go INTO melee range and then died instead of just tabbing to and killing the survival hunter…
No this was back during Dragonflight which was the last time I ever stepped foot into RSS when I realized it was just a toxic hellhole I wanted nothing to do with.
Also at the time the war was at like 90% hp, he was just dragging the hunter away because that same hunter had died like 4 out of 5 games already doing thr same garbage.
It’s really amazing how someone will continue to make the same mistake, blame their team, and then go to the forums to blame class balance instead of just taking accountability and admitting they made a mistake to learn from it XD
If the hunter was MM I’d agree but…
Mage has like 45 different ways to not die and the shaman is gonna be RP walking the whole match
The warrior is probably dead after they get parry and will also be snared and rooted the whole game into BM/Enhance
uh yeah i totally dont do that . its so cringe. am i right boys?
Mm is pretty awful atm after all the nerfs.
Okay, so if the shaman goes on the warrior, though, then the mage can perma ring, root, and sheep the pets and other players while the war can line hunter and hit shaman OR play on hunter and two target cleave.
Meanwhile if the shaman goes on the mage with the bm, then it’s MUCH easier to stop mage damage/cc and then the warrior has to pick between hitting the shaman (letting the bm freely pve and trap) or going hunter and sacrifice significant uptime UNLESS the mage also makes himself vulnerable.
Mage is absolutely a better target and it’s not close.
If this is your experience on warrior then you’re not using your kit correctly.
So I’m not an expert on hunter or enh shammy but couldn’t the shammy have taken their root/snare break from their move speed totem, combined with the hunter pet freedom+healer dispels and been able to get some uptime? It wouldn’t of been a ton but it would if been enough for burst windows at least which is about all you really need to force mage CDs isn’t it?
No good deed goes unpunished. Clutched out that 5-1 though.
This week is a bit of a mess as I’m in the process of buying a new house (mega-mansion). However, next week works for me. I’m usually good 6:30 PM EST +. I will get your btag from Doors.
If someone talks trash, afk their rounds. If you’re going 0-6 as a healer just leave before the last round ends, the other healer will understand. NEVER blame yourself, they are lucky to get a queue pop cuz of you.
We gotta stop this self-handicapping nonsense. Bad lobbies and bad days happen to everyone, but if you ever go 0-6 it’s 100% your fault and you SHOULD blame yourself; that doesn’t mean beat yourself up or be hard on yourself, but be realistic and honest that you’re making a lot of mistakes and need to play better.
Hence why I posted it as bad advice… Trying to stay on thread topic no?
Oh, 100% my bad. Sorry, I brain farted and responded in the wrong thread XD
I see people say stuff like that so often I thought it was a real comment.
My apologies!
People aren’t that coordinated in shuffle
Why do all of that when you can just W key the warrior and win
The warrior is probably lining his healer the whole time and leaping out of range, LoS etc
I guess I don’t really think of that as being coordinate vs just common sense and understanding match-ups. Figure the hunter and healer would understand their melee teammate needs to get into melee range to get damage.
Then again I have to remember this is SS and think beyond yourself is considered high level.
Yeah
Also I think rn Enhance is like 50% a ranged spec anyways
As enhance, that’s true if I’m on the mage or not. Going warrior guarantees I’m getting cleaved by both the mage and warrior. The warrior is able to fully utilize their tool kit if I’m on them. By contrast, I can’t use my full tool kit if I’m on the warrior. If we limit damage into the warrior, we can let multiple roots CC them. We can make full use of diamond ice. You can take the warrior out of the right. You can’t do the same to the mage.
Now I don’t think mages are great targets by any means for enhance, quite the opposite, but arms isn’t a great target either, especially if they go me.
While uptime isn’t amazing, between lasso, static field, ghost of wind, etc. I’ll have enough uptime to pressure the mage. If the hunter does actually feed me master call, then the mage would flop pretty easily.
idk why people arn’t agreeing with you lol the mage kiting your pets for a couple secs means nothing when ur spamming black arrow and exactly keeping the warrior out of the game, negating having a hard counter for every mage defensive lol. maybe you can randomly kill the warrior in a fast swap during ascend but usually u get a parry and then go back mage and kill him. Wild