Some matches with Flubbah and Shawir, first time playing KFC (Kung Fu Cleave) in a long time but It seems pretty strong.
A long skype conversation with Braindeadly, Neddeadly, Evoque, Jimos, Fatflop & more.
Involves a lot of banter and trash talking that builds up, including an argument between Neddeadly and Fatflop! Fatflop gets a bit sentimental by default as he’s very drunk!
People have been wondering every season why no one queues, arena queues dry up and the game ends up in a dead stale state. This is because the matchmaking system and scaling of it is totally fucked, saturated and diluted. At the start of the season the MMR of EVERYONE is reset to 1500, and the match making rating gain and loss works like an elastic band that loses its elasticity over time, as you play arena games, if you play at the start with a good comp combined with a winning streak you will sky rocket to high ratings and MMR; everyone else around you is also queueing and gaining a shit ton of MMR everytime they win a match (say 100-200 Match Making Rating per win – the gain diminishes as your win to loss ratio in the system lowers).
Here’s one prime example of a team that played the first two weeks of the season and has camped that rating since then and also played a 3v3 team on outland, only to be stuck at 2350 with 300 games played. I’m not pointing these players out as bad or anything, they obviously hop teams/comps for FUN which is what I do – you get penalized with -200 MMR loss when you change team.
As you can see 2820 as RMP, pve daggers and not many RLS around. – best comp at the start of season 11. It’s not as good now with full gear as seen in NAO tournament when khunas RMP got facerolled by an all-rounded inferior team playing RLS (in my opinion). I think everyone agrees on the RLS part.
Here is some of the same players, stuck at 2350 rating with 300 games played. Prime example of the Match Making Rating being flawed:
Why is this bad?
Because top players love to take the rank 1 spot and compete for it throughout the season, when it becomes linear like this with no dynamics or variables noone logs in or plays, noone cares. The above examples aren’t me pointing the finger at certain teams. I hop teams a lot simply to play for fun but you get punished with MMR penalties and whatever else Blizzard implemented in Season 11. So far Blizzard have fucked over many seasons:
Seasons that have been severely flawed so far by Blizzards’ lack of knowledge in the MMR, Arena and rating systems; their own game:
Season 6 – Queueing system changed 2 weeks before season end where there would be a 10 minute gap between facing the same team – lowered to 5 minutes 1 week before but still fucked over many people.
Season 7 and 8 seemed great in terms of competitive nature.
Season 9 – MMR bugging where bad players could bug their way to 3k+ MMR then simply win a few games to rank 1 (prime example was a russian warlock at 3.2k rating with full blue honor gear).
Season 10 – Blizzard changed the MMR after roughly 4 weeks into the season without resetting ratings; they lowered everyones MMR across the board by 300 or something daft.
Therefore it was IMPOSSIBLE to reach rank 1 in 3v3 unless it was on a BG with relatively low top ratings (roughly 2600).
Season 11 – Problem as stated above, ratings and MMR sky rocket then they slowly diminish, especially if you hop teams and play with friends etc.
Solution: Implement a rating-decay system where you lose rating over-time if you do not queue a certain amount of games per week – so that the ladder stays competitive throughout. Simples.
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Been recording some MoP beta lately with Jimos but it’s terribly buggy… Thought I’d go over some of the abilities/talents that I missed and leave you with some of the bugs we encountered (the video will be up tomorrow btw)
This guy seriously deserves a lot more recognition. Soundcloud YouTube
So yeah, just a little quick update, i’m not a type of person to sit down and write manuscripts.. although if I were i’d be the next best fucking religion.
People have asked me if I have closed my youtube account – yes that is correct. The new youtube layout pissed me the fuck off so much that I couldn’t be bothered with it anymore, another deciding factor was that a few months ago I remixed some dog rhianna song to get views (yeah dumb I know) and I got a copyright strike which meant that I couldn’t ever become partnered with that channel. The main reason however is that I have no time or patience to make videos; which is what most people would have wanted when subscribing to me anyway. All I did was upload music, which lets face it is only a hobby and I don’t really give a damn about ‘pushing’ myself out there.
Some more bad news, or good for those that dislike me, is that for now I have quit WoW totally. I have no time for it right now, and you won’t be seeing me in any future release with Braindeadly or Jimos. I’m still about though, so who knows, but for the time being, you’ll just have to get used to it.
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Just a quick post to address some things that need to be tweaked in beta right now for Hunters and what I think of them so far.
After testing the class a bit in duels it seems to be designed very well by blizzard even though it’s early beta right now; the fact that every spec can have Silencing Shot & Readiness strengthens the class as a whole.
What this does is it basically makes Survival better than Marksmanship by default – who wouldn’t pick a purely magic damage specialization that comes with the best of Cataclysm/WotLK Marksmanship tree (Silence shot and Readiness) and the ever important entrapment passive bonus that ONLY Survival gets. Beast Mastery with the Kill Command change to 25 yard range also removes the clunkyness of the ability and Readiness also resets the cooldown of Beastial Wrath now – I predict that Survival will be competing with Beast Mastery in terms of PvP viability.
As for Marksmanship, what’s left of it? There’s no selling point; rumour has it blizzard wants to make Marksmanship redundant in MoP as it’s been the main spec for the entire lifespan of Hunters in World of Warcraft.
Re-work of our main snare
There was one thing, however, that I do not like at all – which is the removal of Concussive Shot which got baked into Arcane Shot, Cost: 25 Focus 65% weapon damage +3500 as Arcane damage. Now I feel that with the removal of Raptor Strike, Wing Clip & Concussive Shot, blizzard wanted to free up some of our bar space thus baking our snare into Arcane Shot. I have mixed feelings about this as we have to save 25 focus to snare people which only lasts 6 seconds, and right now in Cataclysm I use Concussive Shot a lot on focus targets such as priests to prolong them fearing or to prevent it. I feel, although this may be an attempt for blizzard to free up bar space, it is not a good thing for competitive PvP and feels like a somewhat careless and rash decision on Blizzards part. It also decreases the flexibility of the Hunter class but the positive is that it potentially frees up one global but does cost a nice chunk of focus considering its duration is only 6 seconds long (you also have to use a glyph slot to get this slow – not good!)
I hope Concussive Shot is brought back as it feels like it’s the only thing missing to make the class feel fluid and good right now in Mists of Pandaria!
Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.
