To understand which method of practice yields the best result, we have to understand the basics of how ‘execution’ works. Often times your execution skills will be called upon. While this game doesn’t require insane amount of accuracy or timing, it is still important to be able to land those spell interruptions and escape spells on demand. The only way to build up your execution skill is via practice.

Humans have a very useful function called muscle memory. After you repeated certain patterns of actions enough times and spent enough hours on them, your muscle will start remembering these actions for you. Once your muscle memory is working, instead of having to tell yourself to press certain button to interrupt a spell, you will just do it automatically upon seeing that spell being casted. This is the very same reason why when people switch their key bindings, it takes quite sometime to get used to them. Not because they have a difficult time pressing the new keys, it is more due to the fact they’re unable to discard their previous muscle memory for their old key bindings.

During the tournaments, you will see the same basic patterns of movements and skills used many times. Seeing the contenders pulling off clutch plays usually get the typical respond of “They got lucky.” However, what people fail to realize is the high amount of so called ‘clutch’ plays per competitive tournament. Are these players all extremely lucky? No, this is what high level of execution does for your game play.

The best way of practicing is practice at all times. Always fight to win and never give up, if you’re in a PvP situation, take it seriously. Now hold up, isn’t games about having fun? Sorry to break this news, but that’s the most common excuse for losing. Those that hide behind this excuse misses out on the most rewarding part a game has to offer. There’s a high level of satisfaction that comes when the game is being played at an extreme level.

There are many ways of ‘fun’, winning a high stake competition is one of them. The joy that comes across the face of a winner and and someone who performed extremely well can not be over looked. In fact, most top players enjoy the game far beyond of those average players could comprehend. So please stop with the excuses and get serious when you practice, because it’s for winning and having fun.

So to sum it up, pay strong attention to your execution skills. It’s all too often when pages and pages of theories and strategies goes to waste due to the lack of execution skill. Remember this, once you mastered execution, you will be able to adapt to any strategy on the whim.

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One Response to “Closing the Gap, Part 2”

1. shyst Says:
   July 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

   /QFT

   people that play for “fun” also play to “lose”
   i hate nothing more then when people give the excuse of oh i just “play for fun” after they lose…

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