Hey everyone, my name is Ryan, but you can call me Ross. I’m new around these parts, and I am still getting the hang of professional blogging, but things seem to be going well so far. Hopefully you will see quite a lot of me posting around here, I hope to stick around for a while. I am an aspiring professional gamer, mostly playing WoW for the moment but I also play other games, RTS being my other favorite genre. For now though, enough about me, lets focus on a little WoW.

With the ATR, the S2 gear, and obviously the access to PvE gear, things on the ATR can get really interesting. Fights vary from being just the same comps over and over again, and (in my experience) the different styles of players really makes you think on your feet. Recently, we have been playing many different comps. From Feral Druid/UA Lock/Disc Priest to DLR and Pally/Rogue/Warrior, we get to see a wide range of play. Experiencing the different classes for yourself and seeing what their weaknesses are, is a very interesting experience. There has been PTRs in the past where we were able to do some arenas, but it was never the competitive play that it is now. Playing a Warlock and a Pally to competitive levels really opens your eyes to different comps weaknesses and strengths.

Currently we are rolling the Pally/Rogue/Warrior with a high rate of success. We like to think that we can bring this pretty far, but their are some weaknesses with a pally healer. Sure BoP and Freedom are both really nice, but when you come up against teams with a Druid and a Lock (which are a very large part of the comps on the TR) things get very difficult. It is hard to burst down a good Druid, and with a Lock fearing you… things can get very messy, very fast. We do manage to kill the Druid most of the time, however if he manages to survive, things become a hassle.

Being alliance and having the access to all the PvE gear does help our team tremendously, and with the beginning of the tournament starting soon, we hope to see some really fun games. Hopefully we see more people innovating, and making teams like our 2000+ Feral Druid/UA Lock/Disc Priest team, people who can break out of the box and compete with something that no one thought was possible. Look forward to more posts from me in the future, and have fun on the ATR!

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4 Responses to “This is where things get interesting”

1. Aaron Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm

   How did you manage to get 2000+ with a Feral Druid/UA Lock/Disc Priest build? It just seems so unorthodox to be successful with that composition. How on earth do you do it? I’ll be keeping track of your blog, and wish you luck with your new ‘Professional Blogger’ title.

2. warlfg Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm

   Some of it was luck. I admit we only went against a few well known teams, but it isn’t like we grinded up to the rating on 1700 scrubs.

3. flymachine Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

   would like to hear more about that lineup as well as any other you play, it’s not an easy task to achieve that rating on the atr from what i was told

4. warlfg Says:
   April 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   Flymachine: The Feral Druid comp was almost impossible to compete with against any really serious teams. Although we did get to 2030-something at the end, I believe most of our wins were due to people just not knowing what to do at first.

   We are rolling a wide variety of comps, from our Rogue/Druid/Lock to some Resto Shaman comps. Look to my next post as to what exactly we are playing on the ATR.

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