A good Rogue friend of my has brought to my attention today that Vindicator Dragonhide Bracers might actually be better than Rogue set’s Vindicator Leather Bracers

I laughed at first, then I took a closer look at the stats…

Assuming you gem 16 AP for Dragonhide’s Red slot and 8 AP 4 Crit for Leather’s Yellow slot, you get the following stats:

As you can see, you get 42 more Armor, 4 more AP, 5 more Crit and 2 more Resilience at the cost of 3 Agi and 4 Stam. Even if you assume 4 AP and 1 Crit cancels out with 3 Agi (the former is superior), you’re still looking at 42 Armor 4 Crit 2 Resil vs. 4 Stam. I think the choice is clear, Blizzard want Rogues to wear Dragonhide!

All jokes aside, if you haven’t already picked up the Vindicator Leather Bracers, make sure you get the Vindicator Dragonhide Bracers instead (also for those that wants to get the max out of every possible spot, another 12k honor is added to your to-do list).

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Happy holidays and Merry Xmas to everyone from PvP Source!

Thank you for your support this year, we look forward to bringing you more content this coming season! (big update soon…) May you achieve higher rating this season!

P.S. RL picture of Ziss!

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After a few weeks of struggle from Blizzard, Armory is finally functional again with all the Season 2 teams removed. I was of course interested in checking out the team that took our points last night, Boolak from Ner’zhul.

The advantage of the Twin Glaives was much bigger than I have predicted. Aside from having access to all the best DPS gear in the off slots and a pair of much higher DPS weapon, he was able to convert the Arena points normally spent on weapons (like normal pvpers do) and invested them in to armor instead. With 4 out of 5 Season 3 Armor fully socketed with BT gems, unbuffed - he’s clocking at 11000+ HP, 405 Resilience, 1940 AP, 27.85 Crit (without Malice), 93 Hit Rating and 846 (300 from trinket proc) Armor Penetration + Executioner (I seriously felt I was NOT prepared after seeing all this lol). His spec? 0/20/41. Where Shadow Step lacked in sustained DPS, he made up via going 20 in Combat, where Shadow Step lacked burst, he made up with the best PvE gear + best PvP gear. When he unloads from 110 Energy to 0, my life goes down almost as fast. With all the mobility of AR/Prep (I refuse to call it HARP), plus the addition of Shadow Step, mobility doesn’t get any better (I suppose if he’s gnome then…).

Quickly checking his partner for reasons why he wasn’t dying to our rushdown, I was again amused by the 1977 Healing and 752 Spell Damage. He is specced 35/0/26 (lack of Feral Charge ‘might’ hurt him), most likely to nuke down Warrior Druid teams. With 215 MP5, who needs to spec Resto? With the added survivability of Battlemaster’s Perseverance, it was very hard to take him down aside from game 1, where we caught them off guard.

Perhaps it was too early to dismiss the viability of Shadow Step. Although the thought of 0/20/41 has came across my mind before, I didn’t believe it could be a viable choice until now. Hopefully we won’t be limited to playing with Druids as Shadow Step (although I wouldn’t mind Rogue/Warlock/Hybrid-Druid in 3s), I will be doing some PTR testing to find out.

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As most of you probably noticed, there has been a lack of strategy articles as of late. Main reason behind this is the starting of S3 and the introduction of patch 2.3 has rendered many strategy from S1 and S2 much less effective or unusable, thus not worth posting. Our Ask Ziss! forums is fortunate to still have some of the most up-to-date information and is a nice source of quality S3 strategy until the top players get more attuned to S3 style.

In an effort to bring everyone more and better commentary videos, me and Breaky have decided to transfer to BG9 (Bloodlust) and picked the all so popular Tichondrius server. He is still under the name Breaky, while I have switched to Zissling.

So far aside from the 670+ server, 12 mins 2v2, and 7 mins 3v3 queues, not much have changed. We’re trying to recruit some popular classes to play with in an attempt to get quality footage recorded to use as commentary videos; since most of our S2 footages have long expired in value.

On another note, a face-lift of our video section is almost complete, I hope to have it ready by end of today or early tomorrow. Soon as this is completed, we will start working on our “ultimate arena strategy” tool.

Thank you all for sticking around and I promise things will just get better.

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Hey guys, this is Neilyo.

I am pretty sure some of you already know me from my videos, if you don’t, I play a Rogue on Battlegroup 9(Bloodlust), and the highest ratings I have achieved are: 2v2 – 2407,
3v3 – 2509, and 5v5 – 2496. Before I talk about why I am here, I want to give a short introduction on myself. Read More

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