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. Read More

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For full patch notes, go here http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=174505927&sid=1

Notable changes to each area:

General
• Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage.
- So Resilience will finally affect DOT. Judging from the 400~ Resilience most players have nowadays, this should reduce DOT damage on arena geared players by around 8-12%. Can’t say it’s not a good change.

• Corrected the damage modifier calculation for Resilience when the attacker has bonus critical strike damage.
- Rejoice AP Frost Mages, they used to be hurt the most by it with 50% bonus crit from Frost and another 50% bonus crit from Arcane. Most other classes with bonus to crit damage talents are happy to see this fix too. Although this will increase Warrior’s crit damage even farther…
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When asked, most average players can only tell you the surface of what they see after observing a match. They look for the obvious and only see things like class makeup, basic strategy execution. This is one of the main reasons why a lot of players can actually watch a world class team play, such as Pandemic or TFO, then walk away saying things like “They were lucky”, “They had easy competition”, “They didn’t do anything I couldn’t have done”, or the worst of them all “They just had better partners”. Hearing these amateur comments are quite disappointing. These ignorant comments only show how little most players understand the game in-depth. Instead of actually learning from these skilled players and taking advantage of this opportunity to improve themselves, they end up making excuses for why they weren’t the one that was in their places instead.

So what exactly separates top of the line arena players and the average PvPers? Read More

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Aside from being the Independence Day, we have finally launched our newest site: PvPSource.com today. Our team will be working hard in bringing you news, articles and videos focused on the PvP aspects in World of Warcraft.

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