So i reached rival 2 with 235 ilvl and 59% winrate, playing with 3 different priests from lfg. It was last week. Peaked 2050 or smth. Chilled in BGs farming honor to upgrade my stuff cuz we started losing games with people getting away on 5% so felt like dmg is not enuf anymore.
Now yesterday and today I was home with tons of free time hoping for ez 2,1 push with my new gear, right?
It’s an absolute disaster. Played a ton of games winning only 1 out of 3 probably. Qued with lfg shammys and palas. Having 5-6 loss streaks.
From chilling and getting easy W’s, while getting compliments from my mates,
arena turned into a stressful nightmare where people leave and curse me for being trash.
Now it got me thinking. Was I so hard carried by those priests? Or rogue only works with priests? I’m legit demoralised and don’t wanna play arena anymore, giga ptsd
dont stress about it. what helped me improve my gameplay was to not be so hardcore serious about rating anymore. ofc i want to climb but i can only do my best while playin and trying to improve.
dont stress about what others have to say about ur skill. theres nothing in this game worth playing other then arena. so q it tf up.
Sometimes queues are harder, and it doesn’t help to play with always different people since it will add to the variance.
Sometimes games feel super easy without even voice, sometimes it’s waaaaay harder and we don’t win as much.
If in doubt about yourself: watch the rogue trainers playing and compare with what you’re doing. Shadenox has lots of great outlaw content. Also for outlaw specifically I suggest watching the replay of the most recent Hayne’s Fight Club 2vs2 tournament where there was an impressive display of Outlaw/Rdruid by Trimaz/Zankeds (I think the replay is in haynetv’s twitch channel, not yet on youtube).
Never even heard about it, will check it out now, thanks.
And yea, I saw shadenox, the way he understands the game and when/what/why to use is insane. I learned couple things for sure. But my awareness of what’s going on is way too low for that🤣
Ahh you guys helped. Maybe indeed I should stop caring about rating and just spam 1000 games till season end just get used to being in Arenas. I’m afraid I’ll run out of healers who wanna Q with me tho kekw
I feel you OP. I have peeked at 2.1 in 2s and 2090 in 3s as MM hunter playing mostly in pugs.
And just now i feel like there is a whole other half of pvp i need to learn.
Even tho i have met a lot of good and friendly people, and my friend list has gotten big, most are not interested in serious pushing, or at simillar skill lvl on which to improve together.
It is hard to get rating via PUG. At least that is what i feel. You cant always get the right comp, players are on different skill lvl/playstyle, most people dont want to voice. Many leave after 1-2 losses.
But surely we can improve even with these obstacles!
Here’s one of the matches of these players: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1272343108?t=00h40m34s
There’s more in that particular link from them. Very good games
I reckon they also played in the previous edition available on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WepckKr-7hU
Specifically in the first link (the VOD of the top6 of last edition) you can learn a lot about the matchup by how they play it.
Literally a Rogue Trainer, yeah
And yes don’t worry about rating honestly. Play many games and you’ll end up where you belong without a doubt, but above all just have fun and focus on playing the best you can yourself =)
Oh, a fellow defias gamer o/ i Can give you a hand with your 2.1 if you want sir, only problem is that i do play alot of Odd hours, but should be able to work something out before season ends if u want
I’m looking for disc priest player Do you know someone? I feel like I’m missing something on my disc and would like to learn from others.
I tried to find some “library” of streamers but there is nothing like that Or I just can’t search properly.
I’ll add you once I get home, and don’t worry, the only you thing you gotta be able to handle is my extremly poor dad jokes, since the boomer life is strong in this one
I think you want it so much you start making mistakes you normally dont make. I’d try to take a breather. Maybe even dont play the game for a few days to get all fresh.
You got this far, pretty sure you can get 2100 too. At the end it’s all a learning curve. You might be here today, but even much higher 6 months from now. Just put in the hours and stay healthy irl. Sleep and healthy food is important, even if u wanna push rating in game
Shaman is pretty hard as a Rogue imo. They constantly put the enemy team in combat, break gouge and most I have played with use incap totem despite kidney having a very low cd. I mean, it still works, but the amount of stuff you have to check to ever sap or gouge is slightly infuriating
I’ve played with an assa to around 2,6mmr this season worked fine. I guess assa is a bit easier cause more focus on pure dmg output, but 2,1 won’t be a problem for sure. pr is obviously better but yeah
Just about half of playing arena is your mentality and how you approach losses. It never feels good to be close to the next cutoff, and then see it slip away on a loss streak, but the only thing you can do about it is to try and analyse your mistakes and take those improvements with you to the next attempt.
Arena is frankly a test of your tenacity, it almost never results in having an easy and fluid time pushing, unless you’re at a skill level where reaching these cutoffs probably doesn’t excite you too much.
Then you also gotta remember that, although those of us who are competitive want to push our ratings and take it seriously, it’s merely a hobby where you increase a virtual number that hardly matters at all, unless you’ve gone pro. You need to do it because you think it’s fun and enjoy it.
Having somebody come up to you and say you’re thrash at a video game, holds about as much merit as somebody coming up and telling you that you’re horrible at wrapping in gift packages. Don’t let losses and what people say put you down IRL, or start having any bad thoughts, it doesn’t matter.
Do you know someone? I feel like I’m missing something on my disc and would like to learn from others.
Or I just can’t search properly.