Back when I was playing my MM, I always took Binding when I got a lobby with Aff, Spriest, Ele and even Fire mage.
So, now I had a lobby with MM, UHDK and WW.
I politely asked MM to swap Scatter with Binding because we lacked a stun anyway, and obviously because scattering my Flame Shocks off felt like griefing…and I politely got told to get lost.
Honestly, I can’t say my interactions in RSS have been overly unpleasant. Mostly it is target calling and proposing swapping targets on cds regulary.
However, since this post, 2 toxic exchanges occured, first from the glad UHDK who played destro in a lobby and kept asking me why I my pressure was bad…while he was pillaring almost the entire round trying to kite an arms warrior instead of going triangle in the lobby.
Second one was a prevoker accusing me of botting and threatening to get me banned. And all because I was kicking his (and augmentation who, to my amazement, appeared in the lobby) cc. Never seen a person so salty for going 3-3, and I’ve seen my share.
Damn I am an effking male draenei shaman, irl in my thirties and with too many rounds played in RSS since my kid doesn’t allow me a scheduled session whatsoever, don’t need that type of bullcr*p in my life.
In melee lobbies where I know I will be the target I prefer binding. When they are sitting on you its really easy to get a double stun. Also with everyone cleaving all the time I find scatter just breaks the exact moment I try to apply it.
Also binding can do pretty well to get a stun + trap on the healer, or just lock the kill target in the middle of the arena to allow you to get some DMG into say someone kiting 24/7 around pillars.
I only take scatter if my team already has a ton of stuns.
Even when you’re meaning well people take it as hostility. Especially in SS, where most people have probably just come off a bad last game, so their adrenaline is coursing.
On my view soloq rounds i ask people too not use a 2 sec stun on a killtarget if i have something like kidneyshot the best stun ingame
I gave up and just play arround the fact that every player does what he wants, good player can adapt on the fact that player in soloq making questionable desicions