So fairly often I come across a Horde fire mage in randoms and I have to say, he’s just so good I learn from just watching him. He seems to have mastered all the tricks and just knows what to do in every situation.
Today in Eye of the Storm he manages to lure 2 players guarding a base to near the edge of the map, perfect use of ice wall to divide them while he bursts one down, perfect polymorph timing, perfect use of fire blast to knock one off the map. He knew enough about the classes he was engaging to know they had no knockbacks and he hugged the map edge and use the terrain so well.
Aha I think as he’s engaging the last one - gotcha. I pop invisibility to sneak towards him and fire blast him over. My smugness is soon gone as he’s spotted it and breaks my invisibilty. His recently used fireblast is on CD, but expert use of blink, polymorphs etc gets him in just the right spot and gets fire blast back up to turn the tables and knock me over the ledge.
Being outplayed (which often happens to me!) usually makes me want to throw things, but seeing this guy in the same spec as me on like a whole other level was actually a kind of pleasure. Feels like I’m taking notes when he plays.
Agreed, it’s way too common to dislike, even hate players in this game, but sometimes you just have to say ‘Fair play’ and accept and admire some people’s play.
I was just about to cap LH in Gilneas one game, by the time I’d even ran down at the start and clicked the flag, this crazy mage (Magegod) comes flying over the hill, way up in the sky, raining bombs on me so I couldn’t cap. He didn’t come alone either, got beaten up pretty badly by 2mages taking turns to blink and nova me into a dizzy spin. needless to say, they got LH and won the game comfortably.
I wasn’t bitter about it, I was actually impressed by the ingenuity and guile used to win that game. While some would complain about the use of engineering items to accomplish this, I don’t see an issue as anyone has access to engineering and/or tinker slots.
Good play is good play though and very often goes unseen, you normally only hear about it when you’ve made an error.
