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July 2nd, 2008 by alexanderk08“Hailing from Korea, Council of Mages was victorious in this year’s World Wide Invitational 3v3 tournament. Second place went to Improved Clicks of Spain. The winners took home a check worth $36,000 for their victory and made an excellent showing throughout the tournament. Improved Clicks cashed in at $18,000, and third place finishers SK-US was awarded $9,000. The final standings for were: 1. Council of Mages 2. Improved Clicks 3. SK Gaming 4. Millenium Dream 5-6. Kill EA 5-6. Made in Taiwan 7-8. SK Gaming 7-8. Pandemic Blue 9-12. aAa nawaK 9-12. Elite 9-12. MoB Gaming 9-12. Pandemic Negroid 13-16. Sapped Cows cant say moo 13-16. Team EG 13-16. fnatic 13-16. Nihilum.Mousesports The final match consisted of two prizewinning-of-five series. In order to be take first place Council of Mages, from the Upper Bracket needed to win one series while Improved Clicks, rising from the lower bracket was challenged with winning both. Improved Clicks took the first set 3-1, but was vanquished in the second series by an impressive 3-0 finish by Council of Mages. Can you guess what composition Council of Mages was running. I don’t think Rogue, Mage, Priest would be every that surprising. It is an direful composition. Improved clicks ran Druid, Priest and Warrior combatants in the first game of the finals. They switched the Warrior out for Rogue in the remaining games. This two-healer team is also a very strong composition, but difficult to manage against a highly skilled RMP. In the MLG PC Circuit’s San Diego field tournament we found Frag Dominant defeat Nihilum in the final series. Frag Dominant ran a double melee team, consisting of Rogue, Warrior and Druid. Nihilum focused on draining mana with a Druid, Hunter and Priest team. So what are we not seeing. Shamans come to mind first. Though Shamans are viable as a PvP class, their strength tends to come in larger groups.
Enhancement Shamans can lay down the burst in frightening ways, and share the Windfury love with their fellow melee DPSers. A well geared resto Shaman has impressive survivability for an field healer and Earth Shield is a fabulous buff. Totems have greater effect when the number of party members increases, but just don’t fit in well with the 3v3 setting. Shammies fall prey easily to crowd control. A well, swift Kick or a well-timed Pummel more or less locks them out of combat. Help for this class is on the way in both patch 2.4.3 and Wrath. Warlocks are also conspicuously missing from the team rosters among the top pro teams. Soul Link and Siphon Life is a popular spec for Warlock in PvP. In the rock/paper/scissors world of WoW combat, Warlocks are crushed by too many other classes. This class is countered heavily by Druids’ knowledge to remove curses. As a PvP class the Warlocks rely on DoTs and Fear abilities. As a resto Shaman I fear Warlocks (and their little dogs, too) more than some other class, but there are not so many Shammies, especially in 3v3. Resident Warlock columnist V’ming Chew said of 1v1 combat, “”we eat Resto Druids for lunch. But it’s a long lunch.”" Last, but not least I cannot leave out the Paladin. This class is not particularly well represented in some of the field brackets and is no where to be seen among the top field combatants in this year’s major tournaments. Like the Shaman, the Pally is capable of either a massive turn of burst damage or a well-bulletproof healer, depending on spec. I can’t think of some knowledge in the PvP game more impressive than the Pally bubble, except perhaps Cloak of Shadows. I don’t have enough well things to say most Blessing of Freedom. On the other hand, Pallies are not entirely versatile.
It can be difficult to manage mana for a retribution Paladin, and they are limited to melee attacks. They can do some emergency backwards-up healing, but in most cases, ret healing is too weak to ward off a massive onslaught. buy wow gold Holy Pallies can also pump out a lot of damage in constituent to heals, but once again the dearth of ranged offensive limits their utility. I do not deny that Pallies need some love. ” “July 3rd, 2008. This will either be a favored day for a lot of us WoW chronic folk, or one of some major disappointment. wow gold According to the German site allvatar, they spoke with Blizzard’s German supporter community manager Gnorog. He reportedly said that the community managers now have permission to foretell the Wrath of the Lich King closed beta as starting on July 3rd. Now before you go and tell your friends and family what really is important to you (because lets be honest, WotLK beta > 4th of July, right. wow gold ) you need to consider that this is nothing more than a bounteous ol’ rumor. This information came from Gnorog when he was at the World Wide Invitational in Paris this past weekend. wow gold I know that Gnorog exists and is a German community manager, but I can’t confirm that he was at the WWI (though I’m sure he would have been). We get a well turn of beta and release rumors every day here at WoW Insider, and half the time they refer to people that aren’t even real. So this rumor gets +10 for referring to a real person. As ever Blizzard is existence very tight lipped on this. mp3 Bornakk recently locked a thread discussing this date in the WotLK forums. He gave the standard line “”We will provide further information on our forums when details on a beta testing phase are ready. For now we have no date to provide regarding this.”" There have also been a few threads that have appeared on the German WoW forums, but they have not received some comment from Gnorog. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. wow gold Check backwards on WoW Insider throughout the day on July 3rd to see if the beta does drop. That, or you can just listen for my scream of joy when I get my beta key. ” . RELATED LINKS:http://kimjone.ning.com/
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