October 21, 2008, 11:51 AM
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Re: 51+ Demonology in 2v2 Arenas?
Just wanted to follow up my own post here now that I've gotten some games under my belt with this.
Have to say, lag was the biggest story of the night by far. At one point I was at 2600+ ms lag! And most of the time was over 1000 ms. Lag cost us at least 1 game where I was stuck mid cast for a good 3 - 5 seconds and getting pummeled that whole time. I understand this is a game-wide (or at least arena-wide) issue at the moment and hopefully it will be corrected asap.
Anyway, on to the point - overall we actually did pretty well for as much lag as was happening. I believe we went 7 and 3 when the dust settled. Again, my partner was a holy pally.
My observations of the night:
- balance druids at the moment are just about as scary as ret pallies! He took me from over 2/3 full hp and felguard still up so soul link was active, down to nothing in no time at all. With my partner down and I was focused on his, he just spammed wrath and moonfire and I was done. (it happened so fast I'm pretty sure that's what he was doing... I didn't look at the log..was too mad)
- on more than one occasion meta allowed me to burn someone down really fast. Resto shaman in one went down so fast I almost felt sorry for him... I felt like a pally for a second there.  Worked just as well on mage once I had his elemental banished. The method was this - pop demonic empowerment for felguard and had him charge/stun, just before his stun was up, pop meta and charge as soon as fg's stun was up, pop my meta aura, dot, dot, drain life while fg continued to beat on him. Most people this worked well on were down by then, but on one I needed to fear him once after and then redotted and drained while still in meta and he was done. (Gotta be sure to stay in close whenever possible to get the full benefit of the aura - that's the best part of meta by far!)
- dual locks in 2s is also scary... went against a full demo lock with full affliction lock partner... they focused my partner and made short work of him and I could only handle 2 drain lifes (one being in meta), 2 fears, dots, a felguard, and being spell locked for so long before I was face up in the dirt... Almost made me want to try 2s with another lock to see how it would go for us.
- I wasn't CC'ed into oblivion while in meta as I was worried I would be. I tried to time my stuns between felguard and myself right and more often than not the target ended up being more worried about all the health he was losing than trying to CC me. Saving Deathcoil specifically for when you see that pally's cast bar ramping up with Turn Evil really helped against them as well. Followed the deathcoil with a fear and by that time he'd given up on Turn Evil. This scenario would obviously change drastically if he had their Glyph of Turn Evil making it instant cast.
All in all, I was highly encouraged, and not at all discouraged with full demo in 2v2 as I feared I might be. And quite frankly, I'm having more fun being full demo than I've had in a very long time. 
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