Yesterday, our 5v5 team got a new warlock and we were one win away from hitting 2k rating with warrior/warlock/ele shammy/priest/pala setup, considering most of our guys are not gear-capped and we played this setup for the first time, we have huge potential here, and it’s a blast comparing to 2v2 (as my pally says: “I’d rather hit the desk with my head than play 2v2″). The team first played 10 games with “secondary squad” so everyone can get 30%, they dropped 1866 to 184x or something, no hard feelings, everything working as intended. Then we played our new setup for the first time and in 20 games we had 13 win streak, giving us total of 17 wins and 3 loses, too bad those 3 loses were for 20, 19 and 26 (that was our last game, bad mistakes happen when people get tired), ended at 194X which is still a huge jump in rating comparing to last week, could still play 3 games today without people dropping < 30%, but we wouldn’t do 2k unless those 3 games were wins for 20 points. We managed to beat one supposed to be good team on our realm (hi2u Wolowin ;]) for 20+ after they won with our 2ndary squad 5 times during those 10 games they played, felt good. Either way we can always get 2k early next week to get our shammy and priest new shoulders (they, like me, will upgrade S1 to S3).

5v5 is not only better balanced, but it’s much less stressful, when playing 2v2 in a setup that has very low mistake margin, a single mistake of one of you can decide on the result of the game. In 5v5 there is always backup healer, or backup dps. If I stand in nova and out of LoS from pally, there can be still a priest around to dispell me and so on. Basically instead of swearing and doing drama, we had a really good time yesterday, even when we lost. We are also starting to get serious points per week so guys from the “secondary squad” will get geared up faster and we can try different things (were doing really fine with hunter instead of the lock, our new lock got much better gear than the hunter tho).

Terhix