Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mage - From the Point Guard to the Shooting Guard of 5v5

I feel unbeatable, and while I cannot say how our caster matrix will perform against elite teams, based on what I've seen in one night of playing, it is without a doubt, on par with the typical warrior, rogue, priest, shaman and paladin team. Our caster team has everything a playoff contender needs: solid defense, a solid big man in Azael, and good shooting from beyond the Arc with our ranged, caster offense.

It is our beyond the Arc shooting that dominates opponents. While lots of mages like to run point with crowd control, drawing enemy focus to create shooting opportunities, in a caster team, we're not just a Stockton or Nash, we're a T-Mac or Kobe. We do BIG damage. We have that clutch burst Rasengan(螺旋丸) level damage we can dominate opponents with when left unguarded. You let us cast on you, and we drop 50+ (thousand damage) games more reliably than Kobe, but the rest of our team doesn't suck!

What about defense? Silence, Improved Counterspell, Earthshock, Grounding Totem, BoP, BoF, DS Healing Spam, Pally stun, Novas, Pet Novas -- we have more tools to control opponents than any other team. Why work towards deflecting enemy attacks with a Suna no Tate(
砂の盾) style, when you can totally shut down your opponent with a Hakke Rokuhuu Yonshou. It's hard to put up numbers against our defense when your key scorers are dominated by our zone caster crowd control defense.

So to anyone who thinks they can oppose this lineup of course, I quote my two Gods, T-Mac and Naruto, "Omae, zettai ni makenai ze!"

So is this how I'd write? ^^

13 comments:

Klassick said...

Simply amazing.

Anonymous said...

That was fucking awesome. LMAO.

Anonymous said...

.... have you ever thought about doing both (dps and cc)? It's not that hard. A good mage is able to pull 40k (if not more) games while ccing the hell out of their opponents, 1.5 second casts between every 4 frostbolts hardly kills ur dps, just requires a bit more concentration.

Kinda went on a rant, sorry bout that; I just found the post demeaning to what a good mage should do.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, you just won the internet

-Kain

hypnotik said...

Your best post yet Raddy.

EATSLEEPREPEAT.NET said...

hahahah, it's almost believable too.

and also:


... have you ever thought about doing both (dps and cc)? It's not that hard. A good mage is able to pull 40k (if not more) games while ccing the hell out of their opponents, 1.5 second casts between every 4 frostbolts hardly kills ur dps, just requires a bit more concentration.


Most good teams won't let you chain-cast [frostbolts], and alternating sheep, putting up detect magic, debuffing with winter's chill and waiting for the right moment to CS and avoiding fake-outs takes a lot more time. In a 'classic' set-up, Mages are there for cc first, dps second. This somewhat changes in a DPS team, but CC is still an important aspect of our class.

Anonymous said...

Mingtastic!

Anonymous said...

The only thing missing was a completely inaccurate description of what ninjas actually did in feudal Japanese society, instead basing your ninja-worship on American movies made in the 1980s starring white men with mullets.

Englaived said...

"Most good teams won't let you chain-cast [frostbolts]"

Not sure what matrix radical is using but with a shadow priest, ele shaman, and affliction lock its very common to be left open with 3 higher priority targets.

b said...

but can you stop a fully charged SSJ4 Kamehameha?

Anonymous said...

Mingtabulous!!!!

Azael said...

Raddy you own.

Animastryfe said...

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