Odd is God

Earlier this weekend we were given the chance to try some new things against the 4DPS team that has given us the most trouble, Sausage Factory, which was a reroll from their original classic+lock setup. We basically moved our shaman to being highly defensive, kept mana burns on the mage, kept UA out of the game with CS, and overall slowed the game down as much as possible with man to man coverage and poly spam. This eventually puts us in a position where we can quickly burst down one of their soft targets when we call for it. I'll definitely go into more explicit detail on how we deal with matchup and how I personally treat playing 4DPS as 2345 in a later post -- this is mostly just a catchup article.

Aside from getting our rating back that we tanked against 4DPS teams, we've not really had a chance to play the "top" teams in the BG much though I'm not honestly sure who they currently are. With so much attention on WSVG and 3s, 5s feels a bit like an afterthought right now. Hopefully, Blizzard will step up with improved disqualification rules and a more competitive season end 5s tournament this time.

I've been playing around with 0/38/23 the past few days; I'm going to hold off saying anything I'll regret about it yet. It is fun, has its problems, and has some potential advantages especially considering the types of teams that give us trouble. I basically tried it out based on Pigvomit's recommendation and goading from Alexial. It's one step closer to DB I guess. ^^

Oh, and Odd = Rahvin = GameOver's pally. He kept our 4DPS team alive. (well for the 20 seconds you need to win) He's baller.