Yummm, Mana Burn

I apologize. Most of my more recent articles have been SERIOUS BUSINESS beta emo whining. There's been some I HAVE NOBODY TO PLAY WITH ON MY MAGE whines, but seriously, not even I care. I've been playing priest more seriously this season (I've been gladiator every season but lol gladiator), and will probably begin talking about more priest-y topics as I don't really play my mage. (I plan on playing my mage in WotLK...depending on if I have a good PvP crew)

Going from mage to priest is like learning to settle for uglier girls. Yeah, you wouldn't fraps that shit and brag to your friends, but insert a joke about outlasting and well, fuck it..

Anyways, until recently, I've played mostly 2346 on my priest because, well, it's easy and sorta fun and you can be pretty downs and still win. Mindless manaburn spamming mixed with gheal drinking if games run long. And while Eurocomp is supposed so shit all over 2346 by mindlessly zerging our lock, generally cleave teams are more challenging. Either way, it definitely feels like you can get carried like (double bagged) groceries in 5s as a priest. But that might be true for most classes...

This season, I run Priest/Mage on my priest. After a little over a week and not that many, but very many very long, but not very many overall games, we hit 2200. Shoulders. Oh my god. The sign of a PvP god.

"Let's queue one more anyways."

"Aight."

Priest/Lock

"Cool Bro."

Twenty five minutes later.-22 Rating

"Fuck, wait a sec then queue." Wait, wait, wait. QUEUE.

Priest/Lock

""I TOLD YOU NOT TO QUEUE"

"No, u said to wait a sec"

"NO I DIDNT U FUCKING TOOLBAG"

"Tools come in boxes. They have little handles."

"YOUR A TOOL THAT CAME FROM A MOM. WHEREAS I CAME IN YM. "

"You're a dum slave."

-20 points

After doing the above three more times, we gave up for the night. RADIKAL CANT GET SHOULDERS ON HIS PRIEST.

Priest/Mage is pretty fun because the games are so fast. Yup, fast. So fucking quick. Not boxers, them shits briefs. Speedy. Never any need to drink. Some matchups are basically impossible: priest/lock, priest/hunter, priest/rogue. Druid/lock and druid/rogue I feel like we should seldom win, but there are some BAD druids who love the feel of mana burn all over their nelf face. Smite rips felhunters (no holy resists), but you still need some assistance from your mage, and if the lock is a total nerdfag with void star, it's sometimes impossible to kill the pet.

I frapsed most of our games from 1900-2200 which I might release as a semi-joke vid, but I'm going to wait till closer to wrath to release it. (For reasons obvious to some...) It's not like I'm any good at priest, but I haven't really frapsed anything else aside from some duels on way back on TR. And like more than half of those are me dueling as DB. Nobody wants to watch my dragon's bad vid I know.

I did land the world's most devastating mind control of all time last night which is hopefully in the footage somewhere. Fear druid->pain hunter->run up mind control->mage crits hunter for a billion midcast->druid trinkets->druid NS->MC lands->druid NSs himself->LOL) True the druid waited literally 5 seconds to trinket, but well, he's a druid.

We played a few games against a very unusual comp. Full Boomkin/Disc Priest. Unusual to me at least. They beat us pretty easily every game as we weren't ever able to get good burst, nor could we win the mana war. I'm not really sure we were playing it right as we kept trying to burst down the druid, but thinking about it more, we could probably extend the game a lot with good use of spellsteal and dispel and maybe win the long game. Nasty CC chains too.

It's a little hard to win against teams like that because we generally wear gear nonoptimal for it. I use Battlemaster's always because I'm bad and die against shaman/war teams without it, and my mage uses mind quickening which, while good for burst, doesn't help much when trying to run two mana users oom. The fact that the priest and druid never leave whatever pillar they're next to doesn't help. >.<

BUT YES I DO STILL PLAY THIS GAME KTHX