Ninety Minutes of Arena

Left me amused, confused, and much more aware of how silly damage is.

Take the last game of the night - us, mage/rogue (me and Mingaling) vs BM Hunter and Ret Pally in Ogrimmar arena.

Me: Cage is coming down. Just zerg the hunter.
Ming: Okay!
Me: ZERRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG

Game begins.

Global Cooldown #1: Arcane Power + Arcane Barrage. (Yes I pushed two buttons, but it was one global FUCK YOU)

Me: WOOOOOOOoooooooooooo~ (this continues for two more global cooldowns)
Ming: Go!

Global Cooldown #2: PoM + Frostfire Bolt.

I see a 6k number from my Barrage's damage and a whole lot of numbers on my screen. Uh oh.

Ming:

Global Cooldown #3: Ice Block.

Bad Hunter has died.

I'm in Ice Block at 10% hp.

This took < 5 seconds.

We didn't get very far in rating (partially because we're bad blah blah blah), but we did definitely fight a few good teams. Hi2u Entyce. We lost twice to a Unholy DK/Feral Druid team which you would think sounds horrible, but honestly is confusing. We killed the DK in <10 seconds both games, but then couldn't reset successfully with 2 ghouls and a feral druid running about. The feral druid has the threat of rezzing as well which really prohibits kiting out the retardedly long 45 second ghoul timer. (It should be 15 in PvP, even 25 is ridiculous)

I also got destroyed by a gargoyle in Blade's Edge. It took off into the sky and I was quite surprised that it could shoot me over the top of the pillars.

We also lost to a Demonlock/Rogue team in the sewers who used his teleport to reset back into the starting area. Creative use of game mechanics? ^^

We really didn't think or plan or do anything intelligent during any game and just randomly picked targets and tried to zerg them, and now that I'm stepping back from the zerg, I'm starting to see strats that are a little less damage retarded that seem like they'd be good against a lot of the freakshow 2DPS teams we ran into, but the nuances of how a lot of stuff works still remains a mystery to me, and at this point, the only way to improve is to spend a lot of time arenaing.

I'll continue posting random thoughts as I have them.

Such as. Silence->Slow should be spammed against DK/stealth teams, and you must switch to mage armor immediately. Generally silence->slow is devastating against DKs as it really forces him to use CDs or just soak damage. If you eat a strangle->DG, be happy that your rogue can't be peeled off the rogue or feral who's about to open on you (and thus your rogue becomes a very good peel), don't blink unless you really have to, I've been rocket boot + EAing to get away and you pretty much have the option of sheeping or DPSing at this point.

Silence is huge against demonlocks and I failed to use it and thus am bad. You can deny transform and teleport with it.

And that's all I can think of at this moment.

Nerf Hunters.