Stacking Debuffs

A consistent concept in arenas has been the idea of using stacked debuffs to frustrate dispels. By "covering" a Polymorph with Winter's Chills or "protecting" a Wound Poison with a stack of Deadly, the idea is that all these junk debuffs make dispelling the important debuff more difficult.

Sadly, this doesn't exactly work the way people think it does.

It works in the sense that by having Winter's Chilll (or whatever) on the target, the chance of getting that CC effect is lower, but the amount of stacks is irrelevant. Dispel targets debuff by slot not by a total count of debuffs. If you have polymorph and 5 WC's up on a target, their odds of dispelling the poly are 1/2 not 1/6. (On a single dispel) The same holds true for poison cleansing, etc.

Functionally, this perhaps makes no difference. The "correct" way to cover a polymorph doesn't change. You either rank 1 frostbolt, rank 4 frostbolt, or CoC before polying to get 3 debuffs on the target. The oft heard complaint that a frost mage + dot class is a pain because "WC stacks make it impossible to get the dots" (think 4dps 5s) is really probably due to the fact that WC is just being reapplied constantly.

For priest dispel, stacking has some slight marginal benefit in that the priest might get 2 WCs instead of 1 WC and something else.

Unrelatedly, Hellfire does break all CCs that break on damage if timed correctly. The second tick of the Hellfire must coincide with the CC effect. (The first does nothing) Hellfire will not work on glyphed polies.

Back to dicks.

Not A Recap of 2009

I woke up this morning to the sound of fireworks. At 9:30 AM. At first, I thought it was probably just some blind kids shooting fireworks because well it is NYE and how would a blind person know if it was night or day or what the clock on the wall said? It's like when blind people tell you "Good Morning" at 7pm or don't instantly fall in love with me. (They can't see my amazing good looks) Anyways, but then again, how do blind kids get fireworks in the first place or even light them? Is it lit yet? Oh it burns so bad.

Regardless of their origin, the fireworks nonetheless mark the passing of time, and help me really come to terms with the fact that 2009 is truly over and 2010 is a brand new year full of new beginnings. Psyche, kill yourselves. It's still winter. Girls are still increasing in mass day by day. NYE sucks. Bitchity bitch bitch bitch.

MLG next weekend. My unhealthy love for the tiny little Koreans will finally be sated. And when I say tiny, I mean like teen wolf dick tiny, tiny like one of those little pocket pony princess toys my parents deemed inappropriate for a male child. OM, you might not be a pony but I'd shove you in my pocket any day and cherish you forever and ever until I forget about you and you drown in my washing machine. I'd even pour you little thimbles of Soju.

I still wish there was some way the Koreans could field multiple teams for these events so we could get Jaywalker back in this shit, but I'll suck it up, and that's a vague "it" that doesn't necessarily reference dicks, but whatever I'll probably still enjoy it.

Not to hate on the whole live tournament thing but really in a game without any cheating, wouldn't online leagues make more sense?

Random question - why did a ton of people gravitate away from using SmoothPing?