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- May 20th, 2015, 9:52 pm
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: Damage Efficiency
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2281
Re: Damage Efficiency
The imp can be a force to be reckoned with if the conditions are right. That said, I feel like being a humanoid pet is always going to be a liability as long as undeads are dominant in the metagame - enough of a liability to keep a pet like the imp in check. It's still a great pet, just not head and...
- May 16th, 2015, 4:23 pm
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: The Search For Equilibrium and The Perfect Team
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17937
Re: The Search For Equilibrium and The Perfect Team
Think of a pet battle as a 0 sum game where you get 1 hit in and they return. Getting in an "extra" hit by landing a bigger damage attack. It's great that you're looking at it analytically like that. It's helpful to look at the big picture like that, and consider that what pet battling boils down t...
- May 9th, 2015, 2:18 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: Mechanics thread
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14022
Re: Mechanics thread
Yes, slot position of pets matters when getting hit by abilities such as Nether Gate.
Basically you have pets A, B, and C and it will always bring out the 'topmost' pet from your backrow, as Sile pointed out.
Basically you have pets A, B, and C and it will always bring out the 'topmost' pet from your backrow, as Sile pointed out.
- May 7th, 2015, 10:35 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
I never really understood the hate toward triple same-pet teams. I don't run them myself, but only because I don't believe any of them are candidates for best team in the metagame. It runs counter to wanting to be competitive and objective about these things if you're going to have caveats like "But...
- April 1st, 2015, 6:18 pm
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: Ever been specifically countered?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2459
Re: Ever been specifically countered?
A good team can't be completely countered, so it's never really happened (although that doesn't stop people from trying). I did have someone finally resort to running the exact same team as me, although on that occasion they still lost due to losing key 50/50 speed rolls.
- March 29th, 2015, 11:13 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
Would anyone be interested in setting up a regular time/server to battle on occasionally? I mean, there are a bunch of us that enjoy facing well put together teams, and it would be nice to be able to battle each other for a change instead of the fun teams that most people run. I'd like to see the mo...
- March 27th, 2015, 8:44 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
Yes, Thunderbolt getting the split damage treatment was a massive buff for the MPD. It used to have a big problem closing out games with its piddly Breath and the old Thunderbolt that would only do 197 to a single pet. Being able to drop a 600 damage nuke makes a big difference and gave it much more...
- March 27th, 2015, 4:36 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
I feel like most people overrate Decoy. Used by itself in normal conditions, it generates 1 turn's worth of advantage for you. Consider this example exchange, Turn 1: MPD uses Decoy, opponent's pet attacks, knocks off one charge Turn 2: MPD attacks, opponent's pet attacks, knocks off the second char...
- March 26th, 2015, 10:11 pm
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
But I see 30 battles with MPD before I see 1 battle with Murkalot. To me that's what is frustrating. Given Murkalot's power, he is rightfully rare. I suspect it's because the pet battling community was already small to start with. When Murkalot was given out as a gift for Blizzcon (2, 3 years ago? ...
- March 26th, 2015, 9:31 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
I really enjoy running into the couple of people on my battlegroup that take it as seriously as I do. There's nothing that would make me happier than finding a team I can't pull out any wins against - if my team has a weakness, I want to know about it so I can keep tinkering
- March 26th, 2015, 8:57 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: ever find that one team...?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18263
Re: ever find that one team...?
Before WoD came out, along with the nerfs to Haunt, it was Murkalot, Valk, Dread Hatchling for me. You can pretty much guess how it goes, RI-Haunt for 1400 damage into Consume Corpse stall, and then just use the pets sensibly once the initial Haunt is over, swapping as needed. The Dread Hatchling wa...
- March 24th, 2015, 4:04 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: What pets do you use?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1551
Re: What pets do you use?
When I was just starting out in pet battles I did, I ran teams like Lil'Tarecgosa, Azure Whelpling, Nexus Whelpling purely for flavour. That was a long time ago and I'm now done with the 5000 PvP wins, and I lost that mentality somewhere along the way, nowadays I'll typically be queuing with the mos...
- March 19th, 2015, 7:09 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: LF Team to defeat double Mechanical Pandaran Dragonling
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7363
Re: LF Team to defeat double Mechanical Pandaran Dragonling
Been seeing good results with the Fragment of Anger too. Spiritfire Beam lets you AoE back (and AoE harder to boot, more damage, faster cooldown) and breaks multiple decoys in one go, Seethe is super effective against mechanicals, and you're undead so you're resistant to the MPD's Breath making it n...
- March 13th, 2015, 12:43 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: LF help to defeat specific Sethe team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4582
Re: LF help to defeat specific Sethe team
My first instinct would be to run a composition making use of Haunt, it has several advantages against something like this. First of all, it lets you seriously threaten the Ore Eater to prevent it from spending too much time out front. If you go with the Valk, the burst damage of CoD will get around...
- March 12th, 2015, 7:02 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: LF Team to defeat double Mechanical Pandaran Dragonling
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7363
Re: LF Team to defeat double Mechanical Pandaran Dragonling
weebomination x2 or 3 should take care of it.. cant say from experience but considering the skills... should work nicely. cleave wont hurt the first pet that has decoy up, but will hit the back 2.. if his fiendish is in backline cleave will tear it apart. worth a shot. Cleave is actually totally bl...
- March 6th, 2015, 12:58 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: Favorite WoD Pet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7674
Re: Favorite WoD Pet
S/S Bronze Whelpling, probably the overall strongest new pet in WoD in my opinion. It's an almost unparalleled sweeper, having access to the dragonkin racial, and Crystal Prison at 325 speed. Both combined will let it double tap pets from 875HP to dead (Stun + 350 + 525) without letting your opponen...
- March 3rd, 2015, 7:19 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2038
Re: help
Also, you don't necessarily have to lead with your lowbie pet all the time. The Pandaria tamers all have a set script they run through, and have predictable 'dead' turns where they're flying or burrowed or plain doing something defensive like putting up a shield - you can use those turns to swap you...
- March 3rd, 2015, 5:37 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2038
Re: help
It's not like Sandstorm is the only way to powerlevel pets in Pandaria. In fact for the longest time I've just been using 2 P/P Nexus Whelplings instead because I'm just that lazy (don't have to memorize different teams, and mana surge lets me AFK for 3 turns with one button press).
- February 28th, 2015, 7:49 am
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: The future and direction of pet battling in WOW
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13680
Re: The future and direction of pet battling in WOW
Can you imagine if they came out with Pandaria or Draenor level tamers using that randomized system? Or god forbid tamers in a Celestial Tournament-esque scenario. Personally I'm excited to see if they'll take this concept further, but I can already see the cries of "It's too hard now!" because goin...
- February 27th, 2015, 12:11 pm
- Forum: Pet Battles
- Topic: The future and direction of pet battling in WOW
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13680
Re: The future and direction of pet battling in WOW
If I were to be honest, I never felt PvE pet battles were 'hard' anyway. Some of the pre-nerf menagerie battles could be 'difficult' yes, but once they were solved you can just run the same comp over and over to beat them 100% of the time. Most of the challenge was in assembling a large enough stabl...