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This site is about Arena 5v5/PvP, but I wanted to post about this site because it is something WoW players have wanted for a long time and ironically something Blizzard could've easily incorporated into their site years ago. What am I talking about? WowJutsu the Automated World of Warcraft PVE Guild Rankings.
Look no further WoW players, you wont have to troll your realm forums any more or make silly lists of which guilds on your server have killed what boss or who is #1, all you have to do is open up this site and click on your server and its already done all the work for you. You will no longer have to go to sites like boss killers and manually update your guild's progression while you sit there and know its not 100% because some guilds are just too lazy or don't care to update theirs or don't even know about the site, you will never know what your true status is. Wowjutsu has just changed all that and made everything before it obsolete; as long as you log off with your new loot it will be 100% accurate.
It has break downs of what instances guilds are doing with 99.99% of them fighting bosses in Karazhan 6 months after Burning Crusades release while only 40% can kill Gruul and only 15% can kill a boss in Tempus Keep or SSL. More interesting is that less then 1% of the guilds in the US can zone in and beat a boss in Black Temple with only 7 having killed every boss in TBC.
How does it work? Easy this site automatically scans the armory to check the gear your guild is wearing, if a player is found with a new piece of gear attributed to a new boss your guild hasn't beaten your guilds ranking will go up! All you have to do is log off each night with the shiny purples you get when beating a new boss, something WoW players have no problem doing!
Find out where your guild stands! http://www.wowjutsu.com
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
900 Club - 5 Teams Drop Off List
ONE EIGHT VII takes the lead while SPIDER PIG falters, meanwhile, Trounce, Team Pulse, Game Over stay in the Top 15 US teams and still maintain their 900 club status. A few teams leave us this week with a few more joining us, check below for more info!
Guidelines for becoming a 900 Club team: Maintain 150 Top US Rank, while holding .900 win percentage in matches.
Update 2: 7/20/07
Rank - Team - Win/Loss - Win%
1) ONE EIGHT VII (Stormreaver) 55-3 0.9482
2) Team Pulse (Feathermoon) 104-6 0.9454
3) Slash Cyclone (Bleeding Hollow) 120-9 0.9302
4) Trounce (Mal'Ganis) 145-12 157 0.9235
5) Game Over (Black Dragonflight) 114-10 0.9193
6) Thrallstars (Cho'Gall) 59-6 0.9076
7) Minglings (Lightning's Blade) 49-5 0.9074
8) Clan HeX (Lightning's Blade) 77-8 0.9058
9) Rise Against Pruples (Blackrock) 96-10 0.9056
Overview: SPIDER PIG leave us this week with a dismal week going 4-6, and dropping out of the Top150 US leaving us with no undefeated teams, ONE EIGHT VII takes their spot adding 4 solid wins and 0 losses to improve their win percentage. Trounce, Team Pulse, Game Over stay solid on the ranking with more great play this week while maintaining Top 15 status, very impressive for such high quality teams. Slash Cyclone and Clan HeX yet to play maintain the same ranks while GO HARD GO PRO, Beat the Breaks Off It, Pretty Standard, TEAM EG all drop off the list dropping their win percentage below .900 or not making Top 150 US. Although 5 teams left us this update, 3 new ones joined us: Thrallstars, Minglings and Rise Against Purples, unfortunately their win percentages are barely above .900 dont expect them to last very long.
Stay tuned for more info and my new feature of weekly updates on the Top 50 US teams starting next week!
Guidelines for becoming a 900 Club team: Maintain 150 Top US Rank, while holding .900 win percentage in matches.
Update 2: 7/20/07
Rank - Team - Win/Loss - Win%
1) ONE EIGHT VII (Stormreaver) 55-3 0.9482
2) Team Pulse (Feathermoon) 104-6 0.9454
3) Slash Cyclone (Bleeding Hollow) 120-9 0.9302
4) Trounce (Mal'Ganis) 145-12 157 0.9235
5) Game Over (Black Dragonflight) 114-10 0.9193
6) Thrallstars (Cho'Gall) 59-6 0.9076
7) Minglings (Lightning's Blade) 49-5 0.9074
8) Clan HeX (Lightning's Blade) 77-8 0.9058
9) Rise Against Pruples (Blackrock) 96-10 0.9056
Overview: SPIDER PIG leave us this week with a dismal week going 4-6, and dropping out of the Top150 US leaving us with no undefeated teams, ONE EIGHT VII takes their spot adding 4 solid wins and 0 losses to improve their win percentage. Trounce, Team Pulse, Game Over stay solid on the ranking with more great play this week while maintaining Top 15 status, very impressive for such high quality teams. Slash Cyclone and Clan HeX yet to play maintain the same ranks while GO HARD GO PRO, Beat the Breaks Off It, Pretty Standard, TEAM EG all drop off the list dropping their win percentage below .900 or not making Top 150 US. Although 5 teams left us this update, 3 new ones joined us: Thrallstars, Minglings and Rise Against Purples, unfortunately their win percentages are barely above .900 dont expect them to last very long.
Stay tuned for more info and my new feature of weekly updates on the Top 50 US teams starting next week!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Rogue - A Dying Breed
When I first started and thought of this site, I wanted to do weekly Top 5 or Top 10 rankings of each class so people could get a feel of who is playing their class right or specs they can copy and do better. It slowly hit me that It would be a waste of my time seeing as to find the top Mage/Paladin/Warrior’s I would just simply look for the 1-5th ranked team and see if they have that holy trinity and 90% of the time they probably will.
Instead I will go a different direction and show you players who are breaking the mold, who are not playing the “cookie cutter” builds/lineups, and doing something out of the ordinary. This first week I will be examining the Rogue class since it is a little unorthodox to play a Rogue in the 5v5 Arena. I will take a look at teams that have Rogues on them and play them at least 75% of their games (the rogues that aren’t back ups or bench warmers.)
Here are the Top 10 Rogues in the US:
10) Nortix - No Warriors - (US #109) - 2085 - (110-46)
If you haven’t guessed it by now from their team name, they don’t run with a warrior. They run 2-Healer group, with a Paladin and Resto Shaman, not only do they not run with a warrior, according to their team roster they some times run with a 4-DPS with two Rogues instead of a Shaman! I don’t think I have ever seen a two Rogue team in 5v5 arena, that would be definitely something I would like to see.
9) Indra - Fluffy Bunny - (US #107) - 2085 - (71-29)
Another 4-DPS Group here, with an even more unconventional one with a resto shaman as their only healer, the Rogue has played every game along with their most used lineup: Rogue, Shadow Priest, Warlock, Mage, Resto Shaman.
8) Fistan - Team NoobSauce - (US #79) - 2107 - (112-59)
This team is a little harder to read just from the team screen, what you can make of it is: they do run with a 4-DPS team with a paladin as the solo healer, while the only character on their team that has played every game is their Shadow Priest, they do have two warriors on their team but both only have 90 games played each, compared to Fistan’s 170+. Not sure what his role on this team is, but he has played over 75% of their matches.
7) Hanzbiggums - Exalted with ur Mom - (US #75) - 2114 - (90-12)
Hanzbiggums has played every match for this team, which is ranked 75th in the US, they run a 2-Healer team with Priest/Paladin, Along with Warlock/Mage as the other two DPS, there are no Warriors on his team. Hanzbiggum’s role on this team is that of the Warriors, to keep Wound Poison up while the target his team assist on dies with a few good interrupts on opposing healers.
6) Ihategnomez - I Ebayed - (US #69) - 2119 - (98-16)Yet another 4-DPS group with a Shaman as their only healer, not a Paladin, this team plays the same 5 every game with Shadow Priest, Warlock, Rogue, Mage, Resto Shaman. It is interesting to see all these 4 DPS teams with only a Shaman healing, usually you would expect a Paladin to fill that role not a Resto Shaman. Even more amazing is this team has won 86% of their matches, something very hard even for Top 100 teams who usually win around 75% of their matches.
5) Nasty - Team GSO - (US #57) - 2138 - (116-29)
This team is truly ‘Nasty’ given their lineup; they don’t play nice they play very dirty. Not only do they take full advantage of Shadow Priest/Warlock compatibility, they take it to the next level and use TWO warlocks, both of with are Unstable Affliction Speced. Seeing as Nasty is speced 41/20 his role is probably to put up an Imp Kidney shot on what every target they want to kill first while the rest of the opposing team is feared/dotted to death. This is one team I wouldn’t want to face in the arena.
4) Voide - We lose cuz Rogues suk - (US #47) - 2148 - (104-38)
The Warlock/Rogue ‘4-DPS’ pairing is looking more and more common among these top ranked Rogue teams. Voide is spec’d 18/43, his main role on this team is that of a warrior to probably lock down one target and kill it with adrenaline rush, while the rest of his team targets another one killing it while crowd controlling the healers. His team consists of UA Lock, Elemental Shaman and Holy Paladin.
3) Gathanon - Clan HeX -(US #34) - 2159 - (59-7)
During Season 1 Arena, most teams were trying out different lineups with almost the entire top teams consisted of two some times three healers, except for one: Clan HeX. This was the first well-known ‘4DPS’ team, and they were quite good at it, consistently ranking in the Top10 in the US as well as #1 in their battle group. Playing a Warrior only 25% of the time (subbing in for Gathanon, unfortunately it seems) this team runs Warlock, Holy Paladin, Shadow Priest, Elemental Shaman, and Gathanon, and are doing quite well at it yet again, only playing 85 matches and already ranked 34th in the US.
2) Zabash - Bill has Downs - (US #25) - 2179 - (126-33)
This is the first team that runs with a Rogue and Warrior and its obviously working for them. They are ranked 25th in the US with a sub-par win percentage of 79%(low for such a top ranked team), but they are pulling it off. Zabash plays 23/38 spec, and this team probably uses him and the Warrior to assist down two separate targets at once with Wound Poison and Mortal Strike. The problem with playing Rogue and Warrior together on a 2-Healer team, your 3rd ‘DPS’ needs to be a complete crowd control character, and their 5th right now looks like a Soul Link warlock who probably spends all his time fearing the opposing DPS and Interrupting Healers.
1) Hb - Project Mayhem - (US #12) - 2218 - (91-11)
And finally here it is, the #1 ranked rogue in all of the US at the moment, Hb from Project Mayhem. Hb plays the typical Combat Arena spec of 17/34, with his 2-Healer team that consists of Resto Shaman, Holy Paladin, Ice Mage, Shadow Priest, and Hb. It’s nice to see teams like this where you don’t have to play cookie cutter builds and can still amass a great record and be ranked extremely high. Kudos to you Hb.
Overview: While it has become extremely uncommon to see a Rogue in the high level 5v5 Arena these days, these few players prove its definitely possible, unfortunately there are some things you have to consider when you want to bring a Rogue on your team. About 80% of these Rogue’s teams played with out a warrior using a Rogue instead of him in every case, you have to ask your self whether or not you want your ‘primary’ DPS being a squishy leather target or a not so squishy Warrior. Another factor would be how many healers you take, as shown above Rogues are extremely viable in a 4DPS group, an Adrenaline Rush spec’ed Rogue can kill a target in about 20 seconds that doesn’t get heals and that can be very deadly, if you do play with a Rogue in a 2-Healer group make sure one ‘DPS’ is committed to mainly crowd control and not DPS, unless he can do both at the same time (exp. UA Lock).
Instead I will go a different direction and show you players who are breaking the mold, who are not playing the “cookie cutter” builds/lineups, and doing something out of the ordinary. This first week I will be examining the Rogue class since it is a little unorthodox to play a Rogue in the 5v5 Arena. I will take a look at teams that have Rogues on them and play them at least 75% of their games (the rogues that aren’t back ups or bench warmers.)
Here are the Top 10 Rogues in the US:
10) Nortix - No Warriors - (US #109) - 2085 - (110-46)
If you haven’t guessed it by now from their team name, they don’t run with a warrior. They run 2-Healer group, with a Paladin and Resto Shaman, not only do they not run with a warrior, according to their team roster they some times run with a 4-DPS with two Rogues instead of a Shaman! I don’t think I have ever seen a two Rogue team in 5v5 arena, that would be definitely something I would like to see.
9) Indra - Fluffy Bunny - (US #107) - 2085 - (71-29)
Another 4-DPS Group here, with an even more unconventional one with a resto shaman as their only healer, the Rogue has played every game along with their most used lineup: Rogue, Shadow Priest, Warlock, Mage, Resto Shaman.
8) Fistan - Team NoobSauce - (US #79) - 2107 - (112-59)
This team is a little harder to read just from the team screen, what you can make of it is: they do run with a 4-DPS team with a paladin as the solo healer, while the only character on their team that has played every game is their Shadow Priest, they do have two warriors on their team but both only have 90 games played each, compared to Fistan’s 170+. Not sure what his role on this team is, but he has played over 75% of their matches.
7) Hanzbiggums - Exalted with ur Mom - (US #75) - 2114 - (90-12)
Hanzbiggums has played every match for this team, which is ranked 75th in the US, they run a 2-Healer team with Priest/Paladin, Along with Warlock/Mage as the other two DPS, there are no Warriors on his team. Hanzbiggum’s role on this team is that of the Warriors, to keep Wound Poison up while the target his team assist on dies with a few good interrupts on opposing healers.
6) Ihategnomez - I Ebayed - (US #69) - 2119 - (98-16)Yet another 4-DPS group with a Shaman as their only healer, not a Paladin, this team plays the same 5 every game with Shadow Priest, Warlock, Rogue, Mage, Resto Shaman. It is interesting to see all these 4 DPS teams with only a Shaman healing, usually you would expect a Paladin to fill that role not a Resto Shaman. Even more amazing is this team has won 86% of their matches, something very hard even for Top 100 teams who usually win around 75% of their matches.
5) Nasty - Team GSO - (US #57) - 2138 - (116-29)
This team is truly ‘Nasty’ given their lineup; they don’t play nice they play very dirty. Not only do they take full advantage of Shadow Priest/Warlock compatibility, they take it to the next level and use TWO warlocks, both of with are Unstable Affliction Speced. Seeing as Nasty is speced 41/20 his role is probably to put up an Imp Kidney shot on what every target they want to kill first while the rest of the opposing team is feared/dotted to death. This is one team I wouldn’t want to face in the arena.
4) Voide - We lose cuz Rogues suk - (US #47) - 2148 - (104-38)
The Warlock/Rogue ‘4-DPS’ pairing is looking more and more common among these top ranked Rogue teams. Voide is spec’d 18/43, his main role on this team is that of a warrior to probably lock down one target and kill it with adrenaline rush, while the rest of his team targets another one killing it while crowd controlling the healers. His team consists of UA Lock, Elemental Shaman and Holy Paladin.
3) Gathanon - Clan HeX -(US #34) - 2159 - (59-7)
During Season 1 Arena, most teams were trying out different lineups with almost the entire top teams consisted of two some times three healers, except for one: Clan HeX. This was the first well-known ‘4DPS’ team, and they were quite good at it, consistently ranking in the Top10 in the US as well as #1 in their battle group. Playing a Warrior only 25% of the time (subbing in for Gathanon, unfortunately it seems) this team runs Warlock, Holy Paladin, Shadow Priest, Elemental Shaman, and Gathanon, and are doing quite well at it yet again, only playing 85 matches and already ranked 34th in the US.
2) Zabash - Bill has Downs - (US #25) - 2179 - (126-33)
This is the first team that runs with a Rogue and Warrior and its obviously working for them. They are ranked 25th in the US with a sub-par win percentage of 79%(low for such a top ranked team), but they are pulling it off. Zabash plays 23/38 spec, and this team probably uses him and the Warrior to assist down two separate targets at once with Wound Poison and Mortal Strike. The problem with playing Rogue and Warrior together on a 2-Healer team, your 3rd ‘DPS’ needs to be a complete crowd control character, and their 5th right now looks like a Soul Link warlock who probably spends all his time fearing the opposing DPS and Interrupting Healers.
1) Hb - Project Mayhem - (US #12) - 2218 - (91-11)
And finally here it is, the #1 ranked rogue in all of the US at the moment, Hb from Project Mayhem. Hb plays the typical Combat Arena spec of 17/34, with his 2-Healer team that consists of Resto Shaman, Holy Paladin, Ice Mage, Shadow Priest, and Hb. It’s nice to see teams like this where you don’t have to play cookie cutter builds and can still amass a great record and be ranked extremely high. Kudos to you Hb.
Overview: While it has become extremely uncommon to see a Rogue in the high level 5v5 Arena these days, these few players prove its definitely possible, unfortunately there are some things you have to consider when you want to bring a Rogue on your team. About 80% of these Rogue’s teams played with out a warrior using a Rogue instead of him in every case, you have to ask your self whether or not you want your ‘primary’ DPS being a squishy leather target or a not so squishy Warrior. Another factor would be how many healers you take, as shown above Rogues are extremely viable in a 4DPS group, an Adrenaline Rush spec’ed Rogue can kill a target in about 20 seconds that doesn’t get heals and that can be very deadly, if you do play with a Rogue in a 2-Healer group make sure one ‘DPS’ is committed to mainly crowd control and not DPS, unless he can do both at the same time (exp. UA Lock).
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Most Competitive Battlegroup?
There is a lot of debate over which battle group is the most competitive, most of it leans towards Bloodlust which features arguably the #1 Arena team in World of Warcraft at the moment Team Pandemic, here we will take a statistical break down of each battle group to see which one truly is the most competitive. What is a competitive battle group you might ask your self? To me its a combination of the top teams rating, as well as how many matches they've played which means they play a lot and versus each other. A High rating battle group with little games played means they farmed lesser ranked teams to get there, and vice verse.
Information taken from Top 10 Teams only on each battle group.
Average Rating Per Top10 Teams: To determine the battle group rating, I simply calculated the top 10 team from each battle group's rating, and added that together with the amount of matches those teams played to get their 'Battlegroup Rating'
Rank - Battlegroup - AverageRating - GP - Battlegroup Rating
1) BLOODLUST 2207.3 1689 3896.3
2) NIGHTFALL 2142.3 1681 3823.3
3) VENGEANCE 2140.5 1622 3762.5
4) RAMPAGE 2154.1 1601 3755.1
5) RUIN 2146.7 1574 3720.7
6) VINDICATION 2136.6 1573 3709.6
7) RECKONING 2157 1512 3669
8) CYCLONE 2145.8 1498 3643.8
9) SHADOWBURN 2124.4 1461 3585.4
10) STORMSTRIKE 2148.7 1326 3474.7
11) WHIRLWIND 2083.2 1260 3343.2
12) EMBERSTORM 1951.5 1066 3017.5
13) RETALIATION N/A N/A N/A
Overview: While its no surprise that bloodlust ended up in the #1, spot, it is surprising by how little they made it over the other few battle groups. Right now it looks like the Top 4 battle groups are highly competitive, where as 5th-9th are moderately, and unfortunately 10-13 are not as competitive seeing as their Battlegrounds have played 1200 average matches versus the top battlegroup's 1600+. From personal stand point, I have encountered many teams from Vengeance battle group that have left their server's to pursue "more competitive" battle groups, as I am sure is the case for many servers, looking at this ranking sheet makes me chuckle. As there is no way to truly rank one battle group to another or teams from cross battle group, these rankings show you what teams are playing and how much, which in essence is the heart of "competitiveness".
Information taken from Top 10 Teams only on each battle group.
Average Rating Per Top10 Teams: To determine the battle group rating, I simply calculated the top 10 team from each battle group's rating, and added that together with the amount of matches those teams played to get their 'Battlegroup Rating'
Rank - Battlegroup - AverageRating - GP - Battlegroup Rating
1) BLOODLUST 2207.3 1689 3896.3
2) NIGHTFALL 2142.3 1681 3823.3
3) VENGEANCE 2140.5 1622 3762.5
4) RAMPAGE 2154.1 1601 3755.1
5) RUIN 2146.7 1574 3720.7
6) VINDICATION 2136.6 1573 3709.6
7) RECKONING 2157 1512 3669
8) CYCLONE 2145.8 1498 3643.8
9) SHADOWBURN 2124.4 1461 3585.4
10) STORMSTRIKE 2148.7 1326 3474.7
11) WHIRLWIND 2083.2 1260 3343.2
12) EMBERSTORM 1951.5 1066 3017.5
13) RETALIATION N/A N/A N/A
Overview: While its no surprise that bloodlust ended up in the #1, spot, it is surprising by how little they made it over the other few battle groups. Right now it looks like the Top 4 battle groups are highly competitive, where as 5th-9th are moderately, and unfortunately 10-13 are not as competitive seeing as their Battlegrounds have played 1200 average matches versus the top battlegroup's 1600+. From personal stand point, I have encountered many teams from Vengeance battle group that have left their server's to pursue "more competitive" battle groups, as I am sure is the case for many servers, looking at this ranking sheet makes me chuckle. As there is no way to truly rank one battle group to another or teams from cross battle group, these rankings show you what teams are playing and how much, which in essence is the heart of "competitiveness".
900 Club
The 900 club is one of those most prestigious rankings on these site, while it is easy to join this club the difficulty lies within the ability to maintain this elite status. There are many teams inside the World of Warcraft that might dominate their battle group or server, but very few do so with a .900 % win to loss ratio. This blog will be updated regularly to provide you with those few teams that happen to do this.
Guidelines for becoming a 900 Club team: Maintain 150 Top US Rank, while holding .900 win percentage in matches.
Update 1: 7/17/07
Rank - Team - Win/Loss - Win%
1) SPIDER PIG SPIDER PIG (Cho'Gall) 40-0 1.0000
2) ONE EIGHT VII (Stormreaver) 49-3 0.9423
3) Team Pulse (Feathermoon) 82-6 0.9318
4) Trounce (Mal'Ganis) 121-9 0.9307
5) Slash Cyclone (Bleeding Hollow) 120-9 0.9302
6) PLAY HARD GO PRO (Cho'Gall) 56-5 0.9180
7) Beat the Breaks Off It (Agamaggan) 111-11 0.9098
8) Game Over (Black Dragonflight) 100-10 0.9090
9) Pretty Standar (Mal'Ganis) 117-12 0.9069
10) Clan HeX (Lightning's Blade) 77-8 0.9058
11) TEAM EG (Illidan) 84-9 0.9032
Overview: SPIDER PIG and ONE EIGHT VII jump to the top of the list after only one solid week of play, it will be interesting to track their progress and see if SPIDER PIG can remain as the ONLY undefeated team in the Top 150 US even if they are only ranked 140th at the moment, it is nothing to scoff at. Most impressive on this list are Trounce from Mal'Ganis and Team Pulse from (Feathermoon) who are the only teams ranked in the Top10. There are a lot of teams hoovering around .89 win %, expect many more teams to join this exclusive club as they win more matches. Stay tuned!
Guidelines for becoming a 900 Club team: Maintain 150 Top US Rank, while holding .900 win percentage in matches.
Update 1: 7/17/07
Rank - Team - Win/Loss - Win%
1) SPIDER PIG SPIDER PIG (Cho'Gall) 40-0 1.0000
2) ONE EIGHT VII (Stormreaver) 49-3 0.9423
3) Team Pulse (Feathermoon) 82-6 0.9318
4) Trounce (Mal'Ganis) 121-9 0.9307
5) Slash Cyclone (Bleeding Hollow) 120-9 0.9302
6) PLAY HARD GO PRO (Cho'Gall) 56-5 0.9180
7) Beat the Breaks Off It (Agamaggan) 111-11 0.9098
8) Game Over (Black Dragonflight) 100-10 0.9090
9) Pretty Standar (Mal'Ganis) 117-12 0.9069
10) Clan HeX (Lightning's Blade) 77-8 0.9058
11) TEAM EG (Illidan) 84-9 0.9032
Overview: SPIDER PIG and ONE EIGHT VII jump to the top of the list after only one solid week of play, it will be interesting to track their progress and see if SPIDER PIG can remain as the ONLY undefeated team in the Top 150 US even if they are only ranked 140th at the moment, it is nothing to scoff at. Most impressive on this list are Trounce from Mal'Ganis and Team Pulse from (Feathermoon) who are the only teams ranked in the Top10. There are a lot of teams hoovering around .89 win %, expect many more teams to join this exclusive club as they win more matches. Stay tuned!
Welcome to Arena Blogger!
This is a site dedicated to the 5v5 Arena aspect of World of Warcraft, we will try to bring you daily updates as well as indepth break downs of teams, tournaments, and other great statistics.
This is just out startup, which we plan to add much more, I hope you enjoy reading this blog!
This is just out startup, which we plan to add much more, I hope you enjoy reading this blog!
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