Continuing with the PvP theme from Friday ... over the weekend we made some pretty good progress in 2s. Friday night we had a little time and were able to finally break the 1900 barrier! That was exciting. I think we got as high as 1911 and finished at 1899; we didn't have a ton of time to play so were only able to get a handful of games in.
I didn't think my partner would be around for the rest of the weekend so I spent some time leveling up my priest and he is up to 91! One more level and I can get some useful stuff in my garrison, theoretically increasing my gold income by 50% (he has enchanting and tailoring; I'm not sure how well enchanting stuff really sells).
Much to my surprise though, my 2s partner popped in on Sunday and we were able to get some games in. Sadly, our hunter was not around so we weren't able to do any 3s (we might have to start looking for a new hunter!). We played some games, did fairly well ... ran into a bunch of double dps teams, not too many hunters, and even managed to beat a couple resto druid / rogue teams (one of which even had the 2k transmogs). Before we knew it our rating was up to 1988 and our matchmaking rating was over 2100 (!!). Most wins are in the 9-14 range, but given the discrepancy between our personal rating and mmr, one more win would have likely bumped us over 2k.
The game to go above 2k, we actually ended up facing a team we had already beaten - resto druid and rogue, their matchmaking rating was ~2100. The first game, I managed to open up on the rogue before he opened on my healer (a rarity), and then the majority of the match was spent with both DPS trying to kill the opposing healer. In the second game, I was unable to find the rogue before he opened, which was a little unfortunate but shouldn't have mattered too much in the long run. This game proceeded similarly to the first - both DPS chasing the opposing healer. There were a couple times I got the druid pretty low ... and then they switched up their strategy. The rogue switched onto me and with the bevy of stuns and snares (poisons), I was unable to keep up with the druid as easily as I had before. This change of strategy on their part was crucial and ended up costing us the game. I couldn't keep up with the druid with the rogue harassing me, but leaving the druid alone left him free to cast CCs on my priest.
Of course, after this loss we ran into a string of tough comps for us (hunter/healer, warrior/druid) and ended up losing our way back down to 1950. Almost all of these games were very close, coming down to the very end. It was frustrating that there ended up being such a discrepancy between our personal rating and matchmaking rating. It seemed as though our matchmaking rating would go up significantly upon beating a highly rated team while our personal rating went up more slowly. Had they gone up equally, we would have easily broken 2k.
Overall, both a frustrating and encouraging experience. Frustrating to have gotten so close and then watched it slip away, but encouraging because it now seems as though it might be possible to break 2k after all!
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