Vance 'Serennia' Phuoc is one of the most celebrated World of Warcraft players out there and generates a very wide range of emotions in the community including both love and hatred. Mostly hatred, though.
Serennia got famous for holding the #1 spot in all three brackets in the Bloodlust battlegroup and formed an almost notorious 2v2 partnership with Neil 'Neilyo' Mosunic that took the #1 spot in the Bloodlust, Rampage and Ruin battlegroup.
The interview was taken during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris and covers serennia's personal life, the balance in WoW and the game's place in the world of esports. Enjoy.
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1on1 with Vance "serennia" Phuoc
Written by Carmac in video 3 months ago (49 comments) | Tagged in: 1on1 interview Carmac serennia WoW
This Wednesday's 1on1 features SK Gaming's Vance "serennia" Phuoc in a conversation about World of Warcraft and whose fault it is that the game is replacing Warcraft 3.
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So, there is the rng and you can auto-attack? And apparently the list he gave of things to fix was 'short' so...how is this game any good for competitive E-Sports?
He also completely dodged the spectating question by saying 3v3 was balanced? How does that have anything to do with watching it. It could be the most imbalanced thing I have ever seen, that still doesn't make it fun or easy to watch.
And by the way, WoW has replaced Wc3 once. And Wc3 is growing quite a bit (competition-wise). Look at China. Sure the list of players is the same, and there are less and less Amateurs out there but seriously....I rather watch people with real talent and skill at a game that takes talent and skill than watch someone auto-attack for 45 minutes and not even know if his abilities will hit because of the rng.
now stop the whine already
keep up the good work
let us know what class you pick when u decide to switch
Like they are embarrassed that they play games so much and need to compensate it with something "athletic" in the past....
You sound stupid!
dont forget how "young" wow as an arena game is, most of blizzard games got really good with the first expansion in terms of game balance.
( vanillah sc and roc were kinda horrible if you are honest )
with wotlk being the first addon after arena i think we will see the gold old blizzard trend of making a decent "pvp / esport game" into a great one
/reply function buged? i was meant to reply to goliath 2 posts below me ;/
but as i said in the previous interview already. i can't share there views on how interesting WoW is competetively is.
The problem is, that the classes in WoW are not balanced solely on the action in Arena and small group fights. As WoW does not only consist of Arena, this will probably never be changed solely around arena. So i guess it will never get the sense of balance as it is in wc3 and sc.
if a team wins right now and you ask the loser he answers: we have a problem with the class combo. So it's neither 'we have been outskilled' nor a 'we have been tacticly or strategically "outsmartet"(if this word exists:) )'
...and that's for me exact the way i look an arena game. ok he used that spell, his opponent can't counter this, because his class setup, so attacker gains advantage.
therefore you can better predict a game from the class setup than from the quality of the gamers. Therefore BORING...
It's so true that wow in EUROPE isnt as competitive atm (besides online) as in the US for example.
The balance in the game is atm not so bad, although the armor penetration sure fks up the clothies too fast. The "top" teams we see playing at those LAN tourneys use the most viable comps anyway, another season/patch and they change setup again. Which is WHY everyone wants non-stop tournament realms with 3 chars max. So everyone and not just the ones who have a _lot_ of free time can learn to play multilpe classes.
More and more tournaments are coming up and being hosted for wow, of which 95% is held in the US. It's the same as the WSVG back in the day, first they make the Asian stop giving 3 teams free travel to the next one. Next 3 or 4 events are in the US and the last and Final one is the Europe (but hey, you needed to have build up points AT the US stops to even participate at the EU stop.....)
So Please gief some EU competitions cus honestly watching some teams play wow at lans makes me cry they were in the position to attend, while at least 20 TOP european teams just cant afford or can't fix everything in time.
When watching the LAN matches I can't help but get the feeling the level of play is so much less than e.g. tournament ladder. Is it because almost no one has lan experience or do they all play with 200 addons ?
Good interview.
Pure Pwnage shirt :) nice.
"people at gameriot u are gay",haha nice ending
Theres so much talk going on about this guy, but from what I can tell he seems like a real cool guy.