Show me one european team who can play like that. I sure don't know any on Cyclone atleast.

Me neither, they're so terribly good

yeah losing rank 1 to Shuttlecocks and paladin from clc leaving team,although they should recover fast

Who told you this was the best team in the world? They're not.

Numerous members of gameriot.com, a lot of "pandemic" nerds, some other freaks from BG9 and CLC members themselves.

Mostly americans :> (just kidding)

The only team that can even be considered the best in the world is team pandemic. They're undefeated on LAN(yeah they've lost rounds but not matches). Online means shit when it comes to competitive gaming, Inactive can gloat all he wants.

Yeah, I know that, I just refered to it, because it's so funny how teams like pandemic are constantly overestimating themselves.

I guess what I'm fishing for is why. Is it because it will be dispelled instantly and trading GCD's with their healers isn't worth it? Does he not value it even as a spell interrupt effect on the shaman?

A locks time is just usually better spent doing damage than fearing.
Especially if the priest is good and can get a couple of importants fears off in which case the lock burning through diminishing returns isn't particularly nice.

It's mostly due to how survivability hasn't increased with season 3 but damage has gone up.
This has resulted in pressure being best applied through damage and rare but well timed cc, rather than raw cc and burst oriented damage which was the case in early/mid season 2.

It's about fearing at the right moment, rather than keeping someone feared and him being immune when the time is actually right.

Good answers, thanks. I generally use fear as a constant damage mitigator throughout the match, but I guess if you trust your healers it's not that necessary.

It's actually counterproductive to be fearing alot througout a match (slightly dependant of setup though).
The thing is that when you're fearing you aren't doing damage, and if you aren't doing damage chances are that the opposing paladin is gonna be enough to keep whatever target you're on alive, which in turn gives the opposing priest time to control your team through mana burns, fears, dispels and mind controls.

Ideally if your team is doing enough damage you won't need fear as a damage mitigator at all since your opponents will be under so much pressure that they will be forced to spend their time cc'ing your damage dealers thus reducing the damage they do making it easier for your healers to keep up.

It sounds more advanced that in it is, hope it makes atleast some sense :p

haha yeah it makes sense

It makes sense, but the same is true the other way, it frees my priest up as well. I'm playing with a hunter instead of a shaman, so I'm not sure if if extending the match in this manner is better since we have superior mana drain.

You got me there.
I'm a terrible player who knows nothing about arenas at all.

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