Technically Pvp

Technically PVP Show notes Episode 30 - Dalaran Sewers   Upcoming WoW PVP Events COPA America Closing Pre-season 17 Aug - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica/2017/Closing_Pre-Season COPA America Closing Group stage 19-20 Aug Technically PVP vs Summoning Stone 23 Aug EU Regional Championship Finals 23-26 Aug COPA America Closing Season 26 Aug   WOW PVP NEWS EU Rallying Cry happened 28-30 July - Congrats to Legionals - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/EU/Rallying_Cry NA Cup #4 happened 28-30 July - Congrats to Splyce - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/NA/4 APAC Finals happened 29-30 July - Congrats to Team Rock - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_World_Championship/2017/APAC_Championship_Finals NA Cup #5 happened 2-5 Aug- Congrats to Method Synergy - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/NA/5 Warhorses Guild Arena Event happened 5 Aug - Congrats to Comin’ Outta Retirement - https://www.youtube.

Technically PVP Show notes Episode 29 - Shoutcasting Upcoming WoW PVP Events Warcraft NA Cup #4 - July 26-29 - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/world-of-warcraft-north-america-arena-cup-4/595d38d36c73ef03455d6c75/info?infoTab=details EU Rallying Cry - Jul 28-30 - http://wow.starladder.tv/en/tournaments/1408/members Asia Pacific Regionals - Jul 29-30 https://worldofwarcraft.com/zh-tw/news/20899044/2017 Warcraft NA Cup 5 - Aug 2-5 - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/world-of-warcraft-north-america-arena-cup-5/595ffaf2738320033b3863d6/info?infoTab=details Warhorse Guild tournament - Aug 5 China Regionals - Aug 11-13 - https://www.wowchina.com/zh-cn/news/17476830 COPA Closing Pre-Season - Aug 17 - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica/2017/Closing_Pre-Season   WOW PVP NEWS Method NA Major - Finished July 16 - Congrats to Tempo Storm for winning another tournament.  This puts them at 372 points.  Big story for this tournament

Episode 27 - Ret Paladins   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Warcraft EU Cup #4 - 6-10 Jul Method US Major - 15-16 Jul Warcraft EU Cup #5 - 20-24 Jul   WOW PVP NEWS Method EU Major - Congratulations to the Boyzz for winning this community tournament! http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Method_EU_Major Warcraft EU Cup #3 - Congrats to Boetar, Fabbs, Swapxy, and Blizzo from Method Triforce!  http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/EU/3 Shoutout to Ddersai (https://twitter.com/Dderserei) for keeping the liquipedia wiki up-to-date during the events.  Speaking of which, she would love some help: I'd really like help with building upon existing player and team pages with better information, and I'd like to get some help with the Game Mechanics portal since none of the pages are up yet. People can contact me on twitter. Alternatively people can join the Liquipedia discord and go to the World of Warcraft section. Dev’s AMA - Amagalated links to all the PVP items is on Reddit: https://www.re

Episode 26 - Patch 7.2.5 Upcoming WoW PVP Events Method EU Major - 15-18 Jun ($8000 prize pool and 40/20/12/8points) https://battlefy.com/method/method-eu-major/592ca05dde3053033a54daff/info?infoTab=details Warcraft EU Cup #3 - 22-26 Jun - http://wow.starladder.tv/en/tournaments/1405/members Warcraft EU Cup #4 - 6-10 Jul - http://wow.starladder.tv/en/tournaments/1406/members   WOW PVP NEWS GCDTV EU Clash 3-4 Jun - Congrats to Minpojke, Whazz, Raiku, and Zunniyaki of team Northern Gaming Blue for winning!  Such a strong RMD. Warcraft NA Cup #3 7-10 Jun - Congrats to Jahmilli, Gorecki, and Pikaboo from Tempo Storm for taking first place!  This puts Tempo Storm in a very strong first place for the point standings for the regional championship seeding.  What’s with BM/Prot Pally? Copa America Opening Season 9-11 Jun - Congrats to Ichigo, Imli, and Wrath of team PVP Like A Boss, for coming out on top for that tournament with 6W-1L World of Warcraft website has an esports tab - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-u

Episode 25 - Strand of the Ancients Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV EU Clash #3 - 3 Jun -  https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-eu-june-clash/5924e0734f41c10341d98034/info?infoTab=details Warcraft NA Cup #3 - 7-10 Jun - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/NA/3 Warcraft Copa America cup -9-11 Jun - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica/2017/Opening_Season   WOW PVP NEWS Congrats to ArrowDynamic, Oxygen and Fresh of team Mad Dog Adrian for winning the ANZ cup on Saturday, 27 May. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/ANZ/1 Congrats to CDew, Snutz, Bean, and Samiyam of Method:Reborn for winning the GCDTV NA Clash this weekend! http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/GCD/NA_May_Clash Quick shoutout to @Dderserei for maintaining the liquipedia pages and live updating during the streamed matches!!! Legion Season 3 ending 13 Jun (so 11 weeks total)- https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20812903/legion-pvp-season-3-ending-june-13 Holinka clarifi

Episode 24 - PVE to PVPness   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Warcraft EU Cup #2 - 18-22 May - http://wow.starladder.tv/en/tournaments/1399/members Warcraft ANZ Cup #1 - 20/27 May -  https://play.eslgaming.com/worldofwarcraft/oceania/wow/open/anz-2017-qualifier/ Further upcoming tournaments! - https://twitter.com/IamClutter/status/863941219063283712 http://wow.starladder.tv/en WOW PVP NEWS http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Main_Page GCDTV EU Clash (7 May)- Congrats to Zeepeye, Wallirik, Loony, and Froffsy of Enjoy Legion for winning first place! Warcraft NA Cup #2 (14 May) - Congrats to Gorecki, Jahmilli, Chanimal, and Pikaboo of Tempo Storm for winning first Place! Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20653889/hotfixes-may-15   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, moving from pve to pvp! World of Warcraft is primarily a PvE game.  When launched, battlegrounds and arenas did not exist.  Players created PvP in the open world (the famous South Shore / Tauren Mill battles).  Later, Bl

Episode 23 - Tiger’s Peak Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV EU May Clash - 4-7 May - 17 teams https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-eu-may-clash/58d437e75c9a453f0330b1e7/info?infoTab=schedule Warcraft NA Cup #2 10-14 May - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/world-of-warcraft-north-america-arena-cup-2/58fa831e5e41d903404ada20/info?infoTab=details Warcraft ANZ cup #1 20/27 May - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20754506556 WOW PVP NEWS Rubcub kicked from team…. Loses comp points.  Replaced by Kubzy for druid comps - https://twitter.com/kaska8th/status/856626805456773121 Method won the GCDTV NA Clash Tournament 22-23 Apr https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-na-april-clash/58d2dc708d61cf3e039cd6fd/info?infoTab=details “Enjoy Legion” won the Warcraft EU Cup #1 29-30 Apr; Congrats to Wallirik, Froffsy, Looney, and Zeepeye - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/EU/1 http://wow.starladder.tv/en/tournaments/1398 Hotfixes: Fixed immunity bug (tanks/fcs), Brawl que

  Episode 22 - Season 2 and 7.2 in Depth   Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV NA Clash - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-na-april-clash/58d2dc708d61cf3e039cd6fd/info?infoTab=details Blizzard EU Cup - http://wow.starladder.tv/en/news/4707-arena-european-championship-sign-up-now WOW PVP NEWS Warcraft NA Cup #1 happened - Congrats to Panda Global! Rubcub, Wealthyman, Roastyz and Chanimal!  http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/NA/1   https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20704259/cup-1-results-reactions-and-next-steps Season 2 Titles were released -we will talk about this further in today’s subj - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753955371 Hotfixes- Mages nerfed, gear ilvl adjusted, and more - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20653889/hotfixes-april-17 Interesting PVP bug - https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/854483945160822784   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Season 2 of Legion PVP.  We are using http://www.arenamate.net/representation-graphs/arch

Episode 21 - April Fools   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Blizzard NA Qualifier cup 8 Apr 2017- Closed for entry; 37 teams total; season 2 rating to be used for seeding; qualifiers start April 5th https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20634740/arena-world-championships-sign-up-now https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/world-of-warcraft-north-america-arena-cup-1/58cb681843709340032b46c3/participants WOW PVP NEWS GCDTV EU Spring Tournament #2 - Congrats to Ultimate trash! Zeepeye, Wallirik, Looney, and Jangles - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-europe-spring-final/58c1decd66b0063e03125ddb/stage/58c1df287650153a03387b4b/bracket/ and  https://matcherino.com/b/tournaments/5428 Season 2 ends/Season 3 starts 28 Mar - also brawls! - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20564524/patch-7-2-preview-shake-up-the-battlegrounds-with-pvp-brawls 7.2 Drops 28 Mar - class changes - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753735213 Patch notes- https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20629899/wo

Episode 20 - Shadow Priests   Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV EU Spring Tournament #2 - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-europe-spring-final/58c1decd66b0063e03125ddb/info?infoTab=details WOW PVP NEWS The GCDTV NA tournament 10-12 Mar was very exciting with quite the variety of comps.  It ended with team Wizks Return winning over team Northern Panda 4 games to 1.  Congratulations to Chanimals, Wizk, Asbur, and Absterge!  Through Matcherio.com, the community raised a total prize pool of $2068 USD, with 1st place getting $1240 of that!   Holinka talked some stuff.  https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20564532/watch-the-q-a-vod-with-brian-holinka-here http://www.wowhead.com/news=261064/liveblog-of-the-legion-pvp-q-a-with-brian-holinka Most notably: no chance of pvp template/tuning info on the wow site, 1v1/solo queues may be coming (but it’s a difficult problem), pvp obliterum tokens, stacking boomkins and Spriests in RBGs is a problem, and Glad mounts are not going to become account-wide.   Season 2 ending…

Episode 19 - Twin Peaks   Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV NA Tournament 10-12 Mar - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-na-spring-finals-1/58ae72fac1e65b3303367112/info?infoTab=rules   WOW PVP NEWS Latest round of hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20478238/hotfixes-march-7 Dev Q&A with Holinka (plus esports announcement from Jeramy McIntyre)- https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753596034   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, the Twin Peaks battleground Overview:  Twin Peaks was 10v10 cap the flag map implemented during patch 4.0.3a on 23 Nov 2010 as part of Cataclysm expansion.  It has received a couple hotfixes since inception.  First hotfix disallowed the flag carrier from bringing the flag to the elevated graveyard.  Second one was the flag carrier debuff activates 1 minute after both flags are picked up.  Third was a honour bonus for preventing teams from capping. Warcraft PVP Scene NA Bracket http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/2v2 EU PVP Brackets: https://worl

Episode 18 - Nagrand Arena   Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV EU Tourney 24-26 Feb - https://twitter.com/GCDTV_/status/831202296327462912 https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcd-eu-winter-tournament-2/5887523e038a154b06b5ed63/info?infoTab=details   WOW PVP NEWS PTR Brawls Finished 17 Feb - The last brawl was Tauren Mill/Southshore.  There is a video on youtube. https://t.co/J43i3zyoIi A Tuning pass happened today - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753108893#1 Warcraft mount for playing HotS - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20506167  Not news - Bigmoran of Skill-Capped posted macro links on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldofpvp/comments/5t0zvf/tutorial_legion_macro_and_talent_guides_available/   Guild Recruitment CurrentlyOnline guild has formed a PVP-only sub-guild on Sargeras US-Alliance.  You can check them out at coguild.com/rbgs Sovereign (my guild) is also recruiting on Tichondrius US-Alliance and Darkspear US- Ally&horde.  You can just whisper us in game. :)   Subject of Analysis

Episode 17 - Big Cooldowns   Upcoming WoW PVP Events   WOW PVP NEWS PTR Brawl Testing - https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/826162092122050562 WOW Liquipedia page is up - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldofpvp/comments/5rlf8o/the_wow_esports_liquipedia_is_now_up_please_help/ Ban wave - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753345400?page=1#1 New WOW show - https://twitter.com/Omnislashmedia/status/828664418124832770 Hotfixes and such - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20478238/hotfixes-february-6 Account wide pvp mounts in the works - https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/828694029923553280   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Cooldowns!  A topic recommended by a listener who’s name escapes me because I forgot to write it down.   Warcraft PVP Scene NA Bracket http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/2v2 EU PVP Brackets: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/pvp/leaderboards/2v2   Trivia question How many reinforcements does faction have at the start of an Alterac Valley batt

Episode 16 - DKs with Arthur   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Nothing announce right now, but Adrian, aka Healingstat, announced during the weekend tournament that GCDTV plans on monthly tournaments.  Follow on twitter @GCDTV_ for further announcements!   WOW PVP NEWS Boys Are Back won the GCDTV EU Tournament finals against NG Blue in a 4:3 match.  It was a great matchup with some very close games!  Congrats to Xonika, Wallirik and Feddx for winning the $600 first place prize! https://battlefy.com/gcdtv-eu/gcd-eu-winter-tournament-1/586cc79c2351184303e56f26/info 7.1.5 Hotfix’s: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20478238/hotfixes-january-23 Make sure you read.  Many tuning fixes in PVE and PVP! /cough arcane… https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752582359#1 Titles were redistributed and final cut-offs provided: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752735693#post-1 PTR 7.2 is up! Blizz is adding some PVP item changes to it (tradesies):https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752745153 Holinka

Episode 15 - Warriors with Paralantius   Upcoming WoW PVP Events GCDTV EU (1k) Tournament 20-22 Jan https://twitter.com/GCDTV_/status/817851799545724928 WOW PVP NEWS Update on titles - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752439581#post-1 Kathorist building his own RBG guild Darkspear[A] - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752610045 Patch drops today - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20457825/patch-notes-world-of-warcraft-patch-7-1-5 And hotfix- https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752500697?page=14#post-269 GCDTV is looking for people to join WOW wiki on Liquipedia - https://twitter.com/GCDTV_/status/818276407658823680 Still working on food buffs in BGs - https://twitter.com/holinka/status/814350691632353280 Nighthold raid opens 17 Jan - Which means PVP will reward 890 & 900 ilvl gear for 2200+ rating Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Warriors http://www.noxxic.com/wow/pvp/warrior/arms/ http://www.skill-capped.com/content/15522/legion-arms-warrior-wow-pvp-

Episode 14 - Legion Season 1 Review   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Nada   WOW PVP NEWS Titles came out - Let the controversy begin!  There were less titles handed out than expected based on community website predictions.  Many people went to the official forums to vent their frustrations with how the award of titles went this season. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752527422#post-1 GCDTV has started hosting tournaments again with the most recent on 16 Dec. It was successful with Elbareth, Supatease and Dillypoo casting.  Splyce took 1st place defeating Panda Global!   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Season 1 of Legion PVP.  We are using http://www.arenamate.net/ for all the demographics for this discussion, cause the official WoW website doesn’t aggregate the data at all.   Notable Comps: Arena- http://arenacomp.com/ Class distribution over the season http://www.arenamate.net/representation-graphs/archive/legion-s1 Recap the PVP Changes over the season 7.1 - https://worldofwarcraft.co

Episode 13 - Silvershard Mines   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Nada   WOW PVP NEWS The TESPA Collegiate Dungeon race - https://tespa.org/news/20382068/the-great-dungeon-race-broadcast-team-spotlight Season 1 ended - http://www.arenamate.net/arena-rbg-title-cutoffs     Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Silvershard Mines - http://www.wowhead.com/silvershard-mines Overview: Silvershard Mines BG is a 10v10 resource based battleground implemented during patch 5.0.4 on 25 Sep 12 as part of MOP expansion.  First team to 1600 resources wins! Topography: The mines have a central area where carts appear.  From there they will start moving in one of three directions.  These are typically called Earth, Water, Lava.   Warcraft PVP Scene http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/rbg http://www.arenamate.net/ Warcraft EU PVP Brackets: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/pvp/leaderboards/battlegrounds   Finding us: https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/about https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https:

Episode 12 - Mages with Andallyn and Windstead   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Nothing to report   WOW PVP NEWS PVP changes on the PTR - http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/22814056/ Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20303039/hotfixes-november-22 Infographic from Tempo Storm - https://tempostorm.com/articles/infographic-world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship-at-blizzcon-2016 Legion Season 1 ends 13 Dec - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20391097/legion-pvp-season-rollover-on-december-13   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Mages. http://www.noxxic.com/wow/pvp/mage/arcane/ http://www.noxxic.com/wow/pvp/mage/fire/ http://www.noxxic.com/wow/pvp/mage/frost/ http://www.icy-veins.com/wow/fire-mage-pvp-guide   Overview: Mages have constantly been a staple class in PVP.  Strictly a DPS class they can bring significant damage dealing to the group as well as crowd controlling abilities which synergize well to other classes.  They have been deemed the “glass cannon” due to their ability to

Episode 11- Demon Hunters   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Nothing on the near horizon   WOW PVP NEWS Hotfixes : https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20303039/hotfixes-november-14 BLIZZCON: Congratulations to Boetar, Swapxy, and Fabss for winning the WoW Arena World competition.  There is a great writeup on the Blizzcon site as well a post-win press conference where Splyce discusses the work the put in to win. https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/20367678 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2675533-blizzcon-splyce-wins-back-to-back-wow-arena-championships 7.1.5 has hit the PTR and people are already talking about the changes! Today we will discuss, Demon Hunters. The Demon Hunter is the newest class added for the Legion expansion of WoW.  If you pre-purchased you could play one live during the pre-patch.  The Demon Hunter class are only available as elves.  The class fantasy is that they have been converted by Illidan, which makes the Illadari (no longer elves).  This allows them to speak demon with each other