2019 MDI. What the top NA players had to say about it!

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InterviewsJdotb Resto Druid - Team: Method NARevenant

Infesté influenced the way you pulled specific packs and slow you down, whereas reaping doesn't really impact how you pull packs. Just have to be mindful about when you hit the reaping breakpoints. And reaping encourages you to do big pulls by trying to drag the reaping wave onto something else

We'll see, there are some gimmicky things you can do with reaping on lower keys that you prob can't get away with on Live. So big AOE classes that aren't especially good at single target might still be worth running in MDI. Tough to say because you never get a chance to see that environment on live.

A lot of melee classes have good burst AOE, so they handle reaping well. Still not sure what comp will look like till we get to play around with it on tournament realm

Get a team you like playing with because your gonna be spending a lot of time with them, and don't bring preconceptions from live servers to TR. Lots of things that don't work on Live can work in lower keys with lots of practice.

prob Détonant. It will be super punishing trying to speed run.

Nothing specific, we were close last year, just need execution.

Trance - Brewmaster monkRevenant

It's Easier in that there's no risk of a chain reaction that completely ruins the key but it can be more of a time investment if you don't plan your route properly, waiting for reaping mobs to run halfway across the map is not ideal

Warrior is pretty popular this season because on pulls where Maîtrise du blocage mitigates most incoming damage. Avatar can allow for insane damage, but not all dungeons are suited for warrior in my opinion and the utility of monk can outshine other tanks

Only Galvanisant since the key levels are so low that the only thing that can hold you back is an affix that prevents big pulls.

Détonant

Ya bursting is over-tuned at the moment, in my opinion, they buffed it because people mostly ignored it throughout most of season 1, but they went overboard with the changes.

Magic damage

Don't over Infusion purificatrice

Psychox - Havoc Demon Hunter

It will be changing the way we look at dungeons a lot. We will have to change up pulls and take more risks to complete them as fast as possible. With the lower key levels, there is more room for that.

It really depends on the team and composition in my opinion. Explosif is my personal least favorite affix. But affixes like Grouillant really throw a wrench into your strategy a lot of the time, because the higher mob density changes a lot of things.

I don't often compare myself to other players but all I can say is that I try my best to minimize and maximize my damage in every situation possible. I get asked to run with other groups to push keys because I've been known to be reliable and maximize my output.

Yes, I didn't play at all in legion so I never had a chance to compete before. I was very active in pushing fast times in Challenge modes in MoP/Early WoD though.

Honestly my best advice to new players who want to get better is to just keep playing and running keys. I know it is not always easy but play with people who are better than you. If you're the best player in your group you're in the wrong group. Also, don't be afraid to go into the better player streams and ask questions, watch what they do etc..

Asûna - Frost Mage

I still have some planning in the works regarding that I have a bunch of friends with plans and were looking for a tank, so nothing official yet. I am eager as hell to compete in it!

Yea with the low level I believe every mage will be playing frost, just because of the fact that frost has no cool-down based damage, and in a quick key you'll get Combustion (2 min CD) off then you would in a high key, and as well frost has insane scaling the bigger the mob pulls get, very fast resets on Orbe gelé in keys like that. Fire shines a lot harder in those single target dungeons such as temple and kings rest but mainly at high levels.

InfestéRevenant

the thing that made infested so unique was the number of different routes you do, I've played with blood Dks like Snapxd, Nerfdk, and Handssomedk and they all generally had different routes. With reaping your route will probably only change depending on affixes, I do believe reaping creates faster gameplay because people are pulling reaping packs on top of bosses and there is a lot of movement with all the Frappe des ombres. infested created very slow gameplay where you crowd controlled an infested mob and killed it after. Reaping is probably so much better for a crowd to watch in an MDI setting than infested. Imagine all the reaping+boss pulls we will see in MDI.

The main advice I can give and that I actively use is always think what you can do better mid pull, this could be in terms of your DPS rotation, which mob you are ST focusing in an AOE pack, or even if your group wipes I always ask myself what could I have done better? Could I have saved my Nova de givre, Cône de froid for the tank to kite? Could I have used Contresort on a more important spell? Something as simple as calling out a mechanic. Also for those Frost mages, be extremely careful when you root mobs as some times you can root a Poigne de la mort, Typhon, etc... Especially during weeks like Sanguin.

When its an affix where it lets you pull an entire dungeon, I absolutely love freehold and mother lode because the tank just does fearless big pulls and it makes mages absolutely own. In terms of boss fights. The First boss in Kings rest for sure, because as frost they generally put you in charge of slowing the mobs and you have a lot of immunity for Crachat d’or, and you can just get so many Orbe gelé resets when there are a lot of adds up. The First boss in mother lode would be a close second, hitting over 400k Pointe glaciaire feels good.

Goopzilla - Balance DruidGapezilla TwitchInfestéRevenant

Infested was a pretty unfun affix in my opinion. It felt arbitrarily slowed down progress in the dungeon and severely conflicted with certain affixes like Suicide. Reaping is a lot more fun to deal with, as the mobs are relatively weak and you can do some fun pulls with Reaping mobs + additional packs. It helps with dungeons pacing a lot and is just overall a better affix since MDI is all about speed, it should be a much better viewing experience.

Well depending on the key level Blizzard decides on, Balance druid probably won't be used at all in MDI. Our biggest strength right now is the safety we bring to the tank with Force de la nature. Our AOE dmg, and therefore our ability to contribute to the fastest dungeon clear possible, is lacking at the moment. We can do very good AOE, but our ramp time doesn't allow for the efficient killing of Reaping waves compared to many other classes. So if the key levels are too low and the tanks don't need the utility, I can't see any teams using a balance druid. Innervation utility is only useful when pushing very high keys, as healer mana isn't a problem. Rayon solaire is very strong in some dungeons, but not required by any means. Generally, I think when going for speed, you want to forsake utility classes like Boomie. Go for big dick damage classes like Demo lock, Spriest, Frost Mage. Not to mention Melee specs like Rogue, DH, and Ret Pally.

Depends on your definition of 'High level' I guess. Outside of Nécrotique and Déchaîné weeks. Boomie is a bit worse off than a lot of other DPS atm. Our traits that in theory exist to empower our AOE, are pretty under tuned and leave us in a bad place unless you are pushing the very Highest key levels. Ramp time on trash mobs is really distressing for a lot of players. I get people all the time telling me they think they suck because they can't figure out how to do relevant damage in M+. If you insist on trying to make the class work, the best you can do is find some consistency.

Freehold is easily the best dungeon. The routing flexibility in there is awesome. Linear dungeons are fine but when every dungeon is linear things can get boring very quickly. You have so many options in terms of what trash you want to pull for percentage and even what order you can take the bosses in. Also lots of trash so lots of AOE :D.

It's hard to pick a favorite boss because most of the dungeon bosses are really boring and easy. And the ones that are not easy tend to only be hard due to RNG. If you're pushing a high freehold key, and Eudora on Council o' Captains decides to use her random shoot ability on you 5 times in a row, there is nothing you can do to outplay that damage, you will probably just die. Bosses that can randomly murder you like that don't feel very good, but bosses that are also as simple as "execute 1 mechanic properly and win" don't feel good either. I guess my answer would be personally I just prefer raiding for good boss content :D. M+ is fun for other reasons.

Thdlock - Demo WarlockThdlockInfestéRevenant

I think reaping is a significantly better affix and In my opinion, you will see much bigger pulls because of infested being gone. Infested as an affix was extremely annoying, reaping is much more exciting and really brings back the big AOE DPS that legion dungeons had. Overall having a good reaping timing is important because if you start a pull with 5 large mobs and 20 small mobs and kill the small mobs and reaping spawns. Its quite bad however many people have been pulling easy bosses with reaping even on Tyrannical weeks.

At the moment if warlocks do not receive any changes then demonology is one of the best specs in the game at doing raw damage. However, warlock utility does not have easy access to an interrupt or crowd control ability besides Bannir. However, it does have Furie de l’ombre. The reason demonology is absolutely wild is because of its competitive AOE damage and its insane single target damage. Think about old sub rogue single target, but you don't need other targets or set up around the boss.

At the moment I would say the best thing you could do as a warlock in M+ is try to abuse our powerful AOE CDs. Obviously with demonology being extremely powerful as it stands atm. If demonology is nerfed warlock is in a pretty week overall state for M+. While all specs do great damage they don't really bring anything to the table besides that. Especially when you compare classes with debuffs like Demon Hunter, Monk, or others like Rogue who have great utility. It is extremely hard to not bring those classes. But overall warlock in M+ is just a big DPS drone of a sort. Other specs do have a Purge, interrupts, and dispels available at any time. We have a utility like using Invocation de diablotin on the last boss of siege to help the healer have to heal a lot less allowing him to DPS gaining your team time on that boss. With destruction, if Grimoire de sacrifice is ever a good talent you can use Tumulte with Grimoire de sacrifice and then have Appel de chasseur corrompu for a double interrupt on 2 mobs.

Time Trials

In my opinion Galvanisant is by far the most annoying affix in the game as it just slows everything down and causes you to change all your pulls and overall will make the dungeon a lot slower. Suddenly strategies for dungeons like motherlode where you want to mass pull no longer work etc. Détonant is difficult but can be managed with timing and immunities whereas bolstering just stops your pulls completely. Explosif is prob the next affix that can really mess you up as well in terms of large pulls. However, there is 1 class and spec that for some reason can still AOE the explosives.

Freehold is my favorite simply because it is a nonlinear dungeon similar to Atal'dazar where you can do any boss in any order for the most part and go wherever you want. To me its the reason why Court of Stars was such a great dungeon same with Arcway.

My favorite boss is tricky... I really like Galvazzt in Temple because it reminds me a lot of the Fallen Avatar in Tomb of Sargaras and i really liked that boss. The HPS and DPS checks on Galvazzt makes it exciting on high Tyrannique keys, but the Witch Boss in Waycrest is really fun simply due to how many abilities you have to deal with. Another boss would be the 3rd boss in Kings rest due to the insane amount of mechanics which makes it feel similar to a Raid boss. So IDK which one to pick from those 3

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