So Poison came to me today asking for a shortprep. We had a few people on, and so I agreed for the hell of it, thinking we would pull low.
Instead we pulled a powerful 19, our highest pull ever!
Here are some pics from our really kickass mass.
Starting:
Round 1
Out-pulling them by 3, along with Mike's powerful calling, we gained the lead for the beginning of the fight. Our spam was awesome and our ko power was solid.
Somewhere within the first 15 minutes, we lost our organization. Poison had some pretty powerful tanks (shout out to Diana and Dj for being BEASTS), we were too spread out, and too many people got 1 shot in the back. Poison easily gained the lead, KOing people back to back to back. Our morale sunk, our binds weren't landing, and their lead kept going up.
All in all, round 1 had good points and bad points. We needed to keep that momentum up from the start - we've got the potential and the ko power, we just need to work on staying close to the pile and tanking. Shout out to our callers Mike, StrongTank, and Crazy for stepping it up and leading through it all.
Round 2
Not too much to say here, we started with even opts of 19 vs 19. A few of our members got KOed and we ended up leaving portal.
Observations:
I spoke to Poisons warlord after the war, and I'd like to formally apologize. He confirmed that there were a lot of back to back KO's, rather than our suspected portal hopper.
This is good in the sense that, okay we don't have nh portal hoppers in our team, but this means we have a lot of people that need to work on their tanking. Tanking comes with time and experience, but we'll definitely schedule some events to help out with our overall tanks.
Also, there were too many people off the pile. Whether you were hoping to tank them south, or you didn't know where we were, I'm not sure. Just always make sure to ask for locations in cc and ts, and you are needed on pile for our KO power and binds
Other than that, it was our first CWRI and we'll only improve from here!
My suggestions? TRY TO AVOID RETURNING THROUGH THEIR PILE. CLUMP IN CLOSE TO OUR PILE. BE AWARE SWITCH YOUR STYLE ACCORDING TO THEIR PRAYERS ALWAYS KEEP 10-15 RUN FOR TANKING AND PREBAILING. I know I absolutely will not tank unless I have a bit of run. Try saving some run for yourself. We should never be getting dragged all over the map and out of run completely. With solid binds, awareness, and some compliance from our callers, hopefully we'll keep everyone with enough run to tank.
Other than that, nice pull today guys! We'll get em next time ;]
I apologize, as my absence from this war has caused us to lose; surely if my powerful tanking was there poison would have stood no chance. i was able to watch for a brief period you all seemed to be doing well; just gotta keep up consistency with tanking, can't be getting banged. looked decent though.
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