Finally Season 8 has begun I’ll be playing rogue/destro-warlock in 2s and hopefully rogue/affliction-warlock/shaman in 3s (if we can find a willing shaman). We’re both pretty fresh to double-dps in 2v2, but it feels viable – just a case of sorting tactics out and getting used to being freaking fragile without a healer.

A lack of new PVP dps trinkets was a major disapointment – despite enduring several months of engame raiding I still didn’t get a replacement for DMC:Death so will be running it for the 4th consecutive season, swapping to a Pyrite Infuser for 3s. It’s also a shame there’s no new Battlemaster trinkets available as well – both the warlock and myself are still using the one from last season. When combined with a health stone it’s quite a life saver!

/use battlemaster’s rage
/use health stone

Depending on how rogue/warlock turns out, I might invest in a Corroded Skeleton Key, but spending 60 frost emblems on a trinket for 2v2 (when we’ll be focusing on 3v3) might be overkill.

Good luck to everyone this season, may all your vanishes be successful and none of your gouges be dodged

*UPDATE* Loving R/L/S at the moment – we’re still a bit squishy resilience wise, but the games are really enjoyable. We’re still at the stage of finding what works/what doesn’t work as far as tactics go, but there just seems like a huge amount of potential. Rated at 1892 atm, we’ll see how it goes. The team name comes from the mouse-over tooltip of ‘Arena Points’ in your ingame PVP tab. Fabulous darling, fabulous

Nice to see envenom has escaped a nerf (at least temporarily), though for some reason balance/elemental/destruction are getting increased damage buffs to several of their spells.

Good luck if you’re waiting to see if you made the glad/duelist/rival cut, especially those who stayed online pushing until the last minute.

Hopefully during the week Blizzard will release information about the upcoming gear – I’m interested to see whether the delay is down to a reworking of stats (emergency measure to increase mitigation, perhaps after watching the MLG final), or if the graphic designers have just been slacking with recolouring/sticking spikes onto the current gear. Hopefully it won’t be the latter, and all classes will see more benefit from running mostly PVP gear.

There still hasn’t been any news about upcoming WG gear, other than speculation that it’s probably about the time when new trinkets are added. Fingers crossed this will be the case; as a non-raider I’m getting a bit bored with using Darkmoon Card: Death for the 4th season in a row!