you were amazing! haven't watched wow since tbc, but you were a legend then and still are now. Amazing performance! There were so many people looking at your duels in awe. ❤
I've never seen a reflect on a shadowpriest stun before, some of these plays in this tournament were insane and its a reason the top players made it this far.
- i think i might need more than that? Have we got an exorcist? - i think you just fought him anyway, good duel. really enjoyed that you stood your ground on behalf of all priest mains.
it was amazing to watch how much effort you put into this character and how you stomped in the duel stage and the makgoras on the final day !! i was just thinking about why you didnt rank 1 swp when you did the helmet and yeah probably wotf would have been earlier better, but how could you prepare for something like this before xD
backseat gaming but maybe use rank 1 fade and rank 1 inner fire, rank 1 fort and scroll buffs and noggenfogger to protect vital buffs like renew that got eaten so many times lol
I wanted you to win but as a merciless and vengeful gladiator on priest i knew theres no chance. Wonder why non of the priests went disc vs warlocks. It was known there were going to be alot of shadow res pots gear etc. just holy smite the felhound + improved mana burn the lock and win by attrition with all the flasks/pots?
I was so hopeful for Hydra vs Ziqo finale. Alas warlock *exists* and against warlock in hands of a good player, witch Snutz absotely is, there was virtually no chance
Think you impressed me the most as a player who was ignorant of the whole tournament and WoW. You deleted several players who looked super tough and lost to the most OP character
thats just so much easier for warlock to beat other casters , snutz got only one warrior on its way and no rogues. ggs. was rly fun to watch you and snutz and ziqo nad payo .
Ultimate underdog story. Priest falls from the Holy light to cleanse the darkness from the land. But the fel wizard used his tricks and cunning to grind away the priests remaining faith. the priest made the ultimate sacrifice to try and save azeroth.
Very good duels. I don't think youre really beating a warlock anyway. but why were you not putting vampiric embrace up? It's super low mana cost so it can eat a devour and heal you enough to where you probably wouldnt have to jump out of shadow and renew. saving you lots of mana
Only priest who used down ranked sw:p to build weaving and proc blackouts. You made Hozi look like a scrub with his showing. He had so much help and still scrubbed out.
Watched your duels, you played well mate and obvs did amazing to get all the gear and prep. I think it would have actually been a better final you against zico rather than just watching a warlock running away while the fel hunter wins the duel for him. Also wtf was that rng to get reflected blackout 🤔 🎰 🎰 🎰
somehowe i think you rly could have done it. When you pressured him, he was kinda scared. Im wondering why you did not use sleep pouvder or a ingi net or the sticky glue to get that fear of.
What are your thoughts on killing the pet? It's 30% damage reduction and 60 resistance. Too much mana to do it if they can summon another one? I guess there's always the opportunity to dispel fel domination but maybe too difficult vs snutz who would be aware of that being a possibility.
Impossible in these kinda duels with the amount of CC they have from consumable, trinkets etc. He'd just bait Hydras trinket and then use rocket helm or coil into fear and fel dom it back.
Kill it twice, since fel dom will be used to get it back. And yes, it is a must in this matchup because it gives him a dispell every 8s extra resistances, soullink, plus the silence AND the ability to put the pet on him to harrass him when he tries to bandage or try to get to drinking. Just need to make sure to only dot it, and then kite and kick in mana reg. deadzoning the wl cc and drains is the way to go, while you wand the pet every now and then. The critical moments is gobbo helmet charge once in the game, maybe tidal charm,net-o-matic and deathcoil into fear. But other than that, SP should have no problem kiting and limiting the wl ability to drain or fear while SL lock deals rather low pressure damage and most of it is dispellable.
@@nikita1911001 this is dumb logic. Devour has 8s cd and removes one random effect. You put up VE and dot on both the lock and the pet and the dispell only has 25% chance to even hit one of the dots every 8s. You keep doing that, and ONLY that, while kiting and occasionally wanding and dispelling his shadow ward and dots on you and he will have way more mana issues than you, as he will not be able to drain you that often, nor fear you, while you as a priest will hopefully not be stacking crit over mp5+will, which will then allow you to win the attrition battle.
@@MrSheduur no. now, i really doubt you actually dueled sl locks as priest, or not good sl locks anyways. not in hc, too. dotting pet is in general a no-no, unless you actually plan on killing it, which is basically impossible against a good enough lock as a priest in hc. dotting the pet will just get you oom faster. its also not a 25% chance for a devour, for ve is a curse hence you will have only two magic debuffs for devour per swp+ve, which is again mana lost.
@@nikita1911001 Find me a better strategy, I am all ears. Running into range of the wl toolset (fear,drain) and pray for blackout procs did not really work out, or did it now? On the other hand you can kite and let your dots do some damage and force the wl to make the choice between dispelling himself or the pet, which also helps you because he will not dispell your own buffs. His only chance to even get you into cc is spending deathcoil, gobbo helmet, slumber sand, tidal charm, perhaps a grenade... I take my chances over getting chain feared and drained. In that case your mana really suffers, compared to sometimes loosing a bit of mana because the pet resists a dot or one of the two gets dispelled after 8s... Try it out yourself, just stay above 24m and you will see that you are the one controlling the fight, not him. Because no fear+drain = no good healing option for the wl. And even if he opts to remove one of the two dots every 8s, this will not dent your mana that much. Especially not if youre playing with high will+mp5 and mana flask, which he will most likely NOT dispell in that case, as the dispel is way more valuable for him to avoid damage than to dispel you. The skill level of the wl does not even matter too much there, it is simple logic. outranging works just as much as using line of sight, you deny someone their best tools and level the playing field, no skill in chaining some abilities together will help you to run faster, and the only way for him to keep up is to use high cooldown items or deathcoil, maybe sprint potion instead of healing/mana potion, but all of that helps YOU. since his health will be dropping slowly but steady. You are right about VE however, my bad, I really mixed things up after all those years of SP toolset changing so drastically I kinda remembered it as magic not curse.
@commanderppif players have equal skill the warlock has so many more tools than the priest not to mention more damaging abilities better range and better cc
@@MH-th5yc only if you let the lock within 24m. if you kite him above that, he simply has dots, no drain life, no drain mana, no fear. SL dot spec damage is not that high and SP can dispell most of it, and heal through agony and pet damage by simply running SWP and VE on pet and lock. In any normal 1on1 situation this is how you beat an SL lock because he cannot match your damage and the priest can dispell most of his damage and also his protection tools against yours. In a regular duel with less space to kite, SL will have more chances simply because of less room but in makgora and real 1on1 situations there is more than enough room to ensure the wl has almost no chance to kill you, while you will eventually wittle him down, once you dealt with his pet, which then makes him go down even easier since he cannot spell lock or devour magic anymore. The WL only has more tools if you let him use them. Range and dot damage is our advantage, as long as we deny the warlock to come into range of his toolset, which is limited to 24m. Our range is 36m on our damage and 30m on dispel, so use that advantage and exploit it to the fullest and you will see that warlocks will absolutely hate playing against you.
Nice tournament for you, but the only way to beat SL lock properly is to stay between 24-36m so he cannot drain or fear you at will, while you dot pet+lock and occasionally wand the pet. Everything else is futile in this matchup. Would be a drawn out match due to his resistances etc, but eventually SP wins this because lock wont be able to heal the dot damage over time while you can dispell his damage. once pet dies, twice it is pretty much game over for the lock. I am sure you were frustrated in the end when you did the last ditch low range effort, hoping for blackout procs. It is a shit matchup for SP unless you kite like a total track champion. But staying between 24-36 gives you the best chance to win, in a long game.
I love classic wow but jeez these duels seem so cheesy and take forever. I would be annoyed so quick. Pot after pot, trinkets, profession items, buffs etc. I would make rules where it’s only what your class brings. No profession advantages or gimmicky items. Just gear and spell book.
Pretty dumb tournament when a warlock can just kite thousands of yards in an era where fear lasts 30 seconds. Good attempt but no one but a warlock was winning that tournament in the current rule set.
The tournament format is great, sadly the expansion is wrong, if this was hardcore realm and tournament was on wrath it would really be wild.... and 80% of people wouldnt know the winner before tournament starts..
The death interview is amazing! 😂
Hydra im so happy for you. you played amazing !
you were amazing! haven't watched wow since tbc, but you were a legend then and still are now. Amazing performance! There were so many people looking at your duels in awe. ❤
I've never seen a reflect on a shadowpriest stun before, some of these plays in this tournament were insane and its a reason the top players made it this far.
Tech is it RNG and very lucky RNG for Snutz but it was for sure insane. Gave Snutz extra confidence for sure.
it was a reflect on mindblast not on stun, the stun was a random prog.. :D
hydra - best priest to ever do it. Legendary plays, cool as a cucumber, played it at his best till the end. GG man
Great play, nothing to be ashamed of. You're one of the all time greats, and so is he. Great clash between two legends of the game.
You rocked the tournament, Hydra! Congrats No.1-Priest 💪
Was rooting for you!
What an epic event this was. GGs!
need more druid in the event
Incredible play, enjoyed all of it.
Hydra, you motivate so many people, thank you for your content! Cheers to you and to your family :)
well done mate you are a genius. love to see your duels and arena game anytime. one question didn't see any grenades throwing for the stun.
Loads of respect for your game play taking a Shadow Priest this far..... Good luck!
You lads are all LEGENDS
Never thought a priest would get this far. Good job.
Awesome work Hydra!!!
Sadly SL locks had no counters in this tournament, besides better SL locks 😂
sl lock most op shit that ever existed in classic so no wonder snutz won the tournament. Boring af
I mean if sony had a better bracket and ziqo was taken out early in day 2, snutz vs sony woulda been way closer.
@@veppy4952 it still favors the wl, there's a reason SL was banned in past tournies.
@@vzwson4995 because it was impossible with those brackets and a big skilldifference between Snutz and the other locks.
@commanderppbecause of a skill gap, and mage faced no locks in his bracket
- i think i might need more than that? Have we got an exorcist?
- i think you just fought him
anyway, good duel. really enjoyed that you stood your ground on behalf of all priest mains.
it was amazing to watch how much effort you put into this character and how you stomped in the duel stage and the makgoras on the final day !! i was just thinking about why you didnt rank 1 swp when you did the helmet and yeah probably wotf would have been earlier better, but how could you prepare for something like this before xD
too bad there isn't a lock that even comes close to snutz to duel lol. You did fucking awesome, man. Was so hype to watch.
instant purge on the shadow res buff, jeez
Im here to tell my respect to you also to say huge thanks , amazing gameplay you are LEGEND man !
/hug
nice run Hydra, a good Lock is just a tough matchup
Mr. Hydra, I raise my Hat to You Sir! Incredible run.
T wo Legends gave us an epic battle, GG boys.
felt like the fear battle was lost to ping, was wondering what trinkets hydra is using
you are a best well played man.
would have loved to see you win!
I was planing to roll mage but i think ill go for Sprie/dprie Looks so amazing. Gg man i loved your playstyle
The warlock advantage on attrition fights is just so fing insane
Well done Hydra, best priest by far ❤
backseat gaming but maybe use rank 1 fade and rank 1 inner fire, rank 1 fort and scroll buffs and noggenfogger to protect vital buffs like renew that got eaten so many times lol
I'd like to see a review of all the other matches that were interesting. If not, I guess I'll just check the vod myself
The last rogue warrior was the best duel of day 2 imo. Was really hoping a ele shammy woulda come from behind to a chain lightning crit victory
Classic era duels are so sick actually
Yes and people still crying about balance. Look retail duels is boring asf to watch
I wanted you to win but as a merciless and vengeful gladiator on priest i knew theres no chance. Wonder why non of the priests went disc vs warlocks. It was known there were going to be alot of shadow res pots gear etc. just holy smite the felhound + improved mana burn the lock and win by attrition with all the flasks/pots?
The Dan shoutout :D
i'm surprised i haven't seen more rank 1 inner fires for buff protection...but im sure he knows what hes doing 🙃
Brilliant gameplay Hydra, was rooting for you to win the tourney! How come you chose UD over Troll? I thought the racial would be better?
resist resist resist resist resist resist resist resist resist resist resist resist
Loved your play bro. Nice try. You are a legend no matter what!
I was so hopeful for Hydra vs Ziqo finale. Alas warlock *exists* and against warlock in hands of a good player, witch Snutz absotely is, there was virtually no chance
Big fan, hydra.
Well played
I'm surprised no warrior in the top spots for tournament. Pop reckless, ragepotion, stungrenade on enemy, smash smash done.
You did so good dude.
insane duel GG
well played both of you
Hydra NA loves you brother.
Think you impressed me the most as a player who was ignorant of the whole tournament and WoW. You deleted several players who looked super tough and lost to the most OP character
you are my hero man
Great job, i'm learning a lot from you. Don't you think a mana bomb would of helped you a lot?
thats just so much easier for warlock to beat other casters , snutz got only one warrior on its way and no rogues. ggs. was rly fun to watch you and snutz and ziqo nad payo .
In Vanilla and TBC Warlocks were beasts. They beating all classes.
SL/SL is the most broken shit, even without all the resist potions. The potions just make it dumb.
Ultimate underdog story. Priest falls from the Holy light to cleanse the darkness from the land. But the fel wizard used his tricks and cunning to grind away the priests remaining faith. the priest made the ultimate sacrifice to try and save azeroth.
Very good duels. I don't think youre really beating a warlock anyway. but why were you not putting vampiric embrace up? It's super low mana cost so it can eat a devour and heal you enough to where you probably wouldnt have to jump out of shadow and renew. saving you lots of mana
Also curious about why no VE?
Massive respect. SL is just op ngl.
True OGs know that S/L locks cannot lose this :D
Best priest to ever play #respect
Legend. I Love You
hey man feel sorry about tsmisce passing away
do you think troll priest is better option for 1v1s?
Only priest who used down ranked sw:p to build weaving and proc blackouts. You made Hozi look like a scrub with his showing. He had so much help and still scrubbed out.
Watched your duels, you played well mate and obvs did amazing to get all the gear and prep. I think it would have actually been a better final you against zico rather than just watching a warlock running away while the fel hunter wins the duel for him.
Also wtf was that rng to get reflected blackout 🤔 🎰 🎰 🎰
Good run. :) you top of the class? Was it 5k for top of the class?
somehowe i think you rly could have done it. When you pressured him, he was kinda scared. Im wondering why you did not use sleep pouvder or a ingi net or the sticky glue to get that fear of.
what's supose to do violet tragan? Put a posion on u no?
If anyone was going to beat snutz it was hydra or ziq, legends to the game thanks for your passion
would have loved to see a ziqo vs hydra duel!!
Legend ❤
Snutz resisted so many spells.
With dwarf priest is it possible to beat him?
Why didn't Hydra use arcane bomb?
Ur a priest legend homie wp
What are your thoughts on killing the pet? It's 30% damage reduction and 60 resistance. Too much mana to do it if they can summon another one? I guess there's always the opportunity to dispel fel domination but maybe too difficult vs snutz who would be aware of that being a possibility.
Impossible in these kinda duels with the amount of CC they have from consumable, trinkets etc. He'd just bait Hydras trinket and then use rocket helm or coil into fear and fel dom it back.
Kill it twice, since fel dom will be used to get it back. And yes, it is a must in this matchup because it gives him a dispell every 8s extra resistances, soullink, plus the silence AND the ability to put the pet on him to harrass him when he tries to bandage or try to get to drinking. Just need to make sure to only dot it, and then kite and kick in mana reg. deadzoning the wl cc and drains is the way to go, while you wand the pet every now and then. The critical moments is gobbo helmet charge once in the game, maybe tidal charm,net-o-matic and deathcoil into fear. But other than that, SP should have no problem kiting and limiting the wl ability to drain or fear while SL lock deals rather low pressure damage and most of it is dispellable.
U the best priest of the world my boy
why you wouldnt dot up the pet all those times when snutz was out of range and you are chasing him?
Lock will just devour the dots either way, which will waste the priest mana.
@@nikita1911001 this is dumb logic. Devour has 8s cd and removes one random effect. You put up VE and dot on both the lock and the pet and the dispell only has 25% chance to even hit one of the dots every 8s. You keep doing that, and ONLY that, while kiting and occasionally wanding and dispelling his shadow ward and dots on you and he will have way more mana issues than you, as he will not be able to drain you that often, nor fear you, while you as a priest will hopefully not be stacking crit over mp5+will, which will then allow you to win the attrition battle.
@@MrSheduur no. now, i really doubt you actually dueled sl locks as priest, or not good sl locks anyways. not in hc, too. dotting pet is in general a no-no, unless you actually plan on killing it, which is basically impossible against a good enough lock as a priest in hc. dotting the pet will just get you oom faster.
its also not a 25% chance for a devour, for ve is a curse hence you will have only two magic debuffs for devour per swp+ve, which is again mana lost.
@@nikita1911001 Find me a better strategy, I am all ears. Running into range of the wl toolset (fear,drain) and pray for blackout procs did not really work out, or did it now?
On the other hand you can kite and let your dots do some damage and force the wl to make the choice between dispelling himself or the pet, which also helps you because he will not dispell your own buffs. His only chance to even get you into cc is spending deathcoil, gobbo helmet, slumber sand, tidal charm, perhaps a grenade... I take my chances over getting chain feared and drained. In that case your mana really suffers, compared to sometimes loosing a bit of mana because the pet resists a dot or one of the two gets dispelled after 8s...
Try it out yourself, just stay above 24m and you will see that you are the one controlling the fight, not him. Because no fear+drain = no good healing option for the wl. And even if he opts to remove one of the two dots every 8s, this will not dent your mana that much. Especially not if youre playing with high will+mp5 and mana flask, which he will most likely NOT dispell in that case, as the dispel is way more valuable for him to avoid damage than to dispel you. The skill level of the wl does not even matter too much there, it is simple logic. outranging works just as much as using line of sight, you deny someone their best tools and level the playing field, no skill in chaining some abilities together will help you to run faster, and the only way for him to keep up is to use high cooldown items or deathcoil, maybe sprint potion instead of healing/mana potion, but all of that helps YOU. since his health will be dropping slowly but steady.
You are right about VE however, my bad, I really mixed things up after all those years of SP toolset changing so drastically I kinda remembered it as magic not curse.
Was cheering for you & Gordan and you ended up playing each other, shame warlocks are disgusting but hey at least both my bois got paid a bit
you can't win as a priest vs a warlock in classic
@commanderppif players have equal skill the warlock has so many more tools than the priest not to mention more damaging abilities better range and better cc
@@MH-th5yc only if you let the lock within 24m. if you kite him above that, he simply has dots, no drain life, no drain mana, no fear. SL dot spec damage is not that high and SP can dispell most of it, and heal through agony and pet damage by simply running SWP and VE on pet and lock. In any normal 1on1 situation this is how you beat an SL lock because he cannot match your damage and the priest can dispell most of his damage and also his protection tools against yours. In a regular duel with less space to kite, SL will have more chances simply because of less room but in makgora and real 1on1 situations there is more than enough room to ensure the wl has almost no chance to kill you, while you will eventually wittle him down, once you dealt with his pet, which then makes him go down even easier since he cannot spell lock or devour magic anymore.
The WL only has more tools if you let him use them. Range and dot damage is our advantage, as long as we deny the warlock to come into range of his toolset, which is limited to 24m. Our range is 36m on our damage and 30m on dispel, so use that advantage and exploit it to the fullest and you will see that warlocks will absolutely hate playing against you.
Dude didn't put up vamp embrace once during the duel. Absolute dog gameplay. He can't even remove curses and it costs 20 mana.
Nice tournament for you, but the only way to beat SL lock properly is to stay between 24-36m so he cannot drain or fear you at will, while you dot pet+lock and occasionally wand the pet. Everything else is futile in this matchup. Would be a drawn out match due to his resistances etc, but eventually SP wins this because lock wont be able to heal the dot damage over time while you can dispell his damage. once pet dies, twice it is pretty much game over for the lock.
I am sure you were frustrated in the end when you did the last ditch low range effort, hoping for blackout procs. It is a shit matchup for SP unless you kite like a total track champion. But staying between 24-36 gives you the best chance to win, in a long game.
legend
So boring to look a duel with warlock and i really dont know why they dont ban a such overpower class for the tournament
If they were as op as you say there would be 2x warlock in the final..
Hydra didn't play his best in the final either and Snutz were more prepared.
Why didn't everyone play a warlock then ?
@@Kuolema1337 cuz hoopefully we are not pussies
guys turn that volume up, can't hear shit
Ziqo and Snutz both had tampered brackets to seperate them each from meeting early on. Cringe predictable outcome.
the best priest
I love classic wow but jeez these duels seem so cheesy and take forever. I would be annoyed so quick. Pot after pot, trinkets, profession items, buffs etc. I would make rules where it’s only what your class brings. No profession advantages or gimmicky items. Just gear and spell book.
This is why wotlk 1v1 is the best, this vanilla 1v1 is unbalanced
Lol someone was literally complaining he lost to Snutz because Snutz had consumables he didn’t have 😂😂😂
lovely classic pvp with massive rng, damn cata is so much better
Way too much shadow resist on wlock
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My boyyyyy
Pretty dumb tournament when a warlock can just kite thousands of yards in an era where fear lasts 30 seconds. Good attempt but no one but a warlock was winning that tournament in the current rule set.
They should have hosted it in a limited space where they can't just kite endlessly and wait out self heal cds.
Best priest world
next time! o7
Rip
The tournament format is great, sadly the expansion is wrong, if this was hardcore realm and tournament was on wrath it would really be wild.... and 80% of people wouldnt know the winner before tournament starts..
if it was wotlk with the same rules, a dk would win, no questions asked. hybrid blood/unholy spec is unkillable yet it does so much damage its insane
go agane
to me this playstyle is so boring to watch. they just run from each other. much rather watch a retail duel
You are third place right u did great
This is not MakGora! These kiters should be kicked off the tournament and banned for all future events!
SP is the scummiest Vanilla 1v1 class 😂