Building for Honor - Ras-mataz
By Corle Huffman

It's Friday, and that means Corle has another concoction for you. Feast your eyes on Ras Frostwhisper, and take Corle's tempo advice to heart.

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Great article, and I like the ideas with Ras, hell, anything to make him playable...

but please help me understand the last paragraph...

Slitherblade Tidehunter with Intercept and Heroic Leap...

EH!?

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I ROLL AT:

I thought he meant he'd use Slitherblade Tidehunter instead of Double Talon Lord and would sub in Intercept and Heroic leap.  I don't believe he meant to imply Tidehunter could use warrior ABCs.

Cheers!

-teh Sig

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"Ouch! That was a water elemental!"-CorayThan

I'm a little surprised to see a tick-up-based Monster party that sidelines Bleakheart, although perhaps shaving 2 honor in a party that never rolls more than 5 dice is necessary.  And there may also be some merit in using Gaze of Dread on a Flux-ing Ras if you can strategize well enough to be adjacent to the target when you make your attack (hopefully you have delayed until tick 6 to pull this off and maximize the Chill Aura effect).  I see that party rolling out as:

Ras Frostwhisper
Arcane Flux
Gaze of Dread
Ice Barrier

Bleakheart Hellcaller
Corruption
Fear
Summon Santuria

Sethekk Talon Lord
Heroic Leap
Intercept
Mocking Blow

Looks like fun, but I also see some bad match-ups.

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I wanted to give everyone a list of all the trustworthy people who traded with me on this site, but it exceeds maximum character length. To me, that's a hopeful sign.

I noticed quite a few places where my editor was a little happy-handed with his/her "changes." Or maybe I just wrote parts differently than is my normal style.

Here is the final line as I wrote it, I'm not sure why parts of it were changed:

**If you weren’t playing this for worlds, where no teleporting is the rule, I would also consider Slitherblade, Intercept, Heroic Leap, Dag’gum, Blind, Distract. Best of luck on all your final testing for Worlds… see you soon—in person.**

All in all though, this article seemed to dance around the point other than make the point.

The point is, get the enemy to tick 7, and Chill Aura & Hamstring them in place forever!!!

And yes, anything that has range gives this warband fits.

-c

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I like playing 2x Azarak (which I recall you also having an affinity for), each with Master Tactician for the same effect.  Ideally you rail off the first wave of attacks on tick 6 so that you can either have 2 enemies gimped or one stuck for 5 ticks, and then 2 can be rooted on tick 9.  Repeat on ticks 1 and 4.  The strategy was sound for World's, but after an unfortunate initial draft session (in which I actually fielded Ras, to make this whole post avoid being entirely non-sequitur), I know I played poorly in constructed.  Had someone other than me played the party, I believe it had potential.

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I wanted to give everyone a list of all the trustworthy people who traded with me on this site, but it exceeds maximum character length. To me, that's a hopeful sign.

That... and Zomms have evasion to avoid that master tac crit. 

Like the Ras build, your is solid in design, but there is a reason movement limiting effects aren't too powerful. They are good, but like patrick says, they don't have the volume turned all the way up because if they became the meta, it would be a very boring game.

-c

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I wasn't terribly worried about 3x Zomm.  The 2 Azaraks were complimented with a Daxin + Soulseeker, and the party came in at only 20 honor  The movement restricting crit was merely a perk I discovered in seeking a way to capitalize on Daxin's +2 dmg crit plus Soulseeker.  And thinking it out, Zomm would probably save evasion for that hit rather than Azarak's.

Having looked over what transpired at World's, it seems that hunter parties in general were a tough match-up for Zomms.  I recall Westlake playing Zoo against the party 4 separate times and only losing on the fourth and final attempt to Pozgay, who then had to play another Zoo variant that ended up winning the day.

I feel no need to vindicate my party choice, as the way I was playing it wouldn't have mattered how good a team I fielded.  But I'm still not convinced of the Warsong Gulch supremacy of 3x Zomm when Jaina plus hunters proved to be able to handle the field just as well, and also end with the overall victory.

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I wanted to give everyone a list of all the trustworthy people who traded with me on this site, but it exceeds maximum character length. To me, that's a hopeful sign.