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Pandemic Pandemic Pandemic. The team has been loud and in charge ever since they first arrived, wearing out the competition with their extremely stable Warrior Priest Paladin combination. On wow gold Day 3, the team has only changed compositions once to mirror the setup of Golden Child Zecks' MoB Turtle Force. Nitrana, Ecilam were able to hop off the bench straight into the Upper Bracket finals without missing a step. It was a good call for the team; they handily beat the MoB team with only one competitive game out of the set of 3.
Day 4 opened with Insurrection pushing past Check Six in the Lower Bracket Finals to face off against MoB Turtle Force in the Consolation Finals. This was one of the first serious back and forth fights of the tournament as both teams lost and gained momentum from fight to fight.
Insurrection played a Rogue/Warlock/Restoration Druid combination against Turtle Force's cheap wow gold usual Rogue/Mage/Shadow Priest Damage and Crowd Control team setup. The Insurrection composition's strength became immediately apparent as the druid kept pace with the massive damage from the MoB team while keeping his teammates free of Crippling Poison with Druid Abolish Poisons.
Zizek, Shadow Priest from the MoB Team, has been the target of continued community criticism for his reluctance to play a Holy specialized priests in many match ups. Regardless, today he was able to show some unexpected flexibility with his class, spending more time out of Shadow Form trying to stay alive and support his team.
MoB Turtle Force is already at a slight disadvantage only running three classes. Can they afford to have limited knowledge of talent specializations within those classes? A Shadow Priest under fire makes a very limited offensive impact on the game, and his survivability is clearly weaker then that of a Holy Priest. Hopefully with more then a month between this event and the next, Turtle Force can take a time out to better flesh out their options with their classes that can run multiple talent specs.
Pandemic suffered a flesh wound from Insurrection in the first round of the Grand Finals. Insurrection ran it's Mage/Warlock/Resto Druid team against Pandemic's Warrior/Priest/Paladin setup. Surprisingly, Insurrection was able to kill Noktyn through Sck and Kintt's heals using the heavy crowd control it's team can apply. Insurrection may have been warmed up from it's previous matches against Turtle Force, where Pandemic had not played since Day 3.
Pandemic rallied after the first game to win a close second before switching to it's Rogue/Mage/Priest team for the remainder of the finals. While there were close calls in several rounds as Insurrection came close to killing Pandemic's Rogue Nitrana, the series handily went to Pandemic after the player substitutions.
Insurrection felt discouraged after the finals, expressing that their play had been poor. Still, they leave Dallas as the only team to take a round on Pandemic.
Event staff has rumored that the next event will take place in Toronto at the end of August. This will give many teams several weeks to make adjustments and prepare. Stay tuned for more in depth coverage as we look back at the event over the next few days.
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Designation: High elf
A descendant of Dath'Remar Sunstrider, King Anasterian ruled the high elves during wow gold the latter part of the Troll Wars, when defeat began to seem inevitable. Greatly outnumbered, the elves were losing ground, and the outlook worsened every day as their casualties climbed. Even their most powerful magics were of little use.
Strange Alliance
Anasterian hit upon cheap wow gold a radical idea. His scouts had reported that a human nation named Arathor had recently formed to the south. One tribe had risen to dominance through the simple expedient of offering amnesty to the people it defeated. That such a strategy was new among humans was a testament not only to the youth of their race, but also to their willingness to gain strength via clear-sighted pragmatism.
Although the humans had no spellcasters, Arathor had a sizeable population. Anasterian was certain there had to be humans with magical talent. They merely needed training in order to be useful in combat. He therefore dispatched ambassadors to the southlands with all speed.
King Thoradin of Arathor greeted the ambassadors with surprise and wary courtesy. He had been hearing rumors of the high elves' plight for months, but he had not suspected that the trolls posed a truly significant threat. The weary elves warned the king that the troll armies were vast. Should Quel'Thalas fall, the trolls would certainly besiege Arathor next.
The king was distrustful of magic, but he could not deny that the elves had a point. Further negotiations ensued until at last Anasterian and Thoradin had reached an agreement. Almost immediately, elven sorcerers arrived in Arathor and began to instruct a group of humans in the ways of magic. One hundred men were taught the very basics of the elves' magical secrets: no more than was absolutely necessary to combat the trolls.
In addition to these new spellcasters, Thoradin sent his armies to the battlefront. Together, the humans and high elves ultimately achieved victory over the trolls, who would never fully recover from their defeat. Assured that Quel'Thalas was saved from destruction, the elves made a pledge of loyalty and friendship to the nation of Arathor and to the bloodline of King Thoradin. Humans and elves would coexist in peace for over two thousand years.
Conflict in the Borderlands
When the Horde attacked humanity in the Second War, the high elves had little interest in the conflict, but they felt duty-bound to lend the Alliance of Lordaeron their support. In particular, the commander of the Alliance forces was Lord Anduin Lothar, who was the last descendent of the Arathi bloodline. Lothar's family had aided the high elves in fighting the Troll Wars, and so King Anasterian reluctantly agreed to provide a small number of soldiers and spellcasters who would fight alongside the Alliance.
The king and his people would soon see the conflict in a more personal light. Horde forces worked their way north, burned down the borderlands of Quel'Thalas, and slaughtered many high elves. Horrified at the Horde's wanton destruction of life, the high elves officially joined the Alliance and committed all their resources to the war. Ultimately the orcs were defeated, and most of them were rounded up and put into internment camps.
Downward Spiral
In the aftermath of the war, the high elves began to doubt the value of the Alliance. Humanity seemed to need the high elves, but had little to offer in return, especially now that a large portion of Alliance resources was allotted toward maintaining the internment camps.
At last Anasterian rescinded the high elves' allegiance to the Alliance. He stated that the humans' poor leadership had been directly responsible for the burned forests in the borderlands of Quel'Thalas. King Terenas Menethil argued that nothing of Quel'Thalas would have survived if not for the hundreds of valiant humans who gave their lives to defend it. Despite his attempts at reestablishing diplomatic relations, however, the elves opted to remain independent of the crumbling Alliance. Their departure triggered the additional secession of the Gilneas and Stromgarde nations.
Anasterian was still in power years later when the death knight Arthas Menethil led Scourge forces into Quel'Thalas and defiled the Sunwell. The king and most of his people were slain in battle by the undead. His son, Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider, was in Dalaran at the time of the invasion, and so Kael'thas is the last surviving member of the royal family.
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