The Deadliest Warrior - Badlands Style

Based off the concept of the Spike TV show The Deadliest Warrior where warriors through the ages are pitted against in a chance encounter to see who would come out on top. What do you think would happen if the following pairings would take place? Pairings/Groups were selected by the chance of finding such a mix based on the popularity of class taken from Winkl's WAR Report for Badlands.



The assumption: Equal gear and equal skill and equal knowledge of the game and its mechanics. No potions are used, basic predominant stats are capped. Mastery selection open for discussion.



The environment: Sudden encounter out in a T4 ORVR lake. No other members of either faction within sight or vent.



Solo Encounter

Disciple of Khaine VS Bright Wizard


First Encounter

Disciple of Khaine & Sorceror VS Bright Wizard & Warrior Priest


Second Encounter

DoK & Sorc & Chosen VS BW & WP & WH



» Edited on: 2010-02-26 12:45:34

1: Equal skill the DOK will win every time. 2: DOK / Sorc would win probably 60% of the time - Sorcs have better single target DPS than BWs, while DOKs have better DPS (which translates to better single target heals) that WPs. thus most the time the detro team would win 3: The team with the tank. Guard is the most OP ability in the game. Maybe if the order were able to focus on the DOK and get him down in the 1st 10 secs, but with aoe detaunt + guard, it would be rough. I'd say order wins 20% here.

Axewoof would punt everyone into the lava

I thought it was interesting concept when I was watching the show the other night. Plus I read on one of the forums that "all there were for Order on Badlands was BW and AM so build your destro accordingly". So I thought to myself, "Self what are the probability of certain classes meeting randomly on the battlefield." So I responded by proposing this concept. My personal thoughts on the matchups: 1. Close to an even split. Really dependent upon the BW build. If he/she is Immolation with Playing with Fire and Stop Drop and Roll he can take the DoK. But if the BW is Conflag it's game over. Favor goes to the DoK. 2. BW/WP might pull this off if they burst the Sorc imho and then take the DoK. I know this sounds couter-intuitive but the DoK will take much longer and the Sorc will chew them up. Favor to Destro 3. Tank with stagger will destroy the order trio handily unfortunately. Take out BW, then WH and have your way with the WP. It's also interesting to see the probability matchups in our PUG WBs and SC matches. Besides being outnumbered on the battlefield our popularity matchups don't line up well either it seems.