"Stuck" at 1.7 Solo Queue rating - Looking for tips
Hi,
First, sorry for my english, im not a native.
So the title is kinda inaccurate, im not "hard stuck" but I struggled and had to grind approximately 250 games to reach1720 rating for the rings, with like 150 games between 1500 and 1720... win/loss ratio is something like 140-130... I hope you get my point
I play an enhance shaman mostly starter gear (5.8 gs atm, with 1300 resilience). I started to learn this class 2 month ago, but I have a decent knowledge of WotLK and experience with feral druid and also disc priest.
The thing is, I don't know how to improve from there. I mean, yes, I still make a lot of stupid mistakes and I have to correct these ones, but then what? I am not sure how correcting these little details will get me to 2.2+ rating like its nothing. I see a lot of players sitting at 2.4+ rating and I have absolutely no clue how they do that. At the moment their rating seems so distant to me, it's something I can't even grasp.
I feel like I do my job in the arena, spamming purge when necessary, tremor always up when needed, interrupting heals/poly/cyclone, always assisting my team to score a kill etc. Sometimes I **** up and I understand why I lose, but 75% of the games I just do my job yet I'm kinda stuck in this 1.6-1.7 rating pit.
To be honest, I never expected to reach 2k+ rating quickly as I had 0 experience with solo Q and enhance shaman 2 month ago. But being "stuck" at 1.7 rating? lol, that sounds like dog**** to me. That's something I'm not used to. On Icecrown and also on Lordaeron I had no problems playing consistently at 2.3+ in 2s / 2.1+ in 3s with my feral (that was before the merge, so yeah thats not like 2.3+ nowadays, but still)... it feels really weird.
I guess I'm just completely clueless. So here are my questions:
- What are these special things that a 2.2+ SQ player do and a 1.8 player doesn't?
- What are the areas of gameplay that are the most efficient in increasing your SQ rating? (positioning/paying attention to LoS? using pillars? damaging? peel your healer? cc? clever and hard to master things like using your grounding totem to negate HoJ etc?)
- How does the gear influence your rating? (if im 1.7 with mostly starter gear, what would be my rating with BiS gear?)
- How do you peel for your healer as an enhancement shaman? When two melees (e.g. war+dk) are on my disc priest team mate I try to earthbind and hex, sometimes offheal if MS is not active but most of the time it's not enough and the disc gets destroyed in seconds. I don't know what to do in this situation.
- Any other tips on enhance shaman in solo Q, or on solo Q generally speaking?
Thank you very much for your input.