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Malinor · 01/16/08, 11:54 AM

From my Season3 experience, there is little use in CCing healers all the time. If you wanna gib someone, CC the healers when it counts. Most kills for us are nowadays in one quick motion (fast target switches etc.) anyway, it is really seldom that we are chasing a target down for a longer period of time.

I really think you are helping out your priest the most if you focus your oppopnents DDs, mainly Mages or Warlocks, which also takes some pressure away from you (fears, all time sheep, CoT). a Rogue on a Warlock is so effective, and with a little help of his friends he may be able to shut down a mage also. Of course, then you have the other priest free to manaburn, so you have to deal with that. But you can CS, Sheep, Earthshock, Grounding, and of course you have to play a smart game positioning yourselves.

That you are going to heal the priest is not an option. Of course, sometimes you have to spotheal etc. but as you said, you will never have enough pressue on the other team if you are healing as soon as he drops around 50%. Frostshocking melees... this is a really bad idea, save your shock cd for earthshocks. I would suggest your priest running near a pillar. Then you coordinate an earthbind totem/ frostnove with an additionally Freedom or Insignia. This works pretty well for us. We as a 2346 do not have an icemage to get rid of melees for some time, so in our case the warlock or myself are kiting around pillars with mentioned tools. This works really well and buys you some time. For example, while our warlock kites them around, our Warri and I will go all out on our focustarget.

In my opinion, the best advice to get pressure of your priest is to foucs a DD of the opposite team. If the other 2 DDs are able to kill her anyway (while she is healing herself plus your paladin, then your team is simply doing something terribly wrong defensive wise. What you can do as a shaman is mostly shock their casters CC/Damage on your healers and help them out with earthbind/ reactive tremor.

However, I am not a 2400+ player (between 2k-2,2k all brackets last season, as Resto) and I am not playing your specific setup. So maybe someone in here has better strategies.

01/16/08, 11:54 AM	#44 (permalink)
Malinor Glass Joe Schacal Draenei Shaman <The Core Team> Nathrezim (EU)	From my Season3 experience, there is little use in CCing healers all the time. If you wanna gib someone, CC the healers when it counts. Most kills for us are nowadays in one quick motion (fast target switches etc.) anyway, it is really seldom that we are chasing a target down for a longer period of time. I really think you are helping out your priest the most if you focus your oppopnents DDs, mainly Mages or Warlocks, which also takes some pressure away from you (fears, all time sheep, CoT). a Rogue on a Warlock is so effective, and with a little help of his friends he may be able to shut down a mage also. Of course, then you have the other priest free to manaburn, so you have to deal with that. But you can CS, Sheep, Earthshock, Grounding, and of course you have to play a smart game positioning yourselves. That you are going to heal the priest is not an option. Of course, sometimes you have to spotheal etc. but as you said, you will never have enough pressue on the other team if you are healing as soon as he drops around 50%. Frostshocking melees... this is a really bad idea, save your shock cd for earthshocks. I would suggest your priest running near a pillar. Then you coordinate an earthbind totem/ frostnove with an additionally Freedom or Insignia. This works pretty well for us. We as a 2346 do not have an icemage to get rid of melees for some time, so in our case the warlock or myself are kiting around pillars with mentioned tools. This works really well and buys you some time. For example, while our warlock kites them around, our Warri and I will go all out on our focustarget. In my opinion, the best advice to get pressure of your priest is to foucs a DD of the opposite team. If the other 2 DDs are able to kill her anyway (while she is healing herself plus your paladin, then your team is simply doing something terribly wrong defensive wise. What you can do as a shaman is mostly shock their casters CC/Damage on your healers and help them out with earthbind/ reactive tremor. However, I am not a 2400+ player (between 2k-2,2k all brackets last season, as Resto) and I am not playing your specific setup. So maybe someone in here has better strategies.