Infraction for Daer: General Idiocy

◊ Kaubel · 08/04/08, 8:10 AM

Post: [Shaman] PvP + Enhancement = ?
User: Daer
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Quote-splitting is awesome and completely necessary!

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Blazingwater

A priest is good for a healer though, if they're specced into silence especially. Although a problem you'll get into is when you try to outlast your opponents, and they find out you're squishy. They would CC the priest anyway, as dispel would be a problem.

We tried a silence spec yesterday. This is awesome for our specific combo : paladin+warrior become really easy now (interrupt focus macro on the paladin, dps the warrior, works great when I'm not focused).
Any team able to CC my priest effectively will win, that's a fact

(we hate rogue+mage, but managed to beat one yesterday).

Also, at higher ratings, people aren't going to be stupid. One look at your mana will tell them you're enhance.

Yes, I don't count on stupidity, but some lure is good, isn't it?

If you're willing to switch teams, try a BM hunter. Bestrial wrath+bloodlust+your PvE dps gear+MS effect is very hard for anyone to heal through.

The interesting part with this idea is that all combinations of this arena team are viable : shaman+BM, shaman+priest, BM+priest. Just have to find a hunter I guess

With any setup you try, see if you can get some more resil. Try to replace whatever PvE piece you have with a PvP one, trying to get the most resil per loss of PvE stats. If you have any stam gems/enchants, try to replace them with dps or resil stuffs. You can stay around 200-250 resil and 10.5k hp and get up to 1800-1900 easy, depending on the battlegroup, skill, partners' skill, etc. Once you get around those stats, put everything else into dps stuffs.

I'm on my way to get more resilience. Next step is ring or boots.

A link to my pvp gear, I'll try to update it often: 70 Tauren Shaman (AP gems instead of strength are in prevision of WotLK, I'm not counting on Kings for arenas anyway).

I'm not telling you how to arena, the point of it is to have fun (and be uber!). Try whatever team you wish.

This is the way we are playing!

We also tried another unusual team in 3v3 with a retribution paladin. This is way harder because we lack efficient CC. Not so much strategy to share at the moment, we only played two times, and it's not working well at the moment. The "working" way is to rush and impose our burst to the other team: either we can get a kill in the first 30 seconds, or we have to resist until the DR on most CCs hit them in the face. We have a really hard time to protect our priest and lost at least two matches after having made the first kill. Some work still to be made here I think. Would be better with a MM hunter but, hey, this is a game. Let us have fun!