Infraction for Xenia: Grammar

• Aldriana · 08/04/08, 5:54 PM

Post: [Mage] The PVP Thread
User: Xenia
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Capitalization is a good thing. Idiotic chatroom abbreviations are a bad thing.

Original Post:

Hey!

I Started to play mage during s2 but really started to get in to pvp and arenas first during s3 i was undergeared for most of the time but in the end i at least got some decent gear (3xs3 and2xs1, vindicator stuff and some pve epix for weaps and stuff, 900dmg 10khp) at that point i totally loved playing mage but allso decided to reroll on anotehr realm... and dang! i was a rogue =)

Nowdays i really miss my mage and have started to level a new one, simply becaus i dont wanna play on my old server and ofc UD > Human imo. =P

I have started to look up what gear i should be going for at first and also what gems and enchants to use.

(btw im goin 17 0 44 and will go mainly for 2v2 and 3v3)

arena set pieces will come by order of req's, will prolly go for hands and legs first for s4 and get the head and shoulders from s2 because it will take some time to get gear to even stand a chance on getting the rating up for it. chest? well prolly just the blue rep crap if im not verry enjoyed by honor farming.. on the other slots? will go for pvp gear for the slots where i can get the rating, think ill go for good dps pieces in the other slots, just caus they r not visible, and the extra dps can come quite handy in lower rating games.

need some opinions tho on some things:

main hand/offhand/staff - hard to decide wether to go for s2 staff or MH/OH, (allso have the option to farm for MGT-dagger or one of the mainhands from ZA)

Stamina vs bonus damage - I read somewhere that Ice barrier, frost armor, frost ward etc has some benefit from +dmg. anyone has any numbers of how that works in terms of absorbation vs stamina?

since im goin frost i dont find crit as important as spelldmg, letting shatter do the works. would be wonderful if it wouldn't be to much sacrifice to abandon some stamina for dmg gems.

also haste as caster is a bit new for me, I'm eager to play around with it a bit.

a thought about mage gear:

I think mages lacks one thing in their options of pvp gear. Many classes have several sets of the arena gear to choose from and therefore get the option to go for a 3/2 combo of arena gear. would be really nice to see something similar to the locks destro/afliction sets, to let mages choose between the crit focused set we have now and another set. Ie: only dmg or a haste based set.
would be nice to try goin for the 2x35 resil bonus and maby gem deferently to get your wanted stats..
just think its a bit unfair that some classes have can obtain alot more resill than other classes and still have viable gear for a viable spec

just a thought tho =)

any corrections and hints about gear/gem selection is warmly welcome