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Shamrock

Shamrock

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I wanna make a video of this but lately it's seemed impossible. Instead, I'll open this thread -- feel free to contribute your own stories.

I had some time to kill today and decided to play a bit on Arena Tournament (Unofficial instant 80 instant Relentless Server -- quite fun to mess about with). Was playing on my Shaman and doing pretty okay, the only problem is, the Duel Zone was SWARMING with Rogues. I can down them quite easily it's just a boring fight. Too many stops. I honestly find most Rogues to be completely unskilled and to solely rely on stuns and are basically useless besides that.

They burn every cooldown -- Vanish, Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, Sprint, Preparation and repeat. It's just boring and there were at least 20 hanging around. So I figured I'd have some fun and rolled a Protection Paladin. Complete anti-Rogue spec. There's no need to gem for Stamina since your armor basically takes care of a Rogue, so aside from my talents I pushed Str as hard as possible.

Started dueling and didn't lose a single one. After about 30 minutes I couldn't find a single Rogue to duel :P

I have a plan to make a PvP video in a little while, probably when Cataclysm hits. It'll be me and another very, very well known member from Doom Squad. More on that later :P
 
I've started playing a lot of pvp on my shaman. Mostly on wg, but I do play a couple of bg's once in a while. Since alliance has the most numbers, it is suicidal to take a horde player 1-on-1. A 10 stack tenacity is common and I've seen it go as high as 18 during odd hours. Trying to kill a pally with over 100k health is an exercise in futility.

One of the things that I find useful and fun is knockbacks. Especially when you have the odd player that decides to attack people trying to buy from the wg vendors from the top of the walls. I have knocked quite a couple of them of the wall and into a group of rather irate players.

An interesting kill I had was on saturday. I took on a blood elf mage on the eastern side of the fortress where the ground starts sloping. As usual I was outgunned in the fight with the mage having 5 tenacity. Just before dying, I managed to cast thunderstorm, which knocks the mage downhill. The falling damage combined with a final tick on flame shock managed to kill the mage as well, contributing to my long list of mutual kills.
 
Knockback Rocks!

We used to have a guy log his hordie shammy in goldshire ontop of the one building. Then run past him on our mounts and at the edge he'd do a knockback - projecting us onto the roof of the Goldshire inn. :D

It's also possible to get onto the roof of the inn by jumping on the mailbox, etc. but this was way more fun.
 
You can get on the roof by jumping on the wall, there are some invisble ledges here and there, took some time though, and you can get onto the blacksmith with the blowy thingies
 
Hmm, hivemind. Everyone in my guild seems to have suddenly developed an interest in pvp. I started re-gearing up my frost/arcane mage as well (he was in all deadly and hateful, now working on getting some furious/relentless set and wrathful off-set pieces), and been having a good old time of it. Frost mages are teh shiznit, to use the vernacular. Turns more tricks than a hooker on payday.
 
Frost mages are sneaky bastages! Kite me to death, they do.

The last bit of PVP I did before I quit wow was getting the Gurubashi Grand Arena Master title. You have to loot the chest 12 times.

Even at 4am it's not an easy feat. :/

The fun part is you get to gank your own faction in the arena grounds. :D
 
Skurm said:
Hmm, hivemind. Everyone in my guild seems to have suddenly developed an interest in pvp.
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It's happened both previous times the raid content is defeated and the next expansion lies in wait...I expected Blizzard to anticipate it this time
 
Frost mages are sneaky bastages!
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Coming from a dk, the gap in pvp viability is literally cavernous, and is the one major gripe i still have with this game. Imbalance.
I don't suppose that can ever be fixed without making all the classes as homogenized and analogous as possible, which would be even worse. still, it's testament to the fact that if you want to enjoy pvp in this game and be competitive, you have to roll one of a VERY specific set of classes (frost mage, arms warrior, disc priest/resto druid, or sub rogue).
 
Nice stories :P
Thunderfuck is epic. That guy (Hybridpanda, I think) is an amazing PvPer as well, the first Ele Shaman...next to myself...who can actually do arena. I also can't wait for Cataclysm to put PvP back to where it used to be...change, sure, but don't make it so gear and burst dependent.

Skurm said:
Coming from a dk, the gap in pvp viability is literally cavernous, and is the one major gripe i still have with this game. Imbalance.
I don't suppose that can ever be fixed without making all the classes as homogenized and analogous as possible, which would be even worse. still, it's testament to the fact that if you want to enjoy pvp in this game and be competitive, you have to roll one of a VERY specific set of classes (frost mage, arms warrior, disc priest/resto druid, or sub rogue).
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Right...or, you could go Resto/Ele/Enh Shaman, Holy/Ret Pal, Feral Druid, Shadow Priest, Lock, Hunter, DK Or anything else I missed out. Arms and disc and resto and rogue are easy classes to clock -- maybe not at a high level, but you can go a while before skill catches up with you. Other classes are harder or less practiced. Like everyone knows that every Rogue always opens with Cheap Shot and then Kidney Shots and then they see Rupture so obviously Rupture is right and Crippling Poison and...Sadly that kind of works, but it's known.

No one knows how to CC as an Ele Shaman. No one knows how to survive other melee classes as an Enh Shaman. No one knows how to effectively kill someone in 2v2 as Ret Pally. But god damnit, when you meet them they are good. They're amazing -- I mean, fake casts, spells you ignored are the bulk of what they do. I saw a Hunter who feigned and interrupted and bursted with such speed and so well I was fucked.
 
Not really talking about arena's specifically. I've always looked at pvp as an overall thing. Is a class good at 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, bg's, 1v1?
Most of the classes can excel at one or two (dk's are for eg ok for 3v3 shadocleave but useful for fuck all else) but very few can be good at all formats. And, sure there are exceptional players who can roll some unusual comp, but there's a reason RMP has generally been #1 in 3v3 for so long.
 
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Skurm said:
Not really talking about arena's specifically. I've always looked at pvp as an overall thing. Is a class good at 2v2, 3v3, 5v5, bg's, 1v1?
Most of the classes can excel at one or two (dk's are for eg ok for 3v3 shadocleave but useful for fuck all else) but very few can be good at all formats. And, sure there are exceptional players who can roll some unusual comp, but there's a reason RMP has generally been #1 in 3v3 for so long.
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RMP isn't #1 for their strength as individual classes. Honestly, Rogue, Mage and Priest are probably perfectly balanced. Together, however, the CC is ridiculous and insane burst, so they make an awesome 3v3 team. But there are other combinations which could beat/counter it.
 
/facepalm

You don't get me. Just because pvp in WoW is balanced around arena and/or some individuals are capable of excelling with underbalanced classes/specs, doesn't mean the classes themselves are at all individually balanced. But fuck it, i grow weary of this pointless argument. Enjoy playing that pvp boomkin instead of rolling an arms warrior I guess.

/walks away
 
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Skurm said:
/facepalm

You don't get me. Just because pvp in WoW is balanced around arena and/or some individuals are capable of excelling with underbalanced classes/specs, doesn't mean the classes themselves are at all individually balanced. But fuck it, i grow weary of this pointless argument. Enjoy playing that pvp boomkin instead of rolling an arms warrior I guess.

/walks away
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Jesus dude, you're taking this seriously. All I'm saying is every class is just as capable as every other. In literally every circumstance. Without exception. There are ADVANTAGES but it's not like an excellent Mage can't kill an excellent Warlock just because Warlock beats Mage.
 
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