General PVP Strats
Alprazalam — Wed, 12/22/2010 - 16:49
I wanted to make a post to discuss PVP strats. Such as when in a BG, and there is a mass of horde with 3 healers and we're attacking them...... what do we do?? Or if someone is having problems killing a particular class or discussion on specs and HOW TO USE THAT SPEC!!!!!!!!!!!! It seems like alot of ppl will do a spec..... then forget how to use it, like a healing priest so focused on healing that they don't fear the 3 melee smashing their face in.
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Wasting time so I can wait
Alprazalam — Sat, 12/25/2010 - 17:04Wasting time so I can wait for Atar to get home before I had over there, so I'm a post my frost spec for rated BGs.
Frost Spec
General things I wanna state is that I generally use Mage Armor as frost. Casters give me the biggest problems as a whole, plus most melee (pallies, DKs, etc) have some form of magic abilities also, so I generally just use it for that, switching to ice armor if I'm just trying to stall some time or what not. Using the glyph of mage armor just ensures that I don't go OOM in a fight. Possible to switch it out for glyph of COC, but I tend to only use COC if I'm trying to snare multiple targets or a siege engine thats right ontop of me.
In the actual frost tree, you'll see I'm not taking reactive barrier in the 5th tier. I would love to have it, but it was the only thing I could find that I could take points out of to put into the arcane tree. Also, only put 1/2 in imp COC for the reason stated above. I really just don't use that spell that often.
The 9 points in the arcane tree is where this spec seems to really sparkle for me. Imp. Counter Spell is a must and the haste is also a must for frost mages (gotta do things quick). Invocation is a blessing if you don't get CC'ed the second you counter spell someone, and the imp blink is awesome for running down flag carriers, siege engines, or just getting to where you need to be. Its also awesome because of the whole 'kiting melee' that is so needed for frost.
A few things I'd like to point out as to why invocation is so great. The strat for taking down a group of horde that has 2 healers is to put melee on one healer and leave it to the range to CC the second healer. Well, sometimes it takes awhile to kill the first healer, and when my polymorph is only lasting for 3 seconds or isn't sheeping at all (diminishing returns), I'll just counter spell the second healer and use the damage proc on the first healer. Since 1-2 melee can pretty much lock a healer down, it isn't really a bad thing that I'm not counter spelling the first healer.
What seems to be the most
Alprazalam — Wed, 12/22/2010 - 17:33What seems to be the most major thing to remember when doing the Rated BGs is control. CC is a powerful thing. One of the things I wanna point out to CC is healers. It seemed that when we would go to BS in AB, we'd call out a kill target (a healer), but then ppl would forget about the other 2 healers healing the healer that was our kill target. The easiest way to get heals to stop is to CC the healers that isn't our kill target. Sheep, fear, kicks, stuns, etc. EVERYTHING WORKS!!! Just because I'm a mage and I'm considered DPS, doesn't mean damage is all i wanna do. Same for healers, healing is not the only thing you can do to help the group. Healing priests, that AOE fear is AMAZING, and it helps negate damage that you would have had to heal through. These are just examples.
Something I was doing was if there was 2 healers, we'd call out the kill target, and I'd sheep the other healer. My sheep is macroed to where it becomes my focus target, the second I see him come out of sheep, I deep freeze him and nuke him. After the deep freeze is the counterspell, which I think have a 10% damage done, which I use on the kill target. I do this because the melee should jump on the kill target, which takes care of CCing the healer AND THE PPL AROUND THE HEALER!!! (Frost DK hungering cold, Thunderclap, smoke grenade (rogue) etc.) Me putting pressure on the other healer means he's trying to heal himself and not the healer who is kill target.
More from me will come, but i'm itching to log in to the game atm so....