Area52 world PvP - 4x 67 shammies, 1x 67 paladin

[Vyndree]

Stage6:
http://www.stage6.com/user/Vyndree/video/2040700/Area52-5-boxing-PvP

Youtube/Stage6/etc links here: http://v-boxing.net/blog/videos.php/2008/01/26/area52

Some jerks were following me around in area52. Guessing their intention, I decided to play along, leave the city, and let them attack me.

[Ellay]

Holy Crap!!! you have the Nagrand mount at 67, that is too cool beyond words, I'm 70 and completed every quest in Nagrand and I don't even have them!!!!!!!!

[Vyndree]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=2953

;)

[keyclone]

ok, your stage6 video "5-boxing Razorfen Kraul (RFK)" was too funny.

"and yes, i have a life... thanks for your concern"

LOL

[Los]

stage6 is slow, i deleted my file, reuploaded, poef it worked -.-

[Vyndree]

Yea, it's still sitting at "processing" so I guess I'll run a re-upload while I'm headed to bed. Should be up in the morning.

I hate youtube quality.

[Vyndree]

Finally fixed: http://www.stage6.com/user/Vyndree/video/2040700/Area52-5-boxing-PvP

[Bollwerk]

Vyndree is my hero(ine).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Funny, funny stuff. What, did they really expect you to just play dead? Good stuff near the end there where you were sniping them right outside the door.

[Skuggomann]

Funny, funny stuff. What, did they really expect you to just play dead? Good stuff near the end there where you were sniping them right outside the door.

Too bad you cant snipe from teh roof ennymore :twisted:

[Los]

and the crates? the crates where you where close to, where at some point also free to cast from. Had some fun times there ;P

[Eteocles]

Bahahahaha, where's the QQ post that goes along with that vid? :p Good show, it's amazing how rarely most pvpers take a hint and learn their lesson, they gotta stick around for revenge or stare like retards lol

[Shogun]

Bahahahaha, where's the QQ post that goes along with that vid? :p Good show, it's amazing how rarely most pvpers take a hint and learn their lesson, they gotta stick around for revenge or stare like retards lol

They might have been debating tactics :)

[Vyndree]

I got a nice little "you're a cheater, fight me 1on1" from the 70 warlock, but instead of clicking "reply" I misclicked "delete". >.< Apparently that's all you need to do for Youtube, it doesn't even prompt you with an "are you sure?"

Apparently I'm "cheating" if I don't fight a level 70 warrior with a single level 67. Reeeeealllly.

Anyway, they're the ones who sat on top of me (perhaps so I would misclick on them and get the goblins to kill me?) in town, and they're the ones who followed me out of town, and they're the ones who feared me first before I made any aggressive actions.

My PvP policy is to defend, not provoke. But once attacked, they're fair game - in the sky, outside of the door to the town, rezzing, running away... fair game - if they try to gank me, I can try to gank them back.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I totally had this policy on my 1 - 68 trip, trying to be as "nice" as possible when dealing with the other faction.

Now its "don't hesitate to shoot first". My survival rate is infintely higher when I go on the offensive rather than the defensive. (proactive vs. reactive).
My usual MO, much like the truth, is somewhere in the middle of you and Vyndree. I'm usually prone to bypass allies because they're wasting my time by distracting me from hitting 70. Exceptions are:

--> Making aggressive moves toward me
--> Trying to "hide" behind a tree but forgetting I have that "target nearest enemy" key bound
--> Being in a guild that constantly tries to gank me, my guild or my faction
--> Having names like "pwnz0red" or "dontfearme" or "whosurdaddy"
--> Having guild names with "gangstaz," "IRL," "horde hater/ganker/etc.," "OMG" or "PVP" anywhere in it
--> Having known level 2 alts that login and talk trash after their 70s get steamrolled
--> Having me see you killing all the NPCs in starter towns (TM/SS does not count) more than twice.

Loosely applied, of course. ;) Some folks just so obviously deserve to be camped into a spirit rez that the rules don't need to be spelled out.

[Mokoi]

you guys are so nice..

Since level 60+ I have just shot first and asked no questions. i will go out of my way, and delay my progress to intsagib a 70 at lvl 63 lol

now that im 69 im more encouraged to jujst make the final leg, but I still go out of my way to chase any red down and destroy them, hopefully provoking a fight with him and his 5 buddies who are honor-batteries for at least an hour.


thanks to any of you on Azgalor horde! keep following me =)

-Dan

[simpletom]

great song, saw arctic monkies live last may, truely awsome band.

Great video, i saw a post on the general you started about the shaman craze, and its videos like this that really fuel people to make a shaman team, Shaman make awsome boxing classes, most of its the ability to heal and ranged dps, but then so can priests and druids so why arnt they more popular, its mostly down to how those classes do in pvp, shadow priests are getting trashed solo pvp, and a full disp team of priests would seriously lack in burst damage needed for boxers in pvp. Druids then, great but to heal you need to swap forms, and the biggest thing i realised i would miss was chain lightning. This spell really does make shaman unique in pvp.

Also shaman are great team classes, with totems that buff the entire group means they are all protecting/buffing the entire party.

Solo shaman arnt the best pvping class in the game with no CC, so this means at some point in game balance they will buff shaman pvp, buffing boxing shaman thru the roof. After i worked all this out i put down my 30 druids and picked up 5 troll shaman now 21 just finnished the water totem quest, i didnt want to try shaman as so many people were doing it, seemed to defeat the purpose of boxing which is to try somthing new. But i cant argue with the fact that shaman are the best boxing class in the game. (for pvp) and Xzin has said the same, hes not playing his old teams as hes disapointed with where they fail in arena but should he roll a team he would do shaman.

they are a hell of alot of fun and im really enjoying it more than any other class make up ive tried, and people love the ghost wolf totems and everything else.

Propbably should of put this post into that topic, but it seemed after 8 pages my opinion would of been over looked and now 2 days later seeing this video just made me think about that topic.

again great video, i love the fact that the horde just kept trying, while you never really moved from one spot. Give more arctic monkies

[Hippieman]

Yet another great one. Time to watch Blood Furnace

[Remote]

I love the first song. Very nice.

I gotta say though...these people you're fighting are awful.

[Vyndree]

I love the first song. Very nice.

I gotta say though...these people you're fighting are awful.

Hence the song choice for the 2nd song. ;)

If they were actually decent, I would've put some stereotypical pvp rock/techno music, but... they get the noob song.

I have to say, they were learning after a while. The pally used his aoe silence. He used it BADLY, but hey... he used it.

[Remote]

Haha that's true, you did hook them up with Teh Noob Song.

One thing I noticed that could make your life a lot easier...have a PvP totem macro that drops multiple staggered Tremor Totems.
Ei: first wave of totems drops 1 tremor, second drops another tremor, etc.
That way you can get out of fear quicker. I've found 3 tremors is enough..beyond that you're not getting much benefit.

[Vyndree]

One thing I noticed that could make your life a lot easier...have a PvP totem macro that drops multiple staggered Tremor Totems.
Ei: first wave of totems drops 1 tremor, second drops another tremor, etc.
That way you can get out of fear quicker. I've found 3 tremors is enough..beyond that you're not getting much benefit.

Yea, I'm probably going to have to start making pvp totem macros -- all I have so far is 1 grounding button and 1 tremor button.

One more level and I'll probably revamp all my macros. Especially since I have to re-do all my main's macros as well to match up with these guys.

[Remote]

Yeah I redid almost everything when I hit 70.
Keybinding Heroism was a conundrum too. I eventually went with H + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

I'm curious to see how your four shaman sharing the responsibility of healing works out in Heroics. The problem is, since our groups rely on the Pally's multitanking instead of CC, we take considerably more damage.
Maybe a castsequence macro that staggered a heal in between LBs?
/castsequence reset=30 Lesser healing wave, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt
/castsequence reset=30 lightning bolt, lesser healing wave, lightning bolt, lightning bolt
/castsequence reset=30 lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lesser healing wave, lightning bolt
/castsequence reset=30 lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lesser healing wave

Edit: Actually nevermind, that's silly. I have no idea how the targeting would work there.

[Vyndree]

Right now all the healing done is manual. I have 2 shammies responsible for healing waves, 2 for lesser healing wave.

At 70 most likely I'll xfer my main (70 resto shaman, some SSC/TK gear but mostly Kara/t4) and use her for healing, rotating out an elemental shaman as need be.