1680 and counting

[pwnstarz]

Hit 1680 in my 3rd week of being 80 and arena in mainly furious gear which is exciting.. I lack good weapons and shields but possible to hit 1800 with it but will be a bit of a grind.. Working on my positioning and trying to move more instead of standing > nuking > /dancing haha

[BrothelMeister]

Are you asking if its possible to get 1800 with bad weapons?

My shamans had wrathful everything except weapons/shoulder/helm when we got 1800. The weapons were 2 at 219 ad 2 at 232 with blue level 200 shields.

My healer was an arena master pally with 277 wpn though, which probably makes a difference.

Casters can compensate bad weapons with other gear more so than melee can, so just work on getting all your wrathful offset stuff, and use frost emblems to get your relentless gear.

[Toned]

I hit 1800 Monday with Full Furious, WG shoulders, Wrathful offslots, and ICC weapons on all 4 and Shields on 2 guys and 2 shitty 219/226 shields on the other 2. It's definately possible I was playing with a priest originally would have been even faster if I used a paladin the whole time. Holy paladins just compliment us so effing well. I went through 3 healers this weekend. One was under geared , other left for a 2200 team, and the 3rd ended up being the best one of them all :).

[pwnstarz]

Nice work toned, I have played with a priest and a resto Druid so far.. both have their goods and bads but really really struggling with the howl/ physic scream as tremor totems don't class them as fear so dont dispel i believe?

Its totally screwing up my game and back down to 1619 today sadly.. Will go again tonight and see how I go. Its just a crap load of practice needed I suppose but I think the healers patience wears thin when my whole team is cc'd the entire fight and he gets nuked non stop

[pwnstarz]

Yeah I kind of was asking that brothel. I have 2 horrible lvl 200 shields on 2 of them and weapons are ok.. majority of armor is all furious sadly.. i get the nuke off on too many people and they sit there with 800 to 1500 life on so many games its driving me mental.. A little bit more gear would make such a difference but cant ask for too much I suppose after week 3 :)

[Fomeny]

Nice work toned, I have played with a priest and a resto Druid so far.. both have their goods and bads but really really struggling with the howl/ physic scream as tremor totems don't class them as fear so dont dispel i believe?


They do dispell them. Issue might be, if you get feared within the 3 seconds, when the totems dont "tick". I don't know, whether staggering tremor totems still works, but this would solve your issue. You also might want to set more than 1, even if the totems don't stagger anymore.

For example, I'm playing warlock, and with the useful addon "Aloft", where you can activate which totems you want to see, I can easily hit shadowfury, cast AoE fear while sending my pet downing one of the totems. if the pet is too far away, I can also use shadowburn or Rocket Gloves immeadiately after casting Howl.

[Toned]

Ways you could improve:

1-Find a good paladin
2-Stagger Tremors
3-2 stage IWT button
4-Rocket gloves
5-Get a Paladin
6-Run ICC10s/25s for weapons/shields.

[Littleburst]

Rocket gloves are awesome.

I got 1800 with 1 hilt and 3 x 232 PoS dagger. 1 219 pos shield, 3x 200 emblem shield. And all wrathfull offpieces + full furious and WG shoulders. no rockets though. Now i got the rockets and i'm almost at 2k. A world of difference.

[pwnstarz]

Ways you could improve:

1-Find a good paladin
2-Stagger Tremors
3-2 stage IWT button
4-Rocket gloves
5-Get a Paladin
6-Run ICC10s/25s for weapons/shields.

Thanks for the replies.. so you saying a paladin? haha

I might just have to look into that one.. I just got my rocket gloves.. will work on weapons and shields this weekend.. fingers crossed :)

[Littleburst]

Skill > class.

Aj rankings: http://www.arenajunkies.com/rankings/5v5/Shaman/Shaman/Shaman/

Top is with a druid, then a priest and then a row of paladins.

[drevil]

i would love to see that.. but the current state of pvp in the game is "class > all"

for example, suddenly more and more 2k+ teams running around with these 900+ penetration warriors,
who ripping you a new one in 5 sek..

.

[Toned]

They aren't active though :P I definately agree skill > class, but paladins seem to take the least amount of skill to play with us, and they compliment us well.

[Multibocks]

Skill > class.

Aj rankings: http://www.arenajunkies.com/rankings/5v5/Shaman/Shaman/Shaman/

Top is with a druid, then a priest and then a row of paladins.

Anyone notice the team of shaman and one dk? Full dps team, funny thing is it seems to be working.

[Toned]

Not to get this thread locked or start a flame war... that team was win traded by a multi-boxer you might know mr. 2400. If you have rated access you can see that thread there.

[pwnstarz]

Well my priest seems to be doing quite damn well.. hit 1750 tonight I am still in half furious and half relent with no wrathful armor bits, I got a few nice weapons over the week which really helped, Still lacking a little on one and feeling the pain.. so so many time I go the nuke and the person runs away and lives with 1k or less health.. Today i lost a game due to the last healer getting away with 70 health and ressing another as i couldnt get to him in time.. haha.. hanging for that 1800 for the weapon upgrades :)

[Zappy]

I'm sure you guys will hit it. Your priest has a lot more skills than most of the priests that my team sees weekly.

I've been wanting to try arenas with either a paladin and priest, but my druid is a RL friend, so it's hard to drop him. I think if he would CC some more, we could turn around a few of those matches.

The hardest comp we tend to face is warlock/mage/DK combos. The warlock will fear us, followed immediately by a frost nova which makes very difficult target facing issues, worst of all, I can't really focus any one of them as they have too many defensive cd's. Having a priest or paly would be very nice to dispell the frost snares. I'm curious how you guys do against that comp.

Anyhow, good luck!

[pwnstarz]

Hey Zappy.. first of all damn you hurt.. haha

You did really well but we actually said on vent you carried your druid a little.. all your druid needed to do was chain cyclone / chain root and the game would have been over in seconds but your insane dps makes up for it :)

Love the 4 choppers on your toons also! haha

[Littleburst]

I'm sure you guys will hit it. Your priest has a lot more skills than most of the priests that my team sees weekly.

I've been wanting to try arenas with either a paladin and priest, but my druid is a RL friend, so it's hard to drop him. I think if he would CC some more, we could turn around a few of those matches.

The hardest comp we tend to face is warlock/mage/DK combos. The warlock will fear us, followed immediately by a frost nova which makes very difficult target facing issues, worst of all, I can't really focus any one of them as they have too many defensive cd's. Having a priest or paly would be very nice to dispell the frost snares. I'm curious how you guys do against that comp.

Anyhow, good luck!

Depending on your survivability it can be a good option to try and oneshot one of the healers, Has been very succesfull for me when you got 3 'hard to kill' dpsers.

[Toned]

The bellow comps if the hunter is in the open I'll gib them, but more often than not these comps I end up 1 shotting a healer. I'm still kind of under geared so the higher good teams even though they are down a healer do so much effing cc and burst that they'll get me. Mages are also good kill targets if you can make sure to get them before they block or atleast force the block without burning your EM.

Destro/Ele/Hunter + Disc Priest & Holy Paladin

Arcane/Destro/Ele/Hunter + Holy Paladin

Destro/DK/Frost Mage + Disc Priest & Holy Paladin

Rogue / Mage / Priest / Destro / Shaman ele or resto + Holy Paladin or Disc Priest

[Littleburst]

The bellow comps if the hunter is in the open I'll gib them, but more often than not these comps I end up 1 shotting a healer. I'm still kind of under geared so the higher good teams even though they are down a healer do so much effing cc and burst that they'll get me. Mages are also good kill targets if you can make sure to get them before they block or atleast force the block without burning your EM.

Destro/Ele/Hunter + Disc Priest & Holy Paladin

Arcane/Destro/Ele/Hunter + Holy Paladin

Destro/DK/Frost Mage + Disc Priest & Holy Paladin

Rogue / Mage / Priest / Destro / Shaman ele or resto + Holy Paladin or Disc Priest

My experience is quite the oposite, it's very unlikely i'll blow EM on a hunter unless i'm 100% confident his deterrence and rapid fire are on CD. They seem to be the one class that swaps to defensive when they get targetted.

[Toned]

My experience is quite the oposite, it's very unlikely i'll blow EM on a hunter unless i'm 100% confident his deterrence and rapid fire are on CD. They seem to be the one class that swaps to defensive when they get targetted.

I guess I've been getting lucky what has been happening lately is I lightning bolt tap some one else and use a focus IWIN button on the hunter... seems to drop them almost everytime and sometimes they deterrance but they are so low flame shock ticks and finishs them off.