1800 on all 5 shammys

[Meshuggenah]

This is one thing I haven't attempted yet. which is strange because I started out with a focus on PvP, and somehow got side-tracked into raiding.

Im jealous. What sort of gear did you start Arena in, and how long did 1800 take?

[Zappy]

This is one thing I haven't attempted yet. which is strange because I started out with a focus on PvP, and somehow got side-tracked into raiding.

Im jealous. What sort of gear did you start Arena in, and how long did 1800 take?

I've been going back and forth between this team, and two ally teams on Tichondrius (71 hunters and 73 DKs), so I was a little behind on gear this season. I knew once 3.2 hit, we'd be back in business, so I started arenas back up the first week. Basically, I had all the WG gear, and a mix between deadly and hateful when I started this season, and all the basic enchants, blue gems. The first week we got up to around 900, then the following week we approached 1500, so I bought the furious shoulders. We didn't know what to expect, and if we were gonna be stuck around 1500. With that, we were honor grinding like mad to buy as many accessories as we could each week, then gemed / enchanted everything with the best stuff. The following couple of weeks, we were finishing just above 1750, so we knew we could at least buy all the relentless accessories.

The biggest challenges we've had so far is picking the correct 1st target. On a 3 dps, 2 healer team, there were many times were we would make the mistake and cook one of their healers, but what we found is that the 3dps was still too much to heal through, so we would still lose a fair amount of games. By taking out one of their dpsers, we're usually able to heal through the damage and slowly work them down. The other biggest challenge is the other team getting off rezzes. With asonimie's wind shear idea incorporated into the macros, it's a lot easier now to stop them from getting the rezzes off which helps a lot. The only real problem here is when the 2nd target dies, if the corpses end up in a bad spot, it's very hard to watch both of them for interrupts.

The most disappointing match was one of the last matches last night when we faced a 2360 MMR team (paly, priest, lock, hunter, druid). They waited for a while, and finally mounted up to launch an attack from both sides (nagrand arena). When they did this I nuked the paladin in a very nice spot, and camped out on his corpse. The warlock and hunter kept steady pressure on me and were slowly eating my mana never allowing me a chance to get mana back other than water shield, and the priest and druid kept attempting rezzes. It's very nice to be able to focus either the lock or hunter, and still interrupt both rez attemps. After 3 minutes of this, i was finally able to nuke the priest. This proved to be a lot more challenging as the priest died opposite a pillar where the paladin died, so I had to constantly move around to interrupt the druids rez, meanwhile they kept enough pressure on me. As I was killing the hunter, the warlock timed a nice shadowfury right as my healer got out of line of site. My healer died right as their hunter died. Now it was my 4 guys which were all nearly OOM, vs the druid/warlock. After several more minutes of constant running around and trying to interrupt the druid, he got smart, and stealthed up. When he came back up, I never saw the rez attempt, and I had about 5 seconds left on my nuke, but this time the druid finally got the hunter back up, then it was all downhill from there.

What I learned that match was that, yes the gear does help, as there have been many times that my nuke target lives with under 2k HP, however, we've finally played enough matches together to where our play style and confidence is starting to pay off -- 586 arena matches so far this season!!! LOL