Mages versus the Boxer

[Boylston]

I have been seing alot of mages, running pve gear and really well played mages are excellerating with this strat, there dps is monstrous.

Congrats on inventing a new word!

I don't think arcane mages are a real issue, long-term. As heyaz said, it's a gimmick right now and will be less of one at L85.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Does anyone wonder why I just ditched 15 level 46 shaman accounts to make mages .....

And for boxers the pvp spec is fire. 40 yards baby, instant cast living bomb and scorch (well 1.5 second cast but WHILE MOVING and ZERO MANA).

[Alemi]

Does anyone wonder why I just ditched 15 level 46 shaman accounts to make mages .....

And for boxers the pvp spec is fire. 40 yards baby, instant cast living bomb and scorch (well 1.5 second cast but WHILE MOVING and ZERO MANA).

Insanity? 15 hunters hitting auto shot at 40 yards has the same effect, really.

[Sam DeathWalker]

And auto shot is as good as 15 mages with mirror image how? (if nothing else I'll lag my oppent out lol).

Not to mention ring of frost might be the ultimate defensive spell.

Not to mention frost nova.

Not to mention spellsteal and polym .....



Tanking with a Shaman? Ummm ....


Ualaa is right though one of my greatest assets is the fact that mana is being regenerated at 36X or whatever and that by spreading the damage over X characters 1/X mana is only needed per character. Still in an open battle where there are multiple on multiple targets a no mana basically GCD spell is nice to have for sure.

[Littleburst]

Tanking with a Shaman? Ummm ....

Yes. If you do not kill a target it will attack you and thereby you are tanking that target. Which will happen a lot for most quad or quint boxers. A solo player mage kites, to avoid damage. Which is somewhat hard for a boxer.

Yes I know you're incredible with your army and infinite mirror image and whatnot. But as far as i know the topic is about 'normal' boxers.

[Sbrowne55]

Congrats on inventing a new word!

ROFL it happens

What you guys aren't missing, is an arcane mage, coupled with healer, and you're screwed. Ya they go OOM fast, but it's pvp'n. Mana is nothing if you kill faster. After 4 stacks of arcane buff, its 10k-42k crits. Most avg 17k. So take that into account, how many arcane blasts can you use after 4 stacks toss a mana pot in there, and maybe get another.? then assume you 2 shot everything, its game over.

I'm dusting off an old account and moving over 3 mages, and running 2 druids or 2 priests or maybe 2 shammies just to own it up.