No Mage or Warlock MB Arena Teams?

[shockernub]

I was just wondering if there are any 4xMage or Warlock teams competing, all I ever see is shaman teams, including my own, lol.

I have a pretty decently geared warlock of my own and was considering leveling a few more, but it doesn't look like they can compete?

[Vyndree]

Suvega runs 4x mage with my resto shaman healing him. He is nearly full s3, one of his mages is geared slightly better since he solo-played it prior to multiboxing.

Our rating right now? 1337. As cool as that number is, it's not that great. It really shouldn't be that low, but we ran into a team with 2x nether protection warlocks with shadowfury -- and he had recently respecced POM+Pyro. (We managed to hit these guys several times in a row)

We tried frost but it couldn't guarantee someone would die and just resulted in longer losses. When he respecced fire he had better success against everything but nether protection warlocks.

Major issues:
Fear + 1 tremor = chaos
Ice blocks helpful (I call out which one he should iceblock since I'm healing)
LoS and lack of individual movement
Lack of ability to utilize sheep effectively (he doesn't even bother using it anymore)
Lack of ability to utilize speed effects such as blazing speed, blink, etc
Easily locked-down healer (shaman -- no instant heals or pain suppression)

Current tactic:
Rush out the gate
Resto shaman lays WoA + tremor while mages PoM+Pyro most dangerous non-pally/non-warlock target -- typically targeting warriors first
Heroism
If resto shaman is enemy target, commence resto shaman pillar hump
If mages are enemy target and resto shaman not getting locked down, lawl and chainheal/hw/lhw away -- resto shaman calls out for iceblocks when spikes happen. Offensive purging/snares when able.
If mages are enemy target and resto shaman is getting kicked, frost nova the rogue and kill it, if possible

[Dooz]

If resto shaman is enemy target, commence resto shaman pillar hump

made me LOL at work.

[Kayley]

Nice Nice. Once you feel ready (geared, strats, etc) I would love to see this in action. Shame about blink though.
:thumbsup:

[Dave]

Vyn have you and suvega considered frost mages? I can imagine 4 mages performing shatter combos with pets running around quite effective. You could even split dps with your mages working on one target and your pets all 4 on another, at around 1k per bolt from the pets and trying to set up nova/ice-lance combos (God forbid you were to ever get off an acutal shatter combo off ie. frostbolt+icelance with all 4 mages on one target). And it could help survivablity out a bit. A lot of management and work in this comp but I think it would work well for you guys.

Let me know your thoughts

EDIT: Just re-read the post. After trying 4 frost I guess it didn't work. =(

[shockernub]

good to see at least one other class of mb'rs doing arenas, was hoping to see a warlock team or boomkins too. I've thought of leveling some more warlocks to play with my fairly well geared S2/S3 lock, but guess it wouldn't work so hot, and a load of time to invest to get there.

Oh well, still enjoying my 4x shaman, actually have 4xshaman and 1 pali, but really think a fifth shaman would be better than the pali, he isn't very good at holding aggro with the group, lol.

[Bradster]

I thought about it, but provided how bad my gear is I'd rather not go in being a free HK, loose a ton, at which point towards the end I start to get nice gear and might be able to do something then Xpac comes out and thus a gear reset. After the Xpac i plan to hit it before all the gear comes in to play.

So i figured time is better spent leveling alts right now.

[Ellay]

I ran into the same issue you guys had with Mage in Arena >< granted I only played 3 at the time instead of 4, but Ice Block wasn't even an option unless you went Frost. Overall it felt clunky and as mentioned a lot of their abilities that make them viable in an arena setting just can't be fully utilized when multiboxing. If Water Ele Freeze could be more streamlined in that you could use your main to somehow target your secondary characters Freeze, it would be insanely awesome. Just set it in rotation easy dead targets.

[Tasty]

Disc priest / four pom pyro mages. I sub out one mage when friends need the points. We win 50% of the games.

[heyaz]

I want to try it, but I figure I'll just embarass myself. Of course my team is a bit more hybrid with the 2 priests. Grouping would probably have to be with a paladin for bop and bof, and something with a bit more armor. But my real plan is to join 2 decent 5v5s and 3v3s, one for the priests and one for the locks and just swap them out every few games. Should get all 4 toons in season 4 at the same rate as if I was playing just one.