Ultimate Showdown

[shaeman]

/sillymode on
I'm guessing here, but is "<Name Removed>" references to Lord Voldamort.

Do not mention his name - for if you do he may show up and kill you.
/sillymode off

[Kaynin]

/sillymode on
I'm guessing here, but is "<Name Removed>" references to Lord Voldamort.

Do not mention his name - for if you do he may show up and kill you.
/sillymode off

Who?

[shaeman]

Lord Voldamort - Referenced a lot by " He who must not be named", A character in a series of fictional books by J.K Rowling, adapted in to various films.

I just thought it amusing that references to a certain forum member are being removed. Do not speak of he who is known as "WONT PUT NAME AS IT WILL BE EDITED".

I guess my weird sense of humour was an epic fail

[Yamio]

<Name Removed> is evil. I've seen it. Look at that photo on his website. Only an evil person would put something like that up on their site, without warning or cautionary flag. My granddaughter saw his photo and started wailing. When I saw what had made her cry, I started wailing too. "Oh the humanity" kinda wailing.

<Name Removed> sort of reminds me of Cosmo Kramer. THAT'S IT!!! I now proclaim <Name Removed> Kramer!

You shall now forever be known as Kramer!



Shaeman, it's good to know there's one person who appreciates my humor. /bow

[merujo]

Seems to me 5 yards is a big edge. You just spam on your target untill they come in range its kinda hard to determine exact yardage, its not like there is a line telling you when to stop at 42 yards, so you get your spell off first.

I suppose that range has nothing to do with Survival Hunters being considered OP.

Well then Zin has it hands down, he should not be forced to play 4 characters, so at worst its his 5 against 4 ...

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Grounding will take out the first hits sure, but then fireball has no cooldown, just a unmod 3.5 sec cast .... the 2nd volly are going to hit, as will the 3rd volly. Although I suppose the Shaman will be in close at that point. Also the shaman is tied to the totems and can't really advance out of their range at the start.

I just think range is very important.

Sam,

You're so far out of touch with this game its embarrassing. I know you're just trying to be helpful, but by posting such ridiculous things - you're doing more harm than good. Derailing threads and such. Please go play the game for a few years - get some real experience at end game PvE and PvP content, and then come back and contribute.

Until such time, you're nothing but a burden to the folks here that are trying to have insightful conversations.

i lol'd hard

[Kaynin]

Lord Voldamort - Referenced a lot by " He who must not be named", A character in a series of fictional books by J.K Rowling, adapted in to various films.

I just thought it amusing that references to a certain forum member are being removed. Do not speak of he who is known as "WONT PUT NAME AS IT WILL BE EDITED".

I guess my weird sense of humour was an epic fail

Actually, it seems my sense of humour was an epic fail. I totally got your joke, you just missed mine. :P

[Sajuuk]

This is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny
Good guys bad guys explosions, as far as the eye can see
I don't know who will survive, I don't know who it will be
this is the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny

[shaeman]

Lord Voldamort - Referenced a lot by " He who must not be named", A character in a series of fictional books by J.K Rowling, adapted in to various films.

I just thought it amusing that references to a certain forum member are being removed. Do not speak of he who is known as "WONT PUT NAME AS IT WILL BE EDITED".

I guess my weird sense of humour was an epic fail

Actually, it seems my sense of humour was an epic fail. I totally got your joke, you just missed mine. :P

I saw location netherlands and wasn't sure whether your comment was a joke or genuine misunderstanding.
(having said that I used to work for a dutch owned company and found that the dutch I encountered had a strong mastery of English and tended to understand
the british sense of humour, so should have known )

[genocyde]

Man, I was all interested in this thread until about halfway through page 2.

I saw the word fireball WAY too many times. (I would be willing to bet there has been less than 100 fireballs cast this entire arena season.)

Then it just turned into good old Sam getting the thread directed at him.

My main interest in this thread is that I run a priest, 3x mage, moonkin PvP team and I've always wondered how I'd do against a 5xShaman team. I definately wouldn't stand there tossing fireballs. You might as well wand. There is a few boxer groups on my BG that are warlocks. Let me tell you how I choose to fight them (from a mages+priest PoV and hopefully get this thread off of Sam).

Usually the first round goes to whoever realizes there is another boxer first. If I don't see him until after i have my entire debuff bar full of warlock pain it won't matter how hard i nuke I die. If I see him first i usually drop his leader before he realizes he's being casted at.

All other matchups I open with my PvP macro off of mounts. Basically what it does is my moonkin cyclones the healer, my 3 mages all pick a different target (/assist /targetnearest or /target next/previous types of commands) and Sheeps. Since almost no classes offer a way to deal with the majority of that from 30+ yards I Spam it 2 - 3 times to eat their PvP trinket if they use one since I only need CC to last long enough to cast one spell.

IF my CC works, then I pick what I assume is their lead toon as my target and cast 5x targeted Aoe followed immediately with 3X PoM + Arcane Blast on the leader to ensure he's toast. You'd be amazed what 5X targeted aoe spells hurts like. Mind Sear + Hurricane + 3x Flamestrike/Blizzard is capable of dropping a geared group in just a few seconds.

If my CC does not work then I start throwing all my instant ranged nukes like PoM+AB or arcane barrage or something while my priest goes in for the AoE fear. he doesn't do much damage and is usually a sacrifice but if that fear lands with no tremor around we all know how that story goes.

I've just always wondered about the 5xShaman with the grounding totems and my fear being of no huge advantage without some luck. Then again I have the moonkin added in for trees+ typhoon is an awesome way to move some toons out of place. I definately have the advantage with range + instants + 4x condition-less silence. What do you guys theorize would be my biggest obstacle?

Ellay, or other shaman teams, what would be your opening choices that I'm not remembering you have?

[warwizard]

Boxers don't kill Boxers, we make the normal population suffer our wrath~!

So True!