Hands off your cocks, feet in your socks! 3.1

[Fat Tire]

For some reason i can't que for a schrmish so i duno how the new 5v5 will be.

pros:
1) obviusly the burst dmg we have now will create 5v4 situations out of the gate. This is something that will help ALOT.
2) aoe root will give us better controll over pillar humping
3) zomg stoneclaw 4k bubble ( cant find the glyph on my server yet though)

cons:
1) even though we have more utitlity, the damage in WOTLK is still high compared to the % dmg in BC. even will 900 resil your bound to get gibbed by a good dk/hunter team.
2) purge still gets resisted to much
3) STILL cant find stoneclaw glyph on my server.

Stone claw will prob take a day or two before we see them on the AH since the new glyphs are world drops.

[Stealthy]

Stone claw will prob take a day or two before we see them on the AH since the new glyphs are world drops.

Well actually the glyph mastery book is a random world drop - and the book randomly gives one of the 50 new glyphs, making it damn near impossible to farm for a specific glyph.

[Tizer]

Finally back from hols and i can start PVPing. The lack of leadership in the BGs looks rather...shit and from the 1 EoTS i did before going away on Friday i recall my shamans heal dropping just as fast as it used to before the patch so i dont really know what to expect of PvP in 3.1 now. Cant say i've read many threads here which fill me with confidence either. Is ANYONE finding the PVP aspects of the game to be more rewarding now?

[Tasty]

Finally back from hols and i can start PVPing. The lack of leadership in the BGs looks rather...shit and from the 1 EoTS i did before going away on Friday i recall my shamans heal dropping just as fast as it used to before the patch so i dont really know what to expect of PvP in 3.1 now. Cant say i've read many threads here which fill me with confidence either. Is ANYONE finding the PVP aspects of the game to be more rewarding now?

Yes

[Tizer]

im finding it all to be...nothing special so far :>

[Tasty]

im finding it all to be...nothing special so far :>

What do YOU consider PvP? Do you prefer ganking or world pvp or dueling or bgs or arena?

Myself, I don't arena and I've done like 3 bgs this year. /shrug :|

[Clovis]

The whole random leader thing drives me nuts because when I do BGs I have min. 5, usually 6 or 7 people in my group (I like to my 4 + 2 healers) -- it almost always goes to someone who doesn't understand or realize that they have the lead so my shamans are spread out group wise -- my totem dropping sequence is disigned for having the 4 shamans in the same group, so tremor for example is spread out -- which usually makes me take the full duration for fear bombs.

The main change as far as pvp was the instant lava burst -- when I charge into a fight for a node I pick a target with 20k HP or less and start running to them -- I load them up with flame shocks and then pop my trinket+EM+lava burst macro and kill one person right off the bat.

The AOE root is cool but I'm almost always snared (So many DKs) when I use it that it's pretty useless, not to mention most people just trinket or racial out of it.

The toughest foes still are blood elf DKs or Paladins (the other night I was against a group with 6 blood elf paladins and 3 blood elf DKs -- that was just a painful battleground -- their racial (aoe 2 second silence) is so inbalanced against my -- not only does it interupt my spells but it completely shuts me down for 2 seconds and the cool down - with it only being on a 2 minute cool down and multiple blood elves, it usually means I face it multiple times in every skirimish -- that's the only racial I can think of that can singlehandedly turn the tide of an areana battle -- good thing we've got instant gift of naaru! Seriously though, the horde racials are so much better for pvp it's mind blowing -- the dranai racial is only marginally useful -- I bound all 4 to cast it on the main shaman -- basically it's like getting an extra druid HOT, whoopdedo.

-Clov

[warwizard]

For some reason i can't que for a schrmish so i duno how the new 5v5 will be.

pros:
1) obviusly the burst dmg we have now will create 5v4 situations out of the gate. This is something that will help ALOT.
2) aoe root will give us better controll over pillar humping
3) zomg stoneclaw 4k bubble ( cant find the glyph on my server yet though)

cons:
1) even though we have more utitlity, the damage in WOTLK is still high compared to the % dmg in BC. even will 900 resil your bound to get gibbed by a good dk/hunter team.
2) purge still gets resisted to much
3) STILL cant find stoneclaw glyph on my server.

Is BEYOND AMAZING!

I was doing this in small scale skirmish in WG tonight, pop 4x grounding, 4x fire, 4x stoneclaw then popped my armor and earthbind totems down and just rocked. i mean rocked, that extra 4k bubble is sooo amazing! it help stopped T7/T8 geared rogues and pali's from ripping me apart along with warriors.

[warwizard]

The whole random leader thing drives me nuts because when I do BGs I have min. 5, usually 6 or 7 people in my group (I like to my 4 + 2 healers) -- it almost always goes to someone who doesn't understand or realize that they have the lead so my shamans are spread out group wise -- my totem dropping sequence is disigned for having the 4 shamans in the same group, so tremor for example is spread out -- which usually makes me take the full duration for fear bombs.

The main change as far as pvp was the instant lava burst -- when I charge into a fight for a node I pick a target with 20k HP or less and start running to them -- I load them up with flame shocks and then pop my trinket+EM+lava burst macro and kill one person right off the bat.

The AOE root is cool but I'm almost always snared (So many DKs) when I use it that it's pretty useless, not to mention most people just trinket or racial out of it.

The toughest foes still are blood elf DKs or Paladins (the other night I was against a group with 6 blood elf paladins and 3 blood elf DKs -- that was just a painful battleground -- their racial (aoe 2 second silence) is so inbalanced against my -- not only does it interupt my spells but it completely shuts me down for 2 seconds and the cool down - with it only being on a 2 minute cool down and multiple blood elves, it usually means I face it multiple times in every skirimish -- that's the only racial I can think of that can singlehandedly turn the tide of an areana battle -- good thing we've got instant gift of naaru! Seriously though, the horde racials are so much better for pvp it's mind blowing -- the dranai racial is only marginally useful -- I bound all 4 to cast it on the main shaman -- basically it's like getting an extra druid HOT, whoopdedo.

-Clov

Get a Holy Pali with Imp Aura with Conc up. 100% resist to silence is nullified!

[Tizer]

im finding it all to be...nothing special so far :>

What do YOU consider PvP? Do you prefer ganking or world pvp or dueling or bgs or arena?

Myself, I don't arena and I've done like 3 bgs this year. /shrug :|

I BG a lot, or used to, not so keen on even bothering now without leader. I arena, quite a bit. Not got to practiced any since patch and waiting for new season etc. i dont duel, bit poinless when you play 5 shaman, but if im on 1 shaman i wont turn them down, helps you work out how other classes work...although having played every class in the game now to a decent level i know them most.

We dont seem to have much "action" in this forum at the moment, i like to read how people are doing, what sort of binds/macros they have been trying etc. I find myself looking at the PVE forums more these days! :x