Dealing with chain cc, shaman getting split up, etc.

[heyaz]

So I was watching some of the old Aelli videos, including his narrated instructional video. He was amazinging skilled, but my god things looked different back then. Aoe CC was such a joke - fear bombs broken instantly with the old tremor totems, shaman don't even split up. No shadowfury spammers, no hungering cold, no knockbacks, his shaman just stood in one place and nuked to their hearts' content. Now I can't even find my alts half the time, they're all running around like retards in opposite directions, frozen in blocks of ice, silenced, flying in mid air, or being yanked all over the place by death grip. All while super blood elf paladin is doing over 200k damage in 30 seconds while his -4% spell hit talent somehow means 3/4 of my shaman missed that lava burst

Then there was the old instant kill - no global cooldown, no putting 4 flame shocks on one guy (might as well be an arrow over his head that the other team can see).

And some of his tactics - like purging the rogue, switching to the warrior, purging, then insta killing. Have people just gotten twitchy since BC or what, that crap won't even work on a 1000 rated team, would've so much as looked at that warrior and boom - spell reflect is up, pain supression, power word shield, earth shield, riptide, and I haven't even cast purge yet

what happened to pvp

[drevil]

3.0 was the end for good pvp.

blizzard already glued some realmpools together but less and less people doing pvp.
our EU bg pool now has 30 !! servers but there are never many games open,
and you already see the same players over several games.