WoW Arena 4 Shamans...resto druid? resto Sham? Preist?

[LykkeLiten]

Agree that priests are weakest in arena (which is, in my opinion, dumb).

Disc Priests with their bubble are pretty neat right now.

[Ellay]

Yes Disc Priests are awesome but they are used as a support class and not a main healer. Their focus is to throw mini heals / pain supression / psychic scream and most importantly Mana Burn.

[simpletom]

Yes Disc Priests are awesome but they are used as a support class and not a main healer. Their focus is to throw mini heals / pain supression / psychic scream and most importantly Mana Burn.

yep what Ellay said, ive never seen a video with a disp priest main healing, they seem to multi role plenty. Most of the time the main healer is a paladin form the 5v5 videos ive seen.

Resto shaman have earthshield which is removed in one dispell, but this is due to be sorted out, i read somewhere that its going to be on a 30 second cooldown, and immune to dispell effects, or it takes away 2 charges at a time or somthing like that. So i expect shaman to be pretty dam good healers in arena then.

Someone mensioned that druids have hots which take alittle time to build up, well yes that and they have swiftmend too, so you could have your druid healer hideing away, pop up to give some really nice heals, swap to bear form if they get focused, feral charge at a caster, which stops casting for 4 seconds. Druids are awsome. Best of all they dont even need to go full resto spec to do a good job healing.

paladins who have improved concentration aura are going to be a god send to most boxing teams 55% spell cast interupt reduction, and 30% reduction on silence effects, a smart paladin who uses rank 1 blessing of sacrafice (to stop being sheeped), and swaps blessings, who stuns and moves about is pretty awsome, top poster mensioned they have slowest heals(are you healing with the mana hungry pve heals?), well 1.5 seconds is the same as shamans lesser healing wave and priests flash heal, the difference is that they also get stacks more chance to crit, and with your crit totems boosting heals, also makeing their heals far more mana friendly. they should just be able to spam heals.

And they can also put judgements up to slow peoples movement speed which is the only momement impareing effect druids cant shift to remove (or so it was when i was playing a paladin). And your paladin takes mana form your shamans heals so if your paladin is getting mana burned just make a macro, to target heal your paladin witha couple lesser healing waves, will help him out.

in my opinion paladin is the way to go for a 4shaman team, they just go hand in hand so nicely on compliments the other, and not a holy pve spec'd paladin, a proper pvp spec'd paladin who knows how to arena.

[Ellay]

Druids have the fastest burst heals in the game.

Their Nature Swiftness provides them a huge instant cast heal, combined with using Swiftmend consuming any HoT into a blast of HP all at once.

That right there is pretty much what I need to stay alive against some 4 DPS teams.