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[Kromtor]

The DK is more there to buff the ret pallies. Horn of Winter, Icy Talons, Abominations might - no other class can provide my pallies with so much buffage. DG is awesome though as is strangulate, mark of blood, rune tap, etc. Having no MS means I really rely on burst but 4 sham teams know all about that. The problem with my team is that i HAVE to target people so pallies can hand of protection them and save them so it's not often an immediate kill.

Ridere, well to be fair you did only have 10k health on one team and 14k on the other. You really need to farm up the honor pvp gear before going into the arenas... boring as hell but necessary if you want to test what your team is really capable of. I think your warlock team had potential.

Also, yes, I do some healing but really only from insta cast flash of lights. The rest comes from divine storm (glyphed) and judgement of light.

[Ellay]

when you say auto interact spam, do your characters constantly autoface the correct way?

[Ellay]

do you touch heroics at all? How do you fair in bg's vs fear bombs constantly.

[suprafro]

The team looks like a blast to play Kromtor and awesome work on 1800+ rating! Thats PRO, have any other people actually 5boxed to that level in 5v5 in wotlk? i'm having a hell of a time breaking 1700 running 4 shammy with another personal playing a dedicated healer. Not to mention that you are fairly undergeared to boot compared to the competition at your level, going from titansteel destroyers to 1800 tier weps on 4/5 team members will be a crazy upgrade...also it looks like your also closing in on 5x rockets + lifeblood! My alt team which i'm in the process of leveling up is warrior (I have a DK I could sub for the warrior if you found him to be superior) + 4 pallys, never thought about taking them into the arena but your success is quite inspiring!

A few random questions:

Do you manually control abilities or do you use castsequences in arena?

do you have any protips on positioning or do you just typically charge in for every arena match?

Im assuming cleanse to deal with single target CC but what do you do about multiple AOE fears? Assuming they even get a chance, wow you have alot of interupts

If you ever get around to making a video, i'm sure it would be a hit! Seems like alot of fun. lets see some shoulders next!

[Kromtor]

I've cleared all 5 man heroics except oculus with this group. (EDIT: I haven't done halls of lightning or stone using the DK tank but it was farm status with the warrior tank so i dont think it'd be a problem) Divine Shield at the right time and you're fine in most boss fights as long as you have the DPS. Fear bombs aren't that big of a deal, trinket + divine shield keeps me out of most of them. Autointeract spam will always make them face the target and/or run in circles around it still able to hit it.

Ya, the hand mounted pyro rocket (getting eng up is awful) and 1800 weaps will be a huge up for my burst. I may not coninue with lifeblood, i thought you could cast it on allies when i started it and was a bit bummed to learn otherwise.

It was hard as hell deciding between the war and DK. spell reflect and mortal strike were amazing with the warrior, but the lack of buffs and deathgrip meant i was too easily kited and didnt have enough burst. As far as positioning I don't have any tricks yet. It's a true zerg rush.

[Zugdud]

Congrats Kromtor, your team looks like a lot of fun! Bummer about lifeblood only being a self cast buff but man your going to love the rockets. So what comps are giving you the most trouble atm and out of curiosity have you tried using your 3 pallys + your DK as a slave with the warrior leading?

Keep up the good work!

[Ellay]

Still very intrigued by this Have you ever played any other combination's, any casters? Wondering what the overall fun factor of the setup is.

For instance Warlocks on paper are flat out amazing, but in practice don't usually shape up to be that good for most.

[asonimie]

Still very intrigued by this Have you ever played any other combination's, any casters? Wondering what the overall fun factor of the setup is.

For instance Warlocks on paper are flat out amazing, but in practice don't usually shape up to be that good for most.

My warlocks are almost full deadly now with furious off-set. I'm still only rocking 2030 spellpower, but I'm starting to take down full furious 1500ish teams pretty consistantly. That was with a crappy pally healer. I just found an actual PVP priest to heal my team to I'm excited to see what happens this week.

But yes, they have an extremely high learning curve compared to click and shoot shamans. Very different feel and tempo to this team. It's hard to get used to.

[Kromtor]

Zug the DK and War are same account so no.

This is the only team I've done serious PvP with aside from stepping in an arena undergeared to get destroyed and discouraged. From a PvE perspective this team is 100 times more fun to play because it's practically 5 DPS that never run out of mana and chain pull heroics. I ran heroic strath to test out my 1800 swords and killed the infinite corruptor with 10 minutes left.

[Ellay]

Hmm, tell me more how that usually plays out :P Also for the DK + 4 Paladins.. have you tried dropping the DK and running with 4 Ret Paladins and have someone else play healer? Seems like that would also be effective.