4x Ret Arena Week Two

[Multibocks]

Yes I find I have a shitton of utility buttons for my rets, need a keymap for my keyboard really. I think what you need to do is focus on whats important.
1. DPSing, probably need a seperate key for DS
2. Healing
3. Blessing of Freedom RR'd on main
4. Divine Shield on all
5. Divine Protection on all
6. Ret stun RR'd
7. Stun RR'd

and then just control the DK manually.

[Mosg2]

I agree, but fitting that plus IAW is not going to be easy methinks. I'm literally working on my keybinds as we speak.

[Multibocks]

Put your IWT in a place thats easy to hit and then work the other keys in as necessary.
I put IWT on my F key and then I just mash it as I move around.

[Mosg2]

Update:

I took the plunge and added my DK to the mix. All I can say is...

You know the Holocaust? Imagine the exact opposite of that.

Snares+DG+Buffs=Amazing sauce. It's a whole different world. Once I fixed the healing macros up everything started going my way.

[Mokoi]

ok when you mentioned your team parkouring all over a target, a little pee came out.

[Seldum]

I use repeater regions with ISboxer and I have more or less replaced Vuhdo with the normal mana and health bars as I only look at vuhdo during fights for information about health....

I don't have any clue how you guys gets your melee team to run around a given target... but if you are dependent on a mouseclick to attach targets then I think you might have a hard time using repeater regions to the max as they require you to move the mouse over the toon you want to heal (depending on the mod you use).

But Vuhdo really free up alot of keys - atleast for me, and I can bind different macros for different clicks ie. Right click = Regrowth, left = click - Rejuv etc. Also Vuhdo decurse etc. if you want it to.

I try not to have alot of shift+ctrl+x keybinds as they get a bit confusing to me.... KISS as they say hehe (Keep It Simple Stupid)

[David]

Ya I would recommend a DK main as I can see you getting kited pretty well.

I`m actually thinking of adding a 5th paladin to the team instead of the DK. I have no fun boxing my ret team with a dk as main, I really HATE dk`s

+ so far I din`t see much advantages. I never had real problems with people kiting me, unless it were really good mages, tho I`m not that skilled with my pallies yet. I think I`ll see how it goes with 5 of them.

Playing the team should be fun anyway, with a dk as main it doesn`t feel like playing rets anymore. I rather select the skills I want to use rather then have them on automode macro.

[David]

I just got to thinking. what if the main was a prot paladin? He offers some extra slows and silence. + his dps isn`t to bad. And he is hell hard to kill.

[Mosg2]

Sorry David, I'm sold. I did 5-6 AV's last night with the DK+4 Ret setup and the difference was like night and day. Chains of Ice alone would be worth it.

[shaeman]

I just got to thinking. what if the main was a prot paladin? He offers some extra slows and silence. + his dps isn`t to bad. And he is hell hard to kill.

Not sure Avenger's shield would be worth not running that pally as ret as well.

You could do the Prot in holy gear route for some big heals on the other toons, but probably wouldn't want to run him as the main in that case.

I know what you mean about DK's (I can't play on my solo DK because I just wish it was a pally), but I think the DK adds more overall - with Chains of ice, strangulate, mind freeze, and deathgrip.