4x Ret Arena Week Two

[Seldum]

Put in a druid as the main... you woulden't find a more versatile char as your main.... But since druids suck in pvp (except when healing - comming from a guy who never pvp) it might not be a good idear.

[Whowantstoknow]

Prot Pally dps is perfectly viable (Prot Pally in Holy gear was nerfed hard and is not). I think a DK brings more than a Prot Pally though but going all ret I cant see being as viable as against good teams you will be kited.

[Mosg2]

After playing around with it I can't see any other main added to 4 Rets that brings as much as the DK does. Their buffs are comparable/better than every other melee class plus they have a shitload of defensive cooldowns and a lot of passive defense. Death Grip is amazing, as is Chains of Ice. Nobody is going to be doing any kiting with all the snares and stuns the team has together.

Prot Pally? I can't believe that even got mentioned in my thread

[David]

How did you handle your dps. DK and pallies both on a castsequence or click macro?

The idea what I get when doing the dk with my pallies is that I`m not really playing either class. I just spam 1 button to IAWT, another button spam to do dps with all 5. And then a few buttons to stun, slow silence and so.

The way it feels to me is that I don`t feel like I`m playing pallies anymore. Just running 4 in AV without the dk was tons of fun hehe.

[Mosg2]

All my Paladins have a /click for DPS and I manually control all the DK abilities. Healing and DS/DS macros and all the little stuff is mostly my mouse and my 1-4 keys. All of my DK damage abilities also pass through to activate their /click DPS macro so it's actually *really* simple. It took a couple hours and some outside-the-box thinking to get it done but now I'm super happy.

As an aside, after much testing I got a /click to work for me that's more DPS than I can manually output on the target dummy. Period. It's absolutely amazing.

So, I spam one mouse button for IWT and my E, F, Q, R, and Space Bar all do DK abilities and pass through to the /click for the Rets.

[David]

So with every ability clicked by your dk you send a keyclick to your pallies click macro as well?

[Mosg2]

Yes, all of my DK offensive abilities. Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Pestilence, Strangulate, Gargoyle, and Mind Freeze. This way I can still "spam" my DPS /click on the Rets while I selectively do abilities on the main. And as I said before, I got a click to work that is more efficient than I was manually doing abilities--It's that f'ing powerful.

[David]

But you can only bind 2 keys to one macro or do you have have a few of the same macro`s?

I really have to try this I think. Might be a good way.

[Multibocks]

If you are using innerspace its real easy. For each ability you use on your DK you just add the /click sequence on your Rets.
So, pressing 1 on your keyboards does:
DK
/cast Chains of Ice
Rets
/click Button1
/click button2
etc

Makes stuff real easy. However! You should make two sequences one with Divine Storm and one without. Divine Storm is one of those abilities you really want to be available when you need it. Sucks when they all go off at same time and person ran out of range. Doh!

[Mosg2]

When I get home I can post my /click macros for my Rets if someone really wants them. I got them off this board in the first place and then modified the number of nils in each to match my spam speed.