4x mage priest week 1

[genocyde]

I'm not saying i'm an expert but you'd think a round robin macro for ice lance would solve this problem pretty easily

The way that grounding totem works is just plain unfair imo. Ice lance has a travel time so it won't kill the totem until it reaches it. I would have to wait for that travel time before firing at the next totem and so on giving grounding totem the chance to absorb an insane amount of spells. I have thoughts on how to counter this but I won't waste much thought or setup time in worrying about running into the only other boxer on my battlegroup (that has posted here). If it becomes a problem or a common encounter (he is on my server as well) then I will worry about it.

huh ? So you are in LOS of arguably the most bursty class in game. You shoot at his grounding totems expecting nothing in return ? If anything, you would have to silence the shamans. And grounding totem eats counterspell too.

I see the only chance is to bait the lava burst with a ICE block. and mirror image pew pew after that.

I would consider shaman among the less bursty classes in the game to be honest. With the exception of their long cooldown instant lava burst they have zero instant abilities that bother me while everything I do counters them and is instant. The sheer fact of the matter is that grounding totems odd way of stacking and allowing it to absorb several spells per totem is all that really worries me about a shaman team. Take away those totems and I would think I should win 100% of the time

Oh and no... I'm not just going to stand out in LoS for a shaman, I simply was not prepared to fight a boxer my first week of arena while having 16k health and <200 resilience. I simply zerged with AoE so as to not waste his time when he outgears and out experiences me + running a dedicated seperate healer. I look forward to running into him once I am somewhat geared so I can test my theories about a boxer vs boxer match. I will still be at the insane disadvantage of running my healer myself.