Quote Originally Posted by Stealthy View Post
Ok, you got me curious now - what spec were you running doing arenas?

How did a normal match play out? Did you pop mirror image and nuke like hell?

Cheers,
S.
My spec was something like http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#o0xiczrczLGu0tjdZhfbhk0h. I don't remember exactly but thats the general idea. Plenty of stuff you can move around.

The way I started a match depended on the team but most of them I ran to a LoS object of some kind and waited for someone to get close. First person within range ate an arcane barrage followed by a PoM+Arcane Blast, which either killed them instantly or brought the rest of the team running to save them.

Then I immediately blew all cooldowns (trinket, icy veins, arcane power, mirror image, etc) and cast 4x blizzard on as many people as I could making sure I got my original target if he lived. This puts a weak mortal strike effect on everyone, spreads some damage around, slows everyone (+12% damage from torment the weak) and starts freezing people in place. As soon as a good target choice gets frozen I hit them with arcane barrage + fire blast. They hit at the same time which means if the target was frozen you'll get 90% crits and probably kill them off. Then toss some ice lances at anyone else thats still frozen.

If you've scored some kills at this point you can just run around finishing people off with counterspells and normal play. For the rest of matches just get creative with a sheep arena1-4 and slow arena1-4 macro.

The map with the elevators is by far my favorite. I cant count how many times i opened by blowing all cooldowns and casting blizzard as soon as the gates dropped and killed everyone in seconds. (4x blizzard + mind sear is like 10K + damage per tick aoe and with icy veins/power infusion up it ticks very fast)