Arena points have been nerfed

[Emo?]

I tend to start on warriors aswell, and then hardswap to priest/druid. Somehow it works. Druids tend to not show in the begnining so its ussualy hard to start with them. Also go for mage till he blocks and in the mealwhile kill melees around him. Good teams with 2 healers will be able to overhela your focus if hes in LOS of them at least from my experience.

[daanji]

Now that I have a Paladin Healer for my DK team (another person playing) my priest needs a new venue to get conquest capped each week.

My fives teams is trying to push the rating to see how high we can go, so I can't use it.


I'm trying out threes...so far wins are hard to come by. Priests dies too fast and healers can heal anyone through my DPS.

I suppose I could try out 2s, anyone have suggestions?

Should I just not worry about conquest cap on the priest?

[Shodokan]

I tend to start on warriors aswell, and then hardswap to priest/druid. Somehow it works. Druids tend to not show in the begnining so its ussualy hard to start with them. Also go for mage till he blocks and in the mealwhile kill melees around him. Good teams with 2 healers will be able to overhela your focus if hes in LOS of them at least from my experience.

I have a macro built into my shit when spamming in arena that /cast [@arena#] strangulate so if i see them getting heals i use the spam button that has that in the macro and it stops them for 6 seconds... long enough for a kill or almost kill > swap. Also helps if your getting blown up by mages or something and need a change to breathe.

I'm only 1500 rating but i'm working the kinks out.

[Toned]

Im bouncing around 1850... im playing all 5 toons atm. Pretty sure 2k+ is doable with a 2nd person playing the healer.


So far I can conclude tues/wed is a bad day to arena for my battlegroup Im down 100 rating. Oh well I'll grind it back up Fri/sat/sun night

[daanji]

Yeah, I'm bouncing around 1730 myself and that is with a Paladin healer (another person).


What main opening strategies do you use?


My team is goblins, so I rush towards the team, rocket boost over then use mass chains of ice to lock them in that.

That is usually enough to freak them out and cause panic. Then I pick a target and lay into some dps then use the hungering cold macro for the kill.


There are some improvements I could do. Perhaps a mass death grip or mass strangulate.

I was thinking of making a kill switch macro. For this I would switch my team to Blood Elf for Arcane Torrent.

First this kill switch macro with do Mass Death Grip, Mass Chains of Ice, Hungering Cold Round Robin, Mass Strangulate, and finally Round Robin Arcane Torrent.


This should lock out the team's casters for a full minute or so in which team anything should die.

[Toned]

I generally start on Warriors / Shamans / Maybe Dk + Rogue
I hard swap to resto druids and disc/holy priests.

I have 3 main dps buttons

Key 1: HB + NS + FS + DarkSim Bind - Includes round robin mind freeze every 2.5 sec on current target.
Key 2: Obliterate + FS - Includes round robin mind freeze, round robin Hungering Cold (every 6sec), round robin Arcane Torrent (every 2 sec).
Key3: Death Strike + FS - Includes same round robins as Obliterate button. Also includes pet Sac.


Seperate KeyBinds:
Lichborne Macro: First press pop Lich, any other keypresses will self heal (While LIch is active).

/cast Lichborne
/cast [@player] Death Coil

OutBreak
RoundRobin > Death Grip FTL
Strangulate + BloodTap on Arena1-4 ( i use this when my first kill target is at like 30% health)
Mass Chains Arena 1-4
Icebound Fort
AntiMagic Shell
Pillar of Frost
Pet Sac

The DK I WIN Button: I like to manage lichborne seperately incase of a fear after AMS. That way I can save my trinkets for stuns and roots.

/use 13 (on use Str trinket)
/cast AntiMagic Shell
/cast Pillar of Frost
/cast Icebound Fortitude

Something that I suggest for everyone that solves the age old problem of your lead toon getting cc'd and having to retarget.
Not only does this make retargeting after CC, or keeping your slaves on the kill target while the controller is CC'd, but it allows for faster and smoother switches. A key bind is always faster than tab or clicking.


I have 5 macros/binds on my toons that do the following.

Healer + 3 Dks have this version:
Replace # with 1-5

 
/cleartarget
/target [@arena#]

The Main DK from who's POV I play from has this version.

/cleartarget
/cast [@arena#] Chains of Ice
/target [@arena#]

[Shodokan]

I generally start on Warriors / Shamans / Maybe Dk + Rogue
I hard swap to resto druids and disc/holy priests.

I have 3 main dps buttons

Key 1: HB + NS + FS + DarkSim Bind - Includes round robin mind freeze every 2.5 sec on current target.
Key 2: Obliterate + FS - Includes round robin mind freeze, round robin Hungering Cold (every 6sec), round robin Arcane Torrent (every 2 sec).
Key3: Death Strike + FS - Includes same round robins as Obliterate button. Also includes pet Sac.


Seperate KeyBinds:
Lichborne Macro (First Keypress Pops Lich, any presses self heal with death coils)
OutBreak
RoundRobin > Death Grip FTL
Strangulate + BloodTap on Arena1-4 ( i use this when my first kill target is at like 30% health)
Mass Chains Arena 1-4
Icebound Fort
AntiMagic Shell
Pillar of Frost
Pet Sac

Additions That I am working on:
-- Repeater Regions across my vuhdo that on left click will cause that DK to lichborne. All other clicks will cause ALL Dk's to death coil (single target burst healing) and change my priest focus to that Dk (POM / Binding Heal).
-- Mass Death Grip Arena 1 - 4, Hungering Cold(1 Dk Only) + Arcane Torrent from Priest at same Time, Mass Chains + Fear from Priest at same time. (CastSequence Macro).

With your spam having so many frost strikes i'm not sure how you can reliably pet sack or use lich + healing unless you have a 2nd set of DPS keys that when pressed does not frost strike.

I like a lot of your ideas though.

You killed me last week when you were around 1300 and i was still not using focus + heals. Your priest is super squishy.

[Toned]

Ya you probably fought me before I grinded all my honor gear. Priest is still pretty squishy, but really i don't count on it living long. I have guardian spirit / desperate prayer to hopefully save it a little longer. I do the majority of my healing with the priest dead.

I play from my main DK's point of view I've spent a lot of time testing / configuring an auto pilot holy priest. I'll post my details later about it.

I really just don't like playing from the priest POV. I like playing from the DK's makes swapping easier, and managing the DK's cooldowns easier. I haven't messed with video feeds, but honestly I think I'm going to stick with the playing from DK point of view. My goal is 2k+ by myself, but I might find a 2k+ druid / priest / sham to heal me so I can push for 2200 weapons.

[Shodokan]

Ya you probably fought me before I grinded all my honor gear. Priest is still pretty squishy, but really i don't count on it living long. I have guardian spirit / desperate prayer to hopefully save it a little longer. I do the majority of my healing with the priest dead.

I play from my main DK's point of view I've spent a lot of time testing / configuring an auto pilot holy priest. I'll post my details later about it.

I really just don't like playing from the priest POV. I like playing from the DK's makes swapping easier, and managing the DK's cooldowns easier. I haven't messed with video feeds, but honestly I think I'm going to stick with the playing from DK point of view. My goal is 2k+ by myself, but I might find a 2k+ druid / priest / sham to heal me so I can push for 2200 weapons.

I still would like your ideas on how to conserve runic power for pet sac/death coils. I'm considering doing the same just playing with my 2.2k rated resto sham buddy.

[Toned]

Here's what I got so far.


Replace your frost strike ability with this macro:

/cast [@focus,help,nodead,exists] Death Coil; Frost Strike


use the regions to set focus and have a /clearfocus bind