PvP happened - didn't do so bad

[Ellay]

Just for fun I did some 5's last night while streaming. I have only 1 piece of Malevolent on my characters, which isn't the weapon so to say the least my characters are quite undergeared for what I am going up against.

I won my first 4 games though and ended up going 7-9. I was extremely pleased with these initial results and very happy that I can cap my conquest points that much faster.

Currently composition is RDruid / 3x Frost DK / Enh Sham.

Some of the fights I lost horribly and couldn't do anything about, I am hoping to chalk it up to a gear thing both in survivability and in offensive DPS. The ability rogues get as a baseline giving AoE stealth for the group at the beginning of the fight is massive. Annoys me to the point I almost think about dropping a DK and adding in a Rogue just for that opener. I would gain an MS this way but not sure it's worth the tradeoff at the moment.

On the fights I did win the players were typically below average, not popping defensive cooldowns. I did win two games where their gear was far superior than mine. Somehow I was queued up against some teams with an MMR of 1850. They wiped the floor with me and I'm not sure if a gear gap will fix that. I can't even imagine trying to play 4x Ele Shamans back in the day with the amount of CC EVERY SINGLE CLASS has these days.

I do see the value though of Enhancement Shaman burst but the damage done after every fight, the DK's - all 3 of them do twice as much as the Shaman each. I realize some of that is AoE but AoE pressure is important. I run their healers out of mana extremely fast.

Notes for improvements:

• Gear is an obvious one
• Better Healing Rotation on Druid
• Work in offensive Cyclones somehow

[Fat Tire]

Surprised you got queues, grats though. When 5.2 comes out will be very surprised if anyone gets any qs in 5v5.

[Ellay]

Queue's took 3-5 minutes per pop. This was a Friday night and I faced about 8 different teams. Ranging from 1350 mmr - 1850. so there isn't that many running but it's something.

[Valfar]

Congrats on your victories. Ive tried healer and melee combo but i really suck at it. I activate click to move and hotkey iwt. But the melees go ape shit if i button mash and run off in random directions. Do you mainly drive the healer and if so, how often do you press iwt hotkey?

[Ellay]

I hit IWT probably 5 times a second. The melee's are on their target like bread on butter. IWT works so well it's almost hard to go back to a caster team. I drive with the healer and feel that is the optimal way to play. I need to work on keeping my healer out of the fray though I end up running in head first.

[Shodokan]

Surprised you got queues, grats though. When 5.2 comes out will be very surprised if anyone gets any qs in 5v5.

People queue 5's, just have to be on the right battlegroups for active queues.

[Ellay]

Btw, loving BG's now. I don't even have the PvP weapons but it's much more enjoyable.

[Chivalrous]

Is the temporary suspension issue resolved?

[heyaz]

Is the temporary suspension issue resolved?

Nope, still happening.

[Chivalrous]

Boo

well you guys are braver than me! More PvE here I come.