Quote Originally Posted by Palee View Post
I don't mean to burst your enthusiasm (actually I do) but none of this will work in arena. Well, it will work but only at 1000 rating or so. But at 1000 rating almost any comp works.
Given that you're saying that ele shamans are no longer viable, it means you are aspiring for higher ratings. It just won't work.
You mean that YOU wont make it work, right?

Quote Originally Posted by Palee View Post
The biggest mistake boxers do when they choose a comp, is they think of all possible ways to kill that other team, but they don't think at all at what the other team can do to prevent that from happening.
A rogue will make everyone invisible and open on you with so much CC that by the time you figure out what's going on at least one or two of your locks will be dead.
A mage will go invis and open with a ring of frost on you. Give you're all packed in one spot it's very likely you will get frozen. You have to use trinket, but the next CC is already incoming.
Druid will silence your ass off and make you not be able to leave the spot. By the time silence wears off you're dead.
Any melee will just run around you and you won't be able to cast shit, only instant spells that don't have facing requirement.
And the list goes on and on...
Well, if you cant even stop incoming CCs, then you have nothing to do in the arena to start with.

Quote Originally Posted by Palee View Post
Just take any team you already have into arena now and experience wtf i'm talking about. The amount of CC in the game, and more specifically, AOE CC, is just insane.
Nothing works in arena at the moment at high ratings. Even the insta kills that enchancement shamans can do, only works on crap teams who don't know what's coming.
Do that once to a higher rated team and you will see how much pillar humping they will do until they catch you making a mistake.
Even if one goes down, if you can't get another kill in 3 mins you're likely going to lose even if it's 5 vs 4.
Ive played ele shamans at 1900 MMR this season, so I do know what Im talking about.

Quote Originally Posted by Palee View Post
Bottom line: Stop trying to outsmart arena play, it doesn't work give the amount of CC out there. The only way you could be successful in arena is if you can out-CC them. Can you? You can't. A boxer doesn't have the right micro management to be able to CC better than 5 individual people. The classes that have easy way to CC are ironically the classes that are the hardest to box. Mage, rogue, druid have the most annoying CC in the game and none of them can be boxed properly in PvP. Also you have to take into account that the other team is scattered around. You are all clumped together in one spot which makes you a lot more vulnerable to CC then they are.
Being succesfull in the arena for me means 2000 rating. Even this season, ele shamans should be good for 1800 rating tops. Given the fact that locks have tons more utility, shields and burst, ill take my chance.

Quote Originally Posted by Palee View Post
Save yourself some pain and just do arena for points and then rock the random BGs. That will actually make you feel like you enjoy the game.
Also, rating requirement are going away. So rating will no longer have any meaning. EVERYTHING will be viable in arena. It's just a matter of how fast you can get the T2 weapon.
I didnt start multiboxing cus I loved doing random BGs, I did it for the challenge in 5v5.