Ellay: Looking for a bit of guidance :)

[Boylston]

Tips for Paladins,

Always use Crusader Aura when the doors open until you dismount.
Use Blessing of Light
Don't be afraid to pop BoP or Bubble too early, the first 10-20 seconds of a fight is usually the most crucial if they go all out.

Blessing of Light on everyone? Or just the pally...?

We've been using Kings on everyone for the extra HP.

[Ðeceased]

Blessing of Light on everyone? Or just the pally...?

We've been using Kings on everyone for the extra HP.

hmm if you don't want to use BoL on everyone I would suggest ur pally has kings on him and ur clones have light. from what i saw in the vid, it looks like what mostly happens at high end is that a rogue or one cc class goes after ur pally to prevent him form healing and the rest go for you to try and interrupt you as much as pos. then when ur pally pops his bubble they all turn on you (which they should), so to maintain the highest possible hps from ur pallies heals BoL would benefit you more then kings. Please correct me if I'm wrong ellay.
If that is the case however, BoK on ur pally for the extra stam, intell and lesser other stats, BoL on ur shammies for healing.

[Kyudo]

Blessing of Light on everyone? Or just the pally...?

We've been using Kings on everyone for the extra HP.

hmm if you don't want to use BoL on everyone I would suggest ur pally has kings on him and ur clones have light. from what i saw in the vid, it looks like what mostly happens at high end is that a rogue or one cc class goes after ur pally to prevent him form healing and the rest go for you to try and interrupt you as much as pos. then when ur pally pops his bubble they all turn on you (which they should), so to maintain the highest possible hps from ur pallies heals BoL would benefit you more then kings. Please correct me if I'm wrong ellay.
If that is the case however, BoK on ur pally for the extra stam, intell and lesser other stats, BoL on ur shammies for healing.

To be honest, the games where they all go after the pally are great for me. My pally partner is decent geared and experienced, so can normally keep himself up for at least 40 seconds. This leaves me free to choose targets and nuke at will. They go down even quicker.

[Ðeceased]

To be honest, the games where they all go after the pally are great for me. My pally partner is decent geared and experienced, so can normally keep himself up for at least 40 seconds. This leaves me free to choose targets and nuke at will. They go down even quicker.

hehe i can imagine ^^ It's asking for an ass whoopin tbh

[schlange]

i saw the video but what does blood lust do actually? I have 4 tauren shammy and wonder if I should have rolled orcs instead.

[Boylston]

Bloodlust (same as the alliance ability, "Heroism") is a L70 shaman spell that gives 30% haste for 40seconds. It's usable in arena and has a 10min cooldown. All shaman get these regardless of their race.

Blood Fury is an Orc Racial ability that gives 143 spell damage (and 282 attack power) for 15 seconds. Its downside is that it reduces all healing effects on you by 50% (it's like you Mortal Strike yourself). The ability has a 2min cooldown. The spell damage is an obvious upside... but the healing debuff is also pretty significant.

On a 4xShaman setup, here's what that 143 spell damage means for me:

Assuming a baseline of 600 Spell Damage (and the hidden +55 Totem of the Void bonus on LB/CL), a target with 394 resilience, and a two-spell cast sequence of 1.) Lightning Bolt 2.) 4xEM+NS+Chain Lightning, I get the following:

Min Damage: 12,876
Avg Damage: 13,504 (using 1,000 salvos, Monte Carlo type analysis)

Add in the Blood Fury to the mix and that increases spell damage to 743 (+55 for TotV). Same resilience and cast sequence:

Min Damage: 13,918
Avg Damage: 14,650


What you can see here is that little ole 143 spell damage bonus increases my LB - 4xEM+NS+CL combo by roughly 1,100 points. It's also going to increase the expected value of subsequent LB volleys by ~550 for the remainder of its time. However, 15 seconds is a lot of time to be debuffed.

To dig a little deeper into arena theorycrafting... That debuff probably won't matter to at least 1 of your team, because they're going to be MS or Wounding poison debuffed significantly. But it may make healing the whole rest of your team much harder in the face of incoming AoE damage.

Finally, it's a useful racial in that it can acutally overwrite wound poisons and then when it wears off, you don't maintain any debuff.

[Kanelbullen]

Hai thar
Me and Kyudo have been doing 30 arenas since we got the tactics video, the first week we got 7-3, next went rly bad and we ended up with like 4-6 im not 100% sure, but this week im quite happy with the results, after 10 games we got 9 win 1 loss now we are at about 1460 rating, raised like 120 rating today i almost pity one of the teams we faced, we won against em like 5 times :S
I just gotta say thnx again for the video of tactics Ellay its great, thnx ^^