Battlegrounds PvP gear

[boxblizzard]

im struggling with gearing the shaman as i run a 5x shaman compilation and limits my access to gear, i am not 60 yet as this is a new team on a new server.

However, how do we address this without a multi mount? i am hugely limited to dungeons since follow went.

Ideas?

I dont really want to bin off a shaman for a tank

If you just world PVP you should be fine. I run a 10 man MMMMP x 2. Recently hit rank 8 just from doing pvp an hour or two a night. If you went to silithus and BRM you'll find more than enough honor to get you to 10 quickly.

How many kills per week do you think will get me to what rank?

I am struggling to see if i can get out of green gear and if its going to take me weeks or months.

there's a guy with 5 mages - rank 14. I hit rank 8 on my shamans, but I stopped ranking. Decided to level new team or add more shamans

from world pvp or bg's?

[Apatheist]

The dungeon set 2 gear is pretty much on par or even better for some classes than the PvP rank 10 gear.

[Kruschpakx4]

The dungeon set 2 gear is pretty much on par or even better for some classes than the PvP rank 10 gear.

yeah but then theres already that first quest that takes longer than r8 grind on 5 toons

[Skyton]

You are still playing Sham Krusch ?

[Kruschpakx4]

yep semi active but I try to get used to not having follow in battlegrounds for tbc

[Skyton]

Yes I was wondering that too, even if we have low chance to get it in arenas ... currently i'm in a state where I ask myself too many question about that.
My main team is a MMMMP (my main mage is R13 + 120 days played) and i don't know if i should try BC as WMMMP or something else. But 5 sham seems to be so fun and insane and you can do both (pve / pvp)... 5 druid for farming too... so I don't know xD !

[Apatheist]

I know people are sort of managing BG's without follow but it just seems like such a headache I can't make myself try. Though I would LOVE the epic staff from AB exalted on my warlock team. Would be perfect for their tank sets with the bonus armor and decent spell damage.

Hoping follow works in TBC arenas, at least.

[Skyton]

Tried today, it's really difficult to move them but when you get a good spot and you fire like a turret you kill everyone. Pretty fun.
I think atm the best way is to duobox in battleground.

[Kruschpakx4]

In alterac its a bit annoying until the game goes into the upwards zerg progression where horde pushes slowly into dun baldar. Until then its most convenient to wait at the little hill at iceblood gy (next to the flag) in case alliance dodges our raid and runs through. I can tell you that little hill gives nice visual cover and you are barely in range of the flag with 36 yard spells allowing you to reck 5 people before they even notice you're there. Also, from that hill you have a nice position to scout the alliance raid with farsight and progress from there. If they wait at stonehearth gy you may just push with you raid all the time, if they're not there you can expect them to push iceblood sooner or later.

At this point alterac works so well Im not bothering with the other BGs anymore as they just delay av queue pop. Unfortunately, burning crusade alterac will be a different story...but defending in dreks room is multibox friendly aswell (afaik you can IWT on drek to regroup).

Yes I was wondering that too, even if we have low chance to get it in arenas ... currently i'm in a state where I ask myself too many question about that.
My main team is a MMMMP (my main mage is R13 + 120 days played) and i don't know if i should try BC as WMMMP or something else. But 5 sham seems to be so fun and insane and you can do both (pve / pvp)... 5 druid for farming too... so I don't know xD !

Its no question that mages outdps shamans by alot especially arcane mages...mana isnt an issue in dungeons so you can spam arcane blast all the time and you double shamans damage single target and aoe. Its just that they wont do any good in arenas and Im quite certain that blizzard brought follow back to arenas after removing it, until warmode made a flat remove anyway but its nothing to worry in tbc.

[_Savage_]

In alterac its a bit annoying until the game goes into the upwards zerg progression where horde pushes slowly into dun baldar. Until then its most convenient to wait at the little hill at iceblood gy (next to the flag) in case alliance dodges our raid and runs through. I can tell you that little hill gives nice visual cover and you are barely in range of the flag with 36 yard spells allowing you to reck 5 people before they even notice you're there. Also, from that hill you have a nice position to scout the alliance raid with farsight and progress from there. If they wait at stonehearth gy you may just push with you raid all the time, if they're not there you can expect them to push iceblood sooner or later.

At this point alterac works so well Im not bothering with the other BGs anymore as they just delay av queue pop. Unfortunately, burning crusade alterac will be a different story...but defending in dreks room is multibox friendly aswell (afaik you can IWT on drek to regroup).



Its no question that mages outdps shamans by alot especially arcane mages...mana isnt an issue in dungeons so you can spam arcane blast all the time and you double shamans damage single target and aoe. Its just that they wont do any good in arenas and Im quite certain that blizzard brought follow back to arenas after removing it, until warmode made a flat remove anyway but its nothing to worry in tbc.

Do you simply queue at the same time or select a specific AV to get all 5 into the same AV? What is the success rate/wait time respectively?