world of warcraft arena.

[unit187]

pala with scrolls of binding light can actually outheal it with bomb healing

tho after some counts I must admit it must be pretty tough when you arent shaman/got no shaman in group.

In my old days at arena with -elem damage talents and grounding totem, and sometimes fire res totem, I was getting like 1800-2000 pyroblasts also one mage had to use fireblast to destroy grounding totem which made some interval between pom pyro launches.

anyways if you are skilled enough and your dps class if good against mages, it is easy to kill 2 mages even 1vs2 since pom pyro mages are crap useless when all c/d's are burned in the start of fight

[backwardsman]

2x pom cant be 10k, because base pyro is about 1090, with ap and stuff it is like 2600 x2

You know that they factor in spell damage also right?

allow me to explain.

base pyroblast is 939 to 1191. Then lets factor in an average of 550 spell damage. (thats what my alt alliance mage has and he is in some crappy gear)

Now that brings us up to a ballpark 1550 none crit pyrpblast.

Now we factor in Arcane power. While arcane power is active your spells will do 30% more damage.

30% of 1550 is 465 so that gets added on to our 1550 which brings it out to

2015

Now we take our base 2015 damage of an Arcane powered presence of mind pyroblast and add it to the other mages.

We now have a 4030 None crit damge.

Now for the sake of argument. lets say one of our mages crits.

Now any mage that far down the arcane tree.. has Spell power. Spell power increases your spell damage by 50% giving you your full double spell crit.

so...

lets say mage 1 fires his POM pyro and does his 2015 base damage. then mage 2 fires his at the same time but.. Up.. he crits with a whopping 4030 AP POM hit.

2015 base none crit POM AP PYRO from mage 1
4030 Crit POM AP PYRO from mage 2

6050 total damge.. (then mage 2s incinerate ticks.)

(global cool down ticks by)

Now arcane power is still up and both mages Fire blast their target.

fire blast does base 664 to 786.. lets say they both hit for 700dmg.

now remember.. Arcane power is still up.. so that 700dmg goes to 910 for one mage.

Both mages hit for

1820.. None crit.. doing a total damage of

7870

Now both mages do blase wave.. which does a base damage of 616 to 724.. but Arcane power is still up yet. as it lasts for 15 secs and this all would take less then 4.

blase wave hits for 1820 Yet again... None crit.

total damage done 9690...

whats this? the enemy finally tries to heal? Nope.. Imp counter spell Slicened for 3 seconds..

then a few arcane expulsions finish the job off.

[unit187]

no man you said "2x POM with AP would be 10k hp" thats different from pom pyro+fblast+blastwave

dont forget good pvper has over 300 resilience, good luck with crit

then dont forget that if skilled healer sees 2 mages, he will cast heal BEFORE you throw all your arsenal

then dont forget there are talents and stuff to reduce effect or +resist to silence

then dont forget there are things like grounding totem

then dont forget there are things like charge and intimidating shout and other kind of cc

then dont forget there are things like LOS

then dont forget healers have some tricks, like priest has renew and shield and insta fear, druid has HoTs and insta heals and cyclone, good paladin has bubble and scrolls of blinding light (~1.5 sec holy light cast, 100% crit chance - 7k heal), shammy has all kind of totems and earth shield

so your 2 mages can easily be outplayed. Been there done that.



P.S. yes I know mages have invis
P.S.S. ~2000 rating 2x2, 1940 3x3 and 1970 5x5 so I kinda know what am I talking about

[unit187]

oh and ofc Nature Swiftness


If those against the mages are skilled enough, they might outplay them and survive their burst. If so, mages are doomed, so-called "cooldown whores"

[Avrsion]

This may work in the lower ratings but 2 people will have no problems taking down 1.
As for the PoM/Pyro thing, I easily counter it on my pally by bubbling. when you get to 1800+ rating, gl pom/pyroing anyone. :wink: