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8 Boxing in Halaa

Feb14

As this expansion kind of wafts on and on, it’s been more annoying in wPvP running into the raid-geared folks, I’m talking 560 item level or higher, with the legendary cloak in particular.  These people just hit like a truck and have ridiculous health pools 600-700k for casters and healers.  My druid who is rocking full grievous (522) is at 493k.

Now I’ve been on my hunter more often than not, where I use my grievous bow and a trinket, and my mix of flex and LFR gear.  I’m not a dummy, I don’t want to wear my pvp gear and be a  good SIXTY item levels behind people but it doesn’t make it right.  Sometimes I have to take advantage of this guy, even though I detest multi-boxers.

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He usually evens things up.  Thanks to the gear disparity, it usually takes 2-3x the people in pvp gear, to beat down a normal geared raider.  We actually had a heroic geared raider, an enhancement shaman in WG earlier in the week.  He literally decimated 60% of my health before I could blink.  Repeatedly.  POW gone.

Today Deadmeen and I ran into a 563ish boomkin, who blew both of us out of our shoes and then healed up like a resto.  Frustrating.  And this was throwing absolutely everything I had at them.  Off heals are messed up pretty bad I’d have to say.  It’s a little something else when you see a shaman try to melt your face off while ascending and then start healing like a resto shaman instantly after an elemental blast.

 

Anyway.  I tried 2v2s with Deadmeen but we lost 4 in a row before I had to cry uncle.  He didn’t have the dps nor the survivability for it, currently.  He does make good use of death grip though, which seems to be rather uncommon for Dks. Gear and some experience should fix all that.

Why do people always spit in pvp btw?

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You attack a low level town, I’m going to kill you until you leave.  Or at least try.  Dat pve gear, sometimes I have to suck it up and leave.  It’s fortunately uncommon for a well geared pver to harass low level towns though.

Boarthrills and Pool Ponies

Feb9

I’ve been running into Boarthrills, a hunter, a lot in WG, and TB, and one day we grouped up around Hellfire/Nagrand killing ally.  We later grouped with Deadmeen who I’ve been helping gear up on Timeless Isle.

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Eventually Alliance brought a disc priest, 2 hunters, and a rogue.  Wariorhunt, an ally hunter, was basically unkillable with 565+ pve gear though.

I got Boar on battletags and got them both in vent one night and stayed up waaaaaaaaaay too late doing world pvp.

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Also, I found it odd that this workshop in WG only had one guard, and he was sleeping.

This is usually  how the battles go, however.

 

WG is rather hard to defend sometimes since vehicles often slip past you completely invisible.  I posted in the bug forums, but there was an instance where I was in the fort waiting for their demo to come by, and it went THROUGH me completely invisible and even didn’t show on hunter tracking until it was well past me.  I noticed I’ve done that myself driving vehicles, where I see an enemy player and they run past me like I don’t even exist.

Ran a WG with Crux and finally got the Armani battle-bear.

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Also ran flex 1-2 with Moo and the guild, and came out with a flex bow, trinket, necklace and gloves.

And, Don’t question my genius!  The pool pony was the best!

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Fun with Alliance

Feb3

Phased into a Tol Barad battle with 5 alliance staring me in the face. Warrior, mage, holy priest, paladin of some sort, rogue. KILLED.  THEM. ALL.  Couldn’t screenshot everything because it lags me, but got close.

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Mage

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Rogue

 

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Holy Priest

 

Didn’t get the warrior screenshot,  but killed him at least 3x, got the priest 2x (then she started running) and the paladin 1x, and mage 2x.  Lost, but it was worth it!

 

Tips for World PvP

Jan30

As I was heading out to defend Thrallmar from some 90 DK killing guards, I noticed I instantly do some things no matter where I go.  Here are a few of them.

Currently, people in PVE gear, even LFR gear, have it better than people in full grievous.  Have a look at my un-upgraded LFR gloves. 528 ilevel.  My Grievous are 522.  You can’t upgrade them.  Upgraded LFR is 536.  You can imagine what flex and better looks like.

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1) Put on your best PVE gear, minus an escape trinket and maybe  a pvp weapon. Trust me. My HP for example is 440k in pvp gear, in pve it’s 510k and I’m only in LFR stuff. Full normal I’d be hitting 700k.

2)  Be wary of anyone else who might have a Hardened Shell.  If you FP somewhere, land and fly up, QUICK, preferably skimming towers on the way up in case you do get hit.  Don’t want to fall a great distance on your way up if they DO get you.  Once up, avoid those areas.      Look around later at a safe distance from walls, ledges, buildings, towers.

 

3)  If you have to afk in the air, do it HIGH.  Zealous assholes (like myself) who can do damage while falling, levitating, slowfalling, or glider-ing, can and will burst you in the air and drop you.  That’s embarrassing, try to avoid it.  If you are high enough, by the time they hit the ground, and come back up, chances you’ve self healed enough.

4) Use the terrain.  Land on a tower, a roof, if you can knock them off, do so.  Also prevents rogues from stealthing up. If ranged, shoot down from somewhere high, a lot of times DK’s can’t get LoS on you.

5)  Use OP npcs!  The NPCs in Thrallmar for instance, had a stun that has NO DR.  You can get stunned over and over the same time repeatedly.  This is NOT fun for the Alliance.  The NPCs in Honor Hold knock you back sometimes but I don’t find it as annoying when I’m Horde. Some will even dismount the enemy for you.

The funny thing about DK’s and Paladins

Jan29

When you use the Hardened Shell on them, they travel so far so fast, they are usualy 1,000 feet in the air before it actually hits, then hilarity ensures.

The nice thing about Halaa is you can get them from the islands, if they aren’t paying attention, from on top of the buildings, or as they hover above the water, which is only safe in a very narrow margin.  Otherwise, splat!

I say this since in world pvp, the other pvpers are Alliance, and usually raid geared, which is 100k-300k or more hp on you plus thousands of stats more.  You have to be clever and use terrain and other objects to get the upper hand.