I don’t know what it is about WSG and long battles, it doesn’t make sense to me that the small map with 10 players could take longer than a long long map with 40 players like AV.
Mind you generally if you are in AV for 55 minutes it’s a long boring fight. No, not always, but usually you are dreaming of a quick pee to break the boring gridlock.
WSG on the other hand should be a quick 10 minute filler, but if they are longer, they are often the more enjoyable.
Last night I got both sorts of WSG, unfortunately both losses.
The 1st one was snappy. Only extended by the Horde pausing in their flag capping to grab some spare honor kills – quick and unfulfilling.
Probably summed up by one comment in BG chat:
What’s going on guys, 8 on D, 1 AFK, and 1 on O?
(Gnome was on O by his little Gnomeself)
The 2nd one was an epic struggle, no one scoring for ages, then we grabbed 2 hard contested flags (both defending our flag carrier and trying to take theirs down), followed by 3 hard contested caps by the Horde.
If I wasn’t having so much fun I would have rued the single token in the time I could have run 4-6 WSG.
Tip for our flag carrier in future, don’t stray too far from our flag room so you (and your defenders) can both defend our newly released flag and cap theirs on short order.
To that Horde Lock (whose name escapes me) I’m glad I finally took you down after all the slow deaths I suffered and your hands.
To Ghostwar, the Horde warrior, you got too much health, but I did enjoy chasing you down the battleground, in and out, and up and down your base… Times like that I wish I had more Frost in my arsnal… Are we getting multiple specs soon?
BTW, I was spurred on to hit the battlegrounds after reading Sonny‘s post at ArathiHighlander on level 70 starting PvP gear, which nicely fits in with my Life is Cheap (WSG, AV, AB) series, quick and east to pick up some starting PvP gear for the cost of an hour’s Sunwell dailies.
Oh Sonny, I think you have the wrong gear listed… The Satin set is Priest gear, us Mages are after Evoker’s Silk gear (which do do have correct in the set section)..
I had 3-4 PvP items prior to my shopping spree, so I picked up another few.
Difference?
He’ll yeah!
I recommend you have a read of Sonny’s post, and swap out your Spellfire and Spellstrike for a little blue PvP gear… It was a blast to be still standing after the majority of the contests.
A question for those of you that respec on a frequent basis…
How do you deal with your tool bars?
It frustrates me that I have to remember the setup of my toolbars and reconfigure them after each respec… Not so much the standard trainable skills, rather the talented skills, eg. Pyrobalst an Blast Wave. When you unlearn your talents, those skills disappear both from the spellbook and from the toolbar (macro versions as well). It drives me nuts, and a spare spec in my back pocket isn’t going to remove that frustration.
So, yeah 55 minute WSG and a loss FTW… Or fun at least.
Gnomer and Out!
Regarding respecs, if you’re not using all of your tool bars, save one for one spec and a second for the other. Place in those bars the abilities unique to that spec while the other houses your other spec’s abilities. This is your main bar. Your second bar should have the abilities common of both specs.
I used to do something like this when I switched between Shadow and Holy on my first priestling.
My biggest issue is that “Blizzard” takes my talented spells when I untalent.
So Pyroblast and Blast Wave get untalented – thus I don’t know the spells, thus the buttons disappear from my task bar…
I guess I just need to take a screen shot or two, so I remember what went where.
WSG was made up for arcane mages. Not only because Slow is the greatest way to stop the flag carrier, but also because AM needs LoS only for starting. After the first missile hit, he can run wherever he want to, the other 4 will hit too. (and also because enemy mages thinks of fire when see a PvE mage, so the will waste their CS on an FB, just to get nuked by AM)
About the 55 mins, yes, I seen such. However they can be completely avoided if you go with a party. Even if you go with 1-2 players to coordinate with, the fight NEVER takes longer than 20 min. Either you can win in that time, or by going AFK make the other side win.
I don’t deal with them, I just manually swap around the nukes every time a respec is called for.
Spells that are universal across the specs (like frost nova, fireblast, polymorph, etc) never change.
And then I just have buttons like “main nuke”, “offensive macro”, “defensive macro” “major cooldown”, and so forth, swapping out macros and spells accordingly.
I guess you could say it’s annoying, but… I’ve been doing it this way for so long it’s just not noticeable. And the keybinds are so ingrained, that if I ever forget, I just need to throw myself into a combat situation, and my fingers will automatically move to where the spell is supposed to be.
Then I can fix it
For the spells you unlearn would macroing work /cast [spell that i keep loosin] and put that on your task bar with the same spell icon?
I wish.. nearly everything I cast is macro’d… but unfortunately the UI is smart enough to know what spell the macro represents…
The macro doesn’t disappear from my saved macros, just from the tool bar