Comments on: Squidly’s Shaman PvP Tips #1: Resto FTW!

By: Gnomeaggedon

Gnomeaggedon — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:09:06 +0000

In BGs last night I was heal guarding nodes, distracting until dps could arrive. As soon as I stopped to dps I got in trouble.

Better to heal those spec’d for damage generally and do what I am spec’d for

By: asdf

asdf — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:40:51 +0000

BTW in the BG stats you listed no one else is straight healing so GREAT JOB UOU KILLED IT MAN

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Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:09:04 +0000

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By: Lytha

Lytha — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:05:34 +0000

sure thing … what you wanna ask?

By: Squidly’s Shaman PvP Tips #2: Resto Shaman PvP specs? « Armaggedon's coming

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:04:47 +0000

[...] } I got asked a doozy of a question by Lytha about Resto Shaman PvP [...]

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:42:40 +0000

Hey Lytha,

Funny you should suggest going dual Resto.. I have been thinking the same thing myself.

I don’t have an answer for you straight up, but I have composed a post for Friday arvo, which will be both an answer and a question on this topic.

So if any of you readers have spec suggests, feel free to post them here, or wait till Friday and share your wisdom!

By: Lytha

Lytha — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:03:01 +0000

Being on an RP server and mostly leveling alone, I got to 80 as an elemental shammy. Once I got to 80, I dual specced to add resto to heal for our guild in instances. My first foray into PvP was in Wintergrasp as resto. I have definitely been bitten by the PvP bug.

WG and BGs daily, along with joining a 2v2 team. I want to be more efficient tho, my talents are optimized for raids/instances where I am consistently a top healer.

I am looking to trash my elemental spec and replace it with a resto spec optimized for PvP.

Any suggestions?

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:02:46 +0000

Mages are insane fun I PvP. It helps you you are frost so you can tie them up before they hunt you down…

Although with living bomb on multiple targets these days… you could light AV up!

By: KC

KC — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:21:09 +0000

Tbh when it’s just me doing bg pugs, I am not as heavy on the purge/hex/etc. unless I get lucky and there are a bunch of healers, or it’s just some lone resto druid attacking the blacksmith or something.

If I’m running premades with my guild, though, there are usually at least two healers running with me, sometimes more, so I (or the disc priest, or both of us) generally end up as the swing, with focus on spot healing and CC/some damage. It’s situational at best, and really just depends on what the bg demographics look like.

I always wanted to try a mage in PVP. I know they die fast and all, but I thought it would be fun to just hang out until the opposing team had pulled Drek in AV, then run in spamming Arcane Blast and stuff for 1.3 seconds until I died. … I kind of enjoy PVP suicide sometimes, as long as I can do a ton of damage in the process.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:30:37 +0000

Hey KC, never too late!

Ohh too true… if you combined the 3 classes it would be an opponents nightmare come true!

Purge… I have been slack with my purges.

I am reasonably on the ball with cleansing, but I must admit I have been focusing too much on my team and not the opponents…

I will amend my focus in future, to help shed some of the weight of buffs of my opponents shoulders

Loving Resto PvP… I’m having so much fun I keep thinking about bringing Gnomeaggedon back to the BGS… but then realise it’s a different ball game when you are squishy dps.