I’m suddenly having this weird sort of love-affair with PvP on my shaman in World of Warcraft. I’m sorry, Raiding! It’s just that…you take up so much time…I don’t always have time for a long-term relationship! Sometimes I just want a quick romp in the arena!
Anyways, I’m learning as I go. Here are some interesting tidbits that I’ve learned from experience:
- Restoration shamans are very powerful in 2s arena matches. I’m paired with a DK and so far we’ve gone 53-52, which isn’t bad considering I’m wearing a crafted PvP set.
- Crafted PvP sets are great. I have more resilience than a warlock friend who has mostly savage/hateful gear, due to proper set bonus stacking and my Medallion of the Alliance.
- Wintergrasp is probably the most efficient grind in the book. Marks can be used to purchase some amazing gear, and you get a hefty sum of honor per go, especially the first few times each day (it seems to take me at least two runs to get some of the dailies completed.)
- Elemental shamans can burst like no other. I like bursting down mages in ten seconds (funny since I play a level 80 mage as well).
- As a healer in battlegrounds, its never worth it to heal someone else instead of yourself if doing so would cause you to die, even if the other person would probably live because of it.
- My most hated enemy as a mage, *spit* warlocks, are a bit easier to kill. Not so much that my anger has abated, however. I’m quickly learning to always stand near a tremor totem, even when I don’t see any locks nearby. Those dudes are sneaky, and they can keep me CCed for way too long.
- Throwing flag-bearers off the edge with Thunderstorm in Eye of the Storm is hilarious. Even better than throwing stunlock-rogues off the edge of LM in Arathi Basin.
I feel bad, though. I feel like I should be in Ulduar getting amazing epic gear. On the other hand, I just saw a post about why waiting for Ulduar is good on the Greedy Goblin’s blog. He reached the gold cap, so I’m going to take his word for it.
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