by C. Christian Moore
The alliance have historically had worse PvP racials than their horde counterparts, but this might have changed in WotLK.
Remember back to a time when race changes didn’t exist. In vanilla WoW and The Burning Crusade, players had to reroll or deal with the racials that they originally chose, even if those racials got nerfed or buffed. These racials were also far more imbalanced than they are today, which added insult to injury for certain race / class combinations.
Dwarf
Stoneform: Activate to remove poison, disease, and bleed effects; +10% Armor; Lasts 8 seconds. 2 minute cooldown.
This racial is a shadow of what it once was. Pre-WotLK, this racial would give a 8 second immunity to poison, disease, and bleed effects. The difference is enormous — removing a 50% healing debuff in Wound Poison for an 8 second window allowed the dwarf to receive some massive heals. The racial was also on a three minute cooldown, but most PvPers will tell you that the shortened cooldown does not make up for the 8 second immunity. Dwarf priests and hunters had a much easier time surviving against rogues in The Burning Crusade, which is probably the reason the racial was nerfed for WotLK.
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by C. Christian Moore
Tauren
War Stomp: Activate to stun opponents – Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds. 2 minute cooldown.
This might just be personal bias, but I absolutely love War Stomp. It’s a racial that is often under-utilized — I see PvPers trying to use it defensively a lot of times. This thing is nothing short of an extra stun in a kill-target lockdown repertoire. It can also double as a silence to interrupt healers.
While War Stomp isn’t strictly better than Arcane Torrent, it comes pretty close. War stomp has a .5 second cast time, but works on everyone (silencing melee doesn’t do that much). The .5 second cast time can actually be a benefit, as you have more time off the global cooldown once the ability affects your target.
For an active racial (as opposed to a passive racial), it doesn’t get any better than War Stomp.
Endurance: Base health increased by 5%.
Because it’s only base health, this isn’t a big deal. If someone can tell me exactly how much hp this is, that would be awesome.
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by C. Christian Moore
This Week: We’ll be discussing some helpful tips for finding arena partners. Everything from trade chat to recruitment forums and more. We’re gonna do this quasi-chronologically. You might shift around the order a bit, that’s cool.
1) Get as much PvP gear as possible.
Do Vault of Archavon 25-man and 10-man each week. Grind heroics for badges to buy PvP main pieces. Grind battlegrounds for off-set pieces. Having a lot of PvP gear will help you to win games, which helps to get skilled PvPers to notice you.
2) Play as much arena as you can.
Experience is the most important qualification a player can bring to the table in an arena match. You’ll also get arena points which help you to gear up, so it’s a win-win situation for you and your teammates. Of course, to play a lot of arena, you need other players…
3) Use trade chat.
It’s great for picking up PvPers, and you’ll occasionally get someone who really wants to get into arena (like yourself). Think of doing games with someone you’ve never met before like a pug. You should do alright, but it’s probably not going to be anything amazing. Try to have fun with it.
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by C. Christian Moore
While different resource mechanics within an MMO isn’t revolutionary, the simplicity and accessibility of our beloved WoW resources is just one of the reasons the game is so successful.
Energy / Combo Points
I’m lumping these two together. Why? There are only two energy users in game (rogue / feral druid) and they both use combo points. Combo points can also (easily) be put on other mechanics, but they aren’t. Combo points are also the largest difference between focus and energy.
Energy is one of the best resource mechanics in arena PvP. I won’t spend that much time on it because it’s a pretty basic, yet elegant, mechanic.
While white attacks (auto attacks) account for a very large portion of rogue and kitty dps, builders and finishers (stuff that uses the yellow bar) is the bread and butter of the energy resource mechanic. Let’s compare this resource system to mana to see how it’s balanced:
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for starters, all this information is about level 80 PvP, as a rogue.
Talent Build: Mutilate/Prep 41/5/25
Stats:
AP: This is your highest priority, you want burst.
Crit: This goes along with AP, not as important but take it where you can.
Hit: Try and be close-ish to the PvP hit cap, which is 5%.
Expertise and Haste: Don’t worry about it, doesn’t hurt though.
Armor Penetration: Nicer than Exp/Haste, but still don’t focus on it.
Resil: Resilience is a tricky balance. You want to have enough you won’t be bursted down in a few GCDs, but it shouldn’t be needed to get a lot. Try and be in the range of 400-500. A bit more or less will probably be ok, but if you have less you may have to play more defensively.
Gear:
You want a balance of PvE and PvP gear. Enough PvP to be in the ideal resil area, and enough PvE to be able to burst people down. This really depends on how far progressed you are in both, so just go for as much AP and crit as you can within the resil range.
Always gem offensively:
Red/Prismatic(eternal belt buckle) sockets – +AP
Blue sockets – +Stam/AP
Yellow sockets – +Crit/AP
(AP, attack power, is your friend!)
Misc. Gear:
There’s a few pieces that aren’t too hard to get you should aim for.
Titan-Forged Rune of Determination – Replace your “regular” PvP trinket with this, easy to get.
Darkmoon Card: Death – Your other trinket, can cost a bit (usually 800-1200, depending on your realm) but trust me, it’s worth it. High proc rate, 45s internal cooldown. So it’s pretty much +2k damage to your opener.
Direbrew’s Shanker 2.0 – Not absolutely needed, but since it’s brewfest you shouldn’t have too hard a time getting one. I use this along with Sinister Revenge and it’s 2.0 speed is really outstanding, more damage from your mutilate, even though it’s lower DPS.
Enchants:
If you are an engineer, congratulations! It’s about to pay off. Rocket gloves are amazing, use them for that extra bit of burst. The nitro boots are the best foot enchant as well.
If you aren’t, don’t worry.
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HotStreak
Hotter Streak
Last Man Standing
HotStreak – Win 10 Rated Matches Without Losing
This is a really easy achievement to get. If you are bad
at arena theres always ways around it. First off find a partner, make a new team.
After making a team play a game to see what your MMR is.
MMR – Match Making Rating (Left of the Points you lose/gain)
You will need to get that down to around 1000.
How do i get it down?
You can drive your rating down by simply, Joining a match, leaving, requeeing.
(Which takes around 15 seconds)
Once you think your around 1000, simply join a game play it, and see what the MMR is. If you think you can beat the players around this level then Start
Playing
I did this on my druid went 50 – 2 and anyone can do this.
(If you think your really bad then drive it down to 800 >.<)
Hotter Streak – Win 10 Rated Games with a Personal/Team Rating over 1800.
This one is kinda tricky to do. Basically your doing the same thing for HotStreak, but this time what you want to do is get your team over 1800 (Make sure personal is over 1800 as well, and I would go to 1900 to be safe)
Basically after getting over 1800, tell your partner to leave your team, and join another team to play with some else to drive MMR Down. Your partner plays with some one else and drives their personal rating down to 800 (Like we did with Hot Streak). Now after he gets his MMR Down low enough, he joins back to the team (The 1800 rated one). Lets say your MMR was 1900 and his was 800 it would go by the middle number around 1300ish.
Example – (His)1000 – (Yours)2000 — MMR would be 1500
Example – (His)1100 – (Yours)2200 — MMR would be around 1650
Now once you think your MMR is low enough to win every game, simply play 10 games and you will win all of them.
Note: You will not win many points, and if you happen to lose. You will lose around 20 points. (Only do this if you think you can win every game)
Last Man Standing
This one is pretty fun to do. Get all your 5v5 Players on, and tell everyone that you’re doing Last Man Standing. All you need to do is, face a crap team, kill all 4 members, get the last guy down to 30%, and tell everyone to leave. Simply the dots + Your dmg will kill him in 1 shot pretty much and you will get the achievement.
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What we want is the paladin to have Commanding Shout + Kings, and the warrior having Battle shout + Kings BEFORE the fight starts!
I dont know if this is a “common knowledge” but ive never seen it used, or heard of anyone using it before.
Dont do this until its 10-20seconds left until the fight starts!
1. Paladin buffs himself with might and warrior with kings.
2. Warrior use commanding shout, and Battle shout right after.
As the might has more AP than Battle, it wont override the buff and the paladin will keep Might + Commanding.
3. Paladin swaps Might for Kings.
The warrior will have battle + kings and paladin will have commanding + kings.
Hope this helps! You can try this out being in a normal group aswell, does not require arena to work!
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If you use Dimensional Ripper – Area 52 – Item – World of Warcraft or one of the other engineering teleports you sometimes will end up with a debuff. All the debuffs will stay on even in arena.
If you manage to get Soul Split: Evil! then you will become faded and look a lot like a shadow priest. Also in ring of valor since you are larger you can jump over the gate before other users can.
Here is a screenshot of it in arena..
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Warrior arena guide:
New to Arena?
If you’re new to Arena matches I suggest you start of with some 2v2 to build up some experience and skills. If you think you are able to handle the good stuff you should try 3v3 and end with some 5v5. This guide should be extremely usefull to players who haven’t (ever) played a arena match before.
Talents:
Your talents are very important. The most used arena warrior spec is Arms. Here’s a quite good talent build to get you started with:
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft
Addons:
Gladius: adds enemy unit frames to arenas for easier targeting and focusing. It is highly configurable and you can disable most features of this addon.
Gladius – Addons – Curse
Macros:
How to make macros:
- Type /macro;
- Click on New at the bottom;
- Name your macro;
- Select a icon;
- Select Okay;
- Now open up the macro you just made and fill in the macro ‘code’.
!Important!
Hold [Ctrl] + [H] and search for: Slayer of the Lifeless – Replace it with your one-handed weapon.
Hold [Ctrl] + [H] and search for: Wall of Terror – Replace it with your shield.
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So this might be common sense, but atleast I did not know of this before today when I found it – and I figured I might aswell post it here!
This only works for full holypaladins and it is very simple – basicly you put beacon on (one of) your partner(s) – and since beacon now works with overhealing you can stand 60 yards away from them, heal yourself (as long as you remain in los) and they will get the full effect of the heal.
Now the very best part about this is that, if you are in combat when healing yourself (and thus, healing your partner) you will remain in combat, however if you are NOT in combat you will not get into combat! Meaning you can sit down and drink immediatly after the heal – regenning your mana back from a safe 60 yards distance!
As I said I would expect most experienced holypaladins to already know of this, but I did not and I think it will be really helpful in the future! Enjoy!
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