Wednesday, August 18, 2010

You can't do that while stunned.




First off I have a huge love/hate relationship with pvp. Everytime I arena it's always with a bad comp because I want to play with friends for "fun". It's always fun at first until your partner goes "Druids don't have any good CC moves" and you realize they aren't casting cyclone. ( no offense Geoff  <3) I remember the good old days of playing a resto shaman skillhearld arms warrior in season 2. We had loads of fun but we always lost to druids. As I stated in a post a few days ago I've been leveling a hunter by doing battlegrounds. Hunters seemed to be very easy mode at low levels until we hit the 40-49 bracket. Things started off semi ok until we got a game with 5 warlocks 4 rogues and one lonely 40 pally. Let me tell you that being feared by 3 locks at the same time while 2 rogues are on you is no fun what so ever. Battlegrounds are only fun when you have friends with you. Otherwise you have that one guy who is talking in all caps "OMG YOU GUYS SUCK DICK I ALWAYS WIN GAMES BLAH BLAH HERP DERP I R GUD" and when you open the BG stats menu they are always sub 5k damage and have 1 death. The class is usually a rogue or deathknight as well. I will admit this though. I enjoy killing the botters in pvp. Arenas are a whole different kind of hate. No one likes losing games and when ratings are involved you hate it even more. 






Me when doing Arenas


I used to play as a disc priest which is VERY easy to play in pvp. I dislike the lack of control you have over the enemy. Playing a healer in pvp is nerve wracking. The amount of burst some classes have is ridiculous. I tried my hand at shadow for a while and I  had loads of fun doing it. I however didn't like the fact that if the enemy team had an enhance shaman I was basically dead before the match started. I really hope that Cataclysm  fixes most of the pvp imbalances and makes it fun again. I miss Burning Crusade pvp and Vanilla world pvp.  I'd personally like to see a buff in pvp much like the one in Warhammer online where when you get stunned, rooted, feared, blinded, and generally anything that makes you lose control of your character you'd get a buff which would make you immune to those effects for 5 seconds. I'm not saying make it exactly like that but something close would be wonderful. There is nothing worse than watching teammates die in arenas and battlegrounds while your CC'd for the 9th time in a row. Perhaps its just my lack of skills in pvp that make me hate it, or maybe it really is as imbalanced as I think it is.  What do you hate about pvp? What do you love about it? Got any tips for me? Share your pvp rage with me.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah basically the warhammer buff system was if you got feared, you were immune to everything for a solid 10 seconds after, not just immune to fear. A vastly better system then diminish returns. In DR land you have comps that are forced to not play together because their CC are on the same DR. Furthermore DR means that some chains of CC won't be as effective while others will be, like being feared 3 times then cycloned 3 times, then rooted 3 times. It doesn't accomplish what they wanted it to do in the first place.

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