Pushing the Boundaries and Making Juice Out of Lemons
Resto. Shaman + SL/SL Warlock (Me) + Marksman Hunter +
Shadowstep Rogue + Frost Mage
8-2 on “opening” night with losses to full gladiator geared teams.
In a land full of 2345 combos (Warrior or Rogue + Ele.Shaman/Holy Paladin/Disc. Priest/Frost Mage), we’re taking a ragtag setup and trying to make it work.
Some might look at the setup and immediately think, “Where’s the bubble? Where’s the pain supression? Where’s the defensive dispel?” In many ways, every team is missing some key ability that would increase its power (to over 9000). Unfortunately, there’s a limit to both how many people can be in an arena and how many resources are actually available to play arena.
All is not lost, though. There are many factors that make this team incredibly viable:
+ High CC Capability
> Fears
> Curse of Tongue
> Silence x 4
> Movement Impairment x3
> Scatter Shot
> Blind
> Rogue Stuns
> Frost Nova
> Polymorph
+ Mana Drain Capability
> Warlock Mana Drain
> Hunter Viper Sting
+ Burst Capability
> Hunter Instants (Arcane Shot, Steady Shot - sort of, Multi Shot)
> Warlock Instants (Deathcoil+Shadow Trance)
> Frost Instants
> Bloodlust
We’re looking forward to trying this in the future. Four DPS teams have become a little less common in recent times due to the priest buffs for disc., but with this setup, I feel we can tie up the healers long enough to drop at least one person. There’s a large amount of pressure points that our setup can connect on that would make it really difficult for attackers to play offensively.
Another interesting thing to note is that the teams we fight never seem to know who to attack first. This setup has some level of “surprise” to it. Confusion can always help in battles.
-ERP-
December 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
The CC is nuts, and if we ever learned to use it more effectively (ie: not dotting people were supposed to sheep, etc..) it could go up a lot higher once were all geared. I had fun even tho being the only healer really sucks. ;-)
December 30th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Can’t wait to not be SS…
December 31st, 2007 at 2:38 am
I love shadowstep. They’re buffing shadowstep and nerfing HARP. I beseech you Eli, remain shadowstep.
December 31st, 2007 at 8:36 am
The new shadowstep is going to be pretty slick. The only thing that would make it really great in pvp is if it made rogues immune to snares for 3 seconds too.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Even if you are snared you can evade spells by using SS the same way mages do blink to get behind the caster. Also, one does not need to use daggers to play SS, hemo/SS with maces works just fine.