Well, this could be seen as a PVP tactic, idea or strategy as much as it can be looked at as a tale. Ok, I am rambling now. Regardless, I would like to share a story of something I like to do to enhance my battleground experience! As we all know, Warcraft PVP is quite the revolving door. Same stuff, different day, right? well, time to spice it up!I decided a few days agao to go all out for some battleground domination. Basically, I wanted a "I can take on 1v2 fights and win" type of day. So, off to the auction house I went! Purchased:
- 1 fel Lotus - for my "Flask of Chromatic Wonder"
- 30 Super healing Potions (on this day, it was cheaper to buy them, instead of craft them)
- 10 Major Mana Potions (major = 65s each!!)
- 1 Super Mana Oil
- 1 Stack of Spicy Crawdad
So, I have the goods and such to feed me during my epic battle. Now, I had to decide on a spec for this adventure. I decided on BM and I will tell you why..."World of MeleeCraft" was NOT going to ruin my expensive day of fun! As a hunter, the last thing I want is to buff myself up only to get owned by under geared melee classes. So, BM was the choice.
The build is one I like to use as bm, it was 42/11/8. I go 42 for maximum pet dps output from the beast mastery tree. The 11 in Marksman is for aimed shot. I accompany this with 5% crit and 20% chance for concussive shot to stun. I no longer need to mana reduction points, as Viper is more than enough with the mana oil and flask. The final 8 points is for entrapment. Nothing is more pleasing watch people try to chase you through entrapment laden traps (as you pummel their soul).
Just a side note, a lot of people may wonder, "Why not get the +crit damage talent points??". Well, with my current gear, my damage output is not suffering by skipping them. That being said, my survivability is vital to killing multiple opponents consecutively. This build allows greater survivability with still very solid damage.
Got the consumables, got the build, now what? Trinket choice! I figured, one offensive and one defensive trinket would be best. This way I don't get too far to being a defensive bunny rabbit who can't kill or an offensive cheetah who can't run the full race. So, I picked the Blood lust Broach (+72 ranged attack power) and my Alchemist stone. Since I am using potions, the Alchemist stone is almost a must. The 40% additional healing on my potions is just crazy. As I have 30 potions, it definitely made sense.
So, I played for the 2 straight hours of the flask. I mixed all the battlegrounds, focusing mainly on AB because it presents the most opportunities to shine without help (especially in my battle group where calling for help is about as helpful as motor oil is for cooking. My shining moments of the night:
- Defending the Lumber Mill in AB alone for an entire AB match. I was able to muster 15 kills and 13 killing blows to 2 deaths (a pretty nice ratio). After each death, I went back and luckily the group had left a guy to be sacrificed! :)
- Fighting a mage, rogue and Ret pally (attacking our tower) in eye of the storm and killing all three. It is amazing how much can be accomplished with bestial wrath. Just an FYI, to solo this group your kill order is: Mage, Rogue and then paladin. Save the pally for last because they are the easiest to solo once you have endured so much damage. if that pally tries to heal, let him. he is ret and his heals are lame and you can save yourself his hurtful hits while you pump the damage out.
- In a particular AB, two warriors led the horde in damage done. They were always together and hit the same target. At one point they rushed me defending the mine and during my big red I was able to kill on and drop the other to 20% hp. if it wasn't for his 4k mortal strike (409 resilience my butt!) I would have had him as well.
- Destroying every rogue I saw. Not really an accomplishment, but it made me feel better. When BM, find and kill rogues!
- In an AV I multi shot a group and got these three hits: '2306' '2210' '2175'.
- In two separate AV's I was able to hold Stonehearth bunker so long (alone) that the alliance had a 300 point lead.
A lot of you may be wondering why I did this for solo accomplishments. Well, as you may have noticed, my goals were not for top damage and top killing blows, but for objectives to win. The reason these have to be done solo is not because I am a nomadic rogue, but because my battle group really doesn't answer calls for help. So much for being part of the "Alliance". So, after a while, you start to think of creative ways to still do big things that help to win. I can;t remember my exact win to loss ratio, but i know I won 3 AB's. If you ask any alliance in my battle group, that pretty incredible!
So, flask up and spend some gold and try it out! See what you can do!
5 comments:
a friend of mine wanted to tank his arena rating, so we could see how bad people can really be. he specced 41/0/20 and i specced 11/11/39 and we went as melee huntards. So the strategy was charge in and sit on the healer, nothing else. With aspect of the monkey up i was sitting at roughly 35% dodge and 15% parry, with deterrence popped i had 40% parry and 70% dodge. For those 8 seconds i was untouchable, we were eating rogue/ rogue alive every match. We failed at tanking the rating because we kept winning >.<
Ha! :) Gotta love to see that. "Dodge, dodge, parry, dodge, parry, parry, dodge" ... "hmm...that seemed too easy, isn't this world of melee craft?"
I'm hoping they give us something, it's a 41 point talents for Christs sake! Personally i don't see scatter as defining as readiness, now everyone can have 2 rapid fires in a row or hell, two bestial wraths back to back. I'm a big fan of readiness on the PTR, but I'll always take scattershot over it if i can't have both.
Awesome story. I love the concept of actually preparing with mats and stuff to go into BG and stomp around. Sometimes I'll log out after a raid, fully raid buffed with flasks, oils, foods, and all the nice buffs my teammates give to me. Next day, I log in with all those things still active and slip on into a BG or two. Before your first death, you're a machine of war, and after your first death, you still have your flask and oil going, so you're still pretty souped up.
I have to say, I too love to not let my raid buffs go to waste! :) Those flasks cost two fingers and an ankle!
I agree, the preparations truly create a feeling of power. You feel like you have come in 1 step ahead of the game. Also...you tend to play more aggressive, to your foolish death sometimes :D
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