Talk to any melee who does arena and they will agree with me
Hell; even someone who just does BGs probably will, too, if they actually know what's killing them
Arena is kind of a different story, though. There's a lot less class diffusion than there are with the larger groups of AV and the like. Not to mention that you'd really have to depend on your partner to either heal/dispel you or burn the bastard that's trying to DoT you to death.
I've been thinking about getting a 2v2 arena team set up with my cousin after I get a decent set of PvP gear (T9 for the main bits and whatever else I can scrounge together) together. Do you think an arms warrior and a disc priest would make a decent pair?
I can sit on a disc priest in full furious and never kill him. A lot of other melee are the same way (hint: most of them don't have MS). No resil (or close to no resil) is basically the only way I stand a chance. Casters aren't included in this, because this is World of Castercraft and they kill everyone (GL INTERRUPTING ANYTHING)
Eh, it just seems kind of touch and go after they break through the shields and crap. Generally, I run into issues with melee gradually wearing me down in duels. Then again, that could be just due to gearing. I'm pretty good at keeping people away from me, at any rate, though I do find myself missing Body and Soul when I'm in disc spec.
Also, you just showed you fought a bunch of baddies because they didn't focus the 0-resil healer.
Well, this is Andorhal Alliance we're talking about. I don't even think they know how to do WG.
Also, keep in mind that they'd pretty much have to break through the pallies and warriors to even get to me. Typically, someone would have to bring me down in two hits. If they can't do it that quickly, it's inevitable that they're going to get rushed by a warrior, stunned by a pally, or DG'ed by a DK. The only time I ever die in massive battles is when we are royally outnumbered and the "tanks" get gang-raped.
How much resil do you go in with?
Not. Enough.I didn't start doing any serious PvP with my priest until I hit 80, so I've been playing catch-up. Right now I'm sitting at right around 500. Definitely, definitely not enough. That's why I'm only doing things like WG with him. He can put out some serious heals, but I can't leave him too exposed.
I mainly do BGs with my PvP DK. I'm kind of afraid of what the lv.60-70 bracket is going to be like seeing as there is precisely zero PvP gear for DKs. It's going to be like going from stupidly OP (DKs even start with a PvP trinket, FFS) to plz omg don't kill me. I think the only thing I can do is stack def on top of the heirlooms...roll in with tank gear and hope for the best.
On another note, it's kind of fun being a frost DK in BGs. Most people seem to pick unholy for the raw damage output, but I usually prefer to pair up with a friendly rogue, hit the enemy with Icy Touch (spiked with an annoying dose of
Icy Clutch and letting the rogue burst them to death. It feels like the perfect defensive and "annoy the piss out of your enemies for fun and profit" build.
I was talking about arena, but yeah in BGs that's perfectly fine (in arena you're expected to mana burn and dispel the other team, while keeping your partner up)
Makes sense, yeah. You'd have to be as offensive as you are defensive, especially in the smaller groups.