PvP experiences

[Daffyd]

I'm a long way from being an expert at PvP but these are some thoughts based on my recent experiences in AV.

1.  If you're running away and manage to stealth don't keep running the same direction, take an immediate 90 degree turn and hide.  Whoever is chasing you will likely run straight past in the direction you were heading.  Keeping on the same heading you were on before stealthing = BAD kitty, no catnip for you.

2.  Drinking squishies look so tempting and juicy, pounce is still your friend though.  Ravage+shred+FB may come off well with luck and a sleeping target but the usual result is dead kitty unless you have INSANE (i.e. AQ+ raid level) DPS.

3.  Warlocks and rogues are not your friends, travel form is.

4.  When healing try not to stand well to the rear, hiding in the middle of a mob makes you less of an obvious target to the nasty rogue types who'd love to ruin your day.  In particular, don't stand on top of the hill outside the hall when fighting warmasters in AV, when a horde mage comes to ruin the day of all the healers/mages clustered there you can smile to yourself, root him as he's now OOM, and carry on healing while some kind person finished him off.

5.  Going OOM then switching to cat form to melee while regenning mana can be a good move.  Not switching out of your healer gear before entering melee combat is less good and can leave you somewhat bemused at your lack of DPS (and incidentally, dead).

6.  Warlocks and rogues are REALLY not your friends, seriously.

7.  When healing, taking the odd break to hunt through the enemy ranks for almost dead players retreating then dropping moonfire on their heads can be very satisfying.

8.  Bear form and swipe can be great for distracting clusters of enemy healers.

9.  Unless you specced heavily into balance starfire sucks.  I mean REALLY sucks.  Sucks like a fifty dollar whore in fact.  Like rogues and warlocks, starfire is not your friend.

10.  Killing blows mean nothing, winning the battle is all that counts.  Individual skirmishes count for zip come totting up time.

[lioness]

Nice piece you've written out, i think every keypoint is viable (especially locks, but they are no ones best friend as opponent  )

I'm eager to see a next write up when the talent points reset and you can get some more goodies from the feral tree
i have a small idea that rogues will have a bit of a harder time vs druids.

also when you face a lock 1 vs 1 it's intresting to try to root them (if outside offc) and go max distance to spam some moonfire and charge'm in bear when he's softened up to get a bash and good hit at'm, root make max distance rinse and repeat. That's what worked for my druid alt, not always the perfect tactic offc. because horde tends to zerg a lot, so not much 1 vs 1.

Especially because his fear range is shorter than your root.

[TomTheWizard]

Well when I did some WSG on my druid at level 19 I was still balance and did pretty well at getting some of the gay twinks. Now that my druid is feral whenever I reach 29 on it time to unleash the kitty!

[Daffyd]

Druids are the undisputed Gods of WSG, I just hate the bloody palce

[Alandor]

Druids are the undisputed Gods of WSG, I just hate the bloody palce

aye i feel the same way about WSG.

• However in AB Rogues can make nice targets when they're attempting to take the flag, pounce them with catform add a mangle and bleed effect, quickly shift to Bear and if you fight a good fight the rogue dies leaving you with almost full health thanks to the healing skill in bearform (forget the name of it).
• Locks are noones friends and should never be soloed.
• Mages regaining health and mana while at less than 50% are very juicy indeed, sometimes tempting to try a ravage crit which does the job or pounce then chase after them when they blink.
• Warriors on Mounts are just asking to be killed, stay in prowl and intercept them in the direction they're running with pounce, mangle bleed effect, then the bleed finishing move and continue with Mangle if he's still mounted, if he dismounts go bear.
• Rooting a Mounted Horde while you're in a group = 1 dead Horde no matter what class they are.
• tanking is fun and so is turning off BG chat when the whining starts
• Shaman depengind on their build are now just Squisies with a harder shell to crack.
• Sometimes in AB when there is a single mage or warrior guarding the flag wait a while to see if they move, if they don't then they may be afk and have let themselves become a free Honor point and Flag capture (yes this actually happens, many many times they think their presence will deter people from going there )