Ele sham did 341.3k in .8 seconds but ret had no counter play and needed nerfs?
In .8 seconds the ele sham did:
77.2k lightning bolt
15.4k lightning rod
36.3k lightning bolt
7.3k lightning rod
93.2k lightning bolt
18.6k lightning rod
93.3k lightning bolt (death)
Prior to this .8 second play, I was sitting at 78% health. 1 second prior to it, I was at 96% health.
How do you counter play this?
By going LOS when they succesafully cast Stormkeeper. Or by popping defensives when you see them casting it and cant kick it.
Why didn’t you just line it or interrupt it? 
Yeah, los those instant casts!
dont let him get the cast off dingus
The instant casts only come after a hard casted Stormkeeper. You LOS or disrupt asap when you see them casting. And then stay out of los for 8(?) seconds
Did he hard cast stormkeeper
Did he press badge
Did he press skyfury
Did you notice any of that
Still shouldn’t do that much damage, but ask yourself this, if a player presses all their cds and you press none, should you die or not?
Where in the .8 seconds do you want me to get off the aff lock, waddle 10 yards, and kick these instant casts? Can’t stop every stormkeeper as a ret, especially when they can get an aura mastery.
Can obviously see them cast Stormkeeper, that’s your hint that big damage is coming.
That said, Ele Sham is actually disgusting and the only thing really keeping them in check is Assa Rogue.
They need some serious tuning to their damage in PvP.
No you definitely can’t, but that’s why you maintain either defensives or freedom for that situation.
Disrupt. If you cant disrupt, run. If you cant run, pop D.
Obvious case of tunnel vision
Try installing GladiatorLOSSA
Just one of my two defensive cds - shield of nothing. Point being, people could use defensive cds vs Ret burst. How is that something with no counter play but this is? Ret has to build up modifiers, and has a go every minute, which is predictable and can be tracked.
If you’re going to nerf one class for the insane burst potential, take it away from all classes.
No one is really defending ele shams right now, but if you are unable to see the difference between a casted spell with a grand total of 8 seconds duration (give or take) and it requiring skyfury (5 hp totem) vs wings radiant decree 1 tap then you’re hopeless and should feel bad.
Lining or interrupting stormkeeper is not a solution and laughable. If you think you can actually stop stormkeeper from being cast in arena all game, you’re literally more special than you believe. You have to pre-wall to avoid this, and the problem is if you pre-wall, they can just click another target instead.
It is beyond busted the RNG that ele can roll and for some reason blizzard loves RNG. The players want consistency in pvp, but blizzard adds more and more RNG. The issue is that not every class has the ability to lottery roll a win but some do. So you can play better than the other team and just get lottery rolled out of the game occasionally. It’s basically a “go next” situation but once again…only some classes can do this.
But Rogues are OP. I know this because the guy in the 1400’s bracket with 50 posts a day about how Rogues are OP told me that Rogues are OP.
How did the ele shaman kill you without blind sap kidney?
Dont use this. Use Divine Protection
SOV is trash and becomes even worse as dampening ticks
Hiding behind the lvl 60 alt feels bad.
Ret burst was → cast seraphim, get to 5 holy power with a judgement as the last cast, wings, final reck, radiant decree, divine toll. Kinda hard to miss wings. Kinda hard to miss FR. Kinda hard to miss the seraphim.
Just popping wings and casting RD wasn’t why it was hitting hard.
I prefer Seraphim Wings Toll FV Wake FV but thats just me
I do too, now.
Unless you’re stunned.