Last I heard, the dot meta was dominating the pvp field, is it still really bad?
What dots? You mean the flameshock before I delete people off the battlefield?? Ye ele shaman is pretty bad rn it’s killing the game… of you meant just dots? Well that’s still flame shock it can hit 5 targets for 700 crit upfront before a nice 18 second dot after in one global.
Just play horde. Dots aren’t too bad here.
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basically what Disrespecter said, but Boomie cranks as well and ranged hunter is up there. definitely a non melee friendly ranged burst meta, but ele is on another level and rising for P4
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In p2 I had mage’s ignite burn for 40% of the spells initial dmg, Per tick… theres something about the dots that arent scaled like they used to be.
Having other instant cast abilities with dots that have 35+ yard range on any class is ridiculous considering charge’s max range is 25yards
You dont see melee brawls in SoD, theyre all getting 2 shot before they can setup combos or get rage.
Ignite does 40% of the spell’s damage over 4 seconds. It also accumulates as a single instance of the dot, across multiple mages. So if one mage crits you twice before 4 seconds are over, you take the remaining damage from the first ignite ADDED to the new ignite damage. And if multiple different mages crit, they also continue to add damage into the same singular ignite.
It’s why mages often claim that the first person to get the ignite gets to parse in Classic.
TBH it’s not just flame shock…
Aff lock is strong, boomie is strong, shadow is still S tier…
The larger concern with dots is that that the “genius” plan for literally every spec in SoD was apparently loading them up with instant cast dots (or instant nukes). Intelligent usage of CC is basically gone as as a consequence of every window licker within 40 yards is constantly tab-spamming at everything that could be possibly CCd.
Hunter: Now serpent stings in pvp to chimera shot for damage
Warlock: has UA… but locks would dot regardless so /shrug… even without it half the warlocks are metamorph zugs that pretend searing pain is a dot.
Shadow: Got Void Plauge.
Mages: Living Bomb is essentially a dot, it’s also basically the only part of the mage kit that isnt terrible right now.
Rogues: deadly poison tends to be a thing when you see rogues now
It’s not even just incapacitate CCs that break either… things like Fear weren’t scaled for the increase in damage, and fear breaks almost instantly at the damage thresholds people are putting out.
None of it is good for pvp.
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WCL actually fixed this and divided the ignite damage equally to all the mages in the raid.
Chimera shot hits for less than a flameshock, and flame shock has a shorter cooldown.
Ele shaman, shadow priest, and balance druid are so far ahead of everyone else that pvp is a joke right now.
Ele and Boomie are definitely the leaders of the pack
Imo it’s (for Phase 3)
- Shadow
- Marks
- NF/Ruin Lock
- Boomie
- Ele
- Deep Affliction
- Destro
- Soul Link
- Metamorphasis
- Fire
- Two Crows
- Half a Paul Giamatti
- Jerry
- Absolutely nothing
- Sentient poop
- Arcane
- Frost
Funny how priests’ dots and pets are more annoying than a warlocks.
I see a shadow priest, I try to keep my distance and cc/kill the little homuncs.
I see a warlock (which i rarely do)
Just face tank the warlock and hope I burn it before it burns me.
can you imagine if it was a full Paul Giamatti?
it would jump up like 6 ranks
#nerfpaulgiamatti
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SOD PVP has been a trashtastrophe every phase.
Only when you free yourself from it will you realize how bad it is.