Lava leash isnt going to do enough. I dont think evenly geared its possible unless the other player is just bad?
is this about lava burst or lava lash
best bets probably juking out kicks, getting your stormkeeper / blood of the enemy set up
and try to 100-0
The way to 1 v 1 a melee as ele is really cheesy but works.
- Keep up fire dot
- Thunderstorm/lighting lasso to build distance
- Frost dot/totem to slow
- Talent everything in ghost wolf that gives healing/damage reduction
- LOS and heal if you are getting super low (and use astral shift for enemy offensives)
- Setup damage with fire elemental/stormkeeper
You basically play like a hunter (ie putting out damage, kiting, resetting until they die). Not always effective, but as good as its going to get now.
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You don’t pvp much huh
Thanks for the random comment that doesn’t add anything to the thread… If you have an opinion, you should state it to help the OP.
This is the best comment you will find (Archeias)
Whittle then down while trying to new distance. Play around storekeeper for burst but otherwise instant cast away, slow, and run.
If you are concerned lasso is just going to get trinketed by Adaptation, you can Capacitor Totem first to DR Lasso down to 3 seconds so It won’t be adaptation trinketed, while still getting the full stun benefit.
Doesn’t do as much lasso damage,
But capacitor, earth bind, lasso to make distance.
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Nothing wrong in what he said … gotta keep Flame Shock on, create distance and keep Frost applied.
And have Fire Elemental out as soon as possible to generate passive Malestorm.
How else will you play a melee ?
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I find specing into Ice fury helps a ton vs melee.
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how does an ele shaman win 1v1 vs melee???
by rolling another class.
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You all are delusional. I had a feral Druid on me and there wasn’t a gosh darn thing I could do about it. I think counter strike totem kept me in the fight the longest but it still wasn’t even close. What a joke
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First off all, Im 100% sure there was more you could have done.
Secondly your PvPing with 5% vers.
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Elemental seems to be one of the few caster specs that plays like most casters did back in vanilla: You kite until you kill them or they kill you. Dont think the mail armor and shield will keep you alive, because we’re squishier than cloth wearers these days.
Frost shock, earthbind, kite with ghostwolf, use lava burst instant procs and try to wear them down or get to a point where you can burst through whatever healing/shielding they have. Nowdays corruption procs (infinite stars especially) help a lot with bursting in pvp.
One thing I really enjoy using is counterstrike totem, I feel a lot of shamans dont utilize it very well but on the bright side that means a lot of the people you go up against arent accustomed to dealing with it. If you can kite around a rock or pillar or any other terrain where you can ‘hide’ the counterstrike totem so they wont kill it right away, it can dish out a huge amount of damage to attackers, and it works against melee just as well as casters. 100% of all direct damage gets duplicated to the attacker from it, and combined with your own burst (stormbringer / lava burst procs) it can be enough to overpower the enemy on occasion. The downside is you have to take damage for it to be useful, and it’s only going to work in a small window of time.
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