Hello, calling all classes here to share their knowledge! I’m a returning player from WotlK and need your help.
What would you say are the key offensive and defensive CDs to watch for your class in PvP?
Or, taking it one step further, what is an ability that you use that telegraphs a big play is coming?
What a time to return. May your soul be purged from covenant aids
doom winds >
once you start specifically paying attention to doomwinds you’ll have a significantly easier time dealing with enhance
until chain harvest hits you for 17k with no counterplay
This 10char
Convoke /char
Only thing I can offer you is that paladin are like saiyans: they’re at their strongest when they’re glowing yellow.
BE VERY on alert if you see this ability because you have met a man that has nothing to lose
Vs rets and warriors usually when their character moves you want to start STRESSING OUT
Now I recall why I forgot warrior’s necrolord ability…dude how could this ability works in pvp…
I’ll try and provide a few answer.
Balance Druid
Things to watch out for:
Celestial Alignment/Incarnation
— This is our standard 3min cd that simply amplifies all of our relevant damage. It lasts 20-30s and primarily is used to buff our instant cast starsurges. We use our resource to shoot them, 1/3 of our bar roughly per. Many times we pool a full bar to shoot 3 back to back. Depending on the legendary, Incarn will also grant massive crit chance for the first 4s.
If Night Fae, Convoke the Spirits
— This is a 2min cd that fires off 16 spells at any random target (4 of which are relevant) in a 4s channel. It’s paired with Incarn almost exclusively and can potentially be incredibly devastating. Anything will stop it since it’s a channel (except knockbacks since we can move during it) however quick reactions are a must.
If Kyrian, Kindred Spirits
— This is a 1min cd that gives a large boost to the Druid’s dmg. That’s all it does but it’s worth mentioning.
Key abilities or spells to watch out for that signify a go
Solar Beam. It’s our one and only interrupt/silence on a 1 min cd. We generally pair it with roots to use on a healer as a blanket cc. If we rootbeam a healer, it’s typically go time. Being that it’s a 1 min cd, expect all Kyrian druids to use their buff simultaneously.
Fury of Elune. It’s a 1min cd as well that doesn’t do insane dmg but generates AP (our resource). It’s used in conjunction with the aforementioned beam and Kyrian buff to do powerful go’s every minute.
That’s really all I can think of at a basic level.
It doesn’t work in PVE either
For my class and spec(ele)
Defensives:
Astral shift(40% wall, long cd)
Capacitor totem(stun totem, I use it to peel melee cleaves a lot)
Earth elemental(gives me a wall and a 4 second stun, ill try to add the names later)
Earth shield(makes the target a bit tankier as well as increasing my healing on them, this is way more important if the shaman is resto due to legendaries, can be purged)
Offensives:
Lightning lasso, our best offensive cd, a long stun that does decent damage on a 30 second cd
Stormkeeper: gives us 2 instant lightning bolts that are guaranteed to overload
Echoing shock: makes the next spell be cast twice for free
Primordial wave: puts flame shock up AND your next lava burst hits everyone who has flame shock on them. Crazy cleave
Skyfury totem: small red angry looking totem, makes crits hit harder
I guess fire elemental does some decent damage also but not much you could do against that.
Basically an elemental shaman is going to burst like this:
Maintain flame shock
Storm keeper
Skyfury totem
Echoing shock
Lava burst
Lightning bolt
Lava burst
If enough maelstrom, earth shock, if not, lightning bolt
Earth shock
Lava burst
Most of those abilities are instant cast. If I get lucky with procs I can absolutely destroy people with 5 or 6 Lava bursts and an empowered lightning bolt. Your best bet is to line during skyfury and storm keeper every time, and dispel flame shock as much as possible. If you dispel right when you see echoing shock, it really screws the shaman because they’re forced to put flame shock back up and the flame shock will be cast twice and ruin the buff. Basically dont mess up or ill one shot you