07-09-2007, 11:45 AM
Quote:I find it interesting that you favour Blessed Resilience over Pain Suppression. I think you have probably made the correct choice: Pain Suppression can be dispelled, purged or spellstolen, can it not? In any event a passive beats something you have to activate by a mile since the assist train often starts with a Cheap Shot or a Charge stun.That's correct, and it's why Pain Suppression is not a popular talent for PvP and the 28/33 combo is considered the cookie-cutter. An activated defense that can be dispelled just doesn't compare to a passive defense that fires all the time...and with a Warrior/Rogue on me, I mean *all* the time. :)
Quote:On the other hand going for Pain Suppression means you can pick up Power Infusion and 5% stamina on the wayThe stamina's nice, but Power Infusion is a crap PvP talent. Compared to Bloodlust/Heroism, it's not even close - another common Priest complaint about why healing Priests have little raid stackability. A DPS boost on one person for 15 seconds compared to a 30% speed buff on the entire party for 40 seconds!?!?!?!? Especially since my arena teams have no offensive spellcasters, Power Infusion would do me little good. And, like Pain Suppression, Power Infusion can be dispelled or stolen!
Quote:are you referring to outlook rather than capacity for killing? With the exception of certain pvp set bonuses (eg lowered Intercept cooldowns) the PVP gear does not improve your ability to dish out damage. Or do you feel that PvP gear out damages PVE gear on players and, if so, how come?Have you seen those PvP weapons?
Quote:Lastly having arena-ed quite a bit with my Paladin (but in less competent teams) my feeling now is that players are quite easy to keep healed unless the healers are disrupted. Often a match will have 3 dpsers focussing someone while 2 healers keep them up very successfully.High-level arena play in 5v5 comes down to:
1) Mana
2) Crowd Control
This is because everyone's got great gear and just doesn't die easily. If someone ever gets "burst down", it's because either that side's healers were CC'ed or OOM, or else that side did a poor job of CC'ing the enemy and let 4 players tee off on someone. Nobody survives against four DPS'ers for long.
The best 5v5 matches are the ones where both sides are low or out of mana and you're desperately trying everything you can to keep going.
Quote:Does Silent Resolve's anti-dispel stack with Pain Suppression's anti-dispel for a total of 85%?Yes, but there have been reports that Silent Resolve doesn't work too well. It's hard to properly test and I don't know if anyone's put it to hard testing, but rumors are that Silent Resolve only winds up applying to the Priest's personal buffs. If I'm buffing my group, I'd want the buffs on my entire group to have a lower chance of being dispelled, not just for me.
Does anti-dispel also cover Purge and Spellsteal?
As for anti-dispel, it does apply to Purge, but I don't know about Spellsteal.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.