01-03-2008, 09:41 PM
I agree with Bolty - priests are pretty easy to pop. Especially if you are facing his squad - two (unfearable) warriors and two hunters hitting cloth are going to make things pretty miserable midfield.
I would say if you are going to have 2 warriors you probably need a second pally - 1 to play midfield and one to run with the flag carrier. I prefer pally to druid for flag escort mainly because I think the main job of the flag escort is to quickly get the carrier out of the base - once he is at midfield it is less important because the rest of the team can snare or CC the other side, and the other healer can pick up some of the slack. Pally's can clear priest and lock fears, which is a big gap in resto druids abilities.
As far as the map itself goes, I don't think there are that many actual problems. It doesn't need to be a total copy of other CTF games to be fun. The one big thing I think is needed is something to break up stalemates. It's not my idea, but I think after 3 min of the flag being taken, every 30s a 10% stacking -heal debuff should be applied. After 8 min, the flag carrier would be unhealable.
As far as these rated games are concerned... I think it's mostly a pipe dream at this point. It would take a (second) total revamp of the honor system for it to make any real sense. Not that I'm saying it doesn't need to be done, because I think it does. They do need to sit down and totally think through what they want the pvp system to be, what they want players to do, and how to properly motivate them to do it. It seems like the pvp team is probably spending most of their time on the (probably disastrous) outdoor pvp area.
I would say if you are going to have 2 warriors you probably need a second pally - 1 to play midfield and one to run with the flag carrier. I prefer pally to druid for flag escort mainly because I think the main job of the flag escort is to quickly get the carrier out of the base - once he is at midfield it is less important because the rest of the team can snare or CC the other side, and the other healer can pick up some of the slack. Pally's can clear priest and lock fears, which is a big gap in resto druids abilities.
As far as the map itself goes, I don't think there are that many actual problems. It doesn't need to be a total copy of other CTF games to be fun. The one big thing I think is needed is something to break up stalemates. It's not my idea, but I think after 3 min of the flag being taken, every 30s a 10% stacking -heal debuff should be applied. After 8 min, the flag carrier would be unhealable.
As far as these rated games are concerned... I think it's mostly a pipe dream at this point. It would take a (second) total revamp of the honor system for it to make any real sense. Not that I'm saying it doesn't need to be done, because I think it does. They do need to sit down and totally think through what they want the pvp system to be, what they want players to do, and how to properly motivate them to do it. It seems like the pvp team is probably spending most of their time on the (probably disastrous) outdoor pvp area.