09-30-2008, 08:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-30-2008, 04:08 PM by Concillian.)
Prot still has pretty reasonable burst. on the PTR target dummies, my recklessness burst is 1.5 seconds and about 10k. This is on no armor, but there will be 5 sunders on whatever target. Concussion not being on GCD lets you loose a lot of pain if you're willing to burn both Shockwave + concussion blow at a 1.5 second burst. And since shockwave seems to stun even evading rogues, it's pretty reliable.
I'm positive we will see a strong tendency towards 2DPS teams in 2v2 in 3.x arenas at 70. I think healer / warrior with anything but a druid is going to be a decent combo for prot shamans will have it rough on surviving a burst, but others should at least be able to survive the first burst attempt with their mitigation ability + intervene. Prot has a lot of peeling capability that warriors never had before. Pain suppression every 30 seconds means no healer is going down easy, they'll have to attack you. And with a shield wall for survival, followed by a rather painful burst (non-crit is still 5k and fully doable in defensive stance.)
I'm a little afraid of 3.x arenas at 70 though, it seems like it's just going to be a massive DPS zerg fest where not even coordinated CC matters, just who is able to execute their burst first.
And yeah... prot in BGs on the PTR is very fun. Very different from Arms PvP.
I'm positive we will see a strong tendency towards 2DPS teams in 2v2 in 3.x arenas at 70. I think healer / warrior with anything but a druid is going to be a decent combo for prot shamans will have it rough on surviving a burst, but others should at least be able to survive the first burst attempt with their mitigation ability + intervene. Prot has a lot of peeling capability that warriors never had before. Pain suppression every 30 seconds means no healer is going down easy, they'll have to attack you. And with a shield wall for survival, followed by a rather painful burst (non-crit is still 5k and fully doable in defensive stance.)
I'm a little afraid of 3.x arenas at 70 though, it seems like it's just going to be a massive DPS zerg fest where not even coordinated CC matters, just who is able to execute their burst first.
And yeah... prot in BGs on the PTR is very fun. Very different from Arms PvP.
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Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.