07-04-2005, 08:12 PM
lemekim,Jul 4 2005, 12:13 PM Wrote:AOE CP farming in TM =P
Stand back, Flamestrike/Blizzard. Ice Block if in danger.
And after half an hour, hit diminishing returns and barely get any cp's for all your work. But even then, AOE's never seemed effective in TM, because the mage had to stand still up front, ready to get hit by ten billion dots and/or several hunter aimed shots. The more effective mage tactic seemed to be to know just when the opponent was going to start to run (and people were damn chickens in TM), ride/blink forward and frost nova to root half a dozen people, ice block to make sure you don't die, and then let the wave (hopefully including your own party) sweep over your victims.
However, AOE's *are* effective in Alterac Valley, where neither side is as chicken as they were in the Hillsbrad Foothills area. Your opponents will stand their ground in the face of your barrage and your teammates will actually move forward to engage people and cover your attack. I can definitely see mages racking up the cp in Alterac Valley. I'm just surprised that they did in the weeks before battlegrounds came out. Heck, maybe since the contest included a week of battlegrounds and you get *so* much more cp by fighting in battlegrounds than not (because of the plentiful number of victims and the lack of diminishing returns) that maybe some mages overtook some of their competition in that final week.