09-27-2005, 08:49 PM
undertow,Sep 23 2005, 09:34 AM Wrote:I've actually found self rez semi useful in battlegrounds, especially ones like Arathi Basin. Where you'll have a tight battle for a node and you get focused on and go down quick. I've been able to self rez, and do a few heals or shocks and turn the tide of the fight.
Our shamans occationally use self resurrection in Arathi Basin to stop people from taking a node. Let's say that a shaman is defending a node and after a pitched battle, the other team wins and manages to clear our team. However, our team has resurrected at the nearby graveyard and is hurrying back into the fray. In some cases, a shaman will wait for the other team to start tagging the flag for a couple of seconds, ankh up, and drop a magma totem to stop them from tagging the flag. The shaman quickly dies, but the damage has been done. The team gets back to the node and the battle begins anew -- perhaps with more reinforcements this time. Sure, it's a rare and situational thing, but it happens on occation.
Mages use a similar tactic with ice block. Let's say the mage is the last defender alive at a node with five enemies attacking the node. The mage can arcane explosion the flag area to stop the tagging and then iceblock to keep from dying. When the attackers start tagging the flag again, the mage waits five or so seconds and then removes the block and arcane explosions again. The mage quickly dies (or even better cold snaps and ice blocks again!), but sometimes that delay is enough for teammates to arrive and prevent further tapping attempts.