Mage PvP and Other Options

[Watto44]

8) OOC:  Ok, this is getting a little cheap, but lets talk about out of combat.  If you get far enough away from a PvP opponent, you are dropped out of combat.
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Um, just to clarify, it's not distance that places you out of combat, it's time in PvP. (In PvE as we all know, mobs have a radius beyond which they won't attack unless you're still attacking them.) If you do not perform any attacking actions on a player and they don't perform attacking actions on you for 5 seconds you are placed out of combat. (Note: the DoT's that are already on you/your opponent are fine, they don't count as actions.) I'm not entirely sure how healing spells factor in to this, as it's not something I use that often except against other druids - and I try not to get into those 20 minute blahfests if I can help it - or when I'm out numbered. Oh, and you have to turn off auto-attack for this to work.

If anyone can clarify how healing affects this I'd appreciate the knowledge. For scientific reasons of course. :whistling:

As for survival tips: duel, duel, duel. Even though duels are an artificial environment, they're the perfect way to practice the various tips and tactics that everyone else has mentioned. Duel people every chance you get. Waiting for people to show up for an instance run? Duel. Someone's afk? Duel. Waiting for an auction to expire? .... Well, you get the idea. :D