January News/Discussion

[Concillian]

And that was in particular, a few problem teams, based around a single problem class. HOTs were way too powerful with full S2/3/4 gear.

I think this is a major misconception. Druids weren't great in Arenas because their HOTs were way too powerful. That was part of it, but it had to be coupled with the mobility, CC and damage avoidance

Put the same HOTs on a shaman and you're hosed. Hell you could probably give the same druid HOTs AND a cyclone to the shaman and they would still not have dominated like the combination of all three of travel form, cyclone, and powerful HOTs.

Constant damage input means you need to heal through it. If you're constantly healing through it, you're going to run OOM. Druids would eventually get a cyclone, a partner CC or snare, and run away for a nice safe drink.

I think Blizzard is missing the importance of damage avoidance and mobility.

I got in a fight with a rogue in SotA a few weeks ago... I had spec-ed major survivability (Blessed Resilience AND Focused Will). Now my PvP gear is not great right now. Mostly S4 stuff still, with a few L80 pieces, but I have 500 ish resilience and 16k health and more armor than L80 gear (due to actual armor bonuses on L70 gear). Spellpower and mana are on the low side.

Now I was using the teleports of a blasted down gate to be able to kite him and get breaks (drop off a canon platform, start healing until he dropped too, jump in teleport & waddle up to the canon again, forcing him to run around since he was on the other team... repeat.) However, since I couldn't break crippling poison, I could never get away. I had to choose to do major healing to myself through wound poison or hope crippling ran off before he could get to me again. Eventually he got me low enough health that a CS + KS was long enough to kill me. It took a while, but even not being touched for something like 50% of the time I just couldn't survive until OOM.