How to beat me in PvP

[lemekim]

Do you realize how long it would take to acquire the BWL gear, Z'G quests, and reach Field Marshal?

On SR alone, it takes months to achieve Field Marshal.  Reaching rank 8 only takes a month and a half or two, reaching rank 11 tanks another month and a half and then it takes about 3 weeks to a month to go from rank 11 to rank 12 and about the same from rank 12 to rank 13.  That's close to 6 months just to get Field Marshal/Warlord of constant BGs taking around 8 hours a day.  While doing that trek, you do nothing else really (Merana that just reach Grand Marshal this week has only raided with Avarice a handful of times during that trek and has never set foot AFAIK in BWL).  What you're advocating is probably a year to get all this gear.  The game has only been in retail 14 months.

So, what you're saying is extrememly difficult to nigh impossible at this point.

Theory is fine and all, but it doesn't work in practice.
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I am not advocating anything - the original poster stated that it was absolutely impossible to achieve 500+ spell damage and 5k life, and I showed that it is possible. Very tempting theorycraft, but theorycraft nonetheless.

However, my original point was that, even not with the perfect gear, you can get 400-500 spell damage with respectable amount of life. More and more people acquire such gear, be it in Blackwing lair, PvP, or the upcoming AQ dungeons. Damage progression outpaces +life or +healing by quite a bit, so some people take advantage of that, and create builds that can do enough frontloaded damage to kill people in matter of seconds.