Results tagged “PVP” from Bitter Roots

Dear Alliance,

Listen up.  It's not rocket science.

In AV - If you capture something and nobody else stays, you need to stay.  Because chances are as soon as you leave, the Horde will come back and capture it.  I don't care if all their offense is currently making our defense bend over and scream like a girl - one of them WILL double back when you least expect it.  And if you get overrun by a big group, you have time to type it while they are pwning your face.

There's no point in rushing the RH if we don't have a graveyard further south than Stonehearth.  Why?  Because as soon as somebody dies, they get kicked all the way back up and might not be able to get back down.  Grab Snowfall on the way past at least, PLEASE. 

And bottlenecks?  It's no good screaming at people to "just run through" when you're a warrior in plate armour and I'm a warlock in the equivelant of wet paper tissues.  I'm talking to you, dude who trash talked that one match last week. 

Speaking of bottlenecks - WTF Blizz?  Why is the Allance bottleneck right up by Dun Bald-whatsit, and the first Horde one right after Galv?  At least they can take Iceblood and Stonehearth before we get them trapped.  We can barely kill the orc. 

And then there's the way that Horde seem to often use addons to join as a group.  Ugh.  At least in the next patch everyone will be able to do that without using an outside program.  I can't believe they left it so that it was possible. 

Back to you, Alliance.  Don't think I've forgotten you.

Is it so hard to fight on the objective, not the road?  I'm talking about AB as well here.  I don't care if you have a hero complex and you want to go and try taking the farm.  While you're messing around there, that mage and rogue are taking the lumber mill back, and then you're going to get your face kicked in and we lose with only 1 flag.  Take three bases and then hold them.  Don't chase people, don't run away from the flag so it can be capped while you're being sapped.  Come on now.

The saving grace for AV is that usually we get more honour for a loss than we do for a win in other BGs.  Don't just stand at Galv with your tongue hanging out.  Go capture Iceblood Tower at least.

Sigh.

Love and kisses,

Eme.

So, I've been coming to realise something over the past few days.

I suck in PVP as a warrior.  Oh, I can get in there and whack some people and generally make myself a nuisence, but once I have a rogue or warrior jumping around me, I'm turning in place blindly like an odd, sword-weilding spinning top. 

See, I use a combination of the keyboard and the mouse to move.  I use the mouse to look around and the WASD keys to actually move.  So when I need to use abilities, I then sometimes press the numbers, but usually click.  Yup.  I'm a clicker.  There, I said it.

When healing, I use HealBot.  I find that it lets me easily keep the tank targeted, and throw HoTs up on the rest of the raid.  In PVP, it means that I can be running around like a loon, playing "ring around the LOS breakers" or "catch the druid" and still click to heal without stopping.  I can keep somebody busy for ages by throwing some HoTs on, shifting to travel form and going madkittydashcrazy.   Toss in a cyclone or roots in there and I'm golden.

Even on my hunter, I'm mostly in ranged.  I can kite, using the jump-shot (run, jump-spin, shoot, finish-spin, run), which I use the mouse to move for, but it's not my prefered tactics.

Then you come to my warrior.  I'm sure with practice I could get the technique of running circles and spamming my hits, but I'm intending just to PVP with her for my season 1 shield.  So she gets beaten easily by those people who can do that.

Looking at PVE, there just aren't many situations where, as a tank, you have to run around.  Maybe Curator, chasing the flares.  Other than that, it's generally pretty small movements.  Even as a healer or ranged DPS, most battles require standing in one spot.  PVP just has rules all of it's own.

So, I'll continue to heal in arenas and do it well enough, but I doubt I'll be going Mortal Strike spec'd and rocking with my warrior anytime soon.  And that's okay.  I enjoy tanking, and it's always good to know your own falldowns.