One of my level 80's is a Troll Mage, almost identical to Nosnum the Gnome Mage in gear/accomplishment. And, for lack of other subject material, I thought I'd post something generally mage-related, as a LOT of ADS'ers play mages (I mean a FEAKING LOT).
I've pretty much never PVP'ed outside of my frost spec, unless caught by surprise (Coilfang is a PvP server, after all) and never really considered Arcane very useful in PvP. Well, our guild was running VOA this week, and as is typical for Toravon, they wanted me on my Mage for the ranged DPS on his Frost Orbs. So, as we're at the stone throwing out a couple of summons, our GM, who happened to be out in the courtyard, says, "Hey, there's a crowd of Alliance out here ganking everything in sight.... Eeaarrggg!!" (the last bit was my little embellishment to illustrate his health bar going from full to dead in about 4 seconds). So, 5 or 6 of us answer the call to arms and go running out there in our PvEs, I of course made sure I was one of the last through the door portal (I am squishy, after all, even more so in PvEs with Molten armor). There's a group of about 7 alliance destroying everything in sight, with whom we immediately engage. The long and short of it is we put the beatdown on them. My point is not about Horde vs. Alliance so much as it is that I was SHOCKED at the effectiveness of my Arcane spec against toons wearing PvP gear - not really having used Arcane in battlegrounds it came as quite a surprise to me, and I'm sure to both the warrior and the hunter who bore the brunt of my damage. Of course, I wasn't alone out there, and as a guild we were working well together in the brief 1 minute furball - their healer went down first.
Now I'm thinking about giving Nosnum a run in battlegrounds in his Arcane spec just to test whether my brief experience with it will bear more fruit. So how about it? Have any of you other mages done much PvP in Arcane? Do you like it? Or do you find that you're just giving up too much kiting ability to survive?
I am not a huge fan of PvP in general, but, i'm arcane, and like to think i do OK, as long as i'm up against another squishy :)
ReplyDeleteI've always done PvP in my frost spec because of the kiting ability - pretty much everything slows down your opponent which, when the opponent is a melee player, is invaluable (not so much against casters). But since I hit harder in Arcane, even when wearing PvP gear, I guess its back to the age-old debate of kill faster vs. survivability.
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