WoW musings

Multiboxing shaman in battlegrounds.

August 25th, 2009

After a long break, spending a lot of time doing raids and heroics with my guild I decided to take a break from the social side of WoW.

After trying a bit of battleground levelling on my alliance shadow priest I decided it was time to resurrect my shaman and try them out.

 I picked them up at 66.  They were pretty much penniless and so i had to do a few quests to get the gold together to get them their epic land mounts. The second I had them I started battlegrounding on them. What a blast!!!!

It took a while to get used to playing, and my setup was far from perfect.  Healing wise I just had the shaman cast chain heal on themselves - very inefficient and too long a cast time.  Despite that I had okay survivability and was able to play a very active role in the battlegrounds.   Level 70 melee were pretty much able to rip me apart but that was if they got to me   I learnt to hate bladestorm

I did a mix of battlegrounds and questing to level.  Generally queue times were quite good and i got a fair amount of games.  The problem comes when you lose AV hard.  No tower caps, belinda kills etc really reduces the XP you gain in there - but I wasn’t too concerned with that as regardless of win or loss I was having immense fun in there.

As the levels passed by, things improved. My survivability increased. I learnt strategies to cope with the tougher classes.   Melee still hurt hard, but I was hitting harder in return. 

Then I hit 68 and got my lovely fire elementals. Very situational but great to pop.  I remember I was guarding a bunker. It had just under a minute till it was destroyed and from my vantage point opposite the flag I was able to look out and see multiple alliance heading for me.  So I popped my 3 fire elementals.

One of the alliance got through to me - but he was badly crisped and one volley of lightning bolt had him drop at my feet. The others were easily despatched, and the midst of it all the bunker was destroyed.

The other wonderful thing about 68 was I could now pop over to northrend and start gearing up my gear.

So last night I dinged 70, got blood lust, and I’m still having a blast in Alterac valley.

I’ve setup my healing macros so I can heal individual shaman so my survivability is much better.

Once I get these guys to 71 I’ll join them up with my level 72 shaman (and potentially a 71 warlock) and start in the 71-80 bracket.

I’m expecting a great amount of pain initially, but there will still be fun to be had.

Many months ago (pre Wotlk) I saw a video of a 5 shaman group defending galvanar in alterac valley.  He single handedly wiped the alliance.

Last night - I only had 3, but it was a smaller group of alliance, and they would have been able to down galv.  But I got in there and wiped them.

My team is living up to expectations and once faction transfer becomes available I will be able to field a 5 shaman team.  I can’t wait.

 

 

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