Lecanthi wrote:
stUUf wrote:
Whoever said we suck for pvp should be shot...just wow...thats a pathetic statement. Ever one-shotted a frost mage? its a great feeling. Ever slaughter 5 people alone...yeah well shaman pvp is not bad. Trust me on this. I call it earthbind, imp fire nova totem...and voila! instant damage, and if thats not good enough drop a fire elemental. Plus theres more: stormstrike, WINDFURY!, interrupts, frost shock, chain lightning... Whoever made that statement has no idea. Shamans are a damage dealing class in pvp, and we can do alot of damage. Don't believe me? Try it.
Edited, Dec 4th 2007 9:01pm by stUUf
You know, killing lowbie players is not considered "PVP". Its called ganking.
To go into a little more detail... damage is not the issue. Both Enhancement and Elemental Shaman have damage in spades. The issue is
applying that damage if your opponent is worth his salt.
An Enhancement Shaman will
never make it to a kiter, and neither will an Elemental or Resto Shaman for that matter. All they have to do is stay outside of shock range (20 yards) and there's absolutely nothing we can do other than sling LB's/CL's.
Conversely, no spec of Shaman is capable of escaping a melee class. We can snare them, sure, but they can all snare us right back, and a snared person running from a snared person isn't going to put much distance between them. One Sprint, Intercept, etc., and it's GG.
And because of the two issues I just presented, you can obviously understand why it's also nearly impossible to get a heal off without Nature's Swiftness because of interrupts. Hell, pushback alone is enough to stop a heal most of the time unless you're Resto and have Earth Shield.
If you're one-shotting
anyone or taking on five people at a time (I don't know
any class that can do this in
any bracket; even low-level twinks should be dead with five opponents), you're not high enough to have the fire elemental. Stop twinking in 30-39 BG's, get to the real end-game at 70, and then let us know how you feel after you've had a chance to make a valid assessment.
Edited, Dec 5th 2007 1:58am by Gaudion