3k crits my HL hits for 3500 non crit. Or a FoL crit crit for 2500 hundred will do the job.
Not to mention that you are relying on crit to get the 3k, in a world of resilience gear which dramatically reduces the viability of crit. Then you pop it off and and are left twiddling your thumbs for the 10 second holy shock cool or the 8 second judgement. So you get to rely on seals/melee which is a joke any which way you cut it, worse if you are near a class that can purge, consume it. Might as well be in a pillow fight, accept you are swinging goose down and the other guy has a sack full of bricks.
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A 5k pyroblast means nothing if it can be crit healed for a fraction of the cost and the time right?
See the real big difference is that a Pally can stun, thats bout it. That mage can throw out massive spike damage and can also interrupt the healers cast, sheep em and keep pressure on. 3k damage spike is nothing when you have 10K+ health and 6 second stun can be easily trinketed out of, or even just sat through since a shockadin is probably only going to be hitting 350dps while waiting on cools. The next 8+ seconds you are on cool downs I am sitting pretty, I can put out 9K+ heals in that time. I will never get that luxury from a well played mage.
To come back the video it is easy to tell even with the grainy vid that he is hitting some undergeared guys for 3k. It is also easy to see the mana bar disappear and then the reliance on 180 white damage with the 200 yellow judgement which is a joke.
I'm not even hardcore into PvP, my focus is Raid healing. However I often do arena and Bg and Ret pallies and Shockadins make me smile. I can heal through their dps without even consuming 1/4 of my mana bar, then proceed to pick them apart since they are effectively useless while OOM. Which boils back to the fact that heals are much more pivotal in a battle that 'almosts compares' to undergeared compatriots in real dps classes.
Edited, Dec 17th 2007 12:40am by bodhisattva