Your approach to the Arena!Follow

Potions cant be used in arena matches.

Soulstone cant be used because you cant use any skill/spell/ability that has 15min+ cooldown.

For the rest of your questions I'd suggest arenajunkies.com.
I haven't played for 2 months now and don't wanna give faulty informations tbh =).

And you might want to consider not running with a rogue, but a druid. Not that it's a bad combo at all - actually it's a good combo, but druid + lock is simply just that much better.

lock + druid, lock + Rogue, lock + mage, lock + paladin

the first two are the more common combinations. you do also find lock+Spriest, but though it should work on paper, imo it doesn't work very well and can be easily countered by most other combinations. the latter two are also very good combinations, but they require a different tactic and approach to what you'd usually expect and are generally considered a harder combination to play, but one of equal value to any other good combination.

there arn't potions...BUT there is food and water that you can buy with honor from your knights halls (or horde equivilant)

longest abilities are 15min cd's and anything beyond that are taken away due to being 'OP' (recklessness, retaliation, battle res, self res, soulstone, lay on hands etc... all to OP for arena).

hunter 'could' be viable... but having two classes heavily reliant on their pet is never a good idea, plus their ability to CC isn't that amazing. they're known for kiting. lock/rogue though is a good combination and worth learning. main things though are knowing when to use abilities like blind/deathcoil etc.. (the tide turners) also you're fairly reliant on getting a sap off at the start. if you can't manage that then you're at a big disadvantage from the outset.

druids are known for that. 'tis called swiftmend and it's a 15second cd. 90% of the time. you're better off going for the dps and keeping the healer CC'd. then at the oportune moment, counterspell them /blind / deathcoil /vanish cheapshot etc.. to allow for the finishing blow on the dps. also while pounding on the dps, do it hard. force the healer to use more mana so that you can then drain the rest of it away in a flash, leaving them vunrable.

no is the anser to '2 lvl.70's in epic bg gear etc...'. firstly because the BG gear isn't that amazing (it's S1 at best) and two, healers in pvp gear are nigh impossible to nuke down. i've seen and encounted pallies/druids/priest/shammies who all could sustain themselves against a barrage of dps from 2-4 sources for well over a minute. they have more issues keeping someone else alive while that person is being CC'd than taking care of themselves.

pst. i know it's not pvp, but in raids i've seen druids who's rejuv's tick for 1-1.2k on me. lifeblooms that tick for 200-300 on the TICKS, and then exploding for over 2k non-crit with the end part etc... healing isn't the issue and nor is the mana efficiency.

QFT. I played with a priest all last season, we weren't very geared, but we finished 10 points off rival together...

Honestly we're pretty good PVPers. I had mostly PVE gear with 150 resil at the time, he had +1200, 7000hp and 40 resil.

Skill > Gear. We destroyed plenty of mirror setups and even superior setups (lock/druid) who far outgeared us just by playing better. My favorite thing in the game was killing full S2 geared locks with spellblade while I was wearing spellstrike plus my POS exalted HH blade. It was hilarious watching my priest LOS the crap out of enemy priests and beat them in the mana burning war.

Sadly he quit the game, and I server transfered =(

OP, how do you have all the "battleground gear", which is like 200k worth of honor points, without knowing basic stuff like "druids can heal?".

Anyway, yes druids can heal, and they can do it well. I hope by "your big ugly" you meant felhunter not voidwalker ;)

Rogue/warlock can play really well, I'd actually like to try this setup. Against druids, your rogue should be stuck on the druid like glue. Noobie technique thats quite effective is shiv crippling poison immediately after every single shapeshift, and watch his debuffs. If the druid dispells poison from caster, stun him or reshiv immediately. Every single shapeshift, stick on him like glue. In the meantime, you fear the hunter while draining the druids mana. Felhunter can dispell traps/sheeps off you or your rogue.

More advanced rogue technique requires a macro and an off hand in the bag. Basically wound poison on main hand, crippling poison on your normal off hand. A second off hand in the bag has wound poison on it, and you shiv wound poison whenever possible, trying to keep 5 stacks on the druid. More importantly though is shivving with crippling through every shift, and everytime it gets dispelled. Try to 5pt kidney shot whenever it's up.

Rogues got nerfed on AR/prep, but I'd still go full combat maces on my rogue. I play mage/rogue on my mage, and duel dps is quite fun.

Now more then ever, skill > gear. Every noob with time to spare will be running around in full vindicators/S1 gear with a handful of S2/S3 pieces. Learn the game, play better then them, you'll be able to beat them. If me and my priest geared up earlier, we'd be guaranteed gladiator's right now, considering we were so damn close to duelist with terrible PVP gear. Especially the priest, it was truely ugly.

Edited, Jan 24th 2008 9:52am by mikelolol