Kavekk wrote:
1) Don't use SS as 20/0/41
2) Using Premed when you're opening with CS is fairly redundant. Save it for vanish IMO (unless you want to ShS KS a mage who blinks CS).
Premed is perfect for openers. Most of the time in arena you're going to sacrifice Vanish to get out of snares, not to get another opener.
99% of your good opponents are going to stack dots on you; rogues will put up a 1pt rupture, locks--well, I don't really need to talk about locks--warriors with crits, etc. You'll have 3 secs to get another opener if you time it perfectly. That's why I prefer to use Vanish aggressively instead of defensively to give yourself your control back.
That said, you're not always going to be able to use premed in the middle of an arena match, but you're going to be Prepping anyway, might as well use it after Prep.
I use Premed on pretty much every time I use Garrote. Premed > Garrote > Shiv > Rupture > Vanish and they're walking around wondering what the **** just happened. You can also substitute a ShS Evis before you Vanish for squishy classes, but most will have a damage mitigation buff up.
That's how you run warriors dry. You'll have to hit Sprint somewhere in there to get out of range of their Piercing Howl/Demo Shout and then Vanish against good warriors, but it's still doable.
Even better if you can pull it off is a ghetto Premed Garrote Rupture Vanish start.