Because the punk in ramparts has decided not to give me his sword, I have started doing AB and AV to get enough marks and honor to get the other sword from there.
I am still fairly new at PVPing with my rogue but I have found one of the most damning strategies an opponent can utilize against me is jumping around like a kid with ADHD who just ate a pound bag of sugar. Continually jumping and ending up beside or behind me, making it so the only thing hitting them is an occasional auto attack. Sometimes I can sort of time it when they happen to jump in front of me but usually it just says they need to be in front of me. I can't gouge or KS them. I swear it's the silliest things I've seen in this game.
For giggles I even tried it out. I took my rather poorly geared hunter to AV and got sapped by a rather well geared rogue. After he took out my pet he went after me. It started to look bad but I figured if I was going to die might as well die with style so I started jumping around like an *** myself. Managed to last for a while. Ended up ice trapping him and some other alliance came along and killed him. I guess he didn't like it because he jumped me again later. Started jumping around behind and beside him and I lasted a good while. Well until a warlock dotted and feared the crap out of me.
Is there any way to combat it other than luck? The worst are freaking paladins who I get really low on health and am about KS or gouge and they just jump around until they have enough mana to either stun me or pop a heal.
It looks like it's the mechanics of the game that require a target to be pretty damn close to dead in front of you. At least that's how it seems with the jumping. If they start to mess up and jump like twice one way and twice the other each time I can sort of time my attack but man it's annoying.
Also, I have about 1k honor and need like another 11.5k so I will be doing a lot more AV since I am 60 and that makes me the top dog there. Should I stay with combat if I am going to be doing BGs for a while or maybe respec?
Thanks again.