I know it's my fault, advice please!(Arena woes)Follow

Ok so I finally found a Warrior partner for 2v2.

Hooray I thought, the wins will just roll in with my omg OP team.

He's mostly PVP epic'd out correct weapons and spec, jackpot.

Myself.... well I'm still a fresh 70 I only have 3 pvp epics and the Blue pvp trinket. Nothing amazing, nothing good to be honest with myself. I guess I thought the team itself would just do its thang.

Im spec'd 11/11/39 pvp resto all the way, this is what I wanted to do.

Then we played our first 10 games.....

3-7, lame! My strat was to wait in cat form sleathed until i knew whom to cyclone or pop out for the quick heal. Yeah when i did show myself I was focused so hard sometimes it was just paralyzing. Lock, SP combos chain feared and silenced me like i was their toy. All while my warrior would drop in about 15 seconds due to ten thousand shadow DOT's.

Warrior/Pld combo was a mother, the pally out lasted me in mana even though i CC'd my *** off.

We lost to other combos when I knew I should have won, but every lose felt like it was due to my abilities and not my partners.

So Please I know theres tons of this stuff around the forums, which i've been reading dilgently since way back to my warrior days in FFXI and now the druid forums.

My question is really how to start those first few key seconds in the battle. Do I heal then CC, try Dual CC with cyclone roots. Furthermore WTF do I do againist silence and counterspell. All of that and as well keeping my warrior alive.

If I survive those opening moments i can usually LOS them and stay alive long enough for the warrior to do what warriors do.

first off, practice. its a new arena team, and youll need time to get used to one another. more than that, you need time to get used to arena play as a druid. no real tip there, you just gotta go out and do it. the best i can offer is "heal early, heal often" and "communicate about EVERYTHING with your partner". if mace stun procs, he should tell you, because those 3s are all you need to get a key cyclone/root/heal off, or even get distance and drink.

secondly, gear. get all the off-set pvp pieces with honor first if you havent already, then start working on a combination of S1 and S3 gear. grab the 35 resilience set bonus asap and do your best to fill in pieces as time goes by. as you gear up, your margin for error will increase, giving you more time alive to learn by doing.

its probably not a bad idea to warm up with a few skirmishes before you get into the real arena; it can make the difference between a losing day and a 50/50 split or better.

Edited, May 20th 2008 2:20am by Quor