Arena, Subtlety and Poison Use....Follow

Haven't seen anything yet on Theo's PvP Rogue FAQ pertaining to Poison use in Arena, so just throwing this out there...

Being 20/0/41, I tend to go with the widely accepted Wounding-Mainhand/Crippling-Offhand.

But what about certain comps like a pair of Mages (Mind Numbing?) and/or Dual DPS?

Or what about certain Pally comps that call for you to FF on the pally, should Mindnumbing be used over Wounding to slow his Flash's down for kicks/gouges?

Just throwing this out there, feel free to give your input.

You do know you can apply poisons while stealthed, right? And if your talking about a time issue, it takes roughly 3 seconds to swap out one poison for another.

Good point on bandaging, though im not sure if wounding affects that.

Rateup for your input!

Edited, Aug 12th 2008 11:46am by Zaknalfein

Have more than two weapons.

Start with Wounding/Crippling, have a macro to switch in a different off-hand to Shiv Mind-numbing if needed.

Theo could probably give alot more detailed explanation but thats the basic idea(I think).

GodofMoo,

I completely understand where you are coming from. As for myself, when I PvP I aim to just burst, and not in particular think twice about my weapons. But as everything goes, we all have our own opinions and ways to look at things.


And a PS: Kind of tough to tell, and if you have enough time to do this.. Maybe in a case to where it is down to you and another rogue, I would for sure go with Crippling on MH, and Deadly on OH.. Unless your opponents timing is PERFECT he cannot re-stealth with the dots on him.

I have two off-hand weapons. One has cripling, the second has mind-numbling. Against targets such as mage, priest, pally, shamy... start with a cripling Shiv, then switch* and Shiv mind-numbling and switch back to reapply Shiv frequently through proc... before mind-numbling is over, make another double weapon switch.

* in order to "switch" weapons, I use an addon such as weaponrack.

I rarely change the poisons I apply to my main weapons, but it happens. E.g. My priest partner dies and one of the two other guys dies. I remain solo against a mage: clearly, I will replace wound by mind-numbling (I find it more important to apply cripling for sure thanks to Shiv and just let mind-numbling be applied through normal proc). I do this only because wounding has little use against a mage, I obviously wouldn't do it against a priest, druid, shamy. Then, you just have to keep switching. Requires an extra amount of micro-management, but it's doable.

nostra

Roger, I have noticed alot of mages using more instants over castable spells (with the exception of Poly of course, you mages just love that damned spell ;P").

Good stuff from all thusfar.

So theo, what other swords do you keep on you? S2 swords? I usually keep my s1 OH Mace on me that always has "mind" on it. But my 2 s2 swords have wound/crip.

Ahh nice. I wanna get the something as my other OH. But i dont do much raiding so... Idk about that. Hopefully i get lucky and get a better rating and get my s3 swords. My 2v2 partner is much better now then he was.

Yeah, i have the S2 MH and OH. I really want the S3 MH AND OH tho. Just spent 1875 on my 3rd S4 piece tho. and we are only 1650...for now.

OOoo haha, hmm i didnt think about this. I will def get another s2. Prob a mace or fist. Thanks! Im more or less trying to master the mouse moving ATM. I used to be *Sigh* a WASD mover.... Haha no more tho! Do some PVE and BG's to master this way of the rogue.