Somehow, I knew his main was a DK.Follow

Or, isy's bored Sunday night thread.

Just transferred my Troll Hunter to Ursin, so the Armory isn't showing anything for her right now, but once it updates you'll be able to see how crappy her gear is. Mainly lowbie Outland stuff with Northrend AP gems stuffed into every open socket, with a fair scattering of greens. My only decent pieces are the starter Northrend gun and some mail boots out of Nexus.

Anyway, while Ursin is a PvP server, it's low population, so I hadn't run into much in the way of PvP until tonight, when this druid and I happened to cross paths near Kamagua. Much, much better gear quality, and a level higher with over a thousand more health and a much larger mana pool. I would have just ridden past, but he started following me, and well...

I won. 0.o

I killed him twice on my own when we were both at full health and mana, he killed me twice when I was already at half health.

By that point Jon had arrived on his 77 DK since we figured the Druid was pretty close to switching over to his main and we were curious to see what would show up. We were not disappointed... 80 DK, epic gryphon, looked like he was wearing a lot of Ulduar gear. He flew over the town a few times, spotted us, then dropped down.

Right onto the freezing trap I'd dropped earlier (as a joke since srsly no one is dumb/nearsighted enough to run over those, right?) and icecubified himself.

He killed us pretty easily regardless--my trapping him aggroed a town guard onto me, and Jon's DK didn't stand much of a chance anyway--but the last thing I saw before the ugly walrus-men finished me off was him standing still a couple yards away from my hubby's toon, tossing Death Coils at his antimagic shell.

We went AFK for a sandwich and he was still there when we got back twenty minutes later, flying all over the place waiting for us to rez so he could feel fulfilled.

/pity

TL;DR: isyris killed a better-geared druid in a fair fight even though she sucks at PvP, her opponent didn't seem to have a much better idea of what he was doing on his main either, and then there were sandwiches.

I will say this.

Hunter > Boomkin, most of the time.

But, god damn why do people have to try and camp like retards.

Hunter>All, what are you guys talking about?

The only time I've lost against anything in recent memory is when I trinketed out of a Cheap Shot.

I died.

95% of all DK's are retards.

Plate armor doesn't do much against explosive shots, more vs BM hunters but well.. pop BW and you're an unstoppable killing machine.

A DK's main ways of getting in melee are Icy Chains, Death Grip and pet stun.
When a DK spams Icy Chains on me, that means he can't use his frost runes for damage and you can keep him out of melee with Pin, concussive shot, scatter shot and if you need to wyvern sting.
If you're out of those, Master's Call gets you a lot of distance quickly.

Death Grip is easy to negate by blowing Disengage right after.
And when you know a Death Grip is coming, use deterrence to block it.
For example if you're forced to disengage early, blowing deterrence right after and the DK will be out of a way to get to you.

And out of the 3 plate classes, DK's are by far the easiest to kite.
Warriors are hard with their constant charging, paladins BoFreedom and /lol at you.

Frost trap > 3x explosive shot > dead ghoul. :P

As long as you're leveling and BM, just pop BW and tear him a new hole.



Works vs any class, guaranteed :P

Haha, and I've been thinking of switching to Marks so I can pick up Aimed Shot. xD

If you go BM, you must get the BW glyph....it's sexyawesome.

Hey, leveling BM totally uses Serpent Sting too. :D

But yeah BM is kinda boring til you get steady. It's fun cause you can pick up the mount speed boost pretty early on, though, and Viper doesn't make you drop so much of your damage, so you don't really have any downtime. Although when I went Marks for a bit around 40 I was doing fine on mana too, had Rapid Killing and Rapid Recovery (might have messed up the name, but the one that regens mana when you get a certain buff) and the Arcane Shot glyph. Hmm.

Edited, Aug 4th 2009 1:25pm by isyris

I'm really really tempted to go Marks again now (especially since Rapid Fire lines up so nicely with Berserking). That's a nice amount of damage that Aimed + Arcane crits are doing for you at your level, kinda want to see how much I'd be getting out of it at 72.

Do you find that your pet has trouble holding threat, or do you kill the mobs fast enough that it's not an issue?

Edited, Aug 4th 2009 1:43pm by isyris

Hmm, doesn't sound too bad (and I do know how to kite at least). I've got a hyena I've been using, I think I'll respec her to pick up charge and give it a try. :)




edited for: dammit why can't I spell anything right today?

Edited, Aug 4th 2009 2:32pm by isyris

I ran into a horde hunter in dustwallow back around 42? He got the jump on me with his pet on aggresive so the first time he got me down and killed me.

Well, I was bm at the time so the second I res'd I called up my pet and charged/intimidated/rapid killing him and then proceeded to tear his face from his skull... About 8 times.

I <3 camping!

mhm, except rogues.