Some 2v2
Arena, PvP April 21st, 2008Yesterday, I managed to grow cotton and to pick, gin and bale it (aka did all daily). After that I was greatly bored. I looked up my friends list and there was this Shammy that asked me to play 2v2 some time ago. Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to try duo with him. Previously I only played with Druids and Paladin.
My guess was that we will get like 1800 and after few lost games we will stop, but hell its better than nothing.
We took some 1820 team and decided we will see how it goes. And than miracles begin.
I cannot stress this enough, how much in shock I was. We steamrolled every single team we came arcoss.
I never thought we can perform that good, offensive playstyle of Shamman perfectly fits my blood thirst. We were able to instagib priests thanks to mass purge, wf, bloodlust and its was a joke how easy that was. We did lose some games against shadow priests, but still we got 2k in now time with 13-4. After that, we gave that team away and decided to start new one to see how much further can we get if we start using ventrilo. We played for another 3h and managed to reach 2022 in 47 games, with one disconnect, we could prolly do it in 45.
I underestimated this setup and never really wanted to try it, but after yesterday I have to say this is by far best setup in 2v2 for warrior like me. Im not much fan of entire “lets outlast them”, i hate to turtle and kite.
Shaman is by far most offensive and one of the toughest healers you can get. He can tank s3 warrior with no mana loss or dish out decent dps with support of purges and wf. If you never concidered playing with shammy because “War/Druid pwns” try it, its really worth it.
Your master, S.
PS.
Ming is a tool.
SandMan
April 21st, 2008 at 8:59 am
This is so going to bring flamers here :D.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:02 am
The top team in my battle group is shaman + warrior (2500 rated)
I played with a shaman once and instantly hit 2.2k
so yea, its really nice, also with the new buffs they have gotten
April 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I’d like to play with a shaman too.
I play with a druid and it totally unfit my way of playing the warrior.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
What do you guys think of 2v2 with a Priest?
I have been doing it for some time now because we are RL mates. We struggle always with the CC from other teams such as War/Druid. The highest we have gotten is to 1650 with S1/Vind gear and then we just drop back again.
It’s really frustrating. Is it because War/Priest doesn’t really work?
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
Saresa
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
If you are going with a priest, then you have to be gnome warrior and dwarf priest, otherwise its not that good
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
2v2 with a shaman in some situations can be extremely strong, and I also love the shamans’ offense abilities. It’s not easy to play and has it’s share of counter comps, but it’s still very fun.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I usually go with a discpriest, which mostly works quite fine. Totally wanna try out a shammy now though
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I’m an UD warrior and play 2’s with an UD priest. We got to 1969 last night. This combo takes A LOT of practice to execute correctly. The thing that has helped us the most in this combo is your priests speccing down into shadow to get fear cooldown reduced, blackout, and mindflay.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 am
I got Gladiator with a druid in 2s and 3s, but doing 2s with a druid was something I always hated. I recently teamed up with a shaman and man, I’ve never had so much fun in 2s, I’m like you, I’m a very aggressive warrior, so playing with a shaman perfectly fit my style, and I wish I would have woke up earlier about it. The biggest part about playing warrior/shaman is setting up your interrupt rotation, once you have that on farm, the only thing that can stop the team is a very well played 2 dps (rogue/mage being the primary one that comes to mind)
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:16 am
Thanks for your thoughts everyone.
We have played over 200 games now and these are the patterns I see forming with our match-ups:
Mage/Rogue - They totally CC the priest and nuke me in a matter of secounds. CC with Poly/Blind/Nova/Sap. All I can do is go in Defensive equip a shield and reflect some damage until my priest can heal me.
Warr/Druid - Druid continually CC’s me with Ent Roots and Cyclone, whilst the Warrior is always on my priest. All I can do is DPS the warrior and dump some rage on the druid where possible. Reflecting the oocasional cyclone or ent roots doesn’t really help. When I get the warrior <50% I try to switch to the druid and then go back to the warrior.
The bottom line - Two DPS CC the priest and nuke me.
- Healer/DPS DPS goes priest and healer CC’s me if they can.
The problem with Priest/Warrior is the only CC a 3min CD fear and a 30sec CD fear. Other than that the priest is wide open to attack and you are continuoslly trying to defend him.
If you get lucky, you can interrupt the occasional heal and get a few crits off to finish your target. But as Cmurda says this takes ALOT of practice and intuition.
Sorry for the long post, I feel passionate about this subject as we are really struggling to see this combo work for us.
Saresa
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Another nice combo is Warr/Pala if he puts blessing of sacrifice on ya, since that make you more or less immune against polymorph and icetrap etc. Also it confuses the opponents enough to mess them up
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hey Cmurda,
I checked out your profile. You see the difference between us is you have like full S3 and S3 weapon and so does your Priest. Which is why you can get to such a rating.
Both my priest and I have 1 S3 the rest S1 and all Vind gear, hence we can only reach around 1650 rating before we get pummeled.
I think gear plays a big part in your teams success because I really notice the difference when I get new gear each week.
Saresa
April 24th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Saresa,
I have to agree with you. Gear is your limitation.
At this moment so late in s3 having s1+vindicators is just not enough.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I picked up my friends 260 resil resto shaman, played him for 3 days then went 9-1 with my friends moderately geared warrior (~300 resil/1600ap + skillherald I think) having no trouble at all (loss was versus mirror match where i was a retard and didn’t see my warrior at 20%).
This comp is super strong imo, having been playing paladin warrior on my warrior this felt like such freedom. Wish my paladin would reroll shaman now rofl.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Me and shamy splited our ways, need new decent skilled and geared shammy. Otherwise ill have to play with druid again…
April 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
See Sandman, noone likes you.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Owned, anyway, WTB resto shammy to 5v5, Kazumba is slacking :(.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Rayla, imo pve more nab.