Bill Kelly

WoW Arena Tournament - Getting Better



Posted: Saturday, March 28, 2009

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If you are anything like I am you have not quite grasped the tricks to the World of Warcraft Arena Tournament. I had Balance Druid made up, with a bit of Resto talents in there, and was running with a Survival Hunter. We got our butts whipped. Just steam rolled. Embarrassing. So my Arena buddy rolled a Priest and I respecced the Druid. He went full heal and I went full Boomkin. My, my, my did our luck change.

On the Druid rebuild I went pretty much full Balance with a couple points in the Restoration tree for good measure. I swapped out some trinkets, the Relic and a few gems. We ran a few skirmish matches and did very well so we jumped into some rated matches. What a difference our changes made! As we are not all that good at running line of sight or (really any strategy) we used a pretty basic approach. The gates would open, we'd run out, I'd get a bead on the closest guy (we don't do a heck of a lot of picking and choosing right out of the gate). My opening is something like this...typhoon, moonfire, insect swarm, root, starfall, trees, wrath, wrath, wrath, etc. Depending on what procs during this little onslaught I'll go from there.

As soon as I would get this little series of spells rolling my Priest buddy would hit me with his bubble and Power Infusion spell which bumps up my haste rating by 20% and reduces the mana cost of casting by 20%. The teams that chose to stand and fight us toe to toe seemed to go down very fast. For example we came across a Survival Hunter/Beastmaster combo that went down like sacks of potatoes. They focused all their energy on me which the Priest was able to heal rather easily. I focused on the survival hunter and once he went down it was all over but the crying. We also came up against a double Paladin team (which normally just mop the floor with us) and we burned them down pretty darn fast!

With this setup I am running out in Boomkin form rather than in stealth like before. It is not, obviously, a very subtle approach. This approach depends on quickly being able to get a hold of one enemy player, dump a bunch of damage on him and take him out fast. We found that when playing against two invisible characters we obviously had to quickly change it up. When we came up against a skilled team they knew what we were trying to do, were able to get through the initial bust of damage and it got down to a more technical fight.

Either way we were able to win 12 of the 14 matches we fought that night so all in all way better than our first run. Not perfect yet but we're getting better. Our first 20 matches we only won 5!

Bill has spent way too much time playing aDruid in the World of Warcaft! He spends his time running his Balance Druid around WoW and doing as much damage as he can in the Battlegrounds. For a free Druid guide atop by WoWDruid.com to check out more Druid tips, tricks, builds and info!

Bill spends way too much time running Druids, Hunters and Priests around the Battlegrounds and Arenas of World of Warcraft. Chances are you'll find him running amok in game or adding to his websites at WoWDruid.com and HunterPvP.com.
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