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Shaman PvP Secrets – The Basics

WoW Guide Reviewer — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:48:14 +0000

Knowing how each class will perform in PvP, it's strengths and weaknesses, is crucial for a Shaman. This is even more important for Shaman. That's because there have been significant changes to the attributes of this class over the years. So even if you do find information on your character's strengths and weaknesses, that information could be out of date. So let's discuss the current situation.

Shaman PvP Strengths

Shaman used to be among the most feared of all PvP classes. Your class is no longer among the PvP elite, but you can still do well at it and have a blast at the same time. You just need to be smart about it. Your biggest weapon is your array of totems. Depending on which you choose, they can heal you, hurt your foes, and give you all sorts of additional benefits.

Beyond the totems, your Shaman has the ability to wear mail armor and use a shield, as well as heal when you're injured. All told, this makes you a formidable opponent. Choose your talents and gear wisely and you'll be able to hold your own out there.

Shaman PvP Weaknesses

All that said, your Shaman does have some potentially fatal weaknesses. You lack any form of crowd control, which means you can't easily disengage from an enemy once the fight begins. In addition, most of your attacks are short range. This means that ranged fighters like Hunters and Mages can pound you from outside your range, and do serious damage before you can get close enough to hit back.

Now you have a basic outline of the strengths and weaknesses of this fun class. Playing this class is a lot tougher than it used to be, but that doesn't have to stop you. With a good WoW PvP guide in hand you'll get specific advice on talent builds, gear selection, and tactics to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses when fighting every class of player.

Click Here to get more information about dominating WoW PvP with your Shaman (or any other character class).

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PvP Guide | Best Talent Build for A Holy Paladin

WoW Guide Reviewer — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:08:05 +0000

For you who enjoy spending your time at the PvP Arena with your teamates, I believe that you will find this paladin guide for pvp very useful. Adding a paladin in your team can give you various benefits that your opponents don’t have such as healing and blessing. Anyone who ever fighting against a team with experienced Holy paladin in it must know how he/she can give the opponent very hard time in battle.

Being a Holy Paladin doesn’t mean that you have to go deep in Holy tree; some paladins in the Arena PvP have tried to combine Holy and Retribution and it is works well for them. However, in this Holy Paladin talent build I will focus on Holy/Protection build (all maxed except the one that I put note):

Holy
1. Spiritual Focus: you are going to cast Holy Light often, so this is very useful.
2. Healing Light: increasing your healing power.
3. Divine Intellect (1 point)
4. Unyielding Faith: useful against Priest and Warlocks.
5. Aura Mastery: an anti Silence; nice since you are nothing without your spells.
6. Illumination: another mana source.
7. Improved Concentration Aura: Reduce duration of Interrupt.
8. Pure of Heart: another anti Warlock skill.
9. Divine Favor: when you need greater healing or damage.
10. Sanctified Light: chance to increase your healing and attack.
11. Holy Power: increase the critical effect chance for your Holy spells.
12. Light’s Grace: can be useful in dangerous situation that require quick action.
13. Holy Shock: instant damage for your enemy or healing for your allies.
14. Holy Guidance: increase your spell power.
15. Divine Illumination: useful if you are going to cast spell that cost large amount of mana such as Beacon of Light.
16. Judgement of the Pure: power up for your Judgement spells; piss your enemy even further.
17. Infusion of Light: can be useful in some conditions.
18. Enlightened Judgements: another power up for your Judgement spells.
19. Beacon of Light: Saves mana when you have to heal more than one character. Based on the situation, you may have to cast it on yourself.
Important thing to consider: Beacon of Light will drain 35% of your base mana; this is a lot to pay for a single spell. If you have the chance, put Divine Illumination before casting Beacon of Light.

Protection
1. Divinity: increase your healing.
2. Stoicism: good protection against stun.
3. Guardian’s Favor: power up your hand spells.
4. Divine Sacrifice: combine it with bubble.
5. Improved Righteous Fury: make it even more difficult to kill you.
6. Toughness (1 point).
7. Divine Guardian: make you even harder.
8. Improved Hammer of Justice: use it at the right time; it will greatly distrub your opponents and can save your friends. Other Paladin PvP guide may suggest taking Improved Devotion Aura instead, but I believe more Hammer of Justice can save your team from many potential dangers.

Holy Paladin talent build offer many ways to keep you and your allies save; don’t only stick to your healing spells to keep the team survivability, use other spells such as Sacred Shield, Hand of Sacrifice, and Divine Sacrifice.It is very important to be versatile so you can adapt to various situation;eg: read this rogue talent build to see a solid example of a versatile build.

Keep remind yourself that put Hand of Sacrifice and Divinde Sacrifice doesn’t mean that you will be in dangerous situation. If the situation gets dangerous, use Beacon of Light on yourself and start bursting healing spells on your teammates.

Different Paladin PvP Guide focus on different playing style, but I think Holy Paladin is hold more important role in PvP Arena than the one that focused on damage dealing. By playing your abilities and spells strategically (remember, you have limited mana), you can keep your entire team alive and at the same time help them finishing the other team.

Learn about a guide that will teach you how to level, funding, and make your paladin stay at the top of the killing blows at Ultimate WoW Guide Review.

Note: if you enjoy PvP, you may want to build another popular PvP class: Warlock. Learn how to build a PvP Warlock at Warlock PvP Guide.