This HD video is narrated footage of my 85 Prot Pally in Cataclysm Patch v4.0.3a in Arena 3v3 with an Enhancement Shaman, Kashmír, and Restoration Druid (Skipz). This is my fifth Arena video for Cataclysm for Season 9 and first for 3v3.
Kashmír and I have been looking for a geared non-Pally/non-Shammy Healer for 3v3 for the past couple weeks; most of the geared Healers we know were already part of a 3v3 team and other Healers who didn’t know us said “no thanks” because of our specs. Thankfully a new guildee, Skipz, was willing to give us a shot after watching some of our 2v2 videos.
Skipz had just formed a 3v3 team this week. We were able to quickly raise the Team Rating from under 1k to over 1700 by going 14-3 over our first 17 games. The comp has been a blast for us to play. Because Kash and I can offheal and are reasonably durable, Skipz has time to CC and his role is our comp is very dynamic. As you can see in the footage he throws out a lot of Cyclones, insta-Roots, and Bear-form Bash.
Opposing Comps
Rogue / Warlock / Resto Druid
DK / Warrior / Holy Paladin
Mage / Warrior / Resto Druid
If you have questions for Kashmír, post them as a Comment below, as he tracks the comments on my blog.
I’ll ask Skipz if he’s willing to field Resto Druid questions as well, as he’s the expert.
P.S. we’re now over 1900 with 44 games played together. I’ll be recording more footage for videos as we make our way to 2000+ Rating.
This HD video is narrated footage of my 85 Prot Pally in Cataclysm Patch v4.0.3a in Arena 2v2 with an Enhancement Shaman, Kashmír. This is my fourth Arena video for Cataclysm for Season 9.
We started the week at 2002 Rating and finished at 2005, with a record for the week of 31-25. It was an up-and-down week but we continued to learn a lot from our mistakes – hopefully you will too
Last week was not a great week for us – we had a couple ugly slumps, but we managed to dig ourselves out. We finished the week ranked at #221. I looked through the top 200 teams on Shadowburn, and there were 0 Prot Pallies and 7 Enhancement Shamans.
Last night (Tuesday) we did go 6-2, which raised our rating to 2036 and our ranking to #175 in our battlegroup. Onward, upward!
Opposing Comps
DK / Holy Paladin
Mage / Shadow Priest
Mage / Resto Druid
Rogue / Resto Shaman
Rogue / Shadow Priest
Rogue / Feral Druid
Mage / Shadow Priest
Mage / Rogue
Mage / Warrior
Tips
As discussed in the video, Kashmír switched from 8/33 to 5/33/3, putting points into the Spark of Life talent. For a dual-DPS comp that has been a great move, as I have an easier time keep his HP up with my healing
One thing I forgot to mention in the video: if we know that we are facing a Caster/stealth MDPS comp, we have Kashmír wait out of LoS, so that when the MDPS opens up on him, the Caster has to ride around the pillar to DPS Kashmír. This buys us valuable time until we can get control of the situation
I treat Divine Shield as a second trinket. Long gone are the days where a non-Holy Pally can bubble and heal to full. I can heal about 30-35% of my HP while bubbled
As I said in the video, against Rogue/DPS comps, I will break Sap with my PVP trinket, because these fights go quick and if I ride out the Sap duration the outcome may already be determined. This isn’t 1v1, where you wait out the Sap against a Rogue
Check out my Prot Pally PVP Guide for the full scoop on the Prot spec, including my take on the upcoming changes for Prot in 4.0.6 (Rebuke!!!)
If you have a questions for Kashmír or me, please post ‘em below.
P.S. there are over 330 comments posted on the Prot Pally PVP Guide – there are dozens of Pallies sharing their tips and tactics there, and I am glad to see the Guide grow as a resource for the community.
P.P.S. blog readers and players from other servers in BGs been kind enough to express their thanks for the material I’ve been posting. One player last night found a funny way of contacting me:
This HD video is narrated footage of my 85 Protection Paladin in Cataclysm Patch v4.0.3a in an Eye of the Storm battleground, queued with two guildees. This is my 5th PVP video for Cataclysm.
In this video I showcase the mechanics of the excellent Landslide weapon enchant.
For detailed information about Prot PVP, check out my PVP Guide.
Please post feedback / questions / comments. Thanks!
Here are the mechanics for Landslide (LS):
Procs for 1k AP buff for 12 seconds
No internal cooldown
Can re-proc while it is up. This does not stack the buff but rather refreshes it
Those are great mechanics and allow for extended LS uptime, which is awesome for burst.
Kashmír and I got LS on our weapons, and we went 5-1 to start the fifth week of Arena 2v2 and we’re up to 2042 Rating. Looks like we haven’t hit our Rating “ceiling” yet. Our 2002 Rating from last week raised our weekly Conqueror cap to 2378 points, so we were both able to pick up two upgrades tonight.
This HD video is narrated footage of my 85 Prot Pally in Cataclysm Patch v4.0.3a in Arena 2v2 with an Enhancement Shaman, Kashmír. This is my third Arena video for Cataclysm.
Our Team by the Numbers
We worked our way up from 1850 to 2000 rating in the 4th week of Season 9 and earned the 2k Achievement
We started the week by going 9-9, adjusted our tactics, and then finished with a 16-7 run over the next 23 games. We barely missed out on the Hotter Streak Achievement (10 consecutive wins at 1800+).
We were ranked #213 for Shadowburn as of Tuesday morning, and we have climbed up to #119 as of the time of this post.
We are the only Prot Pally / Enhancement Shaman comp in the top 200. We’ve never faced a mirror comp.
Here’s the link to our team page, if you want to check out our gear/spec/enchants/gems/etc:
As discussed in the video, “reverse kiting” has worked really well for us. Basically we kite a MDPS out of LoS from his team mate. If the team mate is a Healer this makes it difficult for the Healer to heal the MDPS without using instant casts or fast-cast, mana-inefficient heals. If the team mate is a Caster this prevents them from freecasting on us. I call this reverse kiting because teams usually expect us as a dual-melee comp to come after them. We’ve learned the hard way that that can put us in very vulnerable situations
Check out my Prot Pally PVP Guide for the full scoop on the Prot spec, including my take on the upcoming changes for Prot in 4.0.6 (Rebuke!!!)
If you have a questions for either me or Kashmír, please post ‘em below.
This HD video is narrated footage of my 85 Prot Pally in Cataclysm Patch v4.0.3a in Arena 2v2 with an Enhancement Shaman, Kashmír. This is my second Arena video for Cataclysm.
We worked our way up from 1750 to 1850 rating in the 3rd week of Season 9. Our team moved up the ladder from the 600s to #213. Here’s the link to our team page, if you want to check out our gear/spec/enchants/gems/etc:
As I discussed in the video, bridging the gap between an Enhancement Shaman’s Feral Spirit ability (a.k.a. Wolves) is to key to winning an endurance match against a DPS + Healer comp. This tactic will not work against a Warrior + Healer comp due to the Warrior’s high DPS
To maximize the effect of Feral Spirit, Kashmír activates his PVP trinket (Badge of Conquest), casts FS, then casts Bloodlust
For endurance fights where we are focus firing the DPS, I should have used Hammer of Justice (HoJ) stun more frequently to reduce incoming damage. The cooldown on HoJ is so long that there is no issue with Diminishing Returns (DR). However, once we’re getting close to a CC-burst sequence it’s worth waiting until we both have HoJ and Hex off cooldown
As I mentioned in the video, if you need to heal your partner and they have a melee on them, sometimes you should create a gap before healing so that you can’t be interrupted by the melee, and if the melee decides to interrupt your cast (e.g. Warrior Intercept), they’re off your partner anyway. Force them to choose
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