Theo's PvP 101 (was forum=21)Follow

Excellent guide for pvp newbs like myself. Thanks

I would like to know how good pvp'ers literally run circles around me, and I want to do that as well.

I am a horrible at pvp, but do enjoy it on occasion.

I am not a keyboard turner, well I was, but now I'm a hybrid I guess. I use the keys and the mouse to move, but always willing to learn more.



Edited, Sep 5th 2010 12:27pm by Xizervexius

Generally, every PvPer has a run speed enchant or meta gem (though not both, they don't stack). Classes like DK, rogue, etc all have run speed built into their class in some way (and it's generally more than the 8% provided by enchant/meta): DKs have unholy presence and unholy aura, rogues have fleet footed, etc.

8% run speed may not seem like much, but trust me when I say it's significant, especially when you're snared.

That another thing, make sure you snare your opponent, since they're going to do that to you.

The most boring (or perhaps not boring depending on your preference) way to learn how to PvP and especially how to move in PvP is to watch videos at Warcraftmovies. Choose your class, filter to just PvP videos, and watch the best of your class. I learned a lot from videos by watching and then emulating what I saw.

I see that you have some macros going on in there.

How do you decide which spells are useful to put into a macro? And what kind of macros? Examples would be nice.

I'm getting started doing macros, I do my own macros tailored to my own style but I'm still just doing some basic stuff so far like mouseover fear and castsequence to save keyboard space because my fingers only reach from the ` to the 6 without moving my hand. (Yes I have piano hands).

My thinking behind doing mouseover fear was "oh cool I can fear the other guy without switching targets", works nice in arena with those enemy unitframes that come in the default UI because I can mouseover the unitframe and it will work.

I'm still using the default UI for now for now because I don't want to flood myself with information and end up with a spreadsheet of timers blocking my view, and because I'm still learning to set up my UI and I'm going step by step on this.

Hey Theo, what's up with you being all helpful and nice instead of telling people how much they suck?




Also, duels > Bg's for practising PvP. Especially because I've found most of the decent PvPers to be happy to tell you where you're messing up and give you tips and those guys are always outside of Ogrimmar/IF.

In terms of difficulty/skill the duelers are harder than most of the BG population.

But there's elements that change a lot between 1v1 and NvN, like, in 1v1 you don't care so much about waiting out a sap or sheep, in 2v2 you wait out a sap and then a sheep and someone else dies.

And in BGs you need to do things other than just killing enemies. As killing them just causes them to respawn and it doesn't make you win.

Hey poldaran, long time no see! I've still been playing wow my main is now a disc priest . Just got my wrathful shoulders recently and it's my 3rd class I've gotten 2k +.

Hehe speaking of the shammy thing. I actually ended up being a drainei shammy once faction change came out. How's that for irony eh? I've been lurking on sk, ej & oboards(shudder) for the past couple years due to lack of pvp forum here but I'm thrilled they finally got it done here at Allah!

How you been? Still posting like a fiend I see? ;)

Frost Nova is almost never used as a CC, and almost always as a way to set up a shatter, or at least putting pressure on healers.

Also, this is the old PvP FAQ, please refer to the sticky and post there.