Who is the 'smart' kill target?Follow

I received my first taste of 2v2 arena. I'm a shadow priest and my first partner was a prot warrior. We aren't ever good and ended with a 3-4 ratio.

I could always tell the good teams from the bad because the bad teams (aka, the ones we beat) would attack the prot warrior first. And leave me alone.

My next partner was a frost mage (who only did arena to get a wand, much like I'm just going for few good pieces). Every single match, I was the primary kill target, without fail. In more general terms, was I, the shadowpriest, the smart kill target of pair? (This is just a matter of curiosity)

Prot warriors don't hit for **** anymore.

Whenever I see a spriest in arena its generally the first target, unless its with a mage. Then mage takes my priority since I can soak most of what the priest initially throws out.

Thanks, nice to know I've got a nice, big target on me.


Guess I should either get some resilience gear or very good at running away...

Could be worse, you could be specced to heal. :) I'm always the most popular girl at the dance. Also I stink at LOS. Not that it matters because everyone seems to be able to shoot me through walls, mountains, and what have you since Cata. Not sure what that's about.

I think Rend summed it up best - Kill the one in the dress!

Not really.

Say a mage is casting frostbolt at you. Are you in the open? If so thats generally bad to begin with.

Close to an object though with decent reactions you can ruin their frostbolt.

You dont want to fight ranged DPS out in the open, you want to fight on your terms. As melee thats using objects to your advantage. Or as a healer. Do you stand in the open? Or do you stand by a box with your teammates just -barely- in LOS?

Constantly watch teammate and enemy positioning and adjust accordingly. PVP 101.


In regards to first kill target. Positioning is a hugely important factor. Strats can change on the fly if some enemy gets caught in the open. It might be all well and good to kill the spriest first in general, but what if he is kiting the crap out of you while the mage is unloading and polymorphing?

When being bursted, turtle up, go defensive and kite enemies around so your teammates can do the work. When your teammate is getting bursted switch roles. And understand when your enemy is doing this same thing to you. It all comes with practice though eventually you just know when to swap instinctively, but most of the swap calls will be because major cooldowns are blown or poor enemy positioning. Not even always their fault. Someone can play tight piilar game the whole match and position well, then a bad fear with trinket down sends them out in the open, quick pet nova roots them in place and you burst in 4 seconds flat.