Poll: Tim's new 3-box team- VOTE!

[dees]

I voted 3 locks... I am currently doing 5 x locks for PVP and want to see the carnage. Do eet!!!

[Ualaa]

I'll just throw ideas out there for now.



For fear protection, you can go one of two routes.

Round-Robin the fear, targeting the current lead toon.
And have that toon Mass Dispel very quickly, to hopefully dispel the fear on the other priests.

Everyone Fear-Ward's themselves.
Which means they are immune to the first fear (which would have been 8 seconds).
They can trinket the second fear (which is four seconds).
And then one more fear can land (only two seconds).
And you're immune to fear, for 30 seconds because of diminishing returns.

The second approach is easier, and guaranteed.
The first, if you're fast, is less time feared.



Mass Dispel can be a weapon too; removal of buffs can be more debilitating than the amount of damage inflicted for the same mana.



Disc has two schools of magic for offense.

Holy: Holy Fire, Smite, Penance.
Shadow: Mindblast, Devouring Plague, SW: Pain, SW: Death.

Two schools of magic is nice; less vulnerable to being locked out.



You can glyph SW: Death which auto refreshes the spell, if they're almost dead and you fail to kill them.
That gets you SW: Death x2, per priest on low health targets... which should be a great chance to finish anyone off.



PW: Shield would likely be two macros.
One would have each priest hit themselves, as it is a rather large buffer now.
The other would be round-robin, for casting on others.
You'd likely have full talent support for PW: Shield, where a decent portion of the damage is reflected back at the attacker, and where it heals for a portion of the shield amount.



Heals would be a mix between: everyone heals at once, and round-robin.

I'd probably go with 3x Renew, per cast.
And probably 3x Penance, both offense and defense, since that breaks follow anyway.

Meanwhile the faster inefficient heals like Flash Heal, on round-robin would be less inefficient.
One priest casts and then the next; so you can spam it if you need it.

A similar approach to the bigger heals, except you would cycle through targets, so up to three targets get the larger heal at once.

Work Prayer of Mending in there somewhere.



Smite isn't a terribly great nuke, but it will heal the lowest percentage target a decent amount (equal to the damage dealt).
Passive healing through DPS is something.
You can glyph it for PvE spell hit cap, not sure if that is the best glyph for PvP or not.



Shadowfiend's are your mana regen.
Although Disc is very efficient on mana already.
I believe they get a Hymn to restore mana too.



Melee protection would include Psychic Scream on round-robin.
Holy Nova spam could work too.
Mind Sear could work too, it is AoE.

[Tim]

Ualaa has me convinced - Priests it is!

I was reading a ton of stuff on Shadow Priests, and it seems really viable multiboxed in BGs. There are extra horrors (like a warlocks deathcoil) as well as a talent to instant break fears (Dispersion). So it would seem like a 3x Priest group would be pretty hard to fear, which is the bane of multiboxing.

Since I'll be going Goblin, there won't be any Undead racial for fear, but that is no prob.

Trinket + Fear Ward + Dispersion + Mass Dispel (if I can figure out how to do it while feared correctly heh).

I think we are definitely going Priest!

Thanks for the info Ualaa : )

[Davidbirkin]

Tim, when do you plan on streaming this epicness?

[Tim]

Well there are a bunch of things for me to do before I start, and when I do, its probably going to be for just a couple hrs a day.

Also, I'm working on a plan to equip all 3 of them with Heirlooms before I start while still being RAF 300%

[Bobby79]

You have done the 3 warlock so now change to priests it would be fun to see.

nobody talks about priests

[Tim]

See I think Ualaa is right when rated BGs are all about heals, plus I just like healing overall. I think it would be pretty fun to be in a BG and pwn face until you get into a big scale fight, then start tossing heals like crazy.

The more I see the shadow spec though the more I think it could be really viable in BG PVP.

Plus have you guys teamed with a Spriest in Cata heroics yet? Their party heals are nuts! Imagine 3 of them?

I wonder, could 4x Spriests damage healing be enough to heal a tank in a heroic? If a priest does lets say 10kdps, and the heal is 3% (is there a way to increase this?), then that would be 12%, 1200heal/sec on a tank. Hmm.

[Ualaa]

Dispersion is pretty OP.

Prior to the 4.0.6 druid nerfs, my [five] full honor geared druids would very rarely be able to take out a Priest who used Dispersion. Following the priest, until it ended (DPSing as we went) ended up with a dead Priest, but anytime it is 5v1 or even 5v5 but five focus on one... that's not a surprise.

I prioritized Mages (Root/Snare) > Priest/Warlock (AoE Fear) > Rogues (Sap is annoying) > Others.

Anyway, Dispersion is strong damage reduction.
Ideally, you would want to have a separate key per Priest.
Of course Dispersion is Shadow... so that means entering the BG as DPS instead of Heals/Support with very strong DPS for a healer.

[Tim]

Spriest also seem to get a Deathcoil type talent, which I am guessing doesn't use the dim returns, right? Psychic Horror I believe it is called.

Here is my plan: Use my current mage, get heirlooms, create 3 accounts on that mage, and transfer them all to new accounts w/Heirlooms, and those new accounts will all be RAF. How does that sound?

Getting Heirlooms is wicked easy, I got 2 Heirloom chest armors yesterday alone from LFD heroics.