Darkwinjax wrote:Theloras wrote:xwraith wrote:What's the strongest class in battlegrounds at the highest gear level?
I've heard warlocks, spriests, and mages are all very good, for example.
Those are all powerful yes, but a Reck Paladin with Naxx Grand crusader or Avenger Armour and a Naxx 2hander will 1shot each of them - I should know cause I have
you have to be an autistic mongo like this guy to actually believe you will kill any decent players with a ret pala, much less on naxx gear level.
you will never have reckoning stacks vs these classes in a 1v1 situation, much less touch a single warlock / mage to actually one shot them if you had them.
Youd have to be a dumb carrot headed Whipper Root Tuber to think mages don't crit. Mages and warlocks give more crits then a paladin dueling my paladin in a fight. You must be talking about priests who never dps in raids like warlocks and mages and never get to get enormous spell crit to roll on pve dps gear.
Mages crit more then paladins. That's whats funny. Paladins hit the shield and with only r10 at 15% crit a mage has more crit then them. Even a warlock can be defeated easily. In a battleground, the pet is ALWAYS attacking for reckoning bombs. In a duel the pet can be commanded not to melee but think about it. What is the role of a warlock in a raid. To do more damage. They would spec the exact same spell crit as mages. They would also ALWAYS crit. The only class I have noticed that doesn't do as much critting as a mage or warlock is a priest. YES, I agree a priest is more effective, because their gear is not so dpsful in raiding.
HAH? SEE. But now you do realize that this paladin can do 2000-2600 judgements and 1 shot a priest in a 6 second stun. Insignia anyone? Sure.... but with my 35 second cooldown you cant hope to win. MY bubble takes up 12 seconds on that turn before your second duel occurs with zero insignias. Meaning I can stun you for 2 duels. You are left with a cooldown of my stun at a mere 15 seconds in a duel. Its because by the time it takes you to put me on 20% hp with my resists, I would of taken many many seconds before I used the bubble. If you used insignia in warsong however, I wouldn't wait there stalling for your friends to arrive, I would use a 30 second sleep on you. If youre undead I would use a special tactic which FORCES you to waste will of the forsaken for me to 1 shot you. You are now left with a 15 second stun cd in a duel however in a duel I could of used magic dust the entire time. That's right, human paladin vs alliance priest = magic dust on their insignia and repeat the stun 1 shot. Lets assume I don't have magic dust. Iron grenade and run around, my stun is now on 10 seconds. I spam cleanse and heal at this point since I have won. Your priest cant insignia this stun. If you decide to use free action potion, I will just magic dust it.
Therefore the ONLY classes that wouldn't give a single reckoning charge in under 15 seconds which is guaranteed for a 1 shot. Yep.. If you cant do 5k damage with 1 reckoning charge then sorry. You shouldn't be complaining. They can do up to 8k with 1 reckoning charge.
Goblin sapper charge/ crystal charge = 700 (instant cast)
Shadow oil or Life stealing or servo arm/ ebon hand proc (any one can proc~ 15% chance each) = 400 (one)
Melee x 2 (servo arm hits 200 on 3k armor, 300 on cloth) 300 x 2 = 600
Seal x 2 = Seal 400 x 2 = 800
Hammer of justice extra melee hits - Melee x 2 / Seal x 2 = 1400
Judgement x 4 in 8 seconds (T2 judgement + regular judgement x 2) = 2400 (without flask or sotc)
Hammer of justice (6 second stun)
Consecration = 1000 damage easily with double trinket
Double trinket
Blazefury medallion 100 x 4 = 400
= 7700 damage ( from 1 weapon enchant/proc when you have 3 of them)
= 8700 damage (if servo arm procs once, shadow oil procs, lifestealing procs in the 4 swings)
A reckoning paladins weakness = priests and shit geared players with no crit chance
Mages and warlocks and hunters/ rogues and warriors and shamans all have high crit chance.
With all of that you should be lucky not to do 8k damage and be able to 1 shot a t3 warrior. YES or GTFO
Conclusion: Priests don't give much reckoning charges/crits but are PISS easy to stun 1 shot then a mage or warlock.
A warlock is easy when the paladin uses iron grenade to set up a 1 shot stun with either servo arm and skull of impending doom to make sure he isn't caught by any charm/ restorative potion for both charm and fear with purge tactics or a shield stun 1 shot/ shadow reflect stun 1 shot for each duel. First duel, bubble stun 1 shot. Second duel shadow reflect 1 shot. 3 rd duel. However this isn't needed. You can simply range stun the warlock and get close enough with shadowreflect > charm or impending doom > charm.
1 shot the warlock with the burst above. If you think the warlock is going to purge your stun using a felhunter. Use a magic dust on the fel hunter and 1 shot the warlock every time. The warlock should have a 0% chance. Just like the priest. The priest will use insignia and you can use the method shown above. There is a way to force an undead priest to waste Wotf with an under 5 minute item. I will find where I wrote that.
Moral:
This means that a mage is the hardest class to beat for a paladin as the mage may give you reckoning bombs to crit and 1 shot him, but thanks to the polymorph unlike fear which can be evaded and charm which can be impending of doomed, polymorph is very restorative potion dependant since if you bubble it he can just iceblock, if you skull of impending doom it, he will iceblock and you will get no where but put into another polymorph. The mage is very Resistance dependant compared to the others since they cant be stun 1 shotted like a warlock/priest. I don't mean 1 shotted with reckoning bomb. I mean 1 shotted in a stun. A mage cannot be especially when they use blinks and double iceblock. Everyone is idiotic and thinks the class that doesn't give you reckoning bomb is harder to defeat.
Oh how wrong they are. Its all about who can counter who with every spell. Not who can stop me from gaining only charges. Even though priests don't grant crits for charges, they are far easier to 1 shot and stunlock then a mage. They are 100 times easier if you have that gear. If a priest or warlock uses free action, a magic dust destroys free action potion unless you have wotf. Doesn't matter though, since a specific item can force wotf to be wasted.
A mage can always counter the bomb by iceblocking. The mage can always hit you. You wont let the mage hit you with fireball as you are in his face with the stun and iron grenade and restorative potion but he can always use fireblast. This means beating a mage is harder because its very resistant needed. You don't need resistance to beat a warlock or priest because they cant escape the stun and can escape their ccs with the above methods.
Versus a mage if you aren't spamming freedom on your paladin the entire duel you deserve to lose.
It lasts 16 seconds and is reusable in 4 seconds for another 16 seconds. In that time if the mage is saving his frost nova silence for that, you can use dark runes or sapper charge and since you have high resis you take no damage while it should break, Good job mage.
In order to easily beat a mage, you have to either burst him down using a restorative potion with high spell damage/ resistance if he is an iceblock mage. OR lets say the duel starts which this is what happens 90% of the time versus a geared mage.
The mage crits you with either any spell in the first 10 seconds. 1 charge.
Here is your que with that gear. Don't 1 shot the mage using 2 or 4 charges.... WTF? 4 charges is enough to take down an elephant. You can destroy a level 70 druid tank with 15k hp with the berserker buff you lunatic.
Scenario 1: Bis Frost Mage has 4k hp and both shields (600+800/ 1400 absorb) 5.4k damage needed
Get the mage to crit you once, you have 280 fire resistance/ 310 with sulfuras/ 400 spell damage + servo arm + tier 2 with juju resists, (pre use petrified scarab before duel starts, switch to a spell damage trinket) use restorative potion(cheap ass anti cc potion, if your not using a potion that costs silver to remove poly then youre an idiot so what if its a potion, its as cheap as my nickel), then use judgement in the first 8 seconds- Mage is on 3k hp, get crit, iron grenade the mage, mage blinks, stun the mage and stand In his face. Mage uses iceblock to prevent your "1 bomb with hammer of justice" Mage uses blink, you use magic dust after his iceblock, he will waste the second iceblock. You finish him off with goblin mortar since his second iceblock and your goblin mortar are both 10 min cds. You will be able to 1 shot him.