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/bg Samownall -
Hey guys who is FC?
/bg Noob -
UR MUM! HAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHA!!!!!!!
/bg Noob2 -
LOLLLLZ Pwnt=!!!11!1!
This is going to be fun…
Game starts.
2 people run outside and start afking. 4 people scream in bg chat about “STICKING TOGETHER,” and then run in opposite directions on the map. The 2 remaining people and me (game didn’t start full as usual) run more or less together to the horde flag room.
We get to the flag while more people are arguing over whether to defend or attack. The 2 with me are both almost full green. The priest runs in and grabs the flag. Immediately a full s3/4 warrior charges him and kills him in 3 hits.
/flag returned
The hunter and me start damaging the warrior but the hunter gets charged and gets 1 shotted.
Great.
Just me and the warrior. Should be a fair enough duel. He is still at 90%. I kite him and get him to 10% with myself on 75%. Going for the killing blow with fire blast…
OMG!!!!!!
He is at 75% hp and a drood is continuing to hot him. He then charges me and with me out of cooldowns proceeds to kill me and then laugh at my corpse.
I hate alliance…
/bg thebiggestnoob -
WTF MAGE you can’t FC!!!!! Let a hunter carry cos they haz mail!!!
/bg Samownall -
pls be quiet… My head is hurting from your whining and noobiness.
/bg everyone -
LOOLLLLLL SAMOWNALL YOU SUCK DONT SAY SHIT AND CONCENTRATE ON FLAG!!!!! WE WILLZ PWN COS WE HAVE MORE ARMOUR THAN THEM!
/sigh
More mage pvp tips. Next is how to gear and gem. Take the silk honour items as you need the crit. For gems it really depends on your setup and bracket, but in general take spell damage, resilience, stam and then spell crit in that order.
Mage pvp trinkets are really few and far between. Some like the lightning capacitor but personally I don’t. I use the honour trinket and of course medallion.
Enchants - boars speed on boots, 20 spell damage gloves, 22 spell damage and 14 spell hit head, epic aldor/scryer enchant for shoulders, 15 resilience chest, 15 spell damage bracers and 40 spell damage on weapon.
Good luck!
Missed the first part of this guide? Find it at mage pvp guide.
Are mages any good in pvp? Well that question is extremely broad and I cannot simply say “yes” or “no.” What I can attempt to do is convey the strengths, weaknesses and problems with mage pvp at the moment.
I hope that I am qualified enough, with my mage achieving 2.1k in all brackets at some point in season 3. My mage was my first character and naturally it took me a long time to become accustomed to playing him. Even now I have “off-days,” where I play terribly but generally speaking the more and more you play, the better your pvping will become.
Wow is ridiculously gear-based and you will need the season 2 set from honor at least if you want to compete in arena. Spec 17/0/44 - no arguments. If you are inexperienced or average at pvp with your mage you must spec this to have the best chance. Improved counterspell is almost a requirement to stand a chance of beating druid teams.
Start with a cookie cutter setup. Play RMP - thats rogue/mage/priest in 3v3. Watch videos from warcraftmovies.com and learn how to play it. 3v3 is easily the easiest bracket for mages to get high in and personally I hate 2v2, especially because mage/rogue is so luck and crit based.
Mages are excellent nukers when left to free-cast. Unfortunately this happens very little as most teams will target the mage. This means you must be very good at kiting and surviving in general. Bind your blink key to something readily available - I use the “c” key. Also make sure you use frost nova, cone of cold, pet nova, rank 1 frostbolt, sheep, ice barrier, mana shield (if necessary), frost and fire wards to keep as much damage off of you as possible. This damage mitigation is the most important part of mage pvp.
The second aspect is your role as a crowd control. You must master lining up 3 sheeps on a target and using your improved counterspell at the right time. This is game breaking. Make sure you use a focus bar and set your crowd control target as focus. Use rank 1 sheep to save mana. Have macros for sheeping and counterspelling your focus target.
Thats enough for today… go and practice… more tomorrow!
Read the second part of the mage pvp guide.
Finally I have acheived my aim of having season 3 shoulders on both my mage and shaman. I can’t say it was easy but its been fun. I played until 3 in the morning to get them with a new warrior. We got 2016 rating and it was the first week that we played together 
Gl to all of you hoping to get your shoulders before season 4 hits next wednesday!
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