Tired of the shapeshifting into the same low-quality forms that have been in the game since day 1? Andrige has created a beautiful selection of modified form skins to make your life as a Druid a lot more enjoyable.
Well, actually that honor likely goes to the 10-hour match between Jbangalanga, Weaslelawd, Spiked and Deunan, but this story from Ermengol of Shadowsong (EU) was too fun not to share:
I was the other day in a 2v2 Arena Druids against Druids when, because of some terrible healing of mine, my mate died. I was all alone saying “we’re done,” “sorry,” etc., when I realized their DPS was so low they couldn’t surpass my heals. They tried everything (one time they waited for full mana and spammed Moonfire, another one the Resto went cat, etc.), but they just couldn’t. I even went Tree of Life a few times to save mana (/dance included). Hilarious!
How did “we” win? Balance went AFK, Resto got disconnected… and the rest is history. Probably longest arena ever.
Was it worth it? Yeah! Not because of the rating (that’s for sure), but the picture!
Congratulations, Ermengol!
13 Comments
Trackbacks
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
My brother (feral druid) and I (resto druid) had this same problem with a paladin. I really couldn’t produce any damage to speak of, and my brother’s damage was mitigated by the paladin’s armor. Fortunately we had plenty of time to experiment. The answer in our case ended up being to chain stun him long enough to kill him during our two bashes and two pounces. With a paladin we could also work our feral charges in to lock him out of his schools briefly, and I could chain cyclone him long enough to let my brother restealth and get a third pounce in. Even this took a few tries though, because he’s got his trinket and his bubble at least, and even a single stun resist messes the whole thing up.
I love it. It shows for me those people care and are not in the game for fast and easy epics.
It is more than a videogame at that point, it is a game of minds. Reminded me a little of my own game-of-minds I had pre-tbc when I had a 1vs1 AB battle (http://zhero-tolerance.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html search for ‘ultimate battle’).
PS: Feel free to remove the link if you think it is inappropriate btw, not meant as advertising, but i realized it could come off that way.
You certainly get a lot of people who at that point would have yelled at you to “just die!” so they could move on with arenas and get it over with. Great job sticking it out Emergol! A well earned 16 points!
Arenas with your own class like that can be very fun. Gives you a whole new look on the class you play.
LOL, great match. Previously before 2.3′s Heal -> Spell conversion, sometimes I would find myself in 2v2′s with my partner dead and it’s me versus a DPS class left (their healer bit it).. with no real DPS, I used to just kite around as much as possible and hope they AFK.. sometimes it worked, sometimes I gave up (my partner’s time is also valued and important, especially with longer 2v2 queues).
But now I have to consider a different strategy, I solo’d 2 Mages yesterday at Snowfall GY in an AV, granted one was half health and near OOM from killing SF NPC’s, but bottom line I just outhealed what they threw at me. The last Mage went OOM too and it ended up being a Wrath/Moonfire/Melee vs. Wand fight. Bonus? The Mage was from my server, Hordeside’s #1 raiding guild Dark Pact. I hope he QQ’d in guild chat.
@megan: I’ve just put my feral talents in balance as I said I would and I like it very much so far. I come from a WSG where a graveyard camper rogue tried to stunlock me (well, he kinda did), full subtlety (trying out shadowstep I guess), and I totally destroyed him. Between stun and stun, lifebloom, remove poisons, and refresh insect swarm & moonfire. What I laughed the most about is that the rogue did a /grin just before the cheap shot. OK, probably we cannot kill warlocks, but the spell damage is sooo nice
@Zackoria: Unfortunately my oponents got a bit pissed, starting with the “get a life” and ending I prefer not to tell how. Some keep forgetting this is just a game
@Zhero: Oddly enough, with a few notable exceptions I don’t know which boss drops what. I only remember when I happen to be the lucky guy
Loot is secondary, imho (which doesn’t mean I don’t fight for what’s mine! 
). After all, I decided to be restoration to be invited to parties!
OMG! I hadn’t check the 1vs1 AB story, that’s incredible! That’s better than mine
I guess it was back in the days when people played with oponents from their own realm? (I’m a post-BC player, you see ^^)
@Mike: Sounds like a really great strategy you came up with. I hate, hate, hate it when it’s me and one person from the other team left. I’m such a defeatist I keep my mouse cursor hovering over the “Leave Arena” option when my partner’s about to bite the dust. I don’t want people beating on me unnecessarily, especially Hordies!
@Zhero: Linking to other blog posts is 100% okay. I appreciate you sharing. And what a neat story!
@Megan: I don’t think I’ve ever killed anything solo in a Battlegrounds. Honestly, the best I can hope for (and this is actually tremendous fun), is to lock down a Warrior or a Rogue long enough to call Mr. Phae over to kill it (like a bug). My hero!
This actually reminds me of a story from when my husband (Warrior) and I started playing in 2v2s. I am admittedly not the best kiter in the world, and we’d just killed another Warrior’s partner, so it was just him (cute, ginger-haired dwarf), Mr. Phae, and myself. Well Mr. Phae suggests that I should “practice” on the unfortunate Warrior so I proceeded to kite him around for a couple of minutes while Mr. Phae waited “in the wings” so to speak in case I were to get into trouble. Finally, this poor Warrior sat down in the middle of the Arena floor and shouted, “WHY ARE YOU TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS?!?!” I imagine he must not have been aware of the “Leave Arena” option. LOL!
Ah, long arenas. Haha, I think mine was high frustrating because we didn’t see him for almost 2 hours >.<
http://druidrawr.blogspot.com/2007/11/tale-of-epic-pvp-portions.html
LOL that’s frustrating indeed.
I had an arena once where my furry friend was alone, in bear form, against a highly subtlety-specced rogue.
He likes tanking gear because he also does some decent DPS with it (kinda useless against casters, but such is life), so the poor rogue was facing above 30k armor. Combat sequence was something like:
Cheap shot, hemorrhage, blabla, bear recovers from stun, lacerate lacerate lacerate lacerate ouchy rogue below 30%, bear above 80%. Gouge/blind/kidney shot run & restealth. Rogue heals somewhere relatively safe, bear does the same. Repeat.
I started whispering him, saying “you can try but you can’t win” etc, but he was as stubborn as skilled (I had seen some impressive moves). By the time he started using expose armor I told him about the >30k armor and that it wouldn’t make a difference, but he still fought bravely for like half an hour.
Finally he died in what would be his last try, probably giving up since he didn’t seem to try any stunning move.
Rogues can be really annoying
almost 2 hours http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1286/58427116nk1.jpg
@Ermengol: Sounds like an interesting match up. My experience with Rogues has been mostly unpleasant with them stealthing and staying hidden for 20 minutes while you wait for the stealth detectors to come up again. Nothing is more irritating. Well, except maybe losing. ^_^
@Even Longer: Wow, now that’s some dedication!
Had a 3 hour match once… Me and my rogue 2v2 partner (20/0/41) against a resto druid and a holy paladin.
Was.. the most annoying match I’ve ever been in. Killing one of those healing classes is hard enough when they know what they are doing. Killing 2 is nigh impossible.
We tried full CC on one and then burst the other, but with bubble, BoP, barkskin, bearform, dispell, trinkets, etc.. It just was impossible.
Eventually I ended up going onto their server with my other account and whispered them (alliance), asking why and to just give up. (we had both gone stealth into a corner at that point). They said no and spent about 15 minutes running around trying to find us.
So i finally typed out a novel to them after we started to get along some what, and right after sending it we jumped the other person I didn’t type to. The end result being, the one reading didn’t pay attention in time and the one being jumped was unprepared. So we finally won, which was a sigh of a relief and a sign to go to bed.. lol
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i144/kaztheminotaur/omgitsover.jpg