Tales of a 15 lock in a 19 WSG BG
Again, that title is so heavily invested in abbreviations people use in Warcarft, no one outside the game would EVER get it.
My first BG experience without my good friend dwarfenstuff… Well it was pretty good. I held the record for dieing the fastest, and most frequent.. but I was also in the top 3-4 for total damage done in the BG.
It sucked in the sense that I got no (zero, zip, zilch) killing blows.. but I did get over 5k damage dealt out over the course of the BG. I was only severely put to shame by a undead guy who got 16k in one BG. The rest of the time I was hundreds off the leader.
How did I play? Poorly. I was the biggest dip-stick in action (even if I was a gnome).. I am so used to “knowing my roll” as a hunter that getting in there with a lock is so different. It was like I knew what I wanted to do, but it wasn’t “right”. Now I think I only get 1 more ability that will help in PvP as I progress through to lvl 19.. So not a whole lot will change ability wise with the toon. I need to get better. I am no twink, but doing as poorly as I thought I did, and being towards the top was a good feeling. I can’t help but think I would have owned these people if I had more feel for the class. I did 2 BG’s and the first one was all about damage, I topped out at about 6k. The second time I started playing more like a “team” player. I saw 3 orc warriors running up on 2 of ours.. they all got curse of weakness, and then corruption. Not that I don’t like curse of weakness, I just don’t see it as a big deal. I prefer curse of agony. And I LOVE curse of recklessness on casters.. I dunno if any rogue/warrior got to smack one with the curse on em.. But if you remove some armor on someone who already has almost none.. and have a big warrior/rogue run up on you.. its a bad day for you.
If any people out there roll locks, and know WTH they are doing in a PVP environment, I’d love to hear it..
Gnome lock -15
Mcgoo, on Medivh
March 15th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Ahhh, BG’s are great fun, even though WSG is full of gankers with over-enchanted equipment and weapons. I particularly like to go in with a lvl 11-15 toon just to hear my teammates whine about how we’re losing because the team isn’t stacked with 19’s.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to do well in the BG’s as a lock - but I hear they really do own in PvP. As a hunter, I just hung back and focussed fire on folks who were already engaged in melee battle with someone - perhaps that’s a good starting strategy for a lock?
On my wee mage, I swear that I spent more time watching the rez timer count down than I did actually contributing to the game… but when I could land some well-timed Frost Nova’s on someone chasing our flag-runner, I’d redeem myself.
Maybe that’s something else - follow behind your flag-runner and fear folks who are trying to hunt him down?
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