Hey, returing back to Classic era and wanna make a shadow priest or an elemental shaman, i don’t know yet (btw if you guys can help me to choose haha) and was wondering, can you gear up only by doing PvP ? i don’t want to pay 50 gold per week to respec between dps and healer by doing PvE
thx !
of course you can but you won’t have fun and still, PvE gear is better
you need the ZG rep for your class enchants anyway ( Head, Leg, Shoulder ) and some spell hit
Ding 60, grind Mc, Ony, BWL, AQ20 and ZG
and if you finish your stuff que up and have fun
you don’t need more than tier2
current I Que on Tier1 and it works fine
Grab the Aq20 staff, enchant your gear and done
Vanilla is grind, that’s the way how it works but Era are forever servers, your „work“ is not waisted
You can but in fact u cant… yes u can gear up from pvp but pvp system is a bust… and i can confirm that as myself as you can i see i went through it all the way to rank 13 at 19. You should be able to gear up from pvp and bgs and do some dugeons 20 man raids on the side… but it wont work, system is broken… you ether need tons of honnor playing 14 hours per day at least and on top of that sufficient server population participating and competing with you, and all that just to be ruined if for say one week you dont play or you wont have time to play enough just because real life is more important than pixels… pvp is kinda dead and now scrubs who got nothing relevant with pvp rank up just because they got time to throw at it… and on top of that ur t2 perhaps might be better
won’t say dead, I mean hole AV weekend 7-8 maps same time and WSG Que pops by daily
but yes, gear up on Pve is the faster way
if you don’t care for rank just Que to have fun
Rank 14 probably needs 8-10 weeks in a row play every day for hours
Meanwhile you got so many ppl who play and as more try as longer you need
On Raids, if you skip Aq40 and Naxx, you will gain enough gold by side to enchant your gear while grind and if you don’t play Mage, Warrior, Hunter, Rogue you will get your set quick
ranking is insanely easy to do ATM.
I just saw a rank 14 warrior yesterday who had 7k HKS.
I’ve been farming for maybe 5-6 days out of 2 weeks and my projected rank is 11 this wednesday.
as others have said though gearing solely through pvp is not really viable. it’s not the best gear anymore and you still need offpieces/weapons unless you wanna go for rank 14 which is not realistic.
fyi you can heal raids as hybrid spec. deep ele, NS which is the strongest spec for pvp.
Get R12, thats easy. With all pvp gear you will have avaible at r12 just do some pve to finish gearing replacing blue pvp parts, pvp sets will eventually get you into raids too. One day you get time you can re-rank again to r14 if you really like pvp, and well Silithius sand brainwash farming😂. Know people on era who been r14 at least twice on their main. Myself been r12 3 times on era. Currently tho there is way too many premades running in wsg, so is kinda kekw if you like solo/small party queing.
And ye ele shsman is your safest bet out of those two classes you consider to play.
I suppose you could, still I would not limit myself to only pvp.
That said we have some people who rank with 0 enchants and blue/ questing gear in offslots now, and they make it work. So you dont have to put in a whole lot of effort, a little goes a long way (like professions; engi/mining and the package there).
I actually did the respec 2/4 times a week. Was not as bad as it sounds honestly, just raw mob/ boss gold paid for most of it then id cover by selling the herbs I didnt need much (plauge/groms).
In terms of shaman:
As you get better healing gear eventually you can heal in 30/0/21. Dont expect ppl to allow it for progression or speedruns, but it is not horrible. You miss out on 10% healing/ mana tide and hw cast time (but its nearly all spamming ch anyway).
Its not that noticeable tbh, mostly gear based shaman healing. Infact you can beat geared healers that are deep resto (not that healing meters means much). The main thing is you may have to spam more mana pots/ runes.
In terms of gear Its kind of rough getting full bis as a mostly pve unviable caster. But your second best options are pretty strong too.
Long term I would aim for (naxx excluded):
3p 2.5 set + 2p r12 (legs+boots), jeds + zg trinket
(t 2.5 is free as sham, its also a good healing set.)
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Or if Aq 40 is also all out: T2 head / legs | mc shoulders | zg chest/bracers
For neck there is a very very strong option from the aq 20 boss head quest. Its not far form twin emps / naxx / rag neck. / then nef head stam neck is also strong
Rings: zg ring/ silithus boss are easy pickups. Then eventually Aq rep caster ring becomes very good.
Cloaks: ony cloak is not bad, besides that in bwl you can possibly pickup a stam/sp cloak (that is your second best; this has no hit on it so for pve is just worse than many other options).
Bracers: burrowers bracers in aq 40 (stam+sp, for pve theres a better sp+hit silithus badge reward). Or if Aq is out Zg rep bracers are decent.
Gloves: Aq 20 mail option/ ranking blue pvp option (has spell crit) rank 12 gloves has melee crit; its very amusing. Otherwise cthun cloth / bug trio leather or kalimdors, but likely more contested.
Belt: firemaws cloth belt possibly, how contested that is will vary, may have to live with a DM dung option for awhile.
Shield : just whatever has the most armor. Your healing shields are very viable. Aq > mc > bwl healing shield.
Crafting the aq silence shield could also be an option, depending on the prices.
Wep is probably the hardest; really should get lok amir or rank to 14. (End of dreams> lok > r14 dagger). Hand of edward could also be used, but its rather rare. Before then the aq 20 quest reward is good.
Ah and yeah for libram/totem there is only one actual option, the boe world drop lb/cl dmg. As that is nearly all of your dmg, shocks scale very poorly. Could be expensive sadly. Checking the neutral ah would be smart there.
All in all ends up pretty darn strong, not far from the sp you have in a full bis setup. Its mainly lower crit - but we do get 11% crit from talents.
Hey guys, thanks for your feedback.
Just a question: How many hours per day are needed and for how many weeks to be r10?
thx guys for all your reply, i made an ele shaman, hopefully i can heal in raid with 31/0/20 without having to respec to get somes pieces
a few hours a day for 2-4 weeks. nothing extreme
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