Looking for some good advice as I’m learning this class. In which specific situations is it important to use dispel magic and mass dispel? Any help appreciated.
MD to remove cc on your healer or stuff like mindgames or even dots (care with ua).
You can MD ice block or even bubble from paly.
Purge should be a priority against rdruid and into rsham hots.
Theere are some ability that need to be purge sometimes to increase your pressure more than doing dmg, for example ns from rdruid or alter time, evoker’s shroud etc…
Don’t forget to use it when you are kick, it gives you insanity.
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There’s numerous spells/buffs (more than 30) that can be purged.
Combustion was one of the big ones, but recently they changed it can no longer be dispelled.
Evokers have a shield that protects against CC called Nulified Shield, it has 3 charges so you’ll need to purge it 3 times… I don’t play Evoker myself so maybe someone else can suggest something.
For other classes here’s a list of spells to purge I made for myself when learning Shaman in Shadowlands which is by no means a complete list:
Druid: Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, Thorns, Innervate
Priest: PW Shield, PW Fortitude, Power Infusion, Prayer of Mending, Renew, Levitate
Mage: Arcane Intellect, Blazing, Ice & Prismatic Barrier, Time Warp, Temporal Shield, Alter Time
Paladin: Blessing of Freedom & Protection, Divine Favor
Shaman: Earth Shield & Lightning Shield, Spirit Walker’s Grace, Riptide, Ghost Wolf
Monk: Renewing & Enveloping Mist
Hunter’s: Primal Rage, Camouflage
DK: Path of Frost, Wraith Walk
Rogue: Stealth
I don’t know about Warrior and DH; nothing comes to mind. Ofc you can dispel any of the above effects off them.
Most of the Heroism (“drums”) effects are unusable in arena though.
As the above poster stated the best case uses of MD is Ice Block and Divine Shield.
You can also use it to get stealthers out of stealth at the start of arena games if you can guess their location (although I personally use Halo or Holy Nova).
There’s one time you really don’t want to use MD and that’s vs Aff Locks when they have multiple UAs up on your target - you’ll take a lot of damage (and get silenced) - many a Priest has one-shot themselves like that.
As for situations, well I’d look to purge HoTs and shields off the kill target and any buffs off the enemy to limit their damage. Purging BOP is always fun, especially if the Pala has used it on himself, because he’ll have forbearance and won’t be able to bubble for 30 secs after.
Unrelated but Thought steal is an underrated PvP talent choice.
It’ll stop a Mage from casting Poly for 20 seconds, and will ruin his day, especially if you then use it to poly him or his healer. It’ll also steal Disc’s Penance and Paladin’s Freedom - just to name a few.
Anyway, shadow Priest is in a good spot at the moment.
Get some CC on the enemy healer and you’ll be fine.
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Thanks for the tips guys, very useful.
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