Of Moonkins and Deadly Spell Reflects

This weekend I decided to give my druid some love – actually, quite a bit of love. I took her from level 43 to 47 in one day. Yeah, that’s right – four levels in a single saturday afternoon. Playing a balance druid has been a very different experience for me, and a fun one for sure. It’s almost too easy! I can’t wait to get my Treants on level 50 – that’ll be awesome… Hope to get there sometime during this week.

On another note… after reading this post at Out of Mana, I suddenly felt like PVP’ing on my protection warrior again. And, as the linked post mentions, Spell Reflect can be pretty deadly. It’s really a strangely pleasant feeling to watch that 5k-crit-Shadowbolt going right back to the annoying warlock that shot it and turning him to dust. I also managed to kill a shadow priest repeatedly using this method – without question, I made a new enemy in the Alliance. In addition to Spell Reflects, he also suffered from my favorite PVP weapon: Shield Slam crits. Even though I’m not even close to the records documented out there (there are many screenshots showing Shield Slam critting for over 5k damage), I can still cause some trouble by dispelling buffs and being annoying.

It’s nice to see that even a spec that is meant to be purely defensive in nature can have some fun and utility in battlegrounds. Sometimes all you need is to hold that cap for a few more seconds – and that’s where a protection warrior gets his glory from in this kind of battle. In Arathi Basin, for instance, I was the last man standing on some Alliance attempts at capping something – eventually, I died, but I held them long enough so my team could resurrect and control the invasion. Sometimes you have to take one for the team, as they say…

~ by permanoob on March 3, 2008.