How to Kill a Paladin & Negative Camping Warrior PVP

updated: 4/27/2010
A quick ARMS PVP note:
While farming Titanium ore out in Wintergrasp I happened upon an ally Paladin. I wasn’t in kill a pally mode so I opted to go around him. He opted to try and kill me. I always travel in Wintergrasp in my PVP set because on more than one occasion have I had to stomp someone into the snow.

Unfortunately for this Paladin I’d recently been running Arena with a Holy Pally and respected. I found that because the pally can give me a decent AP buff it was more beneficial for me to have Second wind and Blood Craze procing to help keep me alive a little bit longer than it was to go for the improved battle/commanding shout. I wanted to tool around with the spec a little and it’s working ok for now.
So back to the Ally paladin.

I’m minding my own business and he get’s the bright idea to stun me. I don’t know what the skill is but if a pally stuns you, especially 1v1, and you see hammers swirling around you can count on 5-8k+ crits visiting you soon, so now when a pally stuns me I trink out asap to get around the initial pain. Once that’s done in 1v1 especially it’s very easy to kite a pally as a warrior. I Hamstring him, and mortal strike, rend him then run away. Get out of range and charge stun him and hit him again a few times. His stun effect is about ready again (20 sec CD) so what I did was timed using my bladestorm right when I thought his stun was coming up. What this allowed me to do was really lay into him and put him on the defensive.

As soon as bladestorm was over he stunned me and is force to heal himself. Healing at 50% sucks is what I’m told so even though I’m stunned he’s not getting much life back. The stun wears of and now I’m on him. I was able to catch him mid way through his 3rd heal with an intimidating shout so he didn’t get it off, because of second wind the stun he hit me with earlier had healed me up some. I hamstring him again and lay into him. I get him down pretty good with some over powers, executes and mortal strikes, near the 4k mark before he bubbles.

Unfortunately for him I can burst his bubble. I normally don’t do this in arena but as he was well mortal struck AND I’d hit one of his heals with an Overpower (which reduces his healing effectiveness by 50%) he’s only healing at 25% maximum capacity. So he’s still on the defensive big time as he’s at about 6k health. Well he stuns me and tries to put a hurting on me, which he did with a nice 8k crit. Thankfully I got some healing from the Stun with second wind and with the crit from BloodCraze. Couple that with the Enraged regen and all of a sudden I’m back up at like 18-19k health and he’s sitting at 6k still. I hamstring him and let the rends tick away while I run away from him to get into intercept range.

Hope into zerkerstance, hit recklessness, pop my “jack’em up Macro” (which uses bloodlust and my 700AP wintergrasp trinket), then I hit blood rage for some rage. I intercept him, who’s stunning who now, smack him with a 4k mortal strike and a 9k execute. No more pally and I’m sitting pretty at around 17k health

I’m thinking to myself, man talk about a plan gone wrong.

Back to farming titanium. Or not...
Out of no where a hammer smacks me in the back of the head. I pop my trinket and a very frustrated Paladin get’s mortal struck, hamstrung, rended and experiences what I can only describe as a Déjà vu experience.

After this I’m thinking ok I’ve pwned this dude twice ending up at 17k health both times, the second time I actually didn’t even have to use my enraged regen because I did a little bit more kiting around of the pally while my skills came of off CD, hopefully he’s learned his lesson: DON’T MESS WITH BLACKTHOUGHT.

I guess not.
So I’ve created a new term called “Negative Camping” and it’s where you continually run to your death in an attempt to kill someone that is > than you.

Personally if you kill me in world pvp 5 times in a row (which is what me and the pally got to) I’m just gonna admit defeat and leave you alone, especially if the other person isn’t provoking the attack.

So my PVP lesson of the day is this:
- When fighting a ret pally put him on the defensive early so he’s more worried about healing than killing.
- Trinket out of his first stun and hamstring him to get him moving slowly. Then run away to stun him with a charge or intercept and mortal strike rend.
- When his next 6 second stun is coming up again start in on bladestorm. This way he either blows it on you while you can’t be stunned, or he stuns you afterwards.
- When he bubbles use shattering throw to pop his bubble and intimidating shout to stop any casting he might be using.
- use enraged regen at 14k health which if you have 22k health with give you back 4400 health, couple that with any second wind/blood craze healing you might have gotten and you should be just fine.
- If you're fighting a ret paly, you'll know because he has a 2 handed weapon and no shield, DISARM, him as soon as possible. A ret pally without a disarm is basically a priest with no magical abilities.
- Finally, if you are get owned by someone 3 times in pvp and nothing changes in the overall effectiveness of what your’re doing just stop.