Prot, Prot, Burst - Prot PVP

PROT, PROT, BURST

No it’s not the “new” duck, duck, goose, but it MAY be just as fun.

Yesterday I was sitting atop a mountain meditating, pondering the meaning of life, the sound of one hand clapping, the noise of silence, the sound a tree makes when it falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, I looked up into the sky and wonder “just how high is up”, I asked myself “why is abbreviation so long”. The serenity that surrounded me took me to an imaginative place of wonder and...ah who the hell am I kidding I was staring at my comp screen looking at my ghost in arena while my shaman buddy ran around in ghost wolf form trying to get away from some folks, he failed of course, but while I was sitting there It hit me like a ton of bricks.

What if, now hear me out, what if TWO prot warriors, yeah I said it TWO prot warriors and a burst of your choice (IMO Hunter or Lock) went into 3v3?

Before you stop reading hear me out and let me explain just a second.

In pvp burst is king as we know, as is survival correct?
Ok we all know prot isn’t going to BURST anyone down, BUT we also know prot isn’t going to GET burst down am I right?

So let me explain my theory and how I’ll be looking for a volunteer soon to help me test this out.

Prot#1 – This guy is actually going to be a hybrid he’s going to get everything but shocking wave, and he’s doing this to get mortal strike. (this may not be needed BTW)
Prot#2 – A regular run of the mill prot pvp build, make sure to get improved revenge and gag order, improved spell reflect
Burst – I think warlock because they have their own healing abilities as well as CC, plus a suc can help with the overall strategy here.

Ok in pvp most fights are VERY BURST orientated the first 2 mins of a match right? Most burst teams are going to focus fire on one target tossing spells, CC and just about everything at one target. The beauty of this set ups is shield wall, which pretty much will negate all “burst damage” in addition to spell reflect, with two prot warriors when timed correctly roughly ever other spell is going to be sent right back to the caster. AND because you are prot spec each time you cast spell reflect you’re applying it to your team as well (I actually have to check to make sure this happens arena). EVEN without this lets just say the two prot warriors get the spell reflect that’s still ok.

The method of operations is simple.
Plan#1
1. Cycle through stuns to keep one DPS frozen while you’re burst completely rips them up.
2. The hybrid guy MUST get a mortal strike on the first target (again possibly not needed because of the next step)
3. The other prot, WHILE the target is stunned must immediately silence the healer or other DPS via gag order and heroic throw.
4. Continue to the “stun lock” on the focus target until it dies.
5. Send the succ to annoy the healer or other caster dps.

Plan#2 is simple also.
1. Charge the healer, have one guy hit him with Concblow
2. The guy who just used concblow has to gag or disarm one of the DPS guys.
3. Burst starts blowing the healer up.
4. Now you can either wait for the healer to try to heal and silence him...OR you can STUN him again with Conc blow #2
5. Lock sends succ to annoy other dps

Ok lets look at a chaos bolt. It’s going to hit for lets say a conservative 4-7+k right? Add two shield slams to that and you have an average10k+ opening attack PLUS mortal strike, PLUS silence heals, plus a very stunned target, PLUS two warriors who if they are the focus targets should have casted shield wall (effectively cutting DPS and the need for heals.) PLUS a shyt load of damage mitigation via tclap and disarm plus a damn near constant spell reflect (which can actually be used as a weapon)

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