Seems like a lot of people think Blizzard is taking their favorite class in the wrong direction. I saw it on the hunter forums but it is especially evident on the pally fourms. Check this thread out to see just how upset pally players are.

I do keep some extra gear pieces with int and +healing on them for BGs, but basically I am a typical prot pally. Anyway, I just won an AB and topped the healing charts for Horde and it was great fun.

I enjoyed laughing at the Alliance as I healed up my teammates (mostly a 69 warrior although a few other hordies got tossed heals once or twice as well) and then realized I could keep laughing when the hunters and rogues eventually came after me. Pushing 9,000 health self buffed with all kinds of armor meant that even after their 69 rogue had me stunlocked for a good 15-20 seconds I was only down to about 5,000.

I have to figure out what to do with this toon when I hit 70. My 4 real life friends need me to tank, but I might respec holy for pvp. Then again if BGs as prot are this entertaining, why switch? I wonder how different things would be as holy (assuming I use the same pvp healing gear). Less health and better heals? No holy shield for rogues and warriors who don’t realize I’m wearing tank googles? Holy shock instead of avenger’s shield? I see where the extra healing would be needed in really competitive arena play, but for BGs?

I’ve been doing some more BGs on Gnometosser, and I think maybe I need a new class for pvp. Hunters do great damage – at level 53-54 I was often in the top 10 in damage in AV and the top 3 in AB.

The problem is that I’m also pretty high on the death list too. It seems like once a rogue reaches me I’m stunned then dead. Or if a lock DOTs me up I die (though often I kill the lock before I do).

I think I prefer a toon with more defense in pvp – Goldsong for example is nothing special on the damage charts (though even prot spec I’m alwys in the top 5 on heals except in AV) but he is pretty good at surviving – my hunter feels kind of like a wuss.

I also like healing, Horde often loses battlegrounds I’m in because there are no healers. And while I used to think Alliance were all hunters and rogues they do always seem to have healers, unlike Horde.

I was thinking about a dreamstate druid – Balance for a bit of damage, Boomkin for armor, resto for the heals obviously. This toon should be very useful in BGs and large scale world pvp like city raids (never done one but that is my WOW goal – to get into some city raids). The big drawback would be no real protection from stunlock except that hopefully when the stun wore off I’d still be alive thanks to Boomkin armor (assuming I didn’t get caught in caster form – then I’d die faster than my hunter).

I hate stun and fear more than anything else in WoW. So Orc shammy or Undead priest are other healing possibilities. There’s just something about Boomkin…

And if you’re wondering why I don’t try a rogue since they do ridiculous damage, have crazy control, and have ludicrous defensive skills it’s because I am a keyboard mover so melee pvp = I fail.

Well Gnometosser is 44 and speccing survival so far. Sure BM is said to be better for leveling but I wanted to try survival for fun (to annoy AF in world pvp with wyvern sting and long traps actually) and it has been great. Maybe a survival hunter is somewhat gimped for leveling but compared to my prot pally, leveling my survival hunter has been crazy easy.

I may respec to BM at 50 and abuse beast within for a while, but end game I suspect I’ll go marks or survival.

So I found this thread extremely interesting.

I love survival, but my big concern is that pvp gear has relatively little agility. And everyone says you need 600+ agility for survival. But that’s for expose weakness in a raid setting – what about pvp?

Well on the thread I link to they talk about survival in pvp with a big question about whether to take readiness or scatter shot. One guy skipped marks altogether and mentioned 23/0/38 – pretty interesting…

At level 44 I still have time to think. And who knows which friends I’ll be pvping with – I prefer bgs but will arena for better gear. I have 2 friends active in arean 2v2 – lock / shammy combo. Maybe I would make a 3v3 team with them. Or I have another friend with a lock – a lock and hunter 2v2 would be interesting – with locks overpowered fear and my traps and wyvern sting (+ readiness?) we would have tons of cc…