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Warlocks and Mages are the two support dps classes. Their main roles does not only include the provision of good dps, but also to enforce crowd control and silences on the adversaries. Mages have Sheep as a spell for Crowd Control, this turns opponents into sheep rendering them unable to do anything. They also have counter spell which either silences all trees for 4 seconds or if a person is counter spelled during a cast, they cannot cast a spell in that tree (fire/holy/shadow/frost) for 8 seconds. Besides these abilities, Mages possess great damage per second (dps), making them great as a support class. Also they have great kiting abilities and find it very easy to keep melee out. “Blink” gives them the ability to shoot 15 yards ahead, “frost nova” allows them to freeze everyone within a specific rance for x seconds, and Mages can wear armor that when hit will slow down or freeze other opponents. However to keep balance from these powerful abilities Mages are notorious for being weak and liable to die quite quickly while in combat.

On prolonged fights, Frost mages are best used with teams that are more defensive. Fire Mages are not able to survive sustained damage for long spells of time. Frost Mages have 2 ice blocks which are immune to everything except heals, ice barriers for absorbing damage, they have further kiting options like chill armor, and a pet with its own frost nova and abilities which will greatly increase a Mage’s dps. Due to these abilities which are best used for defensive teams, Warriors will hop on a Frost Mage if it has Blessing of Freedom to get through all the kiting. In 5v5 areans, Frost Mages are not often targeted since an ice block will stop all dps on him. Although this does not apply until very high brackets of 5v5, Mages high up often spend the majority of their time crowd controlling opponents and mitigating heals and dps through CS and kiting. Mages will only really start to dps once one of the opponents drop below the 50% range, then the mage goes all out hoping to drop the target.

Convesely Fire Mages are more often in aggressive team, such PvE Clickers and some dps 4 line ups. Fire Mages have much less chance of survival than Frost Mages but make for this with their ability to put out incredibly hight burst dps. Fire Mages show up best when people who play them have learned to kite them effectively. Deep Fire Mages when attacked have the chance to sprint, and do not lose the frost nova and blink allowing them to stave off the other opponents. In one instance I had a problem in a 3v3 arena with a Fire Mage who was amazingly good at sheeping, cciing and kiting and we just could not bring him down at all. In a short amount of time he was also able to put out insane damage in very little time. He was able to take me down, with over 13k hp and 250 resilience (which is very good), in only 8 seconds after he counter spelled me. Such damage does definitely come handy with 4 dps teams, where their goal is to kill off opponents very quickly. In this scenario, the Mage is usualy the first to get attacked unless there is a Shadow Priest around, so its job is to get either a sheep or a cs off at the start and then unload all their abilities on their target before it dies, although as mentioned before some of the tope players will manage to survive.

In order to truly understand all aspects of World of Warcraft you first need to have a good understanding of the various classes. There are 9 classes; all are accessible by both factions, although you may need to be a certain race to choose a certain class. Each class has different abilities and roles in the Arena. I will first overview the two healing classes.

Priest

Priests play a huge role in both PvE and PvP. They bring an amazing buff called Fortitude, which increases the hp of whomever it’s put on. Priests have a very wide range of non-casting heals (they are instant) in their arsenal. These abilities allow Priests to focus on other things during the fight, such as mana burning (taking mana away from the opponent targeted) and dispelling, either taking buffs off opponents (like Fortitude) or taking off debuffs (bad buffs) on his teammates. Priests have three different specs (various areas to choose abilities) that are all viable in Arena.

Holy Spec is the best Priest spec for healing as they gain many buffs to their heals through talents. Discipline Spec is what most 5v5 Arena Priests use as it gives the Priest many Defense abilities and because of this Discipline Priests aren’t often targeted (the person the opposing team tries to kill). Discipline Priests also receive a quicker mana burn, which helps stop the enemy from healing long term, and better spirit regen, which allows them to be efficient longer into the fight.

The last spec that Priests can be is Shadow. Shadow Spec is vastly different from the previous two because the Priest primarily does damage in this spec. They have abilities such as Mind Blast and Mind Flay which do a very high amount of damage. Shadow Priests also have two unique abilities Vampiric Touch, which gives hp back to all teammates when damage is done to target, and Vampiric Embrace, which gives mana back to all teammates when damage is done to the target. All of this and the Priest still gives Fortitude and Shields to its team. The downside to a Shadow Priest is that when it’s in damage form the Priest cannot heal at all. Shadow Priests also do not get the defensive abilities that holy/disc Priests do and they are very squishy (easy to kill) and are usually targeted first. Because of the variety and the amount of Priests on Arena teams they are regarded as one of the best balanced classes in the game.