Lately I have been looking for Ideas for contests and the prizes I should award the winners of those contests. I have decided I definitely want the outcome to benefit the site overall. One of the members of the Cloak-and-Dagger, Rokzilla, posted a video that instructs clearly how to perform Sap, Cheap Shot your opponent while sapped with out breaking the sap and then restealthing. Here is the video:




This raises a couple of questions. First what is the point of this move? Second would anyone let you finish the sequence before trinketing? Third what could you do with this?

Well the obvious purpose of Cheap shotting a target while sapped and restealthing is to stack combo points. If you are using premed and Initiative then you are usually starting with 5 to begin with. But if you don't have premed this is a great poor man's premed.

The second question is would any class let you do this... the quick answer is maybe. Most classes will not trinket your sap because you are doing no damage and they would rather save it for say a kidney shot. Now since you are not damaging them it is in their best interest to save that trinket for later. A more experienced player may realize what you are doing and try and stop you. But it is likely in a 1v1 situation that this can be executed cleanly.

The third point is what will you do with the combo pts. Against a high armor target you can open with Garrote / Rupture / Vanish and allow your dots to tick your targets health away before reapplying sap and opening with cheapshot / kidneyshot sequence. Getting a solid 5 pt Expose Armor off on your target could also be a beneficial way to start the fight. Would it be possible to Sap / Cheapshot / Expose Armor / Restealth /Resap / Cheapshot / Kidneyshot. Only a 3 pts Expose Armor but on a cloth target it might be well worth it.

Just some things to consider. This move is relegated to duels and 1v1 situations but executed properly can definitely stack the deck and combo points in your favor.

Labels: notebook, pvp, sap

The PVP Notebook is something new that I plan to keep up on. It is simply the random things that I note while dueling or playing arena. At the very least it is reinforcement for me as some of you may already know to do these things. For others it may be helpful.



One of the things that annoys me in a duel with a priest is his shield. He can keep it up indefinitely and that takes a lot of the bite out of your attack if you front load a lot of your dps. I was contemplating this problem the other day while I was circle strafing a priest outside of Orgrimar. We we're dueling and I didn't want my ambush or my first mutilate to be absorbed. I thought about trying to time it for when his shield died but he was able to keep it up over lapping his shields. I sat there for what seemed like a minute before slapping myself in the forehead.

Approaching him cautiously... i smacked him over the top of the head with the blunt end of my dagger with exactly 3-5 seconds remaining on his shield. Since he normally tries to overlap by less then 1-2 seconds I was able to sit out the remainder of his shield and open up on him with ambush or cheapshot into mutilate. Very simple yet highly effective in duels.

Labels: notebook, priest, rogue, sap