Wizard Cleave Woes

Hey guys, I know I haven't posted for a while, but there's been a good reason for that! My teammates on Kolz quit for HoN, so I haven't really had a whole lot on the arena front to use a basis to report from. I have just started gearing up my human mage a little, I've been playing wizard cleave with like 200 resil and it's been.. interesting.

Frankly, I don't like wizard cleave. Now, there can be some fun parts, I often find myself laughing at loud at how ridiculous our burst can be. But at the end of the day, I often don't feel we outplayed the other team when we won. Rather, they made a small mistake and our absurd damage won it for us when that happened. Someone gets a little out of position, misses an interrupt, choses the wrong target or doesn't go defensive extremely quickly and they will end up dead insanely fast.

Both of the two wizard cleave variations I've been running have a shaman, and I've gotta say that while I've generally been of the opinion that our damage is either fine or, on occasion, low, with heroism it just feels stupidly high. You can sit in one place and turret so much damage into someone it's absurd, and packing so many casts into a short period of time makes it easier to hang onto your procs till you've got a bunch lined up (fof/brain freeze/trinkets) before blowing someone away.

The 3.3.3 mage changes look nice. I'm not sure how I feel about more burst being tied to the rng proc that is brain freeze, but I guess proc management is an almost unavoidable part of frost these days. My rough estimate is a ~3% damage increase to frostbolt, and around 1k more damage on a crit brain freeze against resil targets. 1k extra damage on a shatter combo is certainly nothing to sneeze at, I expect that I will feel pretty happy with our pvp geared damage once again after this patch.

Other than that, I've just been playing dk and holy paladin in arenas. Doing okay, but I didn't get alot of games in early season so points have been a little slow. I expect to replace my skill'troll with a tier 2 wrathful weapon in 3 weeks on my dk... 3 weeks >< Well, what're you gonna do. Priority on the paladin is still to replace my furious and conquerors pieces. I'll try and get some decent teams on a mage so I can start blogging on more mage arena-based stuff again in the near future, and maybe I'll fit in some dueling/bg related stuff. 'Till then, adios!