Ashran as melee

[Wrien]

Ashran isn't very melee-frienly. All i see is ranged people killing each other and melees getting instant killed as soon they try to hit anything.
They really have to make Ashran more melee-frienly, because there's really no point in participating in big battles as a melee for now.

[Mercadi]

It's always been true about any turtle-style PvP. Whoever is on the front lines, will get targeted by a gazillion of ranged.

[Aryah]

DKs have a really good time in Ashran. Especially when you are using engineering gadgets and other Ashran specific items.

Go blood.
Stealth into the middle of Horde.
Use scroll of protection.
Wand of lightning self.
Rotate defensives.
Use remorseless winter (Arthas mode enabled).
Pretend you are destroying the heroes on Icecrown.
Spam AOE.
(Bonus: Have a pocket healer or two)
Watch the Horde crumble.

[Anzen]

It's the tradeoff for melee being so simple and easy to play in PvP.

#ShotsFired

[Deleted]

ive changed my monk into a healer just for ashran, its more fun healing than just sitting there watching ranged duke it out

[sykoex]

It's the tradeoff for melee being so simple and easy to play in PvP.

#ShotsFired

If melee are getting instantly killed I don't see how that's simple and easy.

[Anzen]

If melee are getting instantly killed I don't see how that's simple and easy.

How does that even make sense in reply to what I said? I didn't say them getting killed is what makes them simple lol, I thought that much was obvious.

OT: DK's are good though, grip too stronk. Rest of the melee go AFK in the back or something

[Deleted]

How does that even make sense in reply to what I said? I didn't say them getting killed is what makes them simple lol, I thought that much was obvious.

OT: DK's are good though, grip too stronk. Rest of the melee go AFK in the back or something

you get the ocasional ret paladin pop bubble and try and nuke someone before dying or a warrior charging in popping everything and causing a bit of chaos, but other than that, they are useless lol

[Aryah]

How does that even make sense in reply to what I said? I didn't say them getting killed is what makes them simple lol, I thought that much was obvious.

OT: DK's are good though, grip too stronk. Rest of the melee go AFK in the back or something

Unless Kagemoth is your pocket healer.

*fades back into the shadows*

[Vokal]

DKs have a really good time in Ashran. Especially when you are using engineering gadgets and other Ashran specific items.

Go blood.
Stealth into the middle of Horde.
Use scroll of protection.
Wand of lightning self.
Rotate defensives.
Use remorseless winter (Arthas mode enabled).
Pretend you are destroying the heroes on Icecrown.
Spam AOE.
(Bonus: Have a pocket healer or two)
Watch the Horde crumble.

I lol'd.

Good stuff.

[Anzen]

Unless Kagemoth is your pocket healer.

*fades back into the shadows*

He's too busy scaring our trials and blowing everyone's ear drums with his excessively loud microphone to actually heal!

[Keyboard Champion]

Don't do the frontline shit, that's for ranged dragon slayers and nooblords. Do the side road missions, it's unlikely there's gonna be zergs there, but there will be plenty of 5 on 5.

[Anzen]

Don't do the frontline shit, that's for ranged dragon slayers and nooblords.

Hahahaha this genuinely made me laugh. WTB Title:

Ranged Dragonslayer, and Nooblord Anzen.

[Deleted]

on my server defias brotherhood it has CRZ fucking CRZ defias is a high pop server and we get cross realmed with fucking french servers yeah no wonder assran lags

[Charge me Doctor]

Sneak around and smack everyone who tries to gather up for flank attack or who tries to get resources in other locations

[Deleted]

people actually care about ashran? cant belive how that lagfest got past beta

[Aryah]

Don't do the frontline shit, that's for ranged dragon slayers and nooblords. Do the side road missions, it's unlikely there's gonna be zergs there, but there will be plenty of 5 on 5.

I'm telling you man, with a bit of planning and coordination with friends you can cause havoc with melees in Ashran. Side road missions are fun t

people actually care about ashran? cant belive how that lagfest got past beta

I've never lagged in Ashran. Is this a thing for most people?

[Ryme]

Ashran isn't very melee-frienly. All i see is ranged people killing each other and melees getting instant killed as soon they try to hit anything.
They really have to make Ashran more melee-frienly, because there's really no point in participating in big battles as a melee for now.

The game in general is geared against melee. It's a larger issue that I don't see a simple fix to.

[Deleted]

Fucking noobs so many threads on this, if you have retard mode enabled and completely overextending ofcourse you are going to get targeted and die versus 40+ players. Just don't do it unless you know you can get away with it using your defensive CDs. Go protect your healers+ ranged from said players with retard mode enabled.

It's always been like this. First rule of RBGs: Don't overextend.

Simple stuff.

[Deleted]

people actually care about ashran? cant belive how that lagfest got past beta

I've had no lag in ashran, maybe it's a problem with your pc or internet?

The biggest problems for me in ashran at he moment besides being melee is the non existent balancing. On yo server I have never been further than the tower outside horde base. 95% of huge time it's alliance just farming us on the bridge! the reason is we are so heavily out numbered. On horde we can't even fill a single raid group most of the time, whereas alliance seem to have more than one full raid .
And no, I'm not on a low pop server, I'm on one of, if not the highest pop horde server in eu. It's weird because there's about a 40min queue to join ashran even though horde team is empty.

I'm not sure if blizzard has a cap on the total number of players in ashran rather than even teams. If so then that's so retarded.

You're right though in that ashran should not have made it past beta, the only point to it at the moment is nemesis quests and the few side objectives, if blizzard wants it to remain relevant for the whole expansion it's going to need a lot of work. A Zerg gets boring after a short time, even as ranged.