{"id":354,"date":"2013-07-20T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T03:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2021-05-30T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:33:39","slug":"proving-yourself-in-proving-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinsguild.com\/blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Proving Yourself in Proving Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

This PTR build of patch 5.4 introduced a long-awaited feature to the game: Proving Grounds!\u00a0 Proving Grounds are solo scenarios where a level 90 player can test their skill in their chosen role<\/em> against wave after wave of enemies that get progressively harder.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 As a DPS<\/strong>, your job is to kill the mobs before the next wave spawns.\u00a0 It’s just you and your toolbox of spells and abilities to burn them down, interrupt their heals, and keep yourself alive.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 As a tank<\/strong>, your job is to protect your NPC healer by picking up the mobs as best you can, interrupting them, and using your own cooldowns to survive.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 As a healer<\/strong>, your job is to keep your party alive.\u00a0 Your party is a team of NPCs – a warrior tank, an assassination rogue, a hunter and a mage.\u00a0 The AI is pretty smart — they are good about interrupting and focus firing — while still being realistic in the sense that they are occasionally being slow to get out of fire or meandering out of your healing range.\u00a0 You’ll need to do a lot of healing and dispelling here.<\/p>\n

If you fail in your role objective, you get a failure message and the mobs despawn and you have to talk to the NPC to start again at wave 1.\u00a0 If you get “killed,” you are actually just reduced to 1 healthpoint – so no death repair bills!\u00a0 You do take wear-and-tear durability damage, though, and there is an NPC inside the instance who can repair you.<\/p>\n

\"Healer<\/a><\/p>\n

Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proving Grounds can serve several useful functions:<\/p>\n