O~ What is the point of purge

[ShadowSpear]

What the hell is the point of purge huh? For what 75 mana your able to remove one buff from a unit. That is if you have the mana to begin with. To me it seems like Purge is useless it has no purpose. i mean by the time your able to grab one of your stupid lil shamans who is running around all over the place they are out of mana from going Bloodlust happy on your units. so your not able to really dispell any buffs and not like you will be able to dispell many in the first place. every other race and there dispelling units can elminate all of your buffs really quick. and i mean they made it a bit better by having the white tauren being able to cast dispell but how many people use that tauren any ways? So can anyone convince me why purge is good for some reason?

[Ued_colonial]

press the button once

[AHappyChineseBoy]

The stopping effect is has on people, besides the main anti magic unit for orc is now a spirit walker

[Aragorn7]

It is good for stopping and dispelling bears, hawks and pretty much any other powerful summon.

[ShadowSpear]

Well if your talking about the beast master and his summon units ya your right there they will kill them quickly but i usally dont see many people playing w/ them. but i know wat you mean hehe. The problem i was having w/ it was i was never able to use it i would always run out of mana before then. i prob should have some more shamans to help out this prob but i usally dont want to give up making other units is it worth making more shamans so i will be able to use purge more often?

[Andrew]

its good to get rid of buffs and summons, besides disenchant, thats all the dispell orc has

[Ntrik_]

simple words ppl.. dont get the guy get all confused up

its same as abolish magic or dispel, except u use it only on individual unit

thers also dichent (cant spell) which is like dispel.

also purge = hero kill or any other unit kill

if u use purge.. they come to u (attacks u) so use it to kill off dying heros.

[ShadowSpear]

So would you say that purge is better then the Taurens disenchant?

[Ntrik_]

in a way, yes, catching those running units.

but disenchant is better in killing off skeelis and stuff..

[ShadowSpear]

since were on the topic about shamans can you tell me a good way to use lighting shield i can never seem to use it properly. most of the time my stupid units go off running into the shield lol and ideas?

[x42bn6]

Nice thing about Purge is that chances are you have more than 1 Shaman who can cast Lightning Shield on a Purged hero easier, turning it into a permanant 'damager bomb'.

Plus, multiple Purges actually work quite well against BM, Warden and DH with low life, while you go murder it with your units.

Plus, with Hex and War Stomp as your only 2 hero stunners, Purge becomes quite a nice spell to use, for a low mana cost.

[dP]

to kill water elementals

[Torubu]

Originally posted by ShadowSpear
since were on the topic about shamans can you tell me a good way to use lighting shield i can never seem to use it properly. most of the time my stupid units go off running into the shield lol and ideas?

Cast it on a big melee units/hero, such as a TC or Tauren, and run it to their ranged. Works well this way, or just casting it on their ranged themselves, this just pretty much forces them to relocate that unit out of the LS range.

[Ntrik_]

^ or ranged, casters.... they have low life, they die fast

also cast on melee units to kill em selves. and u need micro avodiing it.

[ShadowSpear]

Yeah i really should work on my mirco skills im not really good at mircoing at all lol. but if i can get to mirco well hopefully i can use the shamans a lot better then at the moment.

[Samsara]

shamens imo are an imbalance. they have the best spells in the game. you have purge which is the equivalent to the human slow and it dispels nicely. keep in mind that it wont stun your friendly units so purge sleep and entangle away.
lit. shield is just devastating with a lvl 6 TC that has lust on. no matter how strong the enemy is, they will die shortly because LS does a heckofalot of damage and is Orc's best anticaster.
finally there is bloodlust, combined with units like zerkers you can attack like 40 times in a blink. combined with siege like raiders and batriders, you can take out at least half their base before the enemy comes running back.

[ShadowSpear]

i think i jst need to use more shamans so i can achieve all these things jst that some i have one bloodlust other on purge and my guys run of mana soo fast

[Andrew]

depends on how good your micro is, if you can purge good, you dont need as miuch

[ShadowSpear]

like i said i suck at microing lol but usally im ok whne comes to purgeing i prob should pick out most damaging buff and dispell those before the others

[FearFrontal]

that's because no one can play here