 what is up ladies and gents welcome to the video this is going to be my top 10 runes for SOD level 25 pvp so this isn't going to be anything to do with you know future phases this is right now and this is something that we've kind of crowd sourced a little bit with chat we you know had a lot of back and forth discussions that kind of thing so it's not only my own opinions that being said if there are any runes you think that have been missed off at the top 10 please do let me know keep in mind even though your rune picks that you thought might be in the top 10 aren't there there will be some honorable mentions at the end with explanations and such so make sure you watch until the end of the video keep in mind that this is for general pvp so this is this is duels this is uh you know bg's warstone gulch uh and its world pvp so everything combined overall strength so without further ado let's get into the top 10 number 10 is gonna be avenger shield and it's a ranged aoe slow that requires you to use a shield but you can just switch to a shield and use it and this actually just allows rats to connect where otherwise they wouldn't be able to their mobility is really bad other than this and so this is the thing that is making rats so good right now they are able to throw this this avenger shield out if you can't dispel it then you basically need to be a druid to be able to shift it otherwise this rat is catching you and when the rats catch you they hurt so this is what is making avenger shield for me number 10 right now and until recently this this was actually counted as a day so you couldn't even shift it as a druid you couldn't pre-action potion it and so this actually got nerfed quite recently otherwise this would actually be higher on the list next up at number nine we are going to have void plague now you'll notice a lot of the spells in this list are actually instanced and that's because casting in classic is actually quite difficult a lot of things have longer cast and there's a lot of pushback so instants are valuable and void plague is no exception it's both the strongest dot in the game right now and one of the highest damage per global buttons the compress full stop it's also very very efficient it costs less mana than a shadow of pain and does over twice the damage so it's a super valuable button to be pressing on top of all that it scales really well spell power adding an extra 20 percent of your spell damage per tick for a total of 120 percent of your spell power increase over the duration coming in at number eight we have heart of the lion and on the face of it this one looks very simple but it actually provides so much raw power it stacks with all the other hunter aspects and it gives the hunter themselves an extra 20 percent overall stats which is actually huge when you think about it on top of that it also gives all their party members an extra 10 percent stats so if you add up all the numbers this is so much more added value for you and your team so in any sort of group combat this is going to give you all a lot more raw power and that's why it's such a high value room number seven is going to be wild growth and this is another relatively simple one but really just has a lot of raw power behind it it's another instant cast and it's one of the highest hbs spells in the game along with prayer of mending actually so it's actually a really really versatile aoe heal where it heals all party members of the target within a 40 yard range so this actually allows you to top any group in the raid and not just your own so this is very very valuable in things like warsong galt where there can be a lot of people taking damage and you know get that really valuable heal off to sort of keep the team going keep the team healthy but also it can be used in solo pvp as well where if you're kiting away it can actually be a really valuable tool to stay alive even though it's only healing one player it's super super useful at number six we have prayer of mending and this was actually really close with wild growth as they both feel kind of similar niches but i just feel like prayer of mending is a little bit more versatile and with the small change that they've done in SOD whereby you are able to proc it via healing as well as via taking damage i think that kind of just edges it a little bit above as you have a little bit more control over the spell than you usually would and it's not constrained to groups on top of that it's a lot more mana efficient and it's one of the highest hps spells in the game as long as you consume all five charges now as i said earlier you're able to proc this with healing as well so you can use things like lesser heal rank one or renew rank one to continue to bounce your pom around if it gets stuck on somebody or pet and this makes it very very powerful on top of that it scales really really well with bonus healing i believe better than wild growth at 43% of your bonus healing per charge now we are coming into the top five and at number five we have haunt now haunt is another instant cast and it is not only doing a nice junkie bit of damage it also increases the damage of all the other warlock dots on the target by 20% if it's dispelled or it expires it will heal the warlock for all of the damage that it's done overall it's providing a really really high amount of added pressure in terms of damage but it also really increases the warlock survivability and is just all around a very powerful button a nice added perk to this one is that it will also heal the warlock if the target was shielded which is not true for other drains it has a pretty decent scaling considering it's an instant of 43% and you could have probably guessed this next one was coming at number four we have master channeler another instant cast and a pretty high damage dot all things considered this is probably the main thing that a lot of melee are complaining about when it comes to warlocks and the reason that they are really having a hard time killing them it gives the warlock a tremendous amount of increased survivability with the added healing that it's providing it's difficult to avoid you can outrange it but any warlock worth their salt is going to keep in range so that it doesn't expire the damage scales with horn and this in turn increases the healing that it provides so this combo is particularly deadly and as mortal strike is not available at this tier the talent becomes even stronger you might see this falling off in later tiers now into the top three and these are the most complained about runes in the game and with reason at number three we've got beast mastery and this is the cause of so much grief it gives the pet 30% more hp and it does 30% more damage on top of that focus regen is tremendously increased and this is why you have wind serpents flying around doing obscene damage to people you have all sorts of videos of people running eyes of the beast and going around one shooting people because the wind serpent lightning breath can actually crit for around 300 and it's relatively spammable based on how much focus you have so these are really ones to watch out for and that's the reason why they're so strong is this room now number two and one might be up for some debate and you may have guessed them already but at number two i have put star surge and since the buff to this ability it has become insane it's instant it can crit for over 400 it's an insanely low cost mana spell of only four it has 42 yard range if you take the range talent in balance tree the cooldown is only six seconds and it scales 100 with spell power as an instant cast this is absolutely insane i have no idea where they got the numbers for on this they really did want to get balance into the meta and you know what that's one way to do it i feel a little bit bad if it does get enough because the rest of their kit is pretty mediocre but this one rune alone is bringing a balanced druids by the scruff of the neck up into s tier it is bonkers and it makes you wonder what could possibly be better than this in the first spot take your guesses now put it in the comments if you don't want to get any spoilers i am really interested to see what people actually think is the top ranked rune in the game before i reveal it if not sit tight here it comes the best rune in the game for sod 25 pvp is furious thunder i'm kidding it's complete dog it's of course penance maybe i'm a little bit biased i don't know maybe if i was biased i wouldn't say it was rank one pfft not sure it basically has very very very high single target hps it will pretty much top you from 40 to full and it's just really really versatile it's really really strong defensively but you can use it offensively as well and because it's three ticks extra pushback it's incredibly mana efficient second most efficient priest heal actually after prayer of mending as long as it gets five ticks it scales really really well with spell power and healing at 85% over the whole cast and the icing on the cake and maybe the funniest thing of all maybe not if you're not playing priest is the fact that cast bars in sod right now are bugged and what i mean by that is people cannot see channeled casts they will have to see the animation in game if they want to see penance being cast so most of the time it won't even get interrupted so that is why i'm putting it at spot number one as i said maybe you have a different opinion maybe you think penance is just as busted as i do i hope it doesn't get nerfed but that is the top dog now there are a few honorable mentions divine storm the perks of this ability obviously the fact that it's aoe however it does do really solid single target damage as well with a 110% weapon damage it can crit for over 300 and heals for 25% on a three party raid members on top of that it can actually proc an aoe stun if you're running seal of justice so overall it's just a really valuable button push we've got way of earth and this really nearly made it into the top 10 but as i said it was very very competitive and this was just a little bit too situational and that will be a common theme for a lot of the the runes on the honorable mentions section where they're quite good or really very good in certain situations but then completely useless in other ones or just get out shone by other runes way of earth is one of those where it will make make shamans really tanky and solid for a dueling overall but there are a lot more situations where there's other options that are better it does make them very good flag carries and war song but that was kind of the extent next up we've got meta and this allows warlocks to be really really strong into melee but not so much against casus and horn kind of overall out shone it a little bit in the hands of a more skilled warlock player it did allow warlocks to front line a little bit more in war song but the spells that takes away kind of limit the capabilities of the class a little bit more and for me i think that horn is just the superior pick if you are putting it in the hands of a skilled player next up we've got homunculi and again great for dueling great and well pvp but i just could not leave pom off with how strong pom is in group pvp pomunculi didn't make the cut as a result and this was a really tricky decision for me because i do love the homies but yeah they didn't make it on this time as i said is a very very tough top 10 next up we've got survival of the fittest similar to where the really just makes flag carrier is way tankier but it's too much of a niche rune and while it does really shine in that specific situation there are not that many others where you would want to take it over the free wrap which also i guess could do with an honorable mention not a bad pick either again not not good enough to make it into the top top 10 i would say but still worth a shout and then finally between the eyes and honestly i'm sure there's loads more that deserve an honorable mention again if you think uh if you think i've missed something please i'm sure i have please do let me know in the comments and we uh we could chat about it but yeah between the eyes almost made it in and as rogue's only stun at the moment it is very class defining right now however it just just isn't quite strong enough in group combat isn't that thing that will swing the battle in your favor it is still a little bit too niche that is why it is only an honorable mention that was it thank you so much for watching guys i had a lot of fun making this one we we had a lot of fun with chat theory crafting it and so on if you'd like to actually see the the making of this where we sort of went through theory craft that it made a huge long list of runes that kind of stuff i can do a making of video if not we'll continue on with the the pure stuff or the educational stuff in the pvp it really does depend on what you guys want to see so yeah just let me know thank you so much for sticking around if you made it to the end and have a good one