strat: disc/rogue

[shadow]

Disc priest should spec into reflective shield.

Rshield helps vs melee teams such as rogue/priest warrior/druid

Warrior/druid:
Mainly we do 2 tactics, depending on situation and arena.

1st: priest goes on warrior alone, dpsing him lightly with dots, mindblast, and letting his shield do most the work, when druid pops, rogue goes on him to mainly force trinket, unless there is a chance of killing the druid.

This forces druid to focus on himself more than warrior, since rogue is constantly on him. Once he uses trinket blind, vanish sap(unless druid is low enough, both switch to druid), but Mainly the warrior will drop enabling a fast switch to him while druid gets Cc'ed

2nd:

Both go aggressive on warrior, pulling him around pillars, out of druid LoS, the target warrior is focusing gets Rshield. Now the shield + some mindblasts + rogue dps will put a strain on druid, if priest also scares him off with burns aswell.

the LoS game will force druid to come closer or perhaps run in a sense that enables a fear into blind. Now time the fear + blind preferably when warrior is in the range of 30-40% hp( and druid used his NS)

rogue/priest:
So far against this combo, we go on the rogue, forcing the priest under pressure to heal the rogue, while we kite rogue around pillars + slow priest down with cripple poison. Rshield + my dmg will take rogue down fast.

as soon as the fight start, dispell fearward, fear priest( if undead, wait for 2nd fear before you blind)
meanwhile you keep pressure on rogue by stunning, expose armor + Rshield doing its bit. You will be able to get rogue low enough without CC, by LoSing, and occasional gouge on priest. But Blind the priest after trinket has been used on 2nd fear ( 1st if its not undead) and Rupture/garrote rogue incase he tries to vanish and hide.

Your priest may get Mburned at start but LoS + the dmg put on their rogue will force priest to heal or see rogue die. This is how we handled mirror match and so far it has worked well


Dunno what other people did, but this got me far into 2v2 closing 2.2k untill i started team hopping/boosting:p


Reflective shield helps alot bursting down the dps'er stressing a healer with burns blind and fear.


Note: im sorry if people already posted a strat, or even if this one is a bit vague. But nonetheless i thought i would share it:)

[Majy]

rshield sucks vs mirror matches which is the majority of what you start seeing at like 2k... better to spec it maybe when you surpass that point.

Watching another priests PoM fly around everywhere because of your 8 talent points is painful.

[faction]

what you see is druid warrior

druid warrior

druid warrior





druid warrior

RS > all

[somaface]

RS is for pros only

[Majy]

On whirlwind at 2k I'd say 6/10 teams are rogue/priest.

2/10 are druid/warrior

1/10 druid/lock

and the last bit is a mixed bag. Mage/rogue, priest/hunter, druid/hunter.. stuff like that.

And like I said, it sucks in a mirror match.

Druid/warriors are doable without it anyway... I'd much prefer to fight a dru/war while not spec'd RS than a rogue/priest while spec'd with it.

[Lene]

it dont suck in mirror match at all

[Majy]

Then you must be facing some really stupid priests.

If your rogue goes on their priest, they stick their rogue on your priest and PoM goes bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce.

If your rogue goes on their rogue, their rogue goes on you and their priest is a lot more open to manaburn than you are.

It's really fun to give the other team the advantage of 6k+ healing every 30 seconds where you don't have it.

[Quantity]

No offense, but you aren't going to force my druid to trinket by initially getting on him. The priest isn't going to be able to get to him due to mace stun/intercept/hamstring, your Rogue isn't going to 100-0 him through one kidney. Most likely he'll be in Bear when you open.

Kind of a bad strategy mainly because you left out what to do if the Druid doesn't trinket the initial kidney?

[shadow]

if druid doesnt trinket, rogue stays on him, and as shs its easier to stay on druid, when warrior intercepts/hamstrings, and shs is down, you switch to warrior pulling him away from druid LoS, this also frees priest for drinking or manaburning druid. Rshield again hurts the warrior, and even if druid doesnt trinket, he will still have to heal himself/hots and what not. Im not saying its perfect, but only that it worked for us.

When warrior goes for me priest can drink, while druid cant, and if he does priest send fiend in aswell forcing him to run around( or Mind vision, since it will make them stand up:p will get fixed in 2.4)

[faction]

When warrior goes for me priest can drink, while druid cant,

doesnt even make sense

[Irishrover]

I hate to agree with faction but yes

[shadow]

hmm sorry, ill make it more clear i guess.

Warrior moves away from priest, when he intercepts me, or goes for me to hamstring. leaving priest to go out of LoS to drink. Druid cant due to me coming for him, or if he manages to sit and drink priest Mind visions him. Mind vision makes ppl stand up. Which results in no drinking, and i know it will get fixed in 2.4. As for the time being thats what we do.

[Marbac]

what we did vs war/druid was this:

priest goes mount and I (rogue) sap again and again war, until we either find druid or gems is out..

If war lands the hamstring, we start dpsing the war with dots+expose forcing the druid to appear.Be sure to not waste any cd until now..

Once druid appears we switch (shs) to him instantly and stun damage as much as possible (priest needs to full nuke druid also). This results on him using his instant or staying bear and eat dps. That point is critical and shows if a druid is good(or lucky) enough to get away fast. If he doesn't get away fast enough u can even drop him (u should also disrupt the war with blind in that case).

Now, most druids above 2k CAN get away..So you shouldn't waste time going round pillars and stuff as a rogue but just switch to the warrior again and continue with expose and dots (or stuns/gouges if the priest is low) reflective shield pwns also.

This is the point were druid comes back to heal his war, so your priest should scare him off by mana burning and approaching for fear. You will end up in a situation were the druid has trinketed either fear or blind. At that point you have to last until the next blind (ur specced sub right?) to kill the war.

At any point of the game a sap after a fear on the druid = win but don't count on being able to do that..

Also be sure to take into account sword warriors burst damage, a rogue at 50% is going down in the next secs..

Anyway I play on some noob bg and I dont claim uber skillz so correct me if I'm wrong

Edit: I forgot to mention that I assume warrior goes on priest. If he goes on rogue its wrong since manaburn+2xevasion+2x vanish+ghostly strike etc etc will outlast the druids mana bar. If warrior goes on rogue, they hope to drop me spamming cyclones on my priest..but thats just a long shot

[`Sur]

On whirlwind at 2k I'd say 6/10 teams are rogue/priest.


Then your battlegroup would get raped by a good hunter/druid