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Strategies
Arcane Mage/Rogue
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  | Pihwi Chromaggus EU-Reckoning |
 | Arcane Mage/Rogue | VS. |   | Death Knight/Druid |
A bit trickier than the Warrior variable, but easy enough as well. It's all about getting the Death Knight to blow his trinket and defensive cooldowns to prepare for the Blind/Sheep/Stun. We start off the exact same way as we start against a Warrior team, except that the rogue has to be extra careful not to get exposed by the Death Knight's annoying (I don't even know the skills he has, I just know how they work..or at least some of them) Lava totem-like AoE Auras while applying the initial Sap. After successfully (hopefully) landing the Sap, have your mage once again mount off and start approaching. My mage usually lands a frost nova on the Death Knight's pet before the initial burst, preventing any casting-fuckups whatsoever. After full duration Cheap Shot, we once again turn to scenarios A and B (explained above) with the exception of dismantle. I don't find dismantle all that sexy against DK's because if the burst fails, we will die anyway and he doesn't need his big ass sword to blow off Shield Walls and stuff like that. You might as well spend that 25 energy on something more useful. Anyway, after you get his trinket on cooldown, once again apply the Blind with a couple seconds worth of wait. During the blind, we have found it very successful to kill the pet and then landing the sheep. Getting rid of the pet is one of the most crucial parts of this strategy. Full duration stun + Mage cooldowns + TToT = 10k Arcane Blast HITS.
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 Jolah | Jun 30, 2009 - 10:32 PM (HideShow) |
| "rogue has to be extra careful not to get exposed by the Death Knight's annoying (I don't even know the skills he has, I just know how they work..or at least some of them) Lava totem-like AoE Auras while applying the initial Sap." Death and decay, and blood boil. | |
| Pihwi | Jul 1, 2009 - 6:40 AM (HideShow) |
| Yeah, blood boil is pretty annoying since it actually works on stealthed characters. DnD isn't that much of a problem because it has a 5 second window in which it can't be applied. | |
 Híde | Jul 3, 2009 - 9:25 PM (HideShow) |
| aaaaaaaaaand if the dk doesnt trinket and uses AMS after kidney wears off? I'm not blowing my CDs in the opener burst, so he can just live. if I do blow my CDs, he trinkets/ AMS and lives anyway, and my rogue is half dead and the druid can keep him out of stealth until our CC on the dk wears off | |
| Híde | Jul 3, 2009 - 9:29 PM (HideShow) |
| basiclly my question is: how the fuck can you force a trinket without mage cooldowns? | |
| Shikz | Jul 5, 2009 - 3:01 AM (HideShow) |
| It's arcane mage/rogue how the f*** do you NOT force him to trinket ? >_>. | |
  Johndabaptst | Jul 8, 2009 - 5:32 AM (HideShow) |
| ARCANE BARRAGE ARCANE BARRAGE ARCANE BARRAGE ARCANE BARRAGE ARCANE BARRAGE ARCANE BARRAGE!! | |
 Eurèka | Jul 15, 2009 - 11:11 PM (HideShow) |
| and then almostinstant arcane missiles.. | |
  Rêdd | Jul 23, 2009 - 12:57 PM (HideShow) |
| hide, you're severely underestimating the burst apparently. A full duration cheap shot and kidney shot with a rogue and arc mage blowing you up? Have fun using AmS after 5+ seconds of these two. | |
 Achejin | Jul 26, 2009 - 1:44 PM (HideShow) |
| Tactic for Druid/DK: How to lose (could be useful if you're wintrading!): Druid stand idle, forget prehots like wtf do you need healing for when freelosing? Stand idle for 5 seconds while your DK is stuck in a cheap shot. Druid receives imp cs, remember to start spamming hots first AFTER the cs has landed. Whine a lot on voice comm. like "OMG COUNTERSPELL MUST BE NERFED SO OVERPOWERED". NS the DK quickly and put up a stack of 3 lifeblooms, just so that blizzard can't think that you were actually wintrading. After CS cd clears up, spam cast Cyclone on a mirror image trying to receive a nature school lockdown. Keep flaming your DK not to use AMZ. Put up 3x lifeblooms, barkskin and innervate on yourself, alt tab out and write a whining post on class forums to nerf mage/rogue. 3 minutes later you get back into game and check if your DK is dead or if the mage/rogue has disconnected yet. You realize your DK is not dead yet, so you try to save the moment and fake a DC with autowalk straight into a wall before your DK finally dies. Looking at Gladius you realize that the rogue is DEAD. Keep faking DC till the mage has successfully gotten full cooldowns up so he can kill you. When you finally get counterspelled at 20% you can start mashing your /ROFL macro. You have earned the achievement [Lose to Mage Rogue in WotLK]. -5000 Ach. points. | |
| Achejin | Jul 26, 2009 - 1:50 PM (HideShow) |
| I just had to write that lol | |
 Deliwio | Oct 27, 2009 - 6:26 AM (HideShow) |
| hahaha loling irl | |
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