Strategies

Druid/Warrior

Author

Ridzik
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EU-Glutsturm

Druid/Warrior

VS.

Shadow Priest/Rogue

Kill Priest then Rogue. You play against the odds but there are some things you can do. Avoid the opener on your Druid by stealthing along some strange paths while making sure your Warrior is always within los but try to stay out of the SPriest's los. Lets say the Rogue opens on the Warrior. Pop out asap and Cyclone the Rogue, make sure you are at max range to the rogue with the priest far on the other side (the early cyclone on the Rogue makes sure you are not without defense if they choose to switch to you, NS+Cyclone will buy you time then. Cyclone the Priest after the Rogue has used his trinket. Now spam heals/abolish poison while running away from the priest, try to Faerie Fire/Root the Rogue when you can. Call for Intervene when you anticipate a Blind. If you get blinded with the priest nearby your warrior has to survive the 10 seconds on his own and intercept the rogue a short time before the blind wears off to prevent vanish/sap. Use your trinket on the fear that follows the blind, now you won't have to worry about CC's for 20 seconds. Your warrior has to fear the SPriest's manafiend, if he doesn't you've already lost the mana war. If you survive the rushdown don't let them reset the fight at all cost, the priest may never drink.

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SpunkyMar 27, 2008 - 11:37 AM (HideShow)
the rogue is stealthed and the priest is 1v1 the warrior

the rogue will not show up till the druid do and it willl be either blind on the druid or open on him .. starting from this point spriest/rogue team will go to several paths depending on what ull trinket out .. but in every path spriest/rogue got advantages ..

i would like to see how ull act in this situation when the rogue dosent show up early = no cyclone on rogue :)
MadawcApr 4, 2008 - 1:24 PM (HideShow)
Situation 1 - (Rogue and sPriest nuke Warrior):
Always start the fight with sword and board in battle stance (Berserker if you believe the rogue will have time to engage you before you can engage the priest). Both are nuking you at this point, don't worry about the dots from the priest, use your rage to refresh commanding shout, use demoralizing shout, spell reflect mind blast, hamstring both targets, intervene your druid. As you kite away (druid will be removing your poisons as you intervene away from your hamstrung opponents), keep an eye on the priest. If he wants to drink, throw something at him. Your druid should always stay ~15 yards in front of both you, the rogue and shadow priest. Use piercing howl to keep the kite up as long as possible. When they catch you repeat. (It important the druid is not worried about going OOM, the priest will be dispelling the druids hots, reapply them instantly. Cyclone the rogue only if the druid can do so without losing significant kiting distance to prevent a switch onto the druid. Let the priest continue to cast, he will be out of mana very quickly. When he pops shadow fiend the warrior will fear it, let the priests mana continue to suffer from dispelling and dpsing. When he is OOM, feel free to win the game by taking down the priest.

Situation 2 - (Rogue and sPriest nuke Druid):
The warrior is going to have to use all the versatility he doesn't have to begin with in this fight. Some things to take advantage of are:
1) A rogue attacking a druid is subject to heavy damage while it cannot dodge or parry.
2) Intervene hamstring intercept combo's are important.
This fight will start with them opening on your druid (if alliance). Make sure your druid is in bear form prior to being caught in cat form with perception. Hamstring the rogue, intercept stun the priest. Build rage on the priest, using it to interrupt burst damage spells such as mind blast. If you are preventing enough damage, your druid will be fine while slowly kiting the rogue. When the warrior has sufficient rage
MadawcApr 4, 2008 - 1:33 PM (HideShow)
built up, the druid will bring the rogue slowly towards the warrior and priest. silence the priest temporarily with a pummel on a cast, then burst the rogue with your built rage. Your druid is in a bad position now being close to both opponents, intercept stun the priest and attempt to fear both targets. Hamstring fears that may break early from deep wounds or prevented from fear ward / removed by wotf. Hamstring both. In the case that the priest and rogue combined are doing too much damage to the druid, pummel silence the priest, and intervene the druid. Let him know a 3 second stun on the rogue is following. Bounce away and intercept stun the rogue, giving your druid time to shift out, hot himself, remove a poison and continue to kite. You have to as a warrior, stay in a position to lock down the priest as much as possible, while assisting your druid when he's in trouble with intervene, intercept stuns, fear, debuffing shouts, disarm. If your druid manages to get away from the rogue they are in trouble, as the priest will again go out of mana and cause them to loose the match.

Against any double dps I play a survival strategy, dpsing only when I know I have a stun, fear, intervene to assist me in mitigating damage. I choose to play very defensively, and burst when I know we are in safe standing and everything I can do, has been done.

Situation 3 - (Above Poster):
To the poster above, its common knowledge that any geared shadow priest will solo a warrior with very little difficulty. In this case have the druid pounce the priest to mitigate damage and shift to bear form. Time your interrupts between Pummel, feral charge, intercept stun, bash. Before you get to repeat or even complete this rotation the fight will have entered one of 2 stages, as the shadow priest will not be able to output enough damage on the warrior.
1) They nuke your warrior (refer above).
2) They nuke your druid, already in bear form (refer above).

The central concept is don't play their game, force them to play yours. The 2 scenarios
MfdoomMay 17, 2008 - 1:38 PM (HideShow)
^ a druid feral charing a priest is asking for a fear, and you really wont have time to do all that anyways because the rogue will open on the druid quickly and stun lock him, and blinding before a 5 pt kidney shot to force a trinket and to eat the full kidney shot, and splitting dps. while the spriest easily solos the warrior, if not assists rogue on druid. ez
MagitsJun 6, 2008 - 9:26 PM (HideShow)
druid feral charging a shadowpriest will lock his shadow school, in effect locking down fear.
SkipeJun 22, 2008 - 10:19 AM (HideShow)
What about if they both nuke me, and they both (SP and Rogue) use Rocket Boots, and get every CC on druid very easily? Like, so easy fear for priest with rocket boots :/
Met this kind of team today and lost 0-3 :( (2200 rating~~)
DokterplantsJun 22, 2008 - 3:24 PM (HideShow)
It is all about lucky really. have the warrior keep both targets slowed and try to keep your distance because to blind they have to run to you. Once you see him coming at you, run away yourself but make sure you have atleast two to three hots on your warrior. If the priest gets off a fear have your warrior go defensive and LoS and intervene the druid so there won't be any saps.
NumbJul 4, 2008 - 6:53 PM (HideShow)
i have problems with this team aswell using sword and board is smart but the priest fears u have to sword and board zerker stance
and right wen the rogue comes out of for ur druid intercept and start line of sighting the shadowpriests dmg (ur druid should be close to a pillar or the tomb) once the rogue is low if he is trying to get away u have HAVE 2 Keep hammy HAMMY OVER EXECUTE on the rogue keep hammy on both target or piercing
DONT LET THAT ROGUE GET AWAY OR U LOSE!. but this is all luck if u can los and mitigate dmg u win. killing the rogue is good but also ur warrior can die fast. so druids full hots pure. and u should have good chances.
what has to happen to win against spriest rogue
1) Line of Sight
2) allways keep hammy on shadowpriest and rogue if u can.
3) try to keep the shadowpreist LOS'ed if hes ripping on ur.
4) ur druid has to be good.
BearkinJul 11, 2008 - 11:30 AM (HideShow)
why going on the priest while he has 15% less physical dmg and 2k more armor ...he is gonna dot u anw...i would say one hamstring so he wont come close to u and fear u and kill the rogue so basically hamstring them both will keep them away form..use line of sight for the priest and rogue will be slowed so he cant reach you...so basically in that way no one is attacking you..when the rogue is low throw some cyclones on the priest,also put faerie fire on the rogue to maximize the dmg of ur warrior.If u r close to die and the rogue is on u charge the priest so u will get away form the rogue throw hots and go travel form...
One more thing is rogue usually start on u (if they find u)with cheap shot and premiditation and they have 5 combos--->kindey chop..so as long as u see the rogue on u ask for intervene so ur warrior will get the kidney chop...we have been following this plan for long and no rogue/priest manage to get me or my warrior below 65% health

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