Strategies

Frost Mage/Destruction Warlock

Author

Torment
The Underbog
US-Retaliation

Frost Mage/Destruction Warlock

VS.

Death Knight/Shaman

This match up is fairly easy if you land your CC properly. You'll want to kill the Death Knight here and control the Shaman. If the Tremor Totem is destroyed while the Shaman is in one form of CC by either your Mage or Warlock the match will play out quite easily. From there you have plenty of time to drop the Death Knight/reapply CC safely without fear of totems breaking it.

As the Warlock a helpful hint would be to save your Demonic Circle portal for when you're Death Gripped. Death Coil can be used both defensively and offensively depending on how the match is playing out. If the Warlock is at a safe distance from the Death Knight you can look to try and get the gib prior to his use of Anti-Magic Shell. If hes at a threatening distance it's best to use it defensively as a peel.

Mage PoV
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Not too hard of a fight. Deep Freeze the Death Knight when the fight starts, help your Warlock get Tremor Totem, then just kill the Death Knight while CCing the Shaman. Try to anticipate the trinket/NS heal so you can Counterspell him before he gets it off, then Sheep him.

Spellsteal Earth Shield and Bloodlust if they get a chance to use it

Comments:

FarcryApr 2, 2009 - 5:11 PM (HideShow)
Do you use macros to take care of totem targeting? I've tried a macro that, using a control key, targets totems first when casting ice lance. Is it better just to work on click-targeting totems?
JigorinaApr 8, 2009 - 10:54 AM (HideShow)
Try with the clicking since we don't know what blizzard is planning to do about totemstomping macros in 3.1, but until then use [target=tremor totem]
FebrezeJun 15, 2009 - 11:52 PM (HideShow)
what abought when the macro does ot work in 3.2
TormentJun 18, 2009 - 1:18 AM (HideShow)
You'll just have to manually do it. A nice thing to do is land a Shadowfury then destroy the totem into a seduce/fear(if you're in a position to fear the shaman do it over seduce).

Also a quick icelance at the totem will help if your pet is not in position.

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