Strategies

Mage/Rogue

Author

Icycake
Altar of Storms
US-Nightfall

Mage/Rogue

VS.

Shadow Priest/Rogue

This could be a hard one if you make mistakes or if Mage gets shut down by the Rogue.

Try to pull off a Sap on the Shadow Priest and have the Mage Shatter before the Rogue gets on him. Then burn the Shadow Priest down. If he runs away and somehow your Rogue is falling behind. Switch to the Rogue and burn him down instead.

Comments:

PuwetMar 19, 2008 - 6:47 PM (HideShow)
this a double dps team. CC rotation has to work wonders. Make sure the rogue is already commited to the mage trying to stun.. perfect time to work with the rogue with bleeds, because you need to cripple his vanish. if he pops evasion itself attack him from behind, where dodge is not calculated ( great on armor people with shields cause that is not as well ). stack expose armor because he is not focus'd on first and will help for a later quick kill.

Blind the priest to 1. not allow him to DOT both of you 2. in hopes to make him pop his trinket and 3. a chance to free your mage with the rogue stacking poisons (crippling) and bleeds ( for his vanish combos ).

2. if he pops his trinket this gives the mage some time to cast his elemental and go a both nova/ freeze to slow the rogue ( don't blink FORCE the rogue to waste his cooldowns and hopefully shadowstep so you can blink away from that, just like the warrior.. wait for it you still have ice block and cold snap to counter his shadowstep okay) hopefully garrote or rupture is on so he can't vanish/cheap shot. This gives time to counterspell and sheep the priest... remember you have ice shield to help you with your casting. now 2 dps'n the rogue real quick before the priest even gets out of sheep. just remener to cc together and attack together.

3. with you stun locking him and the mage snaring the other rogue he will be forced to pop his trinket or take a sizable amount of damage... either way have the rogue VANISH and then sap the priest in about 10 seconds after the quick burst of dps... oh this will P!$$ off the priest. and you probably have both of them already used there trinkets. by now your ahead of the game and just ICE BLOCK and take the priest down with the rogue. A Mage NOT focused on is the best chance a mage can do the most damage, remember that.

Works real well AS LONG as the rogue is committed from the start on your mage... rogue has to attack second to counter the other rouge and blind the priest. If you get the sap follow the above guideline
ZvarderApr 4, 2008 - 3:54 PM (HideShow)
This is THE easiest combo for a frostmage/rogue setup. If only the rogue and mage can play this is no problem at all.

I dont even see why bother writing a guide about it..
SèlectApr 28, 2008 - 5:13 AM (HideShow)
What Zvarder said this combo is extremely easy, I usually premed garrote/expose on the spriest, mage sheeps the rogue if they open on me, get a shatter combo off during a kidney shot if they trinket I'll cloak/vanish/cheapshot, might need to time it if you have a garrote on you, which sometimes won't work (given that my mage gets a sheep off/hopefully don't have a garrote debuff on me as well on the rogue if the rogue trinkets blind straight away or get another 4 second sheep off). Basically we get a shatter combo off on the priest and counterspell when he switches forms and is usually down within that time with imp expose/trinkets etc.
EphyMay 13, 2008 - 8:28 PM (HideShow)
real simple......
sap the priest while the mage is invis, start casting a shatter, if the shatter goes off finish the priest if the cast is interrupted by their rogue let your rogue open on their rogue premed->cs->rupture cause alot of rogues trinket ks and vanish so bleed asap (u can vanish cs->ks after, the bleed is a must.)
ScrolltrollJul 16, 2008 - 1:14 PM (HideShow)
simple couse you're all undeads and the priest fear is worthless
SeabreezeAug 5, 2008 - 4:56 PM (HideShow)
I'm not undead, and i back them up on this.

That priest can go down absurdly quick, particularly if, like Ephy says, your mage gets an invis->shatter. Vanish early, and even blow evasion as soon as you open; if the match lasts longer than all your cooldowns, somethings going very wrong.
KantourAug 24, 2008 - 3:09 PM (HideShow)
I sap the shadowpriest,jump on the rogue(PERCEPTION LOL). Once the spriest gets butthurt after 1 shatter, i blind rogue,mage sheeps,we both jump on shadowpriest.


OR

you can just straight up nuke the shadow priest.
ZukiasAug 25, 2008 - 4:08 PM (HideShow)
this combo is actually made pretty hard if the priest and rogue are human and the mage rogue are not...
VidraSep 6, 2008 - 12:15 PM (HideShow)
free points for mage/rogue imo

what wins this game is getting your rogue to sap the spriest, you pop out of invis with pet, icy veins, dmg trinket and shatter the spriest. by then it's too long for them to recover and you already have the advantage. after being bursted the priest is most likely to fear right off so make sure your rogue times his cloak.

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