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  | Mixster Arthas US-Ruin |
 | Priest/Rogue | VS. |   | Druid/Hunter |
Personally, I feel this setup is the hardest to beat. A hunter with all his CC combined with the Druid CC will frustrate your Rogue beyond belief, Viper Sting with a pet constantly hitting you will run you OOM fast. To beat this setup you need to maximize your Mana, there is no point in LOSing the Hunter while you have Viper on you, so you might as well make them blow their CCs on you so you can Mana Burn the Hunter (which is what you will be doing).
As soon as the fight starts have your Rogue get on the Hunter and try to stun him (Flare will probably expose the Rogue), get Poisons on the Hunter as fast as you can and have your Priest mount up and wait until the Druid comes out to Fear him, as soon as that Hunter gets the first Viper Sting on you, sit next to him and spam Mana Burn, you want him out of Mana as fast as possible, you will probably get Bashed, Rooted, Scatter Shotted, Silence Shot, but you need to get that Hunter out of Mana. If you do manage to get the Hunter out of Mana have your Rogue focus him. The Priest should now get behind a pillar, use your Shadowfiend on the Hunter or the Hunter's Pet and put on your MP5 Wand/Weapon and conserve Mana. If you see a good opportunity to kill the pet, do so immediately, that does not mean have your Rogue run across the map and make it look obvious, come into LOS, Fear the Druid and then burst him down with Shadow Word: Death/Mind Blast/Smite/Shadow Word: Pain and whatever else you may have in your arsenal. Once that pet is dead your life is much easier, Renew the Rogue and run out of LOS. If the Druid is always keeping you in combat that is ok, only come out to dispel the Ice Trap on the Rogue (don't get caught behind a pillar with it, call out if you see them try to do this).
This is a very tough fight, you just need to outlast or get a nice burst on the Hunter with a Fear/Blind and hopefully he dies, if not you have to try to kill the pet, if your Priest is out of Mana and the situation is looking bad you might as well have your Rogue be on the pet as a last desperate attempt to win.
As soon as the fight starts have your Rogue get on the Hunter and try to stun him (Flare will probably expose the Rogue), get Poisons on the Hunter as fast as you can and have your Priest mount up and wait until the Druid comes out to Fear him, as soon as that Hunter gets the first Viper Sting on you, sit next to him and spam Mana Burn, you want him out of Mana as fast as possible, you will probably get Bashed, Rooted, Scatter Shotted, Silence Shot, but you need to get that Hunter out of Mana. If you do manage to get the Hunter out of Mana have your Rogue focus him. The Priest should now get behind a pillar, use your Shadowfiend on the Hunter or the Hunter's Pet and put on your MP5 Wand/Weapon and conserve Mana. If you see a good opportunity to kill the pet, do so immediately, that does not mean have your Rogue run across the map and make it look obvious, come into LOS, Fear the Druid and then burst him down with Shadow Word: Death/Mind Blast/Smite/Shadow Word: Pain and whatever else you may have in your arsenal. Once that pet is dead your life is much easier, Renew the Rogue and run out of LOS. If the Druid is always keeping you in combat that is ok, only come out to dispel the Ice Trap on the Rogue (don't get caught behind a pillar with it, call out if you see them try to do this).
This is a very tough fight, you just need to outlast or get a nice burst on the Hunter with a Fear/Blind and hopefully he dies, if not you have to try to kill the pet, if your Priest is out of Mana and the situation is looking bad you might as well have your Rogue be on the pet as a last desperate attempt to win.
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 Woodblock | Apr 4, 2008 - 11:17 PM (HideShow) |
| due to pets high shadow resist ( 150-180 depending on mark buff) you'd be better off just spamming smite with on a pet since it is a non resistible school. | |
 Chingwang | Apr 6, 2008 - 2:13 PM (HideShow) |
| I find that if I bubble myself, then get a Power Infusion up and start spamming Smite the pet will go down pretty quickly. You have to be sneaky about it though, while the Druid/Hunter is on the other side of the map or something...and its almost impossible to do in RoL since there's really no where to hide (maybe inside one of the starting rooms I guess). Generally the Hunter will call the pet back when he sees it starting to die, but if your Rogue comes over to assist DPS, and shivs some Crippling on the pet, its very possible to take it down. | |
 Disaster | Apr 6, 2008 - 7:42 PM (HideShow) |
| i find that we have the most success winning by just nukeing the pet with everything we have, all cooldowns and everything, the second we can get the druid into some meaningful cc while i spam dispel between cooldowns. if NS is up i run to the druid and spam dispel him as his fear ends in an attempt to dispel NS. i dont even worry about my mana i just dump every last bit of anything i have into killing that pet. while the druid is active though i am just pushing manaburns on that hunter. the druid cannot keep up heals on the pet as its equivilant to healing a destruction lock in greens. | |
| Slu | Apr 9, 2008 - 4:56 PM (HideShow) |
| im a new priest as you can see by my mostly S1 gear and i m currently sitting around 1800, but this team used to give us fits. Last night it seemed like we found a good strategy: rogue open up on hunter, priest stay mounted druid comes out to cyclone/root, priest must fear this, druid trinkets priest PI self, shield, stand right in front of hunter and mana burn 20 seconds after fear rogue get SnD up, cheap shot hunter, blind druid, switch to pet fear druid after blind, priest helps with dps and kill pet don't let hunter rez by keeping him mana burned and interrupting revive pet, if he does just kill pet again it seems like hunter doesn't put on nearly as much dps as my rogue does as long as the rogue is on him, and when we lose it's because of going OOM and not neccesarily because of healing. | |
 Quadzy | Apr 12, 2008 - 4:11 PM (HideShow) |
| gl getting a druid to trinket the first fear.... :/ | |
 Ordin | Apr 15, 2008 - 10:30 AM (HideShow) |
| The druid will trinket the blind and then you have the 8 seconds of fear to kill the pet, should be enough time. I like to have my rogue blind really early so that a second blind is available before the trinket comes off of cooldown (people ALWAYS trinket out of blind) | |
| Mickster | Apr 18, 2008 - 3:28 AM (HideShow) |
| You may also try as ordin said, blind the druid then fear him and you can still vanish sap during a fear, in this time though you may want to do something productive like killing the pet or finish the hunter or even just get free mana burns on the hunter. You may also stun the druid and get free mana burns on him as well. | |
| Pebbel | Apr 20, 2008 - 8:35 PM (HideShow) |
| Ordin is absolutely correct. People have a tendency to trinket out of blind than fear and using blind to bait trinket early in the game is terrific since blind has a shorter cooldown than the PVP trinket. | |
| Chingwang | Apr 24, 2008 - 10:40 AM (HideShow) |
| Also, if you do end up killing the pet, fear the Druid and then have your Rogue put the Hunter into a full duration Kidney Shot. If you haven't used PI yet, use it here and MANA BURN the Hunter down to zero Mana. This will prevent him from re-summoning a pet, at least until he can drink up. From here on out it's a pretty easy fight. Just find a good opportunity to drink to full and you're pretty much set. | |
| Mickster | Apr 24, 2008 - 10:21 PM (HideShow) |
| make sure to time your rogue's cloak or trinket so that when you do go to drink your rogue doesn't get trapped and you are too far away to stop the hunter. Make sure to keep the hunter low on mana at all times as well. | |
 Suspenderz | Apr 25, 2008 - 10:40 PM (HideShow) |
| My priest friend just respecced Disc, and we're slowly climbing up. One strategy we found works decently (about 50/50) is I open on the hunter and my priest immediatly gets in his face. Literally as close as possible. I spam shiv to keep crippling up and my priest just Mana Burns the hunter or druid. It's not the best strategy, but it's been successful a few times | |
 Azurriku | Apr 29, 2008 - 11:52 AM (HideShow) |
| We have a 90% win against druid/hunter lately. Strategy as follows: Rogue opens on the hunter with cs+ks. the priest uses thist time to get the first PI'd Manaburns through. you want that hunter oom as fast as possible and keep him that way. once the hunter is oom go after the pet to even the reg-chances. top priority is to never let the hunter regain 1200mana for a second pet. the hunter wont be able to put up much pressure when oom and a rogue herassing him. The only downside. hunter druid can keep the match goning for ages. last week i had a 20min matchup with 22water and 4 shadowfiends being used on my behalf. you have to be ontop of FD+drink and dispells on your rogue to keep him on the hunter. 1cyclone when the hunter has 1200mana means you lose. | |
| Bigbluefish | May 2, 2008 - 4:14 PM (HideShow) |
| my priest and i just faced this combo in RoL, and we beat it easily. of course, we were lucky 1. the hunter was BM (epic lawl) 2. he had PvE gear. (more epic lawl) 3. my priest was LoS him around the tomb, and the druid forget to stay in LoS of the hunter, and i was able to get the hunter down really quick. | |
| Chingwang | May 4, 2008 - 12:57 AM (HideShow) |
| Really, this fight COMPLETELY hinges on your ability to kill the pet AND to keep the Hunter out of Mana. When the Pet's dead, the fight will take a while to whittle the Druid's Mana down, but he'll eventually go OOM and you'll take a Win. | |
| Mickster | May 4, 2008 - 2:17 PM (HideShow) |
| Yeah the strat I use is basically azurriku, except the priest should mount up and place himself in a spot where the druid needs to come exactly into you (or close enough to a pillar so you can LOS his CC's), if you try to mana burn a good hunter\druid will cyclone you feral charge\bash\silence shot\feign death. But the upside to them using CCs on you is your rogue is constantly beating the crap out of the hunter, hunter goes oom eventually, just depends on how much mana you have left. | |
 Setyo | May 12, 2008 - 9:01 PM (HideShow) |
| It's very difficult for PR to win against a hunter/druid comp that knows what they're doing. Even if you do manage to get a good CC chain off on our druid in an attempt to nuke the pet, the hunter should still have scatter saved for this situation. If that is not enough, there is also dismiss pet and in a worst case scenario the hunter can run over to the other side of the arena ready to revive the pet. As for spamming mana burns on the hunter, between sitting in LoS of my damage, FD, silencing shot, and charge it seems that you would be taking a huge mana nerf yourself accomplishing close to nothing due to my high mana regen with viper and swords. So.. No. You can't win. K thanks. | |
| Setyo | May 12, 2008 - 9:09 PM (HideShow) |
| Edit: To be honest, we've had a couple close matches where the priest was tri-spec, they would fake a burst on my pet and get my druid to trinket a blind. Once that happened the rogue and priest would go all out on my druid. Like i said, druid/hunter is a counter comp and they have to make some significant mistakes to lose. Just letting you know what worked best against us. | |
 Kiryll | May 21, 2008 - 1:36 PM (HideShow) |
| this fight is rediculously easy with a mutilate rogue and a 43/5/13 priest. Rogue opens on hunter while priest stays far away. Rogue does not garrote/rupture. When druid pops priest instantly fears hunter and rogue switches to druid. Priest plays incredibly offensively (your simply not going to win the mana war due to viper). If hunter trinkets a fear...blind/sap him. Save kidney shot for when druid comes into caster...then cold blood mutilate/mutilate + mind blast/shadow word death. GG. Worked for us at 2200 against good druids. | |
| Maraiah | Jun 12, 2008 - 8:55 AM (HideShow) |
| My only beef with that strategy Azurriku is while it may win matches, these matches could last forever. If your doing all this in front of the Druid, he'll just keep healing until he runs out of mana. I like Mickster's idea of drawing out the Pet and making sure it gets taken down in a much more deliberate way with the Druid unable to keep it alive because then the fight becomes much must easier and faster. | |
| Tweeq | Jun 16, 2008 - 9:38 PM (HideShow) |
| I know that this strategy does sound a little sketchy, but my partner and I tried it and it works. The hunter not having mana kills their dps, so your lack of mana isn't that noticeable. We didn't kill the pet, but a few times I feared the druid, I feared the pet as well, and it gave me time enough for 2 ticks of a drink. I think that this fight is a lot easier if you are Blood Elf because of mana tap. The hunter will regen lots of mana with Aspect of the Viper, but with mana tap you can constantly make sure he doesn't get too high. I'm 50/11/0 and my partner is 20/0/41. | |
| Shatorii | Jul 10, 2008 - 9:38 AM (HideShow) |
| I feel the best chance to win is to spamdispel the hunter while getting a fear off on the druid... After this the fear save ur sprint/shadowstep whatever and sap the druid... If you get this sap you will probably win, if not you will lose... Though it can be very hard ^^ The priest should also help to burst. If it doesn't work try to smite down pet and burn the hunter down. Very hard fight =( | |
| Párts | Aug 12, 2008 - 11:18 AM (HideShow) |
| Personal experience: Against a good hunter druid in Ruins of Lordaeron you're screwed trying to beat them due to the fact that there is no real LoS there. The entire point of killing this team is based on LoS. In the beginning there is 2 ways you can start it off. Put your rogue on the hunter and let him beat his ass while you hot up your rogue, run to the other end of the arena and kill the pet or just sap the hunter and nuke the pet right off the bat. Fairly easy to do. Now instead of trying to run away and drink since the pet is dead. Run in and just keep the hunter locked down while you spam mana burn him so he cant rez another pet. After that the priest should go drink. From there on its you win the game. Lock down the hunter and do as much dps as possible on him and keep your mana pool at 50%+. If you drop any lower you might have issues. This strat works 90% of the time if you just rinse and repeat. | |
| Avoca | Sep 28, 2008 - 6:33 PM (HideShow) |
| step 1. Take off gear step 2. /dance step 3. die step 4. re-queue | |
| Maraiah | Oct 1, 2008 - 1:47 AM (HideShow) |
| Hard enough to drink with pet/hunter's mark on you. Now you gotta drink with the Druid watching you (and good Druids make it very difficult to drink by themselves alone)? I say just kill the Hunter and CC the Druid. Win or lose, /queuedodge. Don't sweat it too much. Anywho, thank god there aren't many Druid/Hunters on my battlegroup. | |
| Exit | Oct 11, 2008 - 5:34 PM (HideShow) |
| We win 90% vs Druid / hunter at 2100+. What we do is, start on hunter, cheapshot - kidney and try to get him to trinket. Once druid pops out switch to druid and fear hunter, if hunter trinkets fear then blind him when hes in range. Dont get cycloned and priest spam dispell on druid and he will die, at the end of the game the hunter has been cc'd half of the time. Works for us, but i guess pve gear helps alot. | |
| Elin | Oct 12, 2008 - 5:23 AM (HideShow) |
| Yep Exit is 100% right, that's exactly how we consistantly beat Gladiator Druid Hunter teams. The game usually ends with me at 50% mana because we put so much pressure on the druid that he just dies. | |
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