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  | Mixster Arthas US-Ruin |
 | Priest/Rogue | VS. |  | Mage/Rogue |
This can be a difficult setup, the main thing in this battle is NOT TO GET SHEEPED, if they are going for your Rogue this is extremely vital. If your Rogue is not on the Mage then be sure to be LOSing, keep HoTs and Shield on the Rogue at all times and never let him get low, come out to Flash Heal and if you get Counter Spelled get away, do not come out to heal when the Rogue is at 50% and the Mage has CS up. Make him blow it earlier to avoid this so you can freely heal.
To start this fight, the Rogue will probably go for a Sap, I would advise that you stand away from each other but not too far. If the Priest gets Sapped, the Rogue should be at some distance but ready to pounce on the Mage in case they go for the Priest. Have your Rogue on the Mage, be sure to spam Dispel the Mage of his Ice Shield and Armor. Have your Rogue use Mind Numbing and Crippling on the Mage so the Priest can stay in LOS better. The Priest should stay mounted so he can charge in and fear the Rogue/Mage as quickly as possible, though if it's double Undead beware of a quick WOTF/Sheep combo. Use Shadow Word: Death to interrupt sheeps, this helps a lot if you can't get out of sight fast enough, learn how to properly time it by having a cast bar or just getting used to when to use it. If the Rogue trinkets use Blind right away on him. Your Rogue should be paying close attention as to when he should use his Trinket and Cloak. I would use Cloak when you have 5 Wounding and you need to get healed to full or just stop a Mage from getting a bunch of Frostbolts off on you.
Vanish, Sprint if you have to, use everything you have on this fight. You should be able to win this most of the time but a good Mage/Rogue will give you a lot of difficulty with the nice CC and good burst that they have.
To start this fight, the Rogue will probably go for a Sap, I would advise that you stand away from each other but not too far. If the Priest gets Sapped, the Rogue should be at some distance but ready to pounce on the Mage in case they go for the Priest. Have your Rogue on the Mage, be sure to spam Dispel the Mage of his Ice Shield and Armor. Have your Rogue use Mind Numbing and Crippling on the Mage so the Priest can stay in LOS better. The Priest should stay mounted so he can charge in and fear the Rogue/Mage as quickly as possible, though if it's double Undead beware of a quick WOTF/Sheep combo. Use Shadow Word: Death to interrupt sheeps, this helps a lot if you can't get out of sight fast enough, learn how to properly time it by having a cast bar or just getting used to when to use it. If the Rogue trinkets use Blind right away on him. Your Rogue should be paying close attention as to when he should use his Trinket and Cloak. I would use Cloak when you have 5 Wounding and you need to get healed to full or just stop a Mage from getting a bunch of Frostbolts off on you.
Vanish, Sprint if you have to, use everything you have on this fight. You should be able to win this most of the time but a good Mage/Rogue will give you a lot of difficulty with the nice CC and good burst that they have.
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 Omonera | Apr 9, 2008 - 9:44 AM (HideShow) |
| Very good strategy, be very afraid if you are mutilate spec going against rogue/mage, because cheat death is probally the most useful thing against this team.........i used to run mage/rogue and sometimes we'd lose simply because the rogue would activate cheat death and he would use the battle masters trinket, giving his healer enough time to heal him to full....be smart, and do not underestimate this combo, it is DEADLY | |
| Mickster | Apr 18, 2008 - 3:36 PM (HideShow) |
| If you have trouble keeping on the mage because they are going for you(rogue) then switch to the rogue and do damage to him, but be careful of frostbolts and precloak if you have to, blind the mage to interupt, ShS to him to get away from the rogue and gouge. Do whatever you can to live, your priest must be spamming heals on you and fearing if possible, but be aware of going into the LOS of the mage or be ready to shadow word death a sheep. | |
 Phishyz | Apr 22, 2008 - 1:04 AM (HideShow) |
| This fight is like night and day between a shadowstep rogue and a mut or combat rogue. As sstep its incredibly easy to stick on the mage and prevent him from getting poly's on the priest, but as combat or mut you simply have zero mobilty with a rogue and a mage on you. Sadly, even bad mage/rogues can beat you as mut or combat simply because you are almost forced to go on the rogue, which will take awhile to burn down because of 2x cds and cheat death. If the mage/rogue goes after your priest at all during the fight they have pretty much lost unless the priest is somehow oom. Good guide though, lot of good points. | |
| Pressured | Apr 29, 2008 - 3:32 AM (HideShow) |
| lol i used to love facing mage rogue, farm them all day w/ the simple strat of, having priest LoS mage, i (as the rogue in PR) opening on the mage / trinketing stun with CoS to avoid shatter, quick 2-3 pt rupture on the rogue to avoid re-stealth and re-open on me or my priest. then finish mage. gg | |
| Pressured | Apr 29, 2008 - 3:35 AM (HideShow) |
| Sometimes it can work by going for the rogue as well if you can find a small LoS spot to work the rogue for a while and chain cc the mage. just make sure to keep rupture on the opposing rogue at ALL TIMES, because of small mistakes i've lost to a rogue @ 15-30% life from him being able to re-stealth and open on me with proper cc on my priest | |
| Pressured | Apr 29, 2008 - 3:36 AM (HideShow) |
| lost to a mage rogue (with the rogue being at 15-30%) **** | |
 Daghost | May 1, 2008 - 11:17 PM (HideShow) |
| Daghost | May 1, 2008 - 11:21 PM (HideShow) |
| ^Rofl somehow nothing was written, but w/e: This is definately hardest for us, we've usually won w/ me on the rogue because the mage can kite me too easily w/ his partners help. Key trick though if they are on you (Rogue), have your priest break his own sheeps w/ SWD. When he starts casting, right before it goes off just SWD - it's hard to learn at 1st, but once mastered it's easy. That's just a time to help. | |
| Daghost | May 1, 2008 - 11:22 PM (HideShow) |
| Also, use SS to get quick heals off and create seperation, if you hit around 50%. SS to the mage -> gouge and get a quick heal off. It's a small trick, but it helps. | |
 Chingwang | May 4, 2008 - 1:04 AM (HideShow) |
| This fight is almost entirely about LoS. They're probably going to go for your Rogue, so all you need to do is find a pillar, and just pop out ONLY when you need to heal. If you can bait a CS, then even better, you can pop out and spam some flash heals. You're going to need to get out there to fear also, but if your Rogue is keepin the fight close to you, its not TOO bad. Your Rogue has to learn to play pretty defensively against this team. They rely on huge burst and huge pressure, so if your Rogue is good at avoiding Shatters, this combo becomes pretty easy. If both of them get on YOU, then it's even easier, cause it's not too hard to LoS shatter combos, especially if your Rogue is putting pressure on. | |
| Whyuhaten | Jun 10, 2008 - 7:57 PM (HideShow) |
| we get raped everytime mainly because my rogue partner is mutiltae we play fairly defensively with me los most of the time and him on the mage but i always seem to get an unlucky CS.wich sucks once cs is down i ps my rogue and p.o.m him while trying to get flash heals off here and there. but i think he stuffed up by stacking wound instead of numbing qq. nice guide helps alot =D | |
| Yzaron | Sep 2, 2008 - 4:38 PM (HideShow) |
| I really dont understand why this game is hard. in any way whatsoever. When i play i always play SUPER defensive Wait for the rogue to opne up on you (you should be right besides a pillar).. once he does that make your rogue open up on him effectively giving you like 5 seconds to run to the other side of the pillar. Mage will probably be trying to decide what to do at this point he can do one of three things A. water elemental + start casting frostbolt on thr rogue. answer= run towards the mage and fear both him and the water elemental.. they never bother spreading out... if you cant get there in time make your rogue Clos. If mage tries to sheep you.. go to option B B. Mage begins sheeping your rogue answer= start runing towards the mage, without the actual intention of fearing him, ur simply trying to get into los of ur own rogue. Your rogue doesnt have to use CloS here simply because you will dispell the sheep the moment it comes. If you feel like making the enemies life harder you can fear the mage, which will either trinket (gz just got blind+sap combo in ur face) or ice block it (gz ur about to get owned by my rogue) or sit it through (gz ur rogue is down to 1% health) C. the mage can begin sheeping you (this is what usually happens) Since ur already standing next to a pillar, simply press the "D" key and ur out of LoS, if he was smart/stupid enough to freeze you before u can always SW:D the sheep, which i have come to learn is piss easy to do. No matter what happens, stick to the rogue, if he runs away at 1% health. DO NOT follow him, ur just gonna get owned by the mage when ur far away from a pillar. The key to wining is not letting yourself get cced, dispell all frost novas to prevent shatters, save that trinket for blind, and simply wait the game out until the rogue dies. If you get CS+sheep,,, dont bother trinketing.. wait it out, your rogue has so many cooldowns its not even funny how long he can piss off a mage without being killed The only time we lose is if my rogue gets caught in CS+KS | |
| Yzaron | Sep 2, 2008 - 4:46 PM (HideShow) |
| If mage tries to sheep you... go to option C*** | |
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