Strategies

Priest/Warlock

Author

Chowns
Hyjal
US-Whirlwind

Priest/Warlock

VS.

Mage/Rogue

Difficulty: 7

If they sap you and get on your warlock, Pain suppression him when he gets kidney so the rogue won't vanish switch to you. If he saps your warlock and gets on you, just pain suppression yourself 1 second into the cheap shot. Devour should be off.

When their on your warlock, its important to watch the mage cast bar, if he starts to cast a frost bolt, you have time to get a full penance off. Assuming you have Borrowed time up and their mage just started the cast. Also have a Shadow Word Death macro and keep yourself dispelled of winter's chill for warlock devour.

When their on you, have your warlock deathcoil->shadowflame the rogue to keep him off as much as possible. Their rogue should die first. Do as much dps as you can, dot the rogue after cloak, and shadowfiend the rogue for extra damage. You will tend to die very fast so you need to do as much as you can before you die. Watch for when the mage uses counter spell. If he uses it, then fear the rogue and get some penance and flash heals off to top yourself until fear breaks.

Comments:

SclerosisMay 26, 2009 - 7:32 AM (HideShow)
I think this team is impossible to win if the mage and the rogue are both undead.
StupifiedMay 26, 2009 - 10:52 PM (HideShow)
How do you manage to beat Stupified/Xaeid?
NightprinceMay 30, 2009 - 6:08 PM (HideShow)
ok first off, let me say: Ouch. no wait did i say that right ? yeah major Ouch. both UD=forfeit the game its less emotionally painful. go for the rogue, make sure to wait for DR before u push out the final fear that wins u the game ever so beautifully in under 20 seconds. i mean why couldnt it be that simple from the beginning. outlast them the first 30 seconds, and they wont be able to reset the g@me. not as easy as it sounds to win, since everything will be happening much too fast for casual "dot dot dot fear drain soul Win" so make sure to shadowflame, dot up the mage's pet(dies in 10 seconds from corr+coa) and use spell lock wisely. devours need to be used defensively and peel thm off ur priest as much as u can. game is lost if devours remove winters chill instead of poly.
BetrugerMay 31, 2009 - 12:26 PM (HideShow)
A good spelllock on frostbolt during the kidney and a non-undead rogue makes this not that bad. once the rogue has cloak down instant dots + felhunter + shadowfiend and he will drop pretty quick.

If you are able to save deathcoil for after cloak its GG
If the rogue cloaks early then you dot him + port its also pretty much GG, just run away while he dies.

Remember sap and poly have the same DR so the mage strat to poly - devoured - poly usually wont work at all unless they really extend the game by trying to reset and eat. Nerf mage food for rogues imo.
NeferatiMay 31, 2009 - 1:24 PM (HideShow)
these games rel;y on the wralock being able to control the dps output of both mage and rogue....u and the priest need to stay on los of each other to devour poly's.
as the warlock i try and get spl lock on the mage..then fear....then imdiately switch to the rogue....then fear mage...dps rogue down.
occasionally things will go out of los..such a s rogue them u get nova'd/slowed and he vanishes and drinks or w/e...but u should be getting 80% win loss ration agaisnt this combo
LocktonJun 6, 2009 - 4:53 AM (HideShow)
I played lock/priest back in S3 which was a very popular combo then, i think we lost one game to this setup. Devour off to eat sheeps, and spell lock the frostbolts, your priest should LOS the mage as much as possible if he gets sheeps devour it, save trinet for the vanish/sap (or blind if one is nearl dead)

Just both dot the rogue i used to spam searing pain so to not waste my dot waiting for h im to cloak. Your pet and priest Los can stop the mage do insane dmg most times. and any decent priest can stay alive from just the rogue, save coil for the rogue to peel it off the priest.

Havn't played at level 80 yet but it probably is easier with portal now?
BodiletoJun 10, 2009 - 4:12 PM (HideShow)
the problem is that the rogue and mage combined can CC the priest for over a minute and burst the warlock. i see some arcane mages/mut rogues that just sap the warlock, sap the priest and poly the priest after break and just jump me then silience the priest. and make sure i am dead... in about 40sec
NightprinceJul 4, 2009 - 9:48 AM (HideShow)
problem vs this comp isnt losing due to instant gib, its due to the reset and THEN instant gib. if they dont manage the reset, they lose. very simple, the trick is forcing the rogue to cloak too early into the game, and then u win. if they're good u'll probably lose, unless u stack on nothing but stamina and resilience, in which case u probably have bigger issues, like how the hell are u gonna beat healer comps.. all i can say is dont let them reset no matter what happens, the trick, is that ur priest needs to shadowfiend the rogue when he tries to LoS u. he stays in combat and assuming he's used vanish its a win for u. still not easy if they're both undead.
GlupoJul 17, 2009 - 6:54 AM (HideShow)
as lock, place your portral abit sneaky... when the rogue used his cloak, get a few dots up and teleport back

if they want, they can reset.. at the moment you got the time to think wether you wanna reset yourself aswell or just get them in combat :)

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