Strategies

Priest/Warlock

Author

Chowns
Hyjal
US-Whirlwind

Priest/Warlock

VS.

Retribution Paladin/Healer

Difficulty: 5

It depends on the healer they have, if its a druid healer, It shouldn't be hard at all because a druid is basically a heal bot with some cc. With Priest shields, Renew, and Penance a pet shouldn't die. They nerfed exorcism so it won't work on pets anymore, so a ret won't be able to gib it instantly now.

With a shaman healer it may actually be annoying because of Hex. Just save your trinket for hex and it should be fine. The warlock can health funnel the pet when the priest is cced. Even though the shaman has water shield, to win this you have to drain the shaman and burst the ret down with Holy fire, smites, and etc.

Ret/Priest is the most interesting one out of all the ret/healer comps. It's a bit similar to beating shaman/ret however, drain the priest and kill the ret.

Comments:

SclerosisMay 26, 2009 - 7:30 AM (HideShow)
Coex kite is really easy to do vs Priest pally. Have the your priest dispel at the begging and dispel freedom when you are trying to kite

Doing this can save you alot of damage taken and will piss the pally off.
BetrugerMay 30, 2009 - 5:35 PM (HideShow)
With a shaman who is good they stand a really good chance to ooming you and gibbing pets.

Druid is free win, just fear the pally a whole bunch of times and drain the druid dry.

Priest is a little over druid due to dispel and offensive capabilities but still pallies are simply too easy to peel with fear or exhaustion. All it takes is a shadowflame to make the pally burn freedom and you can basically turn off his damage once freedom is down.
NightprinceMay 30, 2009 - 6:13 PM (HideShow)
love these games. payback for all the times i got r@ped in under 5 seconds in bgs
*cough cough* u aint so tough now that my homies got my back *cough cough*
CoE is ur friend, and getting a gib on the healer is possible, since ret palas are lousy support classes other than HoSacrifice which will only make him die faster. CC healer nuke both, drain soul on the one that gets low, simple game, usually doesnt require drain mana, and very easy for ur healer to get a few ticks of drink, all it takes is a well timed howl + CoE both.
NightprinceJun 9, 2009 - 8:08 PM (HideShow)
also forgot to mention, absolutely totally #1 way to win after testing this, is by ccing the pala every way u can. very simple, if he's cced, he cant hit judgement and cant help his healer regen mana, spend ur time nuking the pala making the healer come out, but u wont get a kill on him, almost never. very important that ur priest dispels replenishment from enemy healer, less mana they regen, better ur chances of winning, also notice that replenishment gives 0.25% of healers mana back per seconds, while drain mana removes 3% per second, and due to resi maybe 2% per second, so u can drain 10 times as fast as he regens, important that ret pala is cced, and u win the mana game no problem, sinc most healers dont even bother watching their mana bar cuz they think they're invincible, actually had a druid the other day that wouldnt even shapeshift to avoid mana burns. lawls.
DamWingJun 9, 2009 - 10:14 PM (HideShow)
1) press 4 buttons on both target
2) Spam your /lol macro you made while in the arena match.
DarkreaperJul 18, 2009 - 12:37 PM (HideShow)
@DamWing

LOL you must suck balls if you're losing to Warlock teams in 2s.
MudAug 12, 2009 - 1:25 PM (HideShow)
Ret/Priest vs Lock/Priest is close to impossible to win. Fear fear fear and burn, turn off the burst of the ret, et keep the priest middle map with your fear. Your priest will be able to burn all his mana in a minute.
The only chance thez have is to kill your pet twice and then put a lot of pressure on your lock, or to do a strong switch on the priest while the lock is cc. But it is very hard to do thoses strats in a high rating. The lock never leaves his pet behind a pilar or the priest can heal him very easy with instants cast or a penance, because there is no ms.
As Lock/Priest you should never loose vs Ret/Priest even if they are undead. When I do win vs Lock/Priest it is because they played very badly, or if the priest get surprised with a huge burst. But as i said after 2100 rating they usually dont take any risks against a ret pally and keep renew shield almost always on them.

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