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Resto Druid/Ret Paladin (Paladin PoV)

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Resto Druid/Ret Paladin (Paladin PoV)

VS.

Survival Hunter/Resto Shaman

Difficulty (4) - Unless one of your opps is wearing no resil, pretty much the only way you'll ever win is by outlasting them until Shaman is OOM. Your best bet is probably staying on the Shaman, switching to the Hunter whenever ES drops off. Make sure you kill the regen totems as well as groundings (hand of reckoning is cool); you should also be able to gib the Hunter's pet with relative ease. To ensure your Druid can innervate safely, you need to first get rid of Shaman's trinket - either some CC on him while going hard on the Hunter, or a HoJ on top of a judge crit should do the trick. Afterwards, wait for your HoJ + Repentance to be off CD, then have your Druid innervate, you probably won't kill the Shaman like that since Hunters are annoying, but it gets you a good 12 seconds free from purges. As long as you keep up decent damage and switch targets smartly, the Shaman will have to either stop using his hots / ES actively, making them more susceptible to gibs, or oom.

If you need the innervate badly and can't setup proper CC on the Shaman, your best bet is putting as many trash buffs on your Druid as possible - sacred shield, hand of salvation / freedom / sacrifice, even throwing some heals to get sheath of light might be worth it. Also, considering the Shaman will likely have to go nuts aggressive to get that Innervate off, popping Avenging Wrath and going for a kill on either of them could work.

Alternatively, chaining cyclones on the Hunter while Paladin stuns and tries to kill the Shaman, followed up with a repentance / bear bash could maybe get you a kill, just have your trinket & BoF ready for the Hunter's peels.

Comments:

HorsteMar 11, 2009 - 2:26 PM (HideShow)
Some things that have worked for me is to chain CC on the hunter while your pallie goes defensive on the shaman. since the hunter has no dispells, a single root can give you a lot of time to switch to cat form, start drinking, and stealth. Just a tip tough, this is only at 2K rating :)
FreshnbakedApr 23, 2009 - 3:00 PM (HideShow)
This can go a million diff. ways. First kill the hunters pet, then get in melee range of hunter Asap, If you can't keep on his ace then its going to be a hard long fight. when hunter lays the should be nerfed snow HoF yourself and keep pressure on hunter. Rep Shammie with a quick tab/hotbar if he trinkets you win with the Cyclone chain. have the Drood help DPS and pop wings/trinket to put some hurt on the hunter, HoJ him to get the kill. If the shammie is smart, he will wait for the 6 seconds and start healing again. if that happens keep on hunter and wait for rep. and Cyclone to come back up and unleash your Cd's on hunter and Cordinate Cyclone on shammie when hunter gets to 50/60% and have the drood help with star/wrath to burn the hunter down asap. rinse and repeat until either the Shammie goes oom or Pally goes on Crit madness on the hunter. This is around a 1900-2000 rating but a easy win below 1700

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