Strategies

Mage/Priest/Rogue

Author

Soup
Burning Legion
US-Vindication

Mage/Priest/Rogue

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Mage/Priest/Rogue

There are two ways to play this depending on the Rogues' specs, but I will go through the most basic one first. Kill the Mage. Don't waste time sheeping the Rogue because in most games the match will nearly be over by the point you can get a decent duration sheep off on a competent Rogue with a competent Priest; sheep the Piest to start. Swap to the Rogue later in the game if you know his Vanish/Cloak of Shadows/Trinket/Priest are on DR. The Priest should be trying to Fear the Rogue or Priest situationally; make your own judgment here. If you can get an early Counterspell on the other Mage's Frost or Arcane, do it, but save a CS for the Priest later in the game (later being about 20 seconds~). If he exposes his Frost tree while low on HP though, CS it and kill him. The Priest's number one priority should be Mass Dispelling Ice Block. If your Mage is at 1% and has just blocked, and the other teams Mage has just blocked too, Pain Suppress him and go for the MD first. (This is just an example of how important getting your MD off fast is). The winning team will be the one that more skillfully spammed damage on the other team's Mage and the Priest that got the MD off.

The other way works if the other team's Rogue is Mutilate or 41 Combat. Kill the Rogue, they'll more than likely be on your Mage while theirs is left free, so you interrupting the Mage is alot more important here; Fear him, Poly him, CS him always, and whatever you do, stop him from Frostbolting or you will probably lose. On the other hand it's much easier for your Mage to kite a Rogue who has 1 Sprint, 1 Vanish, 1 cloak and nothing else to get Crippling off him who's also being constantly stunned while only having one Evasion and no Cheat Death. Until you get him decently low don't bother CCing the Priest, but when he's at sub 70% or so with all his cooldowns burned, start CCing the Priest instead of the Mage and go for a kill.

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ScrewzMar 22, 2008 - 7:44 AM (HideShow)
We faced muti rogue and still went for mage, ME being human rogue it is easy to Sap>Sheep(He trinkets)>Blind on him. by that time mage is almost certainly dead
CerasMay 14, 2008 - 5:18 PM (HideShow)
Yes big news that human rogues trivialize the mirrors?
PhaceJul 16, 2008 - 5:02 PM (HideShow)
Anyone approaching mirror matches differently with the 2.4.3 changes to Cheat Death and Frost Armor? Normally my team would gun for the mage, but it seems like my rogue gets rooted much more without me being able to dispel frost armor. Considering this and the cheat death nerf, will rogues become a more appealing target?
MythyJul 25, 2008 - 7:28 AM (HideShow)
after the new patch, The cheat death ability has been nerfed, so it depends on resi how much dmg they absorb, if u can, go invis, let your rogue sap their mage, let your rogue find their rogue ( human ftw ) then when ur rogue goes on their rogue, just pwn it with 1 shatter combo, Sheep priest, rogue cant do that much, my rogue is free, he vanishes rest stunlocks their rogue, and this time i take pet / trinket / icy veins and just pwn taht rogue trough his Cheat death, Rogue and mage is burst dmg, get rid of nuke or one of your team mates will be totaly incapasitated and cant do a shit
Go rogue ftw !
MythyJul 25, 2008 - 7:30 AM (HideShow)
if you find their rogue = win, when both rogue and mage is on their rogue their team will go uber panic mod and cause of that, they will lose
MythyJul 26, 2008 - 12:01 PM (HideShow)
cause if we attack mage, they WILL nuke me, rogue will stand and stun my ass of so that i cant do eny dmg at all, when his stuns are out he ither vanish or CoS and just kicks my ass, so find rogue, both rogue and mage can do damage on rogue if u find him first, if you go for mage, rogue WILL get Cheap shot in and 1 of your players will be on 0 dmg for next 8secs
So tbh this tact is so wrong, NUKE ROGUE
MythyJul 26, 2008 - 12:02 PM (HideShow)
when a rogue is stunned by a rogue, i throw off shatter with Fire blast after, he will have his Cheat death proced, i CS priest, and 2secs after his dead, cause Cheat death sucsk now
RalppiAug 27, 2008 - 1:40 PM (HideShow)
Lol trinketing sap X_X

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