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hip · 04/19/07, 5:23 PM

I wanted to share an interesting rogue/pala team I encountered about two weeks ago that was able to consistently beat us (war/pala, hovering around 2100 atm). The rogue went wound poison+crippling poison and was prep specced, and they were actually able to outlast my mana pool. The basic idea behind that (as far as I could see) is that the rogue was able to consistently avoid my warriors mortal strikes. Whether it was his 24 seconds of evasion, clever stuns or just the fact that BoP removes ms but not wound poison, my warrior was only able to keep MS up around 40% of the time in any of the games, whereas he was taking massive damage from being EA'ed and in zerker half the time to avoid gouges (which the rogue exploited to kite the MS off on occasion). Also, take into account the fact that the rogue had more than 10k health, so we werent going to burst him down anytime soon. So basically each fight we were left in a standoff against a rogue that was virtually immune to MS; which meant that no matter how much damage he took, it didnt matter because it was a cinch for his paladin to heal through. After the rogue had established 5 stacks of wound poison and EA'ed my warrior, I literally was forced to spam Holy Light to keep the warrior up, whereas the rogues paladin was having little trouble at all. I believe the best game ended with me at 0% mana and the opposing at 30%, but most of them were much more bleake then that.

So ya, rogue+healer is very possible against warrior+healer.

Now, for my question. I was wondering if any paladins in the higher echelons of 2v2 have tried swapping to heavy shadow resistance gear for warlock fights. I know that most of these fights are unique in that what really kills the team is the warlocks superior cc and that between Spell Lock, fear, and curse of tongues; a paladin really cant get much more than a few holy shocks or FoL's off outside of his/her bubble. I'm thinking with around 350 or so shadow resist, you'll be running with 50%+ binary spell resist, which should logically mean 50%+ resistance to all three of those forms of cc, stacked on top of your innate resistances from Unyielding Faith and Imp Conc Aura. Anyone have any experience with this kind of strategy before I go spend 100+g getting myself a resistance gearset?

04/19/07, 5:23 PM	#154 (permalink)
hip Von Kaiser hipocrisy Blood Elf Paladin Ner'zhul	I wanted to share an interesting rogue/pala team I encountered about two weeks ago that was able to consistently beat us (war/pala, hovering around 2100 atm). The rogue went wound poison+crippling poison and was prep specced, and they were actually able to outlast my mana pool. The basic idea behind that (as far as I could see) is that the rogue was able to consistently avoid my warriors mortal strikes. Whether it was his 24 seconds of evasion, clever stuns or just the fact that BoP removes ms but not wound poison, my warrior was only able to keep MS up around 40% of the time in any of the games, whereas he was taking massive damage from being EA'ed and in zerker half the time to avoid gouges (which the rogue exploited to kite the MS off on occasion). Also, take into account the fact that the rogue had more than 10k health, so we werent going to burst him down anytime soon. So basically each fight we were left in a standoff against a rogue that was virtually immune to MS; which meant that no matter how much damage he took, it didnt matter because it was a cinch for his paladin to heal through. After the rogue had established 5 stacks of wound poison and EA'ed my warrior, I literally was forced to spam Holy Light to keep the warrior up, whereas the rogues paladin was having little trouble at all. I believe the best game ended with me at 0% mana and the opposing at 30%, but most of them were much more bleake then that. So ya, rogue+healer is very possible against warrior+healer. Now, for my question. I was wondering if any paladins in the higher echelons of 2v2 have tried swapping to heavy shadow resistance gear for warlock fights. I know that most of these fights are unique in that what really kills the team is the warlocks superior cc and that between Spell Lock, fear, and curse of tongues; a paladin really cant get much more than a few holy shocks or FoL's off outside of his/her bubble. I'm thinking with around 350 or so shadow resist, you'll be running with 50%+ binary spell resist, which should logically mean 50%+ resistance to all three of those forms of cc, stacked on top of your innate resistances from Unyielding Faith and Imp Conc Aura. Anyone have any experience with this kind of strategy before I go spend 100+g getting myself a resistance gearset?
hip Von Kaiser hipocrisy Blood Elf Paladin Ner'zhul