Originally Posted by Aphyrax

We played against this warlock/pally team last night a couple of times. One game I did not eat a single cast time fear, not a single mana drain, nothing. The warrior basically did what you proposed, fight the pet in the middle while I hide behind a pillar, try to kill the pet out of LoS/range of the pally when it goes for me. We killed it once, but the second time they just had the pet stand in the middle, waiting for me to come out. The warrior (fully geared, Stormherald) was beating on the thing for nearly 5 minutes and it. would. not. die. I don't know what went wrong there, but it felt like the fight was unwinnable. I could not reliably cyclone the pally as he would simply take the pillar on the opposing end of the arena (this was Nagrand) and was far out of range. I could have run to him for a cyclone, but then the lock would have stacked up on him and mana drain me while I do so (tried that in a prior game.

That fight was extremely frustrating because I felt I played well and yet was still completely helpless. Even with MS, the warlock still outdamanged my mana pool faster than my warrior did the pallies. The problem is that as long as the pally has mana the warlock will, and that damn pally was able to heal a pet with little armor and MS on it for what seemed forever. Is there anything I am missing, or is the only way to win this to come out, expose myself to the warlocks fear and mana drain and hope the one cyclone I will eventually get off is enough to finish off the pet?