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Winfurae · 10/08/07, 5:11 AM

So I've upgraded my gear by quite a bit, am now sitting at around 9000 health unbuffed, but still only about 65 resilience.

Played some games with my rogue again, we managed to get to 1705 rating this week. Our goal is to get 1850 before the patch so we know that we can do it, and try to get it again in next season, so we can buy the S3 weapons.

We seem to lose about every game against any team that has a decent geared/skilled frost mage. Especially if they are specced for the water elemental, their burst is insane. Especially if they are paired with another dps class (like a rogue, we lost about 4 games in a row against frostmage/rogue), I seem to die within seconds. I've tried just about anything to stay alive, dropping grounding totems right before a heal, but they will either ice lance it or it absorbs a water bolt from the elemental instead of the counterspell. Them spellstealing my earthshield doesn't help.

When I started doing arena, I assumed I would have lots of trouble with warlocks, but they are not as hard for me as I thought they would. I usually tell my rogue at the start to go and kill the felhunter (it dies really fast) which gives us a huge advantage. If we somehow can't kill the felhunter, it's still doable but very hard. A little trick I've found when fighting warlocks: before you want to do your NS heal, cast something silly like water shield. The felhunter will automatically eat this and whatever the spell is called will be on cooldown. If you don't do this, the felhunter will eat your NS before you can get it off, which can lead to some interesting verbal outcomes on ventrilo...

Any advice on how to beat teams with frost mages would be appreciated.

10/08/07, 5:11 AM	#29 (permalink)
Winfurae Von Kaiser Winfurae Draenei Shaman <Destiny Awaits> Xavius (EU)	So I've upgraded my gear by quite a bit, am now sitting at around 9000 health unbuffed, but still only about 65 resilience. Played some games with my rogue again, we managed to get to 1705 rating this week. Our goal is to get 1850 before the patch so we know that we can do it, and try to get it again in next season, so we can buy the S3 weapons. We seem to lose about every game against any team that has a decent geared/skilled frost mage. Especially if they are specced for the water elemental, their burst is insane. Especially if they are paired with another dps class (like a rogue, we lost about 4 games in a row against frostmage/rogue), I seem to die within seconds. I've tried just about anything to stay alive, dropping grounding totems right before a heal, but they will either ice lance it or it absorbs a water bolt from the elemental instead of the counterspell. Them spellstealing my earthshield doesn't help. When I started doing arena, I assumed I would have lots of trouble with warlocks, but they are not as hard for me as I thought they would. I usually tell my rogue at the start to go and kill the felhunter (it dies really fast) which gives us a huge advantage. If we somehow can't kill the felhunter, it's still doable but very hard. A little trick I've found when fighting warlocks: before you want to do your NS heal, cast something silly like water shield. The felhunter will automatically eat this and whatever the spell is called will be on cooldown. If you don't do this, the felhunter will eat your NS before you can get it off, which can lead to some interesting verbal outcomes on ventrilo... Any advice on how to beat teams with frost mages would be appreciated.