Originally Posted by Greenexile
I recently joined up with a warrior after getting to the mid 1700s with a rogue and a warlock. Given the way warriors (especially mace spec) seem to tear me apart, I really expected my new team to be easy mode. Unfortunately, we are having trouble getting past 1700 and ended up tonight finishing in the mid 1600s. It is probably just lack of skill on my behalf, or perhaps our horrible 600ms pings - but I'd really appreciate some advice.
Here is what I tend to do:
Warrior charges out and goes after the squishiest target, generally I come out of stealth with a regrowth + lifebloom on the war and then cyclone the other target. Depending on the makeup we are facing, the problems begin here:
2 caster dps: Always involves a warlock, which is able to dot us both up and fear me. After I use my first trinket, I'm under incredible pressure. I cant seem to keep myself up and also cyclone the warlock (preventing more dps/fears). So generally I try to out heal the damage and eventually I get smashed. If its a shadowpriest/warlock, they can keep me silenced in the time it takes to get my war from 80%-0% and if its a mage we do a little bit better, but it means they can keep the warrior sheeped in the time it takes to smash me.
2 dps with rogue: Wow. Welcome to stunsville. I thought that we would eat up any team with a rogue, but we just dont seem to be able to. Perhaps it is my ping, but with stuns the rogue can lock me down even while the warrior is beating on him. We lost twice to the same mage/rogue team where the rogue opened up on the warrior getting him to 75%, then he came onto me and locked me down with stuns/kicking while the mage finished my war off.
My problem basically stems from not being able to cope with cc+massive damage being dished out. I seem to be able to kite well or heal well or cc well - but I've not mastered the art of doing all these things at once. It's more than a little frustrating being so squishy with no 'uh oh' abilities other than a trinket and NS. Has anyone any advice when it comes to how to LoS, how to keep the warrior up and keep a target cc'd all at the same time? Other than l2p of course  |
You need support. Kiting as a druid requires that the enemey warrior or rogue is snared, rooted, feared, etc. If you get stun-locked, have your warlock Death Coil the rogue and start fearing. If he burns CloS, the warrior can intercept. Save your trinket for the Kidney shot. If you don't know what the debuff icon looks like, check for it on wowhead or thottbot.
I do have to say I went up against 1 team where I had absolutely no recourse (I run lock/war/druid as well): it was rogue/war/priest. I got caught in stealth even with the felhunter up, as soon as the rogue found me they called a focus fire, i got intercept charged, kidneyshot, trinketed that and was immediately feared and restunned. I died in less than 8 seconds and there was nothing I could have done about it. My warrior and lock both blew their instant fears back to back to catch the guys that trinketed, but the warrior had his resistance up, the dwarf priest had fear ward, and the rogue used CloS. I couldn't even get free long enough to shift into bear form.