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Tower · 11/21/07, 11:48 AM

Hey Gurg, speaking from Rogue/Spriest/Shaman (2278)experience here against War/Lock/Druid.

Focusing the warrior seems like a solid idea, but it will only make you lose faster. A focused warrior and unfocused lock and druid in that setup will merely spamstring, fear spam and cyclone until your Spriest is half mana and your rogue is out of snare breaks. A smart warrior can merely shield up (hello 40% rogue damage mitigation) and time his spell reflects if your priest attempts to Mind Blast > PWD. Focusing the warlock is still the way to go, it severly limits the warlocks dps and cc and he's much less resilience than a shielded warrior.

Keep abolish off the warlock when it goes up, have your rogue swap to the warrior to cripple him when available, but not at the cost of the warlock getting away. Basically you need to use your Spriest like a tether, he will be hamstrung and begging for heals, but the key to victory is a simple fear on the druid (which will cause him to trinket) into a blind > silence. We mostly go about creating this situation by getting Bloodlust up early and creating a lot of pressure on the warlock, the druid will not be doing a lot of LOS kiting with a full round of Spriest dots on him and a bloodlusted rogue wailing away. You should be denying the warrior his initial charge, you need to be able to trinket his intercept > hamstring early or later to get over to the druid for the fear. If you're playing with an AR/prep rogue you can actually have him stealth over and have a good chance at sapping the warlock and snagging the druid out of stealth, which can put the team on extreme defensive. To which you can just waltz in for a fear and guarantee a trinket while the rogue swaps to the warlock.

The hardest counter we've found to our team is Warrior/Disc Priest/Paladin. It revives the double healer+warrior setup with the new incredibly powerful 41 disc priests. You have to fight an uphill battle of target switching and weathering BOP, PS, DS with a warrior beating on you and an unfocused priest mana burning you.

11/21/07, 11:48 AM	#37 (permalink)
Tower King Hippo Tower Undead Rogue <Warfare> Blackhand	Hey Gurg, speaking from Rogue/Spriest/Shaman (2278)experience here against War/Lock/Druid. Focusing the warrior seems like a solid idea, but it will only make you lose faster. A focused warrior and unfocused lock and druid in that setup will merely spamstring, fear spam and cyclone until your Spriest is half mana and your rogue is out of snare breaks. A smart warrior can merely shield up (hello 40% rogue damage mitigation) and time his spell reflects if your priest attempts to Mind Blast > PWD. Focusing the warlock is still the way to go, it severly limits the warlocks dps and cc and he's much less resilience than a shielded warrior. Keep abolish off the warlock when it goes up, have your rogue swap to the warrior to cripple him when available, but not at the cost of the warlock getting away. Basically you need to use your Spriest like a tether, he will be hamstrung and begging for heals, but the key to victory is a simple fear on the druid (which will cause him to trinket) into a blind > silence. We mostly go about creating this situation by getting Bloodlust up early and creating a lot of pressure on the warlock, the druid will not be doing a lot of LOS kiting with a full round of Spriest dots on him and a bloodlusted rogue wailing away. You should be denying the warrior his initial charge, you need to be able to trinket his intercept > hamstring early or later to get over to the druid for the fear. If you're playing with an AR/prep rogue you can actually have him stealth over and have a good chance at sapping the warlock and snagging the druid out of stealth, which can put the team on extreme defensive. To which you can just waltz in for a fear and guarantee a trinket while the rogue swaps to the warlock. The hardest counter we've found to our team is Warrior/Disc Priest/Paladin. It revives the double healer+warrior setup with the new incredibly powerful 41 disc priests. You have to fight an uphill battle of target switching and weathering BOP, PS, DS with a warrior beating on you and an unfocused priest mana burning you.