Originally Posted by pheno
I play with the same setup together with my little brother. The combo is challenging and interesting and, in my eyes, hard to master. Nevertheless, warlock/healer teams can not be defeated by this combo (if the warlock is standard sl/sl). That's kinda sad.
But with perfect usage of your ccs and suiting dr cc changes, lots of teams should be handleable for your setup. Also, you can say that you combo isnt something usual and outplayed  |
I ran this setup to a duelist rating last season and I have to say that your assertion is incorrect. Warlock Druids is fairly impossible against any competent team, but any other makeup with a warlock and a healer is very prone to your lockouts. Warlock Pally is the easiest and Warlock Priest is the hardest with Warlock Shaman somewhere in the middle.
Anyway, Our basic strat involves bursting down a target while locking out heals with counterspell > sheep > fear in that order. It also usually involves curse of tongues on the healer. Against anything with a pally your mage will find it VERY easy to make the pally obsolete. Against a priest you will have to be ready to follow up your CS with an immediate sheep if he is able to resist your cast.
You're not a combo with much lasting power. You miss a counterspell once you may make it with a quick recovery via more CC but otherwise missed crowd control will result in a quick death. Double DPS require you both to know who to kill and to do it as quickly as possible in order to gain a favorable 1v1 match up or better yet a 2v1 match up. My lock runs with a felguard and not sl/sl.
It is a pretty difficult combo to master and with the large amount of druid healers now you will find yourself in a situation where you won't be able to win many matches even if you have a large amount of skill over your opponents due to how bad druids beat your combo. But by the same token you will give many other teams such as shadow priest rogue and warrior pally/shammy a good dose of that same medicine.