Originally Posted by Rieux
I was wondering if anyone runs, or has run into, the makeup of dpriest/rdruid/rogue in 3s. I bumped into this the other day for the first time playing druid/lock/warr with some friends, and it was pretty frustrating.
The game was on RoL, which seems to favor them, but I'm not really sure if the other maps would be much better. Basically, their rogue just sat on the warlock the entire time, and I just burned through my mana at a decent rate trying to keep him up through the damage/dispels. I was able to CC the rogue some with cyclones and roots, but between his trinkets, dispels, and my necessity to heal, he was never off my lock for extended periods of time. Our warrior was kept CCed for the majority of the game by the druid, so it was hard for him to try to peel off the rogue or do any persistent damage. We were able to get the priest down fairly low at one point, right about execute range, when he PSed himself and our warrior got cycloned. After that, it was all downhill, as they were able to maintain a mana advantage and I just ran out of gas.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had some insight into both playing against, and as this team, as I might try it out with a couple other friends who play those classes. I've seen some comments elsewhere that seem to say that this comp is a PMR counter among other things, but I'm wary about it against other teams like druid/rogue/warr, druid/priest/warr, rshaman/pally/warr, etc. Basically any heavy armor team, or double melee teams with no preferred target.
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On a side note, do you happen to remember the name of any of the players? I was running that comp for fun a few days ago, our ele shaman was offline. We basically tanked the rating this week, from 2070 to almost 1700s now... we got farmed by hosebeast a rediculous amount. Anyway, if you were queuing late at night on the WW battlegroup... it could have been me.
Anyway, I dont remember very clearly if it was you or anything, and the matches kind of blurred together as we played many many games until like 4 am... but when we did face that particular set up, the main difference that I see between a win and a loss is proper CC coordination on me. I might sit the warrior on me, but that can be pretty risky. Thinking back... I think it was this comp where one of the very important things was to kill the pet... at some point during the night when I was sitting on a lock (I probably spent 30+ games sitting on locks... so yea) in RoL, one of the clutch things that won the game was coordinating stuns while the priest fled to the other end of the map, and the pet despawned for a nice long drink... although that could have been the lock//priest//shaman we faced. As far as coordinating CC, when I faced that comp, there were a lot of attempted fears cast while I was ontop of the warlock. 90% of the time, a fear cast with no haste buff will not go off. Attempting to chain cast it multiple times does work, but then the warlock really wasnt applying any dots or pressure on me, and I'd get a dispel, or zap my trinket. Having the warrior help peel with intercept and imp hamstring. applying dots while the rogue is rooted and then fearing can also help. Watching the cloak cooldown, to the point of calling it out and counting in your head is pretty important, as everytime it is up I *will* be on the lock, and probably popping what damage CDs I have... this is an opportune time for a warrior peel.
The team that farmed us was Warlock//Shaman//Rogue... but that was them > us. They flat out played better, and we can beat that comp vs. non-superhuman ppl. (the Shaman is Merciless Gladiator, the lock is Gladiator, and the rogue was human, perceptioned out the druid, and was superhumanly good).
That team broke my priest, and we are now running Ele shammy//Rogue.... annd... Warlock. That's right... triple DPS. Yesterday we did well, but the shaman was tired, and... inebriated? which made for some unnecassary losses. We hope to try again today, maybe I will report on that. Hopefully I didnt ramble too much here.