Originally Posted by Eyes Brand
If one of the rogues opens on my warrior (which they typically will do to draw me out), I toss first abolish then rejuv on him from max range. I then put rejuv and abolish on myself. If I have time to spare, I'll put up a lifebloom or barkskin, but I don't count on that luxury - they are usually on me pretty fast, despite max healing range. Then I'll go bear form and take the match from there. For me, this means having my warrior help separate the rogues from each other while I feral charge to take advantage of the distance created. For you as dreamstate, this means going into moonkin and casting your CCs while the rejuv + abolish tick on you.
I know I'm barely touching on the match, but that should be enough to see you lasting through your hunter's sap, so he can trinket a blind.
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You can cast barkskin while stunned and while in bear form. Save it until they're actually on you laying in the damage.
I never had any more fights against ret/DD, but I did get chewed up pretty good by some rogue/shadow priest teams. The shadow priest was rough since the rogue was getting me low enough that a mind blast, SW: D, silence combo could finish me off as I came out of KS and I was powerless to do anything. I think the real issue with those is my teammate not effectively peeling for me. A freezing trap, scatter or silencing shot on the priest as the KS ends would probably be enough for me to get some hots up and get some distance before the silence hits me. edit: These were all on Ruins, too, so the lack of LoS was probably a contributing factor as well.
After playing some 34/0/27 and some 8/11/42 I find that I really miss feral charge when I'm DS and I miss the wrath cannon ability when I'm cookie cutter. I've given thought to trying a 16/11/34 spec so I'd have the faster wraths for spamming when someone is low, but I'm not sure if giving up the extra healing from deep resto is worth the tradeoff since I wouldn't have DS. Anyone tried it and have opinions? Barring someone saying "God no, I hated it because..." I'll probably give it a try this week.