Originally Posted by Borland
Except if the druid is smart enough to pop out of stealth with pounce , then shift and chain cyclone until one is dead.
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Let us assume that you are going to pounce the priest... That is a 4 second stun, and we'll assume that you follow it up with a 6 second cyclone perfectly, for 10 seconds of the priest not being able to do anything. Now you are telling me that in those 10 seconds, a rogue was able to kill a frost mage solo? Or with minimal help from the druid at least, since I'm going to assume that the frost mage and priest weren't standing right next to each other. This is even ignoring the PvP trinket. Even if you want to land another 3 second cyclone after this, the priest is going to 100% guaranteed get off either a PoM or shield. Let us also keep in mind that at any point here the mage can ice block for a guaranteed 10 seconds of safety while waiting for the priest to break out of CC. Unless the mage is retarded, he is also going to be sheeping the rogue, and/or the druid. Yes, a smart mage will polymorph a feral druid in caster form, because it forces him to shift in and out wasting precious mana.
The only way to guarantee that the priest can't heal the mage is to rotate cyclone between the two targets, and then you are burning DRs on two targets at once, and the druid is pretty much occupied for the entire duration of the cyclone spam, leaving the rogue as the only DPS. Of course, the mage could always CS the cyclone at any point here.
On the other hand, the druid could open up with pounce on the mage, forcing him to blink... Then chain cyclone him for 10.5 seconds of CC, assuming the mage can't get a CS off in between breaking out of cyclone. The druid might be able to interrupt the first sheep with a feral charge, and the second with a bash, for *maybe* another 5 seconds worth of preventing polymorph. Possibly if the druid is really good he can get out a maim interrupt as well, for another couple of seconds Add in another few seconds from immunity due to cloak of shadows. If the rogue tries to follow up with a blind to the mage, the mage can simply ice block or PvP trinket out of it. At this point the DR on cyclone is probably available, but shifting into caster to try to get it off is just begging to be counterspelled, and the rogue is pretty much guaranteed to be sheeped at this point. Somehow I doubt that a rogue is going to be able to kill a decently geared/skilled arena priest in 30 seconds, especially once the druid is forced to melee the mage for interrupts, and cause PoM to start bouncing. It is also worth noting that at any point the druids CC chain could easily be interrupted with a trinket, iceblock or fear from the priest, and if at any point the mage succeeds in landing a polymorph on the rogue the game is essentially over.