07-10-2007, 08:09 PM
Quote:I don't understand the die horribly as a result part of your statement. I'm running with a priest now in season two (specced holy disc similiar to your build) and the absolute nightmare teams for us are the warrior X teams that go for myself, the rogue, from the start forcing a zergdown strat for the warrior with timed cc on the healer.It's odd; we have the opposite experience. It probably depends on a number of factors. What kind of Rogue are you, talentwise? Are you daggers?
My Avatar of War (my affectionate name for He Who Kills Things While I Heal/Disrupt/Annoy) is a dagger Rogue quite skilled at keeping enemies under control. We've won matches against the Rogue/Priest's worst enemy, MS Warrior/Holy Paladin, with my Rogue and the enemy Warrior duking it out while the Paladin and I stand on opposite sides and heal our constituents. Without me even getting a chance to mana burn (Paladin's too smart to let me get close), we win the mana war. We shouldn't. But somehow we do. Part of it may be gear, part talents/spec, but a huge part is the amount of control the Rogue exerts over the Warrior in terms of prevention of damage via Stuns and poisons and such. Plus, he's a rabid twitch player who just outmaneuvers the hell out of people.
We have much less success when the Warrior wakes up and tries to kill me first instead. I have to blow much more mana healing myself than my Rogue in this scenario, and it's typically a loss. Yes, a Rogue and a Priest have around the same armor, but I have...what, 40 agility? I don't exactly dodge much (although one time on a wipe to Malchezaar I dodged 2 hits and then parried one before he one-shot me; wish I saved that log because it made me bust my gut). Blade's Edge is a nice arena for this because sometimes I can get lucky and MC the Warrior to throw him off the bridge and buy some time to harass the Paladin, but...eh.
Warrior/Mage? Had a match where both the Warrior and the Mage tried to kill my Avatar and failed, only to watch him steadily destroy them both in turn. Leave me alone and my healing will wreck you. :) ProM, Renew, Shields, Flash Heals - I can pump out a lot of healing very quickly, and that's a mana-be-damned situation. Killing the Mage fast is the only option. If the Warrior had turned instead to harass me, letting the Mage try to deal with my Rogue via the typical kiting methods, it might have turned out better for them. Trading their Mage for me would probably work out in the end, since a Rogue shouldn't beat a Warrior solo.
We also have Fear Ward, Stoneform, Desperate Prayer, etc...which helps negate quite a few CC options opponents have. A Warrior can't Intimidating shout my Rogue and then Intercept him. Yeah yeah, I know, overpowered racials ftw. Hey, I rerolled a level 60 Night Elf Priest to a Dwarf for a reason.
-Bolty
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