07-23-2007, 05:02 PM
Honestly Bolty the biggest issue with your team is your rogue's spec. Mutilate makes going toe to toe with a warrior a certain suicide no matter what the situation. I am currently in a 2150 2v2 rogue priest team on the whirlwind battlegroup, nothing amazing but doing fairly well. We have under 100 games played and a decent winrate. Our battlegroup has quite a few caster teams that play frequently and keep the average warrior X teams in check and out of the top rankings for us. . Though we lack a good number of warrior X teams we do play them fairly often and losing all the time just isn't an option.
I realize that these strategies will be almost useless to you as you run with a mutilate rogue but I took your post to be more about the rogue priest comp in general.
Warrior Priest: Let's face it. This matchup is the easiest. With offensive dispels a cooldown oriented class just has a better shot at burning down the other priest and can generally stay on target long enough to ensure that he dies even with the warrior trying to stop him. Burn down the priest asap, blind cannot be cleansed in this case so toss it out but it will likely be trinketed.
Warrior Druid: This matchup has also proved to be a somewhat winnable situation for us. Our strat is to fight the team near some los breaking object. If the warrior is on the priest frrom the go then the priest quickly moves close to a pillar or the tomb in lordaeron before I open up on him. If the warrior is on me I do the same. This is ideal because once the druid pops out you can watch him casting and duck out of los to avoid his cyclones to greatly reduce his power. I blow my cooldowns (combat build so adrenaline rush blade flurry in addition to evasion etc) at the start with evasion to not only force the druid to start healing and eat some mana burns and a fear, but also to gain initiative in the mana war. Generally this forces the other team on the defensive and the druid will spend the rest of the match trying to drink because most of his mana was just used. With early cloaks before cyclones hit and the ability to trinket cyclones because warrior fear is negated by fear ward this matchup can be won but without a combat build I'm not so sure it can be.
Warrior Shaman: To be honest we have not fought a top team with this makeup. We have fought lower less geared teams than us but that hardly shows the true strength of the comp.
Warrior Paladin: Against a well played team of this comp we simply lose. Killing the paladin wont work because he can judgement of justice kite me by himself even without hamstrings. Killing the warrior wont work because of the paladins amazing mana efficiency as well as hp/s potential. We have been fortunate not to face many of these matchups, but it's a losing situation. I have heard that rogue shadow priest can effectively deal with this makeup. I believe the solution is to rotate a druid into your comp and run rogue druid against this.
I realize that these strategies will be almost useless to you as you run with a mutilate rogue but I took your post to be more about the rogue priest comp in general.
Warrior Priest: Let's face it. This matchup is the easiest. With offensive dispels a cooldown oriented class just has a better shot at burning down the other priest and can generally stay on target long enough to ensure that he dies even with the warrior trying to stop him. Burn down the priest asap, blind cannot be cleansed in this case so toss it out but it will likely be trinketed.
Warrior Druid: This matchup has also proved to be a somewhat winnable situation for us. Our strat is to fight the team near some los breaking object. If the warrior is on the priest frrom the go then the priest quickly moves close to a pillar or the tomb in lordaeron before I open up on him. If the warrior is on me I do the same. This is ideal because once the druid pops out you can watch him casting and duck out of los to avoid his cyclones to greatly reduce his power. I blow my cooldowns (combat build so adrenaline rush blade flurry in addition to evasion etc) at the start with evasion to not only force the druid to start healing and eat some mana burns and a fear, but also to gain initiative in the mana war. Generally this forces the other team on the defensive and the druid will spend the rest of the match trying to drink because most of his mana was just used. With early cloaks before cyclones hit and the ability to trinket cyclones because warrior fear is negated by fear ward this matchup can be won but without a combat build I'm not so sure it can be.
Warrior Shaman: To be honest we have not fought a top team with this makeup. We have fought lower less geared teams than us but that hardly shows the true strength of the comp.
Warrior Paladin: Against a well played team of this comp we simply lose. Killing the paladin wont work because he can judgement of justice kite me by himself even without hamstrings. Killing the warrior wont work because of the paladins amazing mana efficiency as well as hp/s potential. We have been fortunate not to face many of these matchups, but it's a losing situation. I have heard that rogue shadow priest can effectively deal with this makeup. I believe the solution is to rotate a druid into your comp and run rogue druid against this.
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