Rogue/Priest vs Rogue/Druid

[Xame]

Next time I will likely stop trying to be so aggressive offensively (getting in Mana Burns) and play more defensively (mana conservation of my own), try to beat the Druid at mana conservation, and then look for a key crowd control at a critical moment (Blind followed by Fear) after a Druid drink session. That's pretty much how we finally topped a Warrior/Shaman team.

-Bolty

I have not run the numbers for either a priest or druid for healing, but rogue vs rogue with one of them getting poisons and the other one doesn't, sounds like a losing battle if you are just going to try to out last them. A smart rogue would swap poisons to wound to waste your heals if he saw a healing priest/palidin. But even if he didn't swap poisons and was combat spec'ed, he would eventually go through the diminishing returns on stun/blind and win the long haul fight given that your rogue is not combat spec'ed. Forcing you to out heal the druid (thus the question, can a PvP priest outheal a PvP druid?)

To some degree, you are fighting their fight if you go for a mana lasting strat. I believe you need to add more pressure to the druid to go for heals by helping dps the rogue (swp, wand). If the fight stands as you discribe it, the druid chooses the tempo and with cyclone gets to drink/do whatever on his schedule. He also could prevent you from drinking if you tried to sneak off with low rank damage spells or just chase you down. He could also just swap you drinks knowing his rogue will end up ahead with poisons. Simply you won't get out of combat to drink if he wants to prevent it. Thus if you chase him, he runs, if you run he chases. Pressure the rogue and force the druid to risk a mana burn if he is going to stand close to heal. You also want to force him to use the cyclones to get them on diminishing returns. Expect a long fight as you run through all of the Druids cooldowns and mana. Thus the wand and low ranks of SWP to force a CoS on the rogue for Vanish/Sprint restealth (if you as a priest try to sneak away, expect sprint, stealth+sap/shiv if the rogue knows where you are hiding).