06-30-2005, 03:27 PM
Ah yes it makes sense now =) Given that Horde has only one dispeler, Priest, and given that often you won't see that many priests in a group, it's not too hard to take out the 1-2 priests that are on the Horde team. And with all kinds of frost snares and nova, everyone is slowed or trapped, and Ice Block makes killing mages difficult. Next patch however this group won't be nearly as scary thanks to diminishing returns on all ice spells.
More priests/healers can help against this group. Earthbind/Piercing howl gives you mobility advantage and makes stopping those mages easier. Engineering can help as well (one of the best teams that I know has like 5 engineers on average in their CTF group, so in difficult matches people often get MC hat used on them, bombs, rocket helms, etc). And another point is that you don't necessarily need to kill people in order to disable them. Running healers/mages low on mana can be a better then killing them - then when you focus on the Flag Carrier, they have nothing to help him with. This works well if you are not too far away from your GY, for example if both teams are duking it out in the middle.
More priests/healers can help against this group. Earthbind/Piercing howl gives you mobility advantage and makes stopping those mages easier. Engineering can help as well (one of the best teams that I know has like 5 engineers on average in their CTF group, so in difficult matches people often get MC hat used on them, bombs, rocket helms, etc). And another point is that you don't necessarily need to kill people in order to disable them. Running healers/mages low on mana can be a better then killing them - then when you focus on the Flag Carrier, they have nothing to help him with. This works well if you are not too far away from your GY, for example if both teams are duking it out in the middle.