Priest / Rogue vs. Shaman / Warrior 2v2 Arena Strategy
The strong aspects of the shaman / warrior combo really comes down to their ability to burst with wind fury totem and bloodlust. As with any team that has a warrior on it the rogue will be attacking him, doing everything he can to lock him down and limit his ability to get to the priest.
The priest’s role in this type of a match is ..well, above all just stay alive. With the right wind fury procs the priest can be dropped extremely low, especially with a spam purging shaman. If the rogue has the warrior effectively locked down the priest should be locking to mana burn the shaman. In addition, the priest should always be trying to tap totems with his weapon.
Basically, control the warrior with the rogue, tap totems, mana burn when possible and attempt to get a fear off. Beyond that, if you can pull the blind / sap combo off great, during these periods both the priest and rogue can drop some DPS to really punish the warrior.
In short, survive the lust and you’ll probably come out with the win.
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Just a little something to add… You wrote to just try and survive through the bloodlust. When me and my priest go against a sham/warrior team we always look to mass dispell bloodlust off the warrior.
If you can pull off a mass dispel, go for it. We found that often they weren’t close enough together to even bother with it.
Your priest should certainly single target dispel at the very minimum, especially considering the shamans don’t really have any other buffs.
2 tactics
1: If the warrior targets priest.
Rogue: Sap warrior, if beserker rage. do a blind, go for the shaman.
Priest: move the warior away from the shaman. keep up instant heals/shields and go for a greater heal/holy fire, the warrior will in most cases pummel this one. pop power infusion and mc (the warrior should have cd on trinket becasue of the blind). move him out los of you and start recovering your non-ms time. keep sheild up (if the shaman reaches you with purges etc spam rank 1 inner fire) the shaman should be busy kiting our rogue partner, so this should not be a problem.
if it is a problem to move the warrior away from the shaman, then use the mc`ed warrior to hit the shaman (you`ll get wf with your mc`ed warrior which means you could do some nasty damage to the shaman)
tactic 2:
if the rogue get targeted
pretty much the same, rogue stays on shaman. and the same sap/blind (waste trinket abilty) then let priest mc warrior and hit the shaman.
(if you feel secure as a disc priest vs warrior, you can try to nuking him down all by yourself if the rogue have controll of the shaman and if you are far away from the wf totem) disc priest vs warrior isnt that hard really.
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thats our tactics, please comment for questions or better suggestions :)
I really must strongly disagree with your first tactic on the warrior. First off, there is no “if beserker rage”, it’s when. Any self respecting warrior is never going to get caught in an unbreakable sap (unless you hit him mid charge, which is largely latency based).
Furthermore, if you blind that the warrior immediately he’s just going to trinket..and you’ve put yourself in a really poor position.
Honestly, what is your justification for this type of a strategy?
really my bad there, have done some resarch. this is probably only possible if the rogue is shadowstep with the “Elusivnes” and therefore have a 1min 30sec cd. which makes the blind not a waste. keep the warrior controlled basicly. (los could be a problem with mcing)
yes, its a dangerous tactic. but then again. often works :)
thanks for disagreing, made me do some more research ;) (still disagree? my bad, then ignore this) ^^
I understand your justification for it, but I still would never just run out and immediately blind the warrior. You really just gain nothing by blinding him early. I’d much rather hold onto it and see if an opportunity presents itself to catch him without a trinket…or potentially use it after the shaman trinkets a fear into a blind / sap combo, which in essence wins the match for us.
…or even more important, use it when my priest is on the verge of death to at the very least force the warrior’s trinket / GCD.
Just one thing… Dispeling bloodlust is a must.