2v2 rating without any PvP gear?Follow

It's very impressive that you can sail past 1650 w/ PvE gear. As far as I'm concerned, rogue/lock isn't a trashy setup at all, especially if you guys know what you're doing (and I'm sure you know what you're doing ^^). I cannot speak for teams past 1600, 'cause I'm not even there yet :P.

1506.

Of course, if you look at my armory profile, you'll see that my partner and I have only played 15 games together all season. Those are also the first 15 games I've ever played (not counting one that was just fooling around).

I'd probably do a bit better if I could actually get a partner that stayed with it for more than a day.

The lock has 11.5k health or so, with mid 200s or 300s resil (can't remember). I'm the major limiting factor, as I die in a matter of seconds once focused.

As for Rogue/Lock being a powerful team, how the hell are we supposed to beat Pally/Hunter? That team beats us every time, no matter what.

I got to the low 1600s on my lock, and nearly full raid epics, the rest being arena gear or veterans. My rogue partner had the same type of gear, mine was a bit better.

He was actually a pretty terrible rogue. I stopped playing with him for a reason. And he didn't have a mic -_-

In my "pvp" set I had a like 9970 health, 1080 spell damage and 220ish resilience. Obviously not much survivability but if you didn't dispell those dots you were gonna die, no way around it. I had more spell damage then full merciless locks, thats how alot of us were in my old guild. No PVP gear, we'd just storm arena in our raid epics and hope for the best...nobody really got above the 1700s, but nobody focused too hard on arena either.



Just get your warlock to lock up the pally, thats the easiest class in the game for us to take completely out of the picture. Lock should obviously have Quartz or something to watch enemy healers castbar while focus firing hunter. Keep curse of tongues on pally, spell lock before he heals, fear before he heals, deathcoil before he heals, you should also have the same mod on your rogue to know when to blind. With curse of tongues up, a flash of light will take 2.4 seconds to get off, a holy light will take 4. Just make sure thats up all the time, and use [target=focus] type macros. Mainly the warlocks job to keep the pally locked though, but you can help with a well timed blind when fear is on DR, deathcoil + spell lock are on CD. Communication is key.

For the lock, I'd open with a fear on the pallies first heal. You want to bait his trinket or bubble early on a fear. If you can sap before the match starts even better, but its probably not going to happen if they're standing on top of eachother with flares. Just let the lock do his job, fear the first heal, spell lock the second, deathcoil the third, you pick up a blind on the fourth. Somewhere in there the pally should have blown his trinket + bubble, so hopefully you guys are still doing alright on HP. Now DR on fear has been reset, so lock can get a full 10 second fear and 5 second fear, AND another spell lock off, the only time the pally should ever get a single heal is when he's bubbled, thats it. Every other cast should be kicked/locked/feared/deathcoiled, and like I said curse of tongues must be on the pally the entire fight.

Edited, Sep 27th 2007 10:23pm by mikelolol

That hound the lock has can cast counterspell(or something similar) on the paladin.As for the pally/hunter team..it's a mana contest too.If u nuke the hunter
and f*ck up the pally's cast only for a bit it's a win.
Ah and what i found interesting is the amount of dmg u can do with the right trinks ..i usually go into arena with Bloodlust Brooch ...bf +ar and bb is alot of dmg.

Basically, in 2v2 you blow all your cooldowns early. The idea is to make it 2v1 as fast as possible. As a Rogue, you want to be on the easiest to kill target first. Paladins are bad initial targets, because you'll never kill them in under 20-25 seconds. Druids, on the other hand, are my favorite things to kill. If you can catch a Druid out of bear form, they're going to panic. Nothing's more fun to watch a Druid trying to powershift out of your crippling poison with their health steadily dropping, and dropping fast.

As for specific targets, it would depend on your spec and your opponents. As Mutilate, I loved Warlocks. I've killed many locks in lacking PvP gear in ~6 seconds. My current PvP damage record is a 4,600 Mutilate (Blood Fury + Nightseye Panther + Mongoose) on such a Warlock. When you're putting our burst damage like that, no healer can keep up, especially with a teammate either locking down the healer (ideal) or focusing the DPS with you.

Hope to reach 600 next year :S

i just started a 2v2 with a holy pally, and we seem to be doing ok. lost the first few games while we were getting used to each other, but i think we're on the upswing now. only played 12 games for the first week. i'll let you know how it's going next week. as long as the pally can keep me up, which she can, we can kill almost anything...