Arena and locksFollow

Hello everyone,

Looking for some help on locks in arenas. I'm paired with a rogue in 2v2 and I'm looking for strategy not to get creamed by locks with fel puppies.

Here is my current armory:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Draka&n=Arthanus

I guess any help at this point in time is good. Strategies, gear check, spec...I seem to be a detriment to my rogue partner at this point in time.

Let me know if you need more info..
Thanks!
Arthanus

A SL/SL locks fel puppy is a pet that will destroy you. But on your team you have a even better pet... a rogue. All you have to do is stay alive and CC the other guy while your pet beats down the lock.

It would fall on the rogue to handle the lock. Rogues are to Locks what Locks are to Mages.

I hesitate to give out Arena advice, having a rating that's topped 1600 only once, but it would seem to me that most 2v2 fights are too short and focused to spend time pounding on the felpuppy. Too many resists. Perhaps in 5s or 3s or maybe against a 2v2 drain/outlast team.

Another concern is Fel Dom--unless you know they've already blown that c/d, as soon as you kill that fel puppy, another one will be insta-summoned. Hmmm..corollary to this is that if you see the VW-sac shield on the lock and a felpuppy summoned, it might be more worthwhile to slap the felpuppy around a bit. For starters, you'll just be dpsing the lock's shield anyway and secondly it's also a good sign the lock has blown Fel Dom already.

Pol, what did I tell you already about my crappy Arena rating??

;)

But seriously though, with Spellsteal as mana-intensive as it is, and with all the buffs a lock usually has on him/her already, stealing the VW shield seems a bit high-risk, medium-reward to me. You just might end up breathing underwater.

Edited, May 29th 2008 9:20am by AynLoD

From experience doing Rogue mage 2v2, (we've hit a peak of 2k) warlock teams are extremely tough. For a resto druid/warlock my rogue opens up on the lock, I start scorching him (trying to get him to blow spell lock)Then when the druid pops out my rogue 5 point kidney-shots the warlock then we race to kill the druid. If we can't kill the druid fast enough and the rogue gets feared the druid resets the fight and we die by dots and lose. For any other team like warlock priest, warlock shaman, warlock rogue, you have to kill the warlock and keep the healer CC'd. For warlock rogue you have to sheep the rogue or just keep him CC'd. You can't leave the warlock spam fearing both of you. Your rogue has to be on top of kicks, stuns, etc and the mage has to be on top of sheeping the healer and throwing CS's at good times. Other than that, warlock teams should be the only team mage/rogue loses too other than say rogue resto druid.

Your rogue should drool at the prospect of a warlock unless its a warlock/druid team.

Felhunter will be on you, test the lock out. Is he careless? Run out of LOS with the felhunter on you, see if he'll let his pet chase you around a pillar (careless, kill the pet).

I'm going to assume you don't have S3 weapons with spell penetration, but you should have the PVP rings and the cloak enchant which is 'good enough' to have a lucky crit streak behind a pillar.

If the lock is a noob (auto spell lock) open with scorch on the mutt so it locks that, then nova and shatter it.

Keep your important buffs up, even rank 1 frost armor is better then nothing. You will get 1 buff devoured every 8 seconds if it's on auto cast (my lock never keeps it on auto cast because I can devour myself out of sheeps, fears etc). Most locks take the easy route though and just auto cast it.

Honestly with a rogue on a lock I just destroy them on my mage. They can't fear because they're getting kicked + stunned and I just unload frosbolts + shatter combos on them.

With a skilled druid this team can be dangerous though, casting roots and cyclones on your rogue, keep abolish poison on the lock and healing him, letting him escape. Slowly they will probably wear you down. I really think lock/druid wins that matchup- you can't keep a druid sheeped (they shapeshift out). You could try killing the druid first (good luck with deathcoils, fears, entangling roots + cyclones). Or you could kill the pet, cs his fel dom (good luck, its 0.5 seconds) and spellsteal the buff (4k mana while hes silenced, its worth it). Now he has little protection and you'd hope for a crit string to burst him quickly.



Because rogues are pretty much our only solid partners =D

Sad but true imo. The synergy with a rogue is fantastic once you learn to take advantage of it. The downside, there is absolutely no room for error at all. Your CC chains have to be tight and perfect. You really have to be a top 1v1 mage in terms of knowing how to comfortably survive with a rogue on you. You will almost always be the focus target, it's a stressful job. You'll have to try and kill healers who keep running around pillars out of LOS of your frostbolts.

GREAT example of LOS ownage against a mage. Affix is the best PVP mage in the world imo, watch as Neilyo kites his water elemental and forces him to blow all his cooldowns (lolpillars!).
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/stream.php?id=47099&stream=&h=72cf49cf6a88ca7718532631e322e5d7

Edited, Jun 4th 2008 4:43pm by mikelolol