I finally started doing arenas in Lich King, and I'm running mut-prep(me)/retadin/disc priest, which is probably the second most popular comp behind RMP. I wasn't very good at RMP in TBC and I don't really want to try it. Anyways, I was looking for some general and specific advice on how to play this comp. It seems like the overall strategy is to weaken defenses with dispels and then have me and the retadin blow someone up. Obviously we have good CC between sap, blind, repentance, and fear. It's tricky to manage at times, for sure. I make plenty of execution mistakes due to being rusty, but those will go down with more experience.
So, what would be a general guide to which classes to focus fire and which ones to CC?
Matchup specific: how should we deal with RMP, DK-ret-priest, and the mirror match? Those seem to be our hardest matches and they're all very popular comps. Are there any other bad matchups that I should be aware of and prepare for?
Edited, Jun 22nd 2009 10:24pm by Makaro
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Basically, here's what you want to do.
Tricks pally on the opener, sap the other dps. Blow up dps #1 (the squishy one, as a general rule. A ret is easier to kill than a dk, when he bubbles repentance (if trinket, blind) the healer and mass dispel that **** and kill him.
You have two defensive dispels and an offensive one, if your priest needs help staying alive your ret can toss him his instant flash of lights/etc, a ret is great at spot healing in this comp. Bop is good as well, as is hand of sacrifice on either the rogue or the priest to avoid a lot of CC. Use the two defensive dispels to eat up silence effects, CC's etc on your team-mates.
It's a cleave team, it's really not that complicated. Train the squishy, switch targets as appropriate and keep your team-mates alive.
Tricks pally on the opener, sap the other dps. Blow up dps #1 (the squishy one, as a general rule. A ret is easier to kill than a dk, when he bubbles repentance (if trinket, blind) the healer and mass dispel that **** and kill him.
You have two defensive dispels and an offensive one, if your priest needs help staying alive your ret can toss him his instant flash of lights/etc, a ret is great at spot healing in this comp. Bop is good as well, as is hand of sacrifice on either the rogue or the priest to avoid a lot of CC. Use the two defensive dispels to eat up silence effects, CC's etc on your team-mates.
It's a cleave team, it's really not that complicated. Train the squishy, switch targets as appropriate and keep your team-mates alive.
Sapping is generally where I fail at execution. The following situations make sapping difficult:
Them hiding behind a pillar in Nagrand - it can leave me trapped there and out of LoS of my group.
Them standing on a pillar in Blade's Edge - often with consecrate/dnd/other stealth breaking spells
Them just charging out of the gates in Orgrimmar's arena. And it's so small that people get in combat quickly.
The setup that we really didn't know how to break was against priest-pally-dk where they stood on a pillar in Blade's Edge with DnD up. Of course if I go over there I'll get knocked out of stealth, and if either of them goes up they'll get Death Gripped and pounded into the ground.
Any pointers?
Them hiding behind a pillar in Nagrand - it can leave me trapped there and out of LoS of my group.
Them standing on a pillar in Blade's Edge - often with consecrate/dnd/other stealth breaking spells
Them just charging out of the gates in Orgrimmar's arena. And it's so small that people get in combat quickly.
The setup that we really didn't know how to break was against priest-pally-dk where they stood on a pillar in Blade's Edge with DnD up. Of course if I go over there I'll get knocked out of stealth, and if either of them goes up they'll get Death Gripped and pounded into the ground.
Any pointers?
Get a shield on yourself out the door and sprint over. The shield prevents you from being de-stealthed by damage ***** on the ground, though the initial application of AoE (DnD, Consecration, Blizzard, Rain of Fire, Volley, etc) will still pull you out. There's a true art to flare sapping and it's hard to explain, but past that it's experience.
I've got 1500 arena games played since wotlk came out (never did any past 3.0), and probably that much again in skirmishes with friends. The practice really forces you to refine the art of sapping, and I'm at the point now where I barely need a priest shield to sap people standing in aoe, I'm usually right on the edge or in and out so fast that I'm not even taking damage.
It's an art of love, refine it as best you can.
I've got 1500 arena games played since wotlk came out (never did any past 3.0), and probably that much again in skirmishes with friends. The practice really forces you to refine the art of sapping, and I'm at the point now where I barely need a priest shield to sap people standing in aoe, I'm usually right on the edge or in and out so fast that I'm not even taking damage.
It's an art of love, refine it as best you can.
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