Arena - 2vs2. resto/arms warrior.. need advice pleaseFollow

From what I can see the first thing you need to do is lose the points in brambles. Get at least 2 of those points into nature's reach. That extra distance on cyclones can mean your life with a melee character.

You need more resilience. The curve right now from res to incoming damage is really really rough with people having access to such high ilvl weapons.

You're also running the offensive resto build so you're gonna need to play that way. You're heals will lack a little because you're missing a hot like WG, GotEM and Living Seed. Now, as a resto druid in arenas nourish is your go to spell when **** starts to hit the fan and that extra 3-5k heal from LS is really really helpful.

You need to make focus macros and bind a key for assigning someone a focus immediately at the beginning of the game. This makes healing your warrior and then cycloning the other target w/o losing target on the warrior so much easier. Having to switch between targets will slow you down and cause you to make mistakes that the other team can capitalize on.

As for the dks, here is how I used to deal with them.

First off try to get the locked down in roots or in a cyclone, thats gonna give you time to shift to cheetah and pillar hump them for LOS. Otherwise another way is to shift bear and bash them for a quick stun that will give you time. Going bear is going to waste a gcd on your heals so make sure you've got a cooldown like swiftmend ready with a rejuv on yourself.

If you do end up rooting them expect that they're going to grip you back if you get focused. When you're midair this is a great time to be shifting to bear for a bash.

Make sure to use your barkskin and keep hots on yourself as best you can.

Hell, back in S5 when DK's could strip your hots with scourge strike they were the ultimate nightmare for a druid, now not so much.

warrior/restodruid is about control and peels.

You've got tons of control over the ret. The second he blows freedom and its off him just root him or have your warrior keep him hamstrung. He won't have much if you keep range on him beyond exorcism and his judgement if you get close enough to do anything to you really.

Keeping yourself hotted is pretty much mandatory, a smart player is gonna watch when your hots fall off you and thats the moment they'll make the hardswitch from your warrior to you or vice versa.

As for resilience take anything you can get. That doesn't necessarily mean gem for it, usually you gem for more spell power, but don't neglect it.

Your warrior needs more expertise. I don't know the exp cap for pvp off hand, but the hit cap for pvp is 4% for casters. Your spell pen should be around 75-115 to make sure that you're IS and MF don't get resisted.

Hey :)

We played 9 games more today, and got up to 1300 rating. Now my warrior got the relentless boots.
I'm up to abit over 1k res, and got a little more +hit so now at 2,7% :/

We didnt meet any DK's at all in the few games we did today. So I cant tell if im able to put the theory Arex gave me to work.

However we lost 2 games to a feral druid/disc priest combo.
Usually feral opens on warrior untill i pop out and heal. then CC'sthe warrior with Grasp or instant Roots/cyclone if he got it up already. And then they try to focus on me the rest of the game... ending up with me oom and dead usually (it's hard to explain a game)

I can outheal the damage mostly, and I am trying avoid most of the manaburns. But the heals from pack and innervate to priest seems to make us unable to outlast them. We dont really know how to turn this game into our favour :(


I asked if it wouldn't be a good thing to do, he said no, armor penetration all the way for him... come to think about it.. is it not more or less only DK's that do alot of parry?


I liked the video Artemis.. It gives me alot more insight to what my warrior is doing, and also a tip about watching my owns hots alot more, if they are about to run out on me or warrior, that person might have incomming soon.

Warrior is trying to force cd's by switching targets untill one of the other team is weak... I'm still rather impressed about how good he is doing. I will recommend him the movie, and tip him off about retaliation on DK early.

A big thanks to the Sage's <3

That is true, you'll have a very hard time against that team. You really can't win the "mana war" because they have innervate the same as your team, and the priest also has shadowfiend (a low duration, but very high damage pet that returns large amounts of mana) and divine hymn. And if they are good, they'll mana burn you and dispel innervate.

The druid can just shift out of nature's grasp and hamstring too. I would probably have the warrior just sitting constantly on the priest ready to shift and pummel casts, or overpower them to apply the unrelenting assault debuff. Stick close to the warrior, try to weather berserk til it's over, then have the warrior intimidating shout. Start casting cyclone as the fear hits the druid. It's a physical debuff, so the priest can't dispell it and cyclone should hit the drood just as he trinkets the fear. Then go crazy trying to kill the priest. DoTs, wrath spam, bladestorm. Re-cyclone til the druid is immune. Warriors are one of the few classes who can kill a priest on their own but it takes time.



Edited, Jan 15th 2010 5:03am by ArtemisEnteri

It's useful to know what the other team are thinking though. When i did arena on my priest, i usually noticed that ferals used berserk straight away to do a lot of burst, this was 3v3 though where cleave melee teams can get away with that.

Basically if you're having a drawn out match (as many will be as warrior/resto druid) and there is a shaman or priest on the enemy team, only innervate while barkskin is up for the dispel resist.