Locking Down Warrior as Rogue

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This post is in response to a question I received from a fellow rogue. It’s been posted here in the hope that it’s contents may be of assistance to other players who have similar questions.
Arena Strategy Questions…
Hey Zug,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I’ve asked you questions here and there in the past, and there’s a few more that I’d like you to answer. My priest and I hit our highest rating of 2091 about two weeks ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and since then have struggled a bit.
The warrioealer teams that we seemed to have no trouble with have been really giving us a hard time. I find that in nearly all cases the warrior is sticking onto my priest, and I have a hard time keeping him locked down. They can break out of gouge, and I’m wondering if I should use my blind on the warr. (I feel like I should)
Another team, although rare, which we seemed to have no hope of beating, was the hunteriest teams. Getting on the priest is out of the question, as doing that caused my priest to go OOM within a minute. We try to kill the pet, but when we can’t keep pressure on the hunter, my priest gets drained hard.
Is 40 the best priest spec?
Arena Strategy Answer…
As far as your first question is concerned, I find that it really is more of a 2 part solution. Generally speaking you are going to be sticking to the warrior the entire time, making it as difficult as possible to get both position and line of sight on your priest.
However, your priest needs to be very aware of both your position and the warrior’s position. He needs to constantly reposition himself in order to allow you to do your job easier.
If the warrior is just relentless to get to the priest then this really opens you up to drop bombs on the warrior. Position yourself on his back and just lay into. Beyond that, just use everything within your power…including blind if necessary to prevent that warrior from getting on your priest.
Then again, even if he does get on your priest you’ve got reflective shield going for you, further increasing the damage output.
As far as hunterpriest goes…well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it’s just a rough match man. It’s so far one sided in their favor that even winning 1 out of every 10 of these matches is a good ratio. Our typical strategy just revolves around a gig strategy on the hunter with a lot of very early CC on the druid.
It’s very fast paced and risky, but it’s still the best strategy we’ve come up with at this point.