Dealing with Resto druid

PVP Arenas
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Any tips on how to deal with Resto Druid?

They seem to just be able to skip around as they please meanwhile these silly little trees are doing a lot of the healing.

By far the most annoying match up I am coming up against.

Helpful tips welcomed, ignorant comments disregarded.

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  1. If you’re getting spam Cycloned, tell your DPS to hit the Druid too
  2. If you’re tilted and annoyed tell your DPS to perma tunnel the Resto Druid
  3. If they don’t want to hit the Resto Druid, tell them to keep swapping targets or CC the druid
  4. Try to somehow CC the Resto druid yourself
  5. Reroll
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Keep splitting DPS vs a resto druid…makes the go oom allot faster en less time to cc

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Cheers, I will defiantly try all these things, apart from re rolling lol.

I am playing 2s with a destruction lock and all we encounter is arms warriors with resto druids.

Will this work well in 2s trying to make the druid oom?

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Pretty much this. Outplaying the Rdruid is a team effort, dmg onto everything, especially if someone is not hotted already, smash that guy and force him to fullhot that target, if he pushes in for clones swap onto him, purge as much as you can without eating the penalty.

Also 1 Dps should play goalie for you, meaning he stops the rdruid when you get pushed into for a clone.

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Should’ve mentioned that initially.

There’s many different ways to win as your comp, IF you’re Holy. If you’re Disc, go Holy, Disc Destro is an awful comp.

  • Your warlock should play sucubuss
  • Sleep healer with the sucubuss, use Holy priest stun on enemy DPS when you see the enemy healer being slept by the sucubuss and Power Infusion your warlock and blast
  • Wait for double Mortal coil and stun the dps when the coil is ending on the next gos
  • Watch Jazggz on twitch to learn exactly how the comp works, or his YouTube, super easy guides
  • Get drinks whenever enemy team is hiding behind pillars

Source: Played the comp from both spec’s perspective, it’s really nice and somewhat easy to win with if you coordinate your stuns and CC. Reset stun via Smites and Holy fires as much as possible when your warlock isn’t tanking dmg

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Rdruid is just beyond broken. There is very little you can do about them and they are the main reason I quit healing. I refuse to play it and everything else feels so horrible. What I did was offensive dispel on donuts that are obviously going to run behind corners and hoped my dps notice it too for swaps. You cant ever win a pve or long game against it. Try to be offensive, help with dmg, dispels or anything that makes the game faster or you lose by default. Try to land fears. It helps a lot, but its hard against enemies, who arent completely braindead.

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And hpriest players disgust me.

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Thanks for all the tips.

Disregarded

I only want to play Disc and reached my goal so will just keep at it. I will pass this advice onto my warlock friend as well.

We found this quite successful in a few of our match ups.

It does feel that way… maybe next season will be better? I’ve not really looked into it.

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Sure, you do you.

Thing is Destruction warlock needs assistance with setup, aka needs stuns so Chaos bolts can be casted. This is why Disc usually plays with more CC-heavy classes in 2s, such as Rogue and Hunter and Feral

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Okay, Cheers, Il try some of these too.

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  1. Swap target on cenarion ward, don’t be afraid to punish druid if he goes into the open.
  2. Your DPS should stop clones on you, especially the ones where druid stuns you beforehand. This is where you need your DPS to stormbolt/spell lock/anything to stop the clone
  3. Don’t let him drink, try to be or have your teammate in vicinity of the druid to stop him
  4. Pray because druids are broken anyway with infinite mana and stupid treants
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Tell your team to swap Druid.

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I hear you bro :slight_smile:
Disc cannot outheal that thing.

Choose violence:
Covenant + Equilibrium, HarshD + Weal&Woe, Expiation + dblDeath
InnerShadow or DarkArch for burst teams.
Atonement & nuke constantly. Never cast heal. You are here to hurt someone. Ideally the rdruid, but any nonCC’d enemy will do.

Do not hide:
Take Phase Shift and the Fade cd reductions. Its the most satisfying button we have atm.
SWD the moment a melee moves in your direction…
If you have to eat the clone, trade barrier or PS into it
Go max range or melee range. Never mid range, that’s the no-no zone.

This is not a winning strategy. However you get to punch the fotm in the face repeatedly. Which feels good. The rounds you do win, you probably scored the kill.

I like to think they can feel my contempt riding on that final SWD.

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It definitely feels like an uphill battle. They have an answer for everything and we are also the only healer that doesn’t really have a cheat death.

I have actually been trying this and gotten some decent results when my arena partner Isn’t running around and I have to play cat and mouse.

I have talented for the damage reduction but never used PVP talent phase shift, may give this a go.

I like catharsis for the big Purge the Wicked and Inner light/ Inner shadow. for dmg/ saving mana on long fights.

May swap out Ultimate radiance. even though it procs from the tier set I like to have it available not to hard cast.

If you have any further tips I’m all ears!

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warriors and priests can aoe fear the treants, its what good ppl usually try and use some aoe cc like blinding light etc on them before they are trying to kill

next week the trees abilities are nerfed ~20% or so and more healing shifted towards the druid himself but these broccolis will still be handy during go’s you predict. you just time them for when ur off stun dr and rogue gets kidney example

how do i deal with paladins of everykind everywhere as dps and healers keeping permanent walls on their teammates? i cannot do any cc that breaks from dmg and everyone has permanent walls top of bop and almost every arsenal of a healer given even to the dps paladin, how do i deal? asking for a friend

imagine endless stream of lobbys of arms, retri, aug, you, 2x hpala nothing dies and it is really nice

game is not even bad everyone are only enjoying

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Catharsis feels bad vs the cyclowns.
InnerShadow feels the best for your atonement and aggression.
DarkArch is probably the best choice. Especially with an assassin team. It’s off the gcd, so macro it into your PI, turn your MM into a railgun ^^

Phase Shift is without question your favorite button vs every caster bro.
But especially vs cyclown.
Put it somewhere important. Talent it down to 20sec. Noping Cyclones is gamechanging. You’ll quickly learn to reflexively Nope all kinds of things. Including dispel protection :wink:

Bonus: You are now a Mage Killer.
Your blend of SWDs+PhaseShifts allows you to defeat the poly spam.
Apply your own Dispel spam. Never let them have a single buff.
Delight in watching the game’s meta caster flee in naked terror from a D tier healer!

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Ohh boy this sounds like it’s going to slap.

I’m going to experiment with this tonight.

Thank you for the advice. :slight_smile:

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I cast cyclone, press button name juke, watch them fade and cast cyclone

It dont help much if your team dont have kicks bind or awareness but it helps little and alot in arena where u play with ppl other than shuffle exp lol

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I didn’t realised you could fear the trees, I will be doing this now too.

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