Comments on: Know Your Enemy – Frost Mage

By: grimmjou

grimmjou — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:29:12 +0000

Great tips . And by the way your CS+gouge combo does works , it took a while but I have it down, and I have owned many mage with with an interval of 8 to 12 after begining the battle/duel.

By: Dcruize

Dcruize — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:12:59 +0000

Completely brilliant! Will have to get some of these for playing around with in BGs.

By: Beryl

Beryl — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:03:12 +0000

For Battlegrounds you can counter the Frost Mage quite easily with a supply of FREE ACTION POTIONs. It causes no end of annoyance to them as they just do not expect you to have 15sec of immunity to there snares.

Dont work in Arena.

I have had a few horde mages log to alliance to ask me how I manage to avoid there snares. I of course say as little as possible.

By: Denz

Denz — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:16:05 +0000

Kinda confused with your tactic here. From my experience , a good mage will never blink after he sees the rogue being frozen down after a frostbite or shattered barrier procc. He will rather start pollying you immediately after garrote silence wears off , and on top of everything he will do that facing away from you(i.e you cant gouge him). That leaves you with 4 options.

A)eat the polly and trinket it —>> seems rather wrong as then you will be vulnerable to frost nova followed by a deep freeze.

B)COSing it , which will definitely lead to an iceblock.

C)Blinding it , which will most likely lead to an iceblock.

D)Vanish + Sap him. By doing so you get the option to reopen on him. You cant really CS him since he havent use his blink nor trinket yet , so he’ll just blink your CS -> trinket your KS -> Ice Block your blind :S

Seems to me that the best option here is to reopen with garrote and unload on him (Have in mind that this time Ice Barrier will be on CD so the dmage on him will be pure. Oh wait , now we really get to the section that this will lead to an Iceblock.

Of all the above , Option D seems the best to me as it’s the only one that gives you the chance to reopen.

On a somewhat different theory , ive seen rogues opening with CS to force a gouged blink from the very beginning of the fight. Now this sounds ideal but it requires amazingly good timing and low pings. The way you do this is you CS from a position that you have moved “on top” of your opponent but he is still infront of you and immediately facing him and gouge. Can assure you its pretty hard to master it but really gives you the upper hand on thr fight.

Sorry if my thoughts carried me away in a deep theoretical post. The actual purpose of the comment was that you cant really expect a mage to blink that easy after he sees you frost down after a Frostbite or ShatterBarrier.

Best Regards

By: Orcy Rogueface

Orcy Rogueface — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:01:01 +0000

Great site. I really need to get to grips with frosties as I see more and more of them in bg’s. You are right about the whole, ‘getting around to face them after a garrote’, to get em with gouge, hard move. But then, frost mages are a pain in the *&%!

By: SHEEP

SHEEP — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:48:49 +0000

Very cool read. Thanks

By: Kiley Robey

Kiley Robey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:02:54 +0000

thx

By: Dcruize

Dcruize — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:43:47 +0000

Thanks, fixed I’d asked a mage about and was told that was the case hmmm :/

By: Freddy Cheese

Freddy Cheese — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:08:02 +0000

Good job, however, Shattered Barrier is not set off if ice barrier is purged/dispelled, not sure where you got that idea o.O

By: Dcruize

Dcruize — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:39:53 +0000

Yeah my money is on November as well. Want a follow link btw (unsure if you have a rogue levelling site as well)?

By: Gregory Despain

Gregory Despain — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:49:39 +0000

Nice website man, picked up a couple nuggets here…just can’t wait for Cataclysm, I saw a rumor that it’s being coming out November 2010, though with Blizz you never know :/

By: Gouge the Blink, Kick the Penance, Fight the Lag Warcraft PVP/Arena for Rogues

Gouge the Blink, Kick the Penance, Fight the Lag Warcraft PVP/Arena for Rogues — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:37:12 +0000

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