Battlegrounds frontline

[mirekrock]

Hi,
The question is simple, how do you counter fully PvP-geared, stamina-stacked players, especially DKs, in the frontline of 40-man BGs?

Those players, especially DKs, are the tankiest with their defensive cooldowns. They’re also very annoying with Chains of Ice, Death Grip, Pestilence etc. I mainly play Hunter, and even though I try to kill PvE-geared targets in the backline, sometimes it’s impossible. If I move forward, the frontline pulls me in, Chains me, spreads diseases with Pestilence, and so on.

So I try to at least keep Aimed Shot up for the -50% healing debuff, but 98% of the time it doesn’t matter, they just get healed anyway.

So the question is: how do you actually counter these players? I had an idea to try a Shaman and purge them nonstop, but I haven’t tested it yet. Any suggestions?

[Xxanarg]

You definitely won't be able to kill them alone if their premade is playing correctly. In my experience, the only times you get to kill these frontline tanks is when they overextend by being too greedy or when they run out of defensive CDs and try to retreat, and your DKs grip them back to finish the kill.

[Shred]

Even though DKs have amazing defensives, I think a great deal of their tankiness does indeed come from their buffs, and dispelling them using a priest or a shaman (2 buffs at once) seems effective. Or, at least, it seems the most effective thing you can do. That, and Aimed Shot or Mortal Strike of course.

[mirekrock]

Well, I tried a shaman tactic with purging, but to be honest, it’s not working. Even when they don’t have any buffs like stamina, shadow resistance, or kings, they get shields, HoTs, and everything else back so fast that I just run out of mana or get killed by Death Grip. It’s not working.

Yeah, it takes team effort to kill them, but damn… it’s hard to coordinate in a RANDOM BG against a NON RANDOM PREMADE, so yeah, it kinda sucks, I guess.

[velgaa]

Priests spamming mass dispel would help to mass remove their buffs. Or have your DKs grip them to your side, because even without buffs DKs still die slow.