Mages versus the Boxer

[Ualaa]

I anticipate Frost Mages, as the deadliest thing for my Ferals.

I remember a solo Blood Elf Frost mage, in full Wrathful... outside of Stormwind.
He is pvp flagged, and going against two Ret pallies.
My druids are in a mix of iLV200-245 gear, plus questing pieces (average iLV of 199)... I attack the mage as I'm running past.
So we have two Rets (two players) and five Ferals (one player) vs a single mage.
Granted I didn't have macros beyond Mangle spam... but still...
The mage won.


We have a few tools as Ferals, against the mage:
- Stealth, should let us open with a good chance at killing him outright, via Ravage x5.
- Once combat starts, Feral Charge is the counter to Blink.
- We have +30% movement, and our attacks snare him to 50% movement.
- The mage can Iceblock, we can either stay close or try to restealth.

But almost every attack we land, applies a snare effect to us.
We can /cast !Cat Form, to remove the snare (or a frost nova), the mana cost is negligible but it is still a GCD.

In the Cataclysm era, we'll have a lot more survivability, via a larger health pool.
Boxers in general should be harder to kill, because of that.
But there's no guarantee, it won't be 5v5 at whatever node...




@Sam:
Well, if its 10 casts to kill something with one mage.
That is both 10 casts of time, and 10 casts of mana spent.

If you have 10 mages, it is one cast each.
And only a little mana to regen, across each mage who regens at the same time.

But that is true for any class with a resource system.