| It's pretty annoying trying to explain to a Warrior how important positioning is. The majority of the time it's up to the Warrior to do the proper positioning. If I can start the fight within los, 40 yards back with the other healer / caster dps on the other side far away, it makes the game so easy. If the Warrior does his job correctly, I can start almost every game with perfect positioning.
If it is a longer fight, 1 dps / 1 healer, you have time to properly move and properly position yourself throughout the fight. Against double dps teams, initial starting position a lot of times means the difference in a win or a loss.
If my Warrior can find the Rogue from a Mage / Rogue combo out in the open and I'm still mounted I can just run to the opposite side of the mage right at max healing range and it is usually a very easy win. I just throw sacrifice on the Warrior and spam Holy Light and it doesn't take long before the rogue is dead. I'm too far for the mage to counterspell me, and sometimes the rogue is stupid and tries to run towards me to blind me not even realizing that sacrifice will take blind right off. If they decide to come after me when I demount, which is probably what they initially wanted before my Warrior found their rogue, we will get a giant head start on damage by the time they get in range to damage me (he'll probably be at least half dead by this point) and it would be extremely hard for them to overcome that. Mage / Rogue isn't really a hard combo for Pally / Warrior, I was just using this as an example.
A lot of Warriors don't use intervene, and a lot of Warriors seem to suck donkey balls at finding rogues. Some Warriors I group with find them all the time, and others can't find a rogue to save their life. I was grouped with a Warrior today around 1850 rating that got sapped while he had the eye on. Apparently he changed forms to charge, the rogue got the sap in before he charged, and since he was in the wrong form he couldn't even get out of the sap. It was classic. |