Can a feral druid beat a frost mage 1v1?

[havak16]

As a feral, I find fighting frost mages to be very fun and quick. The trick is, if you get the jump its almost a guaranteed win. Open up with pounce, and try getting a shred and rip in before they blink. Once they blink, feral charge in cat form and use Maim. Do some baller-damage, pop Dash and chase them around for a bit. Once they blin kagain, go bear form: Feral Charge > Bash > Cat > Shred > Rip > Maim > Shred/Mangle > dead mage.

EDIT: Like the poster above me, its about going balls-out against a frost mage. Prolonging the fight too long will almost result in a guaranteed win for the mage.

Ummmm Sounds like your fighting a arcane mage.... Cause you would be frozen in place 60% of the time your "chasing him"

[Dispirit]

if feral has all his cds, yes easily. if not, he'll have a hard time but it can be done

[TJ]

"The general rule" is the key to this sentence, though it is correct.

A sub rogue who knows their abilities will tromp through a Frost Mage, as will Warriors, idk much about Ferals but knowledge of your spell book and use of all of its abilities will give you what you need to beat any class.

Rofl what? did you just say warriors can beat mages? no chance in hell. Unless the mage is the definition of shit or plays naked, warriors dont stand a chance no matter what they do, alls you can do is get 4 seconds of damage when improved hamstring is up, after that cy@ since they iceblock bladestorm.

[Blueobelisk]

Druid
Rip and Rake damage reduced by 30%
Shred and Mangle damage reduced by 50%
Prowl has been removed from the game
Mage
Frostbolt snare increased to 70%
Frostbolt and Icelance damged increased by 20%
Pet Freeze has a 10 second cooldown
Fingers of Frost proc chance has been increased to 90%

Yours truly GC

OT: probably not since they now removed ability to remove snares

Lol cracked me up.

[Feranor]

Assuming equal skill and same RNG, latency etc. the Frost Mage will always win.

Frost Mage was already stronger before 4.0.6 (although they often had to use one of their longer cooldowns) but now it's not even close.

[webdonkey]

Damn everyone thinks Frost Mages are God lol. They don't hard counter every single melee so much that it's impossible...

But yeah you should lose normally as a Feral.

so you think hitting 40 k crits with lol-lance through 4 k resi is not op... kk then

[ultimar235]

Nobody seems to take location into account when giving 1v1 advice, and against a Frost Mage in a close quarter, tight area with not a lot of room to move around and a lot of corners, you should never lose to a Frost Mage. In a wide open area, winning will be almost impossible. Being able to put up some bleeds and hide behind a wall and restealth and reopen over and over is stupidly OP and I rarely see anyone do it when I am against a stealth class.

First off what stops the mage from moving away from the closed area? He is the one being chased not the reverse. IB to remove bleeds, invis (40% speed whilst invis) and get out of there. Plus the pet is constantly on you, you cannot restealth if the mage chooses to stay. If you attack the pet you've wasted energy and the mage is sure to take advantage of that.

[Yvaelle]

they arnt god, but they are the rock to melee's scissors.

They are also the paper to most casters rock.

Frost mages are dynamite.

Warlocks are still mushroom.

[PizzaSHARK]

they arnt god, but they are the rock to melee's scissors.

Frost Mages beat most classes in a 1v1 and can still do decently against the classes they don't win against most of the time. Them having access to Improved Counterspell is just gross. Then again, I don't think they should have Counterspell at all.

[Yvaelle]

Frost Mages beat most classes in a 1v1 and can still do decently against the classes they don't win against most of the time. Them having access to Improved Counterspell is just gross. Then again, I don't think they should have Counterspell at all.

They would be a lot more balanced with a few simple changes, this being a very good candidate.