by Macnair » Fri May 16, 2008 10:03 pm
I don't think you've got much chance, with an 11-level difference between you; but with even levels and equipment you can take this guy.
In terms of defense, you want a solid layer of maybe 10 unimportant buffs up front, and then you want to put focus and stamina in slots that he will have a hard time cancelling. You also want a couple of instant clickies, like sow boots and coldain ring. You want to make it hard for him to get all your buffs off. In between spell casts, click both clickies, to refill your buff bar with stuff that he is going to have to cancel before he can kill off your important buffs. You also want to keep a HoT on yourself pretty much constantly.
Also in terms of defense, you also want to ask, "what will be his strategy for killing me?" and respond to that. If he decides to try to keep you rooted, so that he can stay away from you and avoid melee, his only way to kill you will be with dots. He is aiming to outlast you, betting that you will run out of mana before he does. If he decides to nuke you, he is aiming to burn you down fast, counting on his damage to overwhelm your healing.
In terms of offense, you want a two-pronged attack: poison dots and panther.
Debuffs. Cancel Magic about every third spell you cast. If he's any good, he will be hitting clickies too, but you hope to get him so busy with heals that he will fail to keep his clickies up, and you will take off all his buffs, including damage shields.
Poison attack. With putrid decay and malos, you can drop his poison resist by 110 points. Your poison dots will probably still bounce several times, but keep casting them. If you land one or two of them, you'll have him pretty anxious. If you land three, you've probably won.
Panther attack. Get close, stay close, keep autoattack on, and keep panther on you and dogdog. Your pet will proc maybe 20 times a minute: that's 8000 hp of damage. That's not much on a 100k hp mob, but it's a lot on a 12k to 15k druid.
Secret weapon. The dogpack can help you win this fight. You can send them pretty early, and then pull your fully buffed pet (including panther) out of your pocket and send him, too: with four dogs biting him, he could be distracted enough that you get most of his buffs canceled, two debuffs landed, and two poison dots running. Or you could save the dogpack for later in the fight, when you are both a bit lower in health and mana, to take over the fight for a minute while you cannibalize and cast a new string of poison dots.