The Unholy Trinity

The combination of a Mage, a Warrior and a Priest make what some of us refer to as the Unholy Trinity. It seems that in the WoW world you almost always “need” these three classes. At least 100 times per night I see one of the following in the “Looking For Group” Channel: LF2M for “xyz” need tank and healer; “LF1M for “abc” need a mage”; or similar variations of the same. This seems particularly true for Baron runs. I hear “ZOMG need a mage to AoE the skele adds!!!” “Can’t do Baron w/out a mage!” Sure, a mage makes it a lot easier to complete the run, but are they absolutely necessary? Of course not! If you don’t have a mage, then do you have to have a lock for it? Negatory. You just have to make new plans…

Last night we did a baron run with the following group: Fury spec warrior, Priest, me (sword rogue), beast-master hunter and a feral/resto Druid. I’d done more groups w/out a mage than I had with one – but we always had a lock. So, I admit that I was skeptical about whether or not we could take the Baron and deal w/his skeles before he used them to heal. I’m glad I was wrong. We had the priest handle the AoE w/her holy nova spell and the druid main heal the tanks. It worked beautifully.

Now, I just need to figure out how to complete “The Challenge” without one or two mages. “The Challenge” is the BRD Arena fight that was recently added as part of the Tier 0.5 Upgrade quest line. I can sap one of them, a priest can MC one and a lock could charm one… *Sigh* it’s a conundrum I am puzzling out. Mages are not normally available to me, so I must find a solution.

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