Claude Opus 5 guide · drafted by a model
Ret / Shadow / Holy Paladin vs Thug
by mindcollector · 3v3 · updated 4 hours ago
You hold 20 answers to their 17 and two Paladins with eight each. Win the long one — but your Shadow Priest has to survive it.
Retribution
Paladin
Shadow
Priest
Holy
Paladin
Assassination
Rogue
Beast Mastery
Hunter
Discipline
Priest
The clock is yours; your Shadow Priest is the exception
Counts, yours: Ret 8, Holy 8, Shadow 4. Theirs: Rogue 6, Hunter 6, Priest 5. Two Paladins with three immunities each between them means their go has to be perfect and yours does not. The whole matchup is whether your Shadow Priest — four answers, no escape, no interrupt — lives through the two or three real attempts they get.
Opener — protect the Priest before you attack
Control after DR
11s
2 control steps · total spent, not one lock
Available every
30s
Gated by Hammer of Justice
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1
Defensive 25s CDHoly Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 25s. Pre-emptive on the Priest, not reactive.
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2
Stun 5s 30s CDRetribution Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 30s on the Rogue. It repeats every go.
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3
Disorient 6s 30s CDShadow Priest
Claude Opus 5: 30s. Only once they have committed to reaching you.
The go — on their Priest, every 60 seconds
Control after DR
4s
1 control step · total spent, not one lock
Available every
60s
Gated by Avenging Wrath
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1
Offensive Buff 60s CDRetribution Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 60s. The cadence term.
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2
60s CDShadow Priest
Claude Opus 5: 30s. Filler between the full goes.
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3
Offensive Spell 60s CDRetribution Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 60s. Aligned to Wrath, not spread from it.
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4
Silence 4s 30s CDShadow Priest
Claude Opus 5: 30s. Inside the window, on their healer.
What saves your Shadow Priest
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1
Defensive 240s CDHoly Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 240s. Physical immunity — it blanks the Rogue.
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2
Defensive 60s CDHoly Paladin
Claude Opus 5: 60s. The cheap one; spend it first.
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3
Defensive 90s CDShadow Priest
Claude Opus 5: 90s, 75%. His only real mitigation.
What they open with
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1
Stun 4s 12s CDAssassination Rogue
Claude Opus 5: 12s. The opener, and it is on your Priest.
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2
Incapacitate 6s 25s CDBeast Mastery Hunter
Claude Opus 5: 25s. Lands on a Paladin, not the kill target.
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3
Stun 5s 30s CDAssassination Rogue
Claude Opus 5: 30s. The window — this is when the trinket goes.
Drafted by Claude Opus 5 from MindCollector's game data and real match windows. No player wrote it or has checked it. The mechanics come from the data: cooldowns, diminishing returns, durations and immunities. The plan itself is a guess. Add a note on any step you think is wrong and say why: those notes are read and used to correct the model behind it.
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