What was he thinking?

I was in a WSG last night chasing the druid flag carrier up their tunnel. I get another druid on me, so I seduce and stay after the flag. He shifts into cat and heads for the roof. There was a shammy with me, so he chased him and I went to the flag room to cut him off. He must've beaten me because I never saw him.

But, this other druid keeps at me. Dots me and starts to moonfire. I keep him CC'd as much as possible, but when I hit 30% health (he's still at 100) I realize I have to deal with it. I dot him up, death coil, drain life, drain life, shadowburn - done. I'm at 50% health and mana, so I sit and drink.

By the time I'm up to 75% the druid is back from the dead and attacks me. I wasted not time this round and laid him out in 7 or 8 seconds. I finish the fight at 90% health, but I'm scratching my head. If I whipped him at 30% health what made him think he would fare better when I had more health and mana? Its not like he was distracting me from the flag, or something else useful. Maybe he just had to double check...|||*stroke stroke stroke*

Alright, that's done now. What likely happened is that

(a) he lost his temper and came after you with vengeance in his heart and emotion clouding his reasoning

or

(b) he had made a mistake in his initial fight and thought he could rectify it in a second bout

or

(c) he was hoping you would make a mistake

or

(d) he would be getting some backup

or

(e) other.

Take your pick?|||Let get to the important bit - did the other druid cap without you interfering ?

If so, he got what he wanted.|||Nope. After the 2nd kill I tracked him down and returned the flag.

Sorry for the pointless thread. I just thought about it 5 or 6 times yesterday, so I threw it up here.

And thank you Tanitha my ego is satiated.|||I have had players come after me over and over. And over.

It must infuriate rogues and hunters to lose to a mage.

I killed the same warlock six times in one battle, and he came back a seventh. Certainly he was thinking, I'm a lock, mages are supposed to run from me!

I play enough to get owned lots of times, but I only throw myself back at the same guy if there's an objective involved. They can make me look stupid, but if I can gy zerg them to death and reclaim a bunker or node it's OK.

Typical Alliance response to attempts to retake the Stables: "Why are you wasting your time?" But I'll die five times if it finally results in success, and if we retake Stables AND succeed in forcing Horde's respawn far out of the way again, it's correct strategy.