Originally Posted by BDevil04
I'm no where near a respectable arena rating, partially because I play with friends with little regards to class balance, but what I've noticed so far is that I'm basically the last target anyone ever goes for. Does this stay true at the upper levels? I'm finding it hard to be interested in all the stam in the gladiator gear because frankly, I almost never get hit.
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We usually target the warriors first in our 3v3's and it works very well. This is partly because they rape the two casters on our team(affliction lock and elementalist mage) and partly because hp and plate are really their only defenses, an plate doesn't help against 2/3 of our damage. So while other classes can iceblock, bubble or simply live through our attacks(priests, ugh), warriors usually go down quite easily, especially since their healer is spell locked or cs'd and they're stunlocked.
This is with 1 healer, 1 warrior, 1 caster dps groups though. With 2 healer 1 dps groups things might work differently. Probably the only other higher priority targets would be a hunter or a lock(or a fire mage, if anyone we fight is spec'd that way...) since they are similarly weak when it comes to defense.
I guess that's just how things work out anyway. If we focus fire a somewhat softer target, such as their priest, they can run out of los, they can pain suppression, etc. But the warrior is usually standing right in the middle of us, with no way to escape, and totally reliant on an eaisily neutralized healer to survive.
[Edit:] Sorry if this is a bit off topic.
For gear, I would recommend a 2h mace such as deep thunder. My pally in our 2v2 (we have a respectable 2000+ rating I suppose) has been stunlocked by mace spec'd warriors before, and it blows.