First off, I would like to say that if I were to make this thread in the official Blizzard WoW forums, the replies I'd get propably wouldn't be what I'm after; constructive.
When the arena season began, we saw how double warrior teams quickly started dominating it with their favorite little pocket healers, the paladins. Intentional or not, the reign of this setup was quite short-lived as it was remedied by the advent of resilience gear and higher hp pools. As the new arena season is soon to be started, it has given birth to a whole new breed of cookie-cutter setup.
Our 5v5 team is comprised of a holy paladin, arms warrior, balance druid, marksmanship hunter and a frost mage. Not the usual roster, I know, but I take a lot of pride in being a part of a successful team that isn't flavor of the month. We are a group of friends who want to be able to enjoy the game together, so please do refrain from making comments how we should make some class replacements or such.
So, onto the issue at hand. Our team was at 2270 rating today, from which it plummeted swiftly to its current 2141. We played 29 games, won 21, lost 8. Of course, this means that the games we won gave around 1-9 points and losses were in the high 20s. We do not have any big problems with any roster other than the one we lost our rating to, namely teams with a warlock or two and a shadow priest. Even the low-rated teams with worse gear than we've got just rape us. We did, however, manage to win one fight against such a team after we got very lucky once. But it happened just this once.
We have tried about every conceivable tactic against such teams, and nothing seems to be effective. There just doesn't seem to be a way for us to have a fair fight against 2x affliction warlock, holy paladin, shadow priest and a <random class> team. It doesn't really matter what the random class is, as we've seen a warrior, a rogue and a shaman filling that spot.
What is the weakness of the double warlock coupled with a shadow priest team? How should we try to tackle this challenge? I'm at a loss here, and starting to lose faith. It is the only single setup that I feel violates me rapidly from behind, without even giving me a chance to fight back properly. If anyone from a decently high-rated team is facing similar issues, I would love to have a discussion about how to make do.
This is not a whine thread, so keep out the warlock-related insults as well as the shadow priest ones. And please, don't mention how we should get 200+ shadow resistance from some lowbie greens or the crafted epics that you need to PvE to get. So, in short, please refrain from making any comments that are similar to those that you would see on the lost cause known as the official forums of this game.
Let the discussion begin.