Apologies for the wall of text in advance.
Looking for a bit of advice from the experienced arena locks here. I'm sitting at about 11.5k HP, 230 resilience in my pvp gear. Next week should see me hitting 300 with another piece of Glad gear and the bonus, and a few hundred HP.
We have a 3v3 team consisting of a Holy pally healer (4 piece gladiators), a hemo rogue (glad weapons, 300+ resil) and myself. Last season we seemed to be on our way to doing reasonably well, but this season we seem to have hit a brick wall around the 1700 mark. (awesome, I know)
I've been jumping around between specs a LOT, trying to find the one that works best for our combo, but I can't seem to settle on anything. Sometimes something will work for a bit, and then things will go completely downhill, and we encounter a situation where "that build" would've worked a lot better, etc.
As 23/38, in BG's I tend to win every 1v1 or even 1v2 I find myself in, with a healer as backup it's even better - but when it comes to arena, I'm not quite sure where this spec fits in. If we try to burst someone down when facing a 2dps/1healer team - well, I have no burst, and even if I land a spell lock on the healer we don't seem to be able to finish someone off before one of us gets CC'd or they come out of it. The majority of my DPS is also dispellable. The mana drain tactic doesn't seem to work so hot either - getting enough time to drain off a 9k mana pool with a rogue/warrior/hunter beating on you just doesn't seem to happen. If I switch solely to harassing the healer with CoT / Spell lock, it'll work for a whiel, but our rogue won't be able to finish off a target on his own. Usually our pally will run out of mana here and we'll be picked off.
Afflic works slightly better. I do guaranteed damage with UA, but I'm remarkably squishy and rogues/warriors put huge strain on our healer with wounding/MS if they focus me, which they almost always do. It's also tough to get anything more than the initial UA's up between being beaten on, CS'd, spell locked, etc. After a while I end up kiting a rogue/warrior around and getting off some insta-dots, which are usually dispelled, and harassing the healer a bit. This is my preferred build for arenas, but I just feel remarkably squishy here. Could be my lack of Res.
Lastly is x/41/x or some derivative there-of. This also seems to work pretty well for us in some matchups, and not at all in others. I'm far less squishy, but besides the FG's DPS I feel all but useless in adding anything meaningful damage-wise. All dps is dispellable and I can't exactly sit there chain-casting SB's. SP doesn't do much damage. My usual tactic is to set the FG on the DPS target and harass the healer - but once again we can't seem to out-damage the other team before our healer OOMs.
Any advice on which spec would benefit my gear level the most? What I should be concentrating on doing in matches with our particular make-up?