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In keeping with the general trend (bitching about shamans/paladins) in this thread, my 3v3 (spriest/rogue/shaman) had a decent run today, up at one point to 2200ish, with various tough matches along the way. (BTW, as an aside, regarding the brief discussion of war/lock/druid earlier in the thread, we ended up having a lot of success by opening hard on the warlock while also dotting the warrior -- if the warlock died, great. More frequently if the warlock managed to get away via hamstring + abolish spam, we could then quickly switch to the already-injured warrior while the druid and warlock were already thinking defensively.) Anyway, we beat 2-healer pal/sham/war by focusing the shaman hard and either running the paladin out of mana or setting up a fear-->blind on the paladin to force him to bubble, then switching and burning him down once bubble was spent. But at the end of our run we ran into warrior + resto druid + disc priest, and had absolutely no success or anything even hinting that we might have a shot at winning. Mainly for all the reasons outlined earlier in the thread. The warrior could control our rogue and do a large amount of damage, the priest was constantly going for mana burns, while the druid CC'd to alleviate any pressure. There wasn't really any target selection that could work unless they made glaring errors, and they didn't. Also fucking Reflective Shield on the disc priest instantaneously kills Grounding, so we were stuck with my earth shocks to keep the druid from cycloning all day, and he positioned such that to shock him I'd have to expose myself to any mana burns that got through. Should've stopped queuing, but tried to experiment with different approaches, to absolutely no avail. Any suggestions, or is that pretty much hopeless?
Another thought: Shamans and paladins originally were meant to be very durable targets as compared to other healing classes that completely crumpled when DPSed directly, but priests and druids have been given more and more survivability talents and abilities to the point that, in practice, a 12000-armor shaman is a much softer target than a 3000-armor priest.
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