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2v2 and 3v3 you don't have to be insanely geared, but you do have to be on par (especially for ret). The real question is who is your partner, and how good are they?
Paladins don't have many options for offensive control--the ones they do have are fairly easy to break or resist. Combined with defensive abilities on medium to long cool downs that are easily purged/dispelled, a serious weakness to mana attacks and you have a class that can only work with good assistance.
If you're ret, you need someone that can support themselves well, as well providing critical CC/debuffs/interrupts to add to your unspectacular utility (which you mostly use on yourself). Your DPS is nothing special, just being bursty. You need a partner that can help capitalize on it, and gear to further enhance it.
As holy, you need people to keep people that can keep casters/rogues off of you in addition to the offensive control and DPS.
Our weaknesses are only lightly touched by PvE content, but in PvP they are exploited to the fullest. It is a glaring fault of our one-sided class's emphasis on defense and passive abilities.
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