Im playing in the number 1 ranked 3 vs 3 team in my Battlegroup, Blackout-Eu if anyone wonders. Our team setup is holy priest, lock (we had him as destro, afflic and felguard, hes currently affliction and its working nice) and then rogue. This setup is quite effective so far and we have no problems at all with any of the cookie cutter setups people throw at us. Warrior+palla+dps? Fine, just focus the warrior untill hes dead. The felhunter silence combined with fears will make the warrior look squishy. The main thing in 3 vs 3 is crowd control. Fear, stuns, snares etc will win you games. Also in my opinion this bracket is alot better balanced then 5 on 5. Even if you meet your counter setup you can still do very well versus them and have winning chances. This is mainly cause you cant burst someone down in like 10 seconds, the 3 vs 3 fights in high rated games can take a very long time and each class will have to use his abilities to the maximum. I think our longest games where against the number 2 rated team, The Haunted, and those could last up to 3-4 minutes which is a really long time for a 3 on 3 fight but it just plays way better then 5 on 5. The fight are way more about control then about just focussing one target down till its dead and then switch to target 2. Individual skill is a massive issue in 3 on 3 because theres lots of things going on and its impossible to just take a target out within a very short timespan.

@Morthis
I wouldnt say the druid is that much of a problem, your mainly lacking classes that can deal with abilities like fear and crowd control in general. It would be way better to use pally+rogue/warrior+shaman/druid. This way you can get the healing debuff, got classes that can deal with CC and use CC effects and the possibility to outlast. Even so I honestly feel paladins are one of the weakest healers in 3 vs 3. Priests just have so much more utility to throw around and are less affected by silences/intterupts due to shields, hots.

Rules for the 3v3 tournament have been published. Thoughts?
http://www.thewsvg.com/rules/wow

Quite interesting. Addons allowed and just about any gear setup you'd want are some of the highlights.

Hardly any gear setup you'd want. Half the trinkets I'd want to use aren't on the list for hunters (several aren't on the list for anyone). No resist gear either, limited weapon choices, and no mention of how they'll handle gems and enchants.

What amazes me is that instant poison, wound poison arent on that 3 vs 3 rule list, poisons are a skill limited purely to our class and rogues are balanced around having poisons, it would be very weird if we couldnt use the poisons we want.

Well CC's like blind/sap really arent that effective in 3 vs 3 anyway. And I do agree a good geared resto druid can be a very good healer, theyre less affected by silences/interrupts due to hots and bring utility in the form of cyclone. I didnt mean paladins are bad for 3 vs 3 but I rate them lower then resto druids and priests simply due to the sheer utility those other classes bring in 3 vs 3. The way my team plays, we rely alot on intterupting the other teams healer and throwing around as much fears as we can.

The resilience is the important part, all the hp in the world won't save you from being a complete mana sponge to your healers with garbage mitigation. I wouldn't play affliction under 200+ resilience in any competitive setting.

The rogue/warrior train doesn't really exist in the top brackets either. Warrior/Paladin/Priest/Mage/X is the baseline 5v5 team, with Elemental shaman being the flavor of the month cookie cutter for X.

Agreed, it's a complete joke without Wound Poison. That's pretty much the only thing that lets a rogue be viable vs. a healer team.

No tidal charm makes me QQ. At least they added Argussian compass.

[Edit:] Oh, and the hunter ring list is absolutely retarded. Tanking rings or low stam high dps rings seem to be the only option. Why no seal of the exorcist? :*(

I can see the no Tidal Charm thing since using an overpowered level 40 item seems a bit cheap. But no Swarmguard? No Icon of Unyielding Courage (the hunter pvp set is terrible in terms of +hit)? No Core of Arkelos to swap in after Bloodlust is used? No 45 stam engineering trinkets? No Slayer's Crest?

It's also completely buggy atm though, so that might be why they removed it.

How are they getting this gear? Because I'm wondering if they don't have guys who are putting together these characters just by playing through the game...