Recently got my shaman to 70 and I was thinking about what kind of a 3v3 team makeup would work best with a shaman, if any. I'm getting arena points from a 2000 rated 5v5 team that we keep to give alts points every week, so that won't be a problem.

The team makeup that I was playing with in my head was Warlock/Resto Shaman/Feral Druid, or the same team with Ele Shaman/Resto Druid, but I'm worried that we might be exploited by any team with a half-decent warrior. Another thought I had was Resto Shaman/Shadow Priest/Frost Mage, and was also considering Ele Shaman/Resto Druid/Warrior.

Anyways I was just wondering what kind of teams other shamans have made and been successful at, I'm willing to spec any spec for arena as I have absolutely no gear yet so I can start collecting either way.

Warrior without a Paladin is a deadly proposition. Ele Shaman, Hunter, Resto Druid would be interesting, and Hunter is interchangeable with Warlock/Frost Mage. After running my own 3's to 2270 in 1 weekend, then down to mid 2k's with a War/Resto Shm/Paladin, I'm REALLY not a fan of any team without massive CC/Control. An Ele Shaman with Ebinds/Eshocks/Frost Shocks/Groundings, a Druid with Cyclones/Roots and a Hunter/Mage/Lock with their CC's would be nasty, and also doesn't give the opposing team any "soft targets".

I am just speaking from my experience tho, and have no clue how these teams would perform in a real world situation. But from my perspective - any team with all hard targets and lots of interrupts/CC is a good team.

I did a bunch of games with resto sham/shadow priest/frost mage, and they weren't fun for the most part. The shadow priest would keep getting focused down fast while the sham would be controlled enough to get the priest down, then it'd be game over from there.

An elemental shaman/paladin/warrior team works pretty well, amongst others.

A few people on my server run Eleshaman/Spriest/Healadin, they are at about 2100+ rating.
Or you could of course go for the flavor of the month Shaman/Warrior/Paladin setup.

Like Deris said, 3s is centered around being able to CC the other team- As a shaman you lack any CC, meaning your other 2 class members needs to bring some form of it. Rogue/Mage/Restor Shaman has probably been the strongest 3s combo that I've ran shifft. Mace rogue + heroism (w/ healing debuff) + mage sheeping enemy rogue off you is simply amazing.( And who is giving you points on their 5s? Rosa parks? Need to get warrior points this week. )I could see mage/restor druid/ele shaman working pretty well tho but you have to remember as soon as an ele shaman gets focused all he can do is purge/water shield/shock and NS basically. This is why having a mage and a druid to CC people off you could be really effective. You have no healing debuff tho w/o a rogue or a warrior and any team that brings a warrior and a shaman lacks CC (druid could bring some but probably not enough).

I (elemental shaman) run with a priest and a hunter, and it works well enough. Recently we added in a MS warrior, which seems like a better fit so far, much too early to tell as he's lacking a bit in the gear department.

My team hangs out in the 1800 level generally.

I played mage/rogue/priest for a long time and really tore up most teams just because its an overpowered group make up.


However, there was a good resto shaman/afflic warlock/rogue team that just gave us a lot of trouble for some reason. They were all a bit better geared than us and were a top 5 team at the time; but regardless we couldn't figure out how handle them.

To be honest, I think a skilled warlock (uses felhunter to dispell defensively as well as offensively) that can do a lot of damage will always be formidable with a resto shaman; throw in any third dps class to add to the tandem.

I did a bit of Ele Sham/Warlock/Shadow priest, it was pretty easy, just run around zapping things mindlessly, the only thing we had trouble with was warrior + 2 healers, we couldn't down someone before our shadow priest was windfuryd to death most times, but they way outgeared us, we only played 30 or so games and won most of em, pretty easy and makes a decent burst down team, although 2.2 may change this a lot.

My hunter's 3v3 team is currently resto sham/war/hunter. We had very limited success, and I agree with the poster that said a Warrior without a Paladin is just asking for trouble. I think we would have a lot more success if our warrior brought his his feral druid into the team instead to give us someone that can't be stopped by snares, roots, or sheep. Resto shaman just don't strike me as great for 3v3 since they are not very mobile, so you might be better off going elemental and bringing in a different class as your healer. You said you could bring in a druid, and Resto druids pair very well with warlocks, so druid/sham/warlock might be pretty solid. You provide burst DPS/backup heals, the druid provides CC/healing, the warlock provides steady damage/CC. I could see that working with a frost mage as well, but a shadow priest doesn't look right in that line up for some reason (just a gut feeling).

Getting to 1900 rating even with bad gear on my resto shaman was pretty easy. I played with warlock/frost mage, frost mage/warrior, and rogue/frost mage. My resilience is only 150 so I was dying way too fast in the games past 1900 rating. I want to try warrior/paladin in the future, but for now it seems I just need to finish getting resilience in every slot.



edit: I should mention everyone I played with has top notch arena gear, and know what they are doing. That makes my job a lot easier.

We were 19-1 with our new setup (Priest respec'ed out of BR) and hit 2009: Elemental Shaman, Arms Warrior, Disc Priest (Pain Suppression + PI). Absurd amount of burst damage, Heroismed Mana Burns, and a mana-free damage source. The Priest was mostly on kiting duty and made very effective use of LoS to prevent offensive dispels.

I could use a bit of advice on team makeup, and this seems like a decent place to ask. I've been running a 3v3 team lately of warrior / resto shaman / affliction warlock(me). For the three of us, its our first experience with the 3s bracket, so we're still getting used to some of the differences from 5s.

We've been talking lately about swapping out the warrior for his rogue, but weren't sure if it would be advantageous. Both have about comparable gear, warrior is using deep thunder + 4 piece season2, and rogue has 2 x season 2 maces.

Would mace rogue / resto shaman / affliction warlock work better than warrior / resto shaman / affliction warlock?

Currently running a Holy priest, affliction lock, and enhance shaman (me) in 3v3's and it's working really well. Myself and the Lock are very under geared for the pvp but we are making steady progress and should hit the 1700's tonight. Over the next couple weeks our team will begin to perform a lot better as we both have a few pieces of pvp/arena gear coming to us.

Neither the lock nor myself have over 8k un-buffed health yet.

The new top team in BG9 3v3s is Resto Shaman / Shadowpriest / Rogue ( The Armory )


And to be honest I don't fully see how it works(at least against the warrior/paly/x type teams), but obviously it's strong enough to top the bracket.

I would say that Resto Shaman/ Rogue/ Frost Mage works really well. You will miss the defensive dispell of a priest on your Rogue (which makes Priest/Rogue/Mage a better combination I guess), but the Shaman support isn't too bad either. I do not see any reasons why this setup shouldn't get to Gladiator Ratings.
Furthermore, Paladin Warrior Eleshaman is a great combo, which also works with a Restoshaman.

Since the Shaman does lack any real CC, you should pair with classes which can make up for it, so Warlock/ Rogue or Frostmage would be the best choice (I doubt FeralDruids however). The Pala/Warri/Shaman combo works different of course, you have at least no CC at all but a huge shitload of Burstdmg paired with decent healing. Furthermore, there is no easy target in your setup.

The most common partners for shamans in 3v3 is pal/war (ele or resto both work, I prefer ele). It's three hard targets that really only has trouble with very played double heavy caster DPS/CC teams. Of the combos you mentioned, the feral druid one is junk because, well, feral druids are junk in 3v3. Shaman/spriest/mage isn't bad at all, or any combo of resto sham + 2 caster DPS or rogue. It's the downsized version of 5v5 4dps.