What Is The Best 3v3 Arena Team Class Combo?
I am taking part in the World of Warcraft arena with my 3v3 team. The bad part is we really suck and our rating is around 1400. I am starting to think maybe it’s the classes we on the team that puts us at a disadvantage. So my question is what is the best 3v3 arena team class combos?
There is no real “best” arena combo for any of the match-ups. However, there are definitely some principles that one can consider when creating their arena team.
Balance
A good 3 vs 3 arena team must have a dedicated healer and two dedicated DPS classes. While it is recommended that the two DPS classes not be of the same type of damage – ie: both melee, both magic – occasionally such a combo will work.
For example, the double warrior paladin combo has been known to be among one of the best. Usually a team will want to have one ranged damage class and one melee damage class, such as Rogue/Warlock, Warrior/Mage, etc.
Healing
The dedicated healer in a 3v3 team needs to be one that can survive sustained damage. For this reason, holy priests are not frequently found on the top-rated 3v3 teams as they have much less survivability than Paladins and Druids.
Crowd Control
Additionally you will want to ensure that at least to of your 3v3 members are able to use some form of crowd control. In 3v3 it is usually a race to see who can kill the other teams healer OR “squishy” DPS first. Therefore being able to neutralize their damage-dealers for any amount of time can be the difference between winning and losing – very quickly.
Desired Classes
It is argued that the best healer class for a 3v3 team to use is druids because they have 3 very handy crowd control abilities. They can put hunter pets to Sleep, entangle players in Roots, and envelope their opponents in Cyclone – a spell that can only be cleansed using a PvP trinket. Frost mages are very desirable as a ranged DPS class because of Ice Block, Frost Nova, Polymorph, and Summon: Water Elemental. Warriors are also very desirable because of Hamstring, Mortal Strike, and Intercept.
You are wrong. The best 3v3 team does NOT in fact need 2 DPS. My team right now is a holy/disc priest, resto druid, and SL/SL Lock, and we are 18-2 for the week, and we just started. Another Very good combo is Druid Priest warr. Reason being is that either team has very sufficient healing, Enough DPS, Ability to last exremely long, and Mana Burn. Given the right people, either of this combos could definately beat a double DPS team, because a healer with no mana is a DPS with no DPS.
First of all warlocks dont like to SL/SL (aka) the PVP spec. Its a boring spec and IMO is hurtful to the grp. If you have a good destro lock then you dont need a that spec. With 1000+ damage and SB’s hitting for 3.4k in arena, plus all the instant casue of Destro tree then its not necessary if you have good fouce fire.
Destruction warlocks in pvp = lol they suck in arena. Stay safe with Ua or SL/SL speccs if you wish to succeed
locks are OP
a recent 3v3 that my friend got his ass kicked at was against
2 holy paladins and a
mortal strike warrior
he almost took out the warrior until lay of hands happened. and he couldnt focus on just one person soo.
Locks arnt op. Resto druids are and holy paladins. I personaly am a enhancement shaman, and my 3v3 has been doing quite well made up of a marksman hunter resto druid and me. When my wf procs, its they’re basically done…
What? Lay on hands is disabled in the arena, so two holy pally is a waste of time, go with a holy pally, sl/sl lock and a decent warrior, you shouldnt have a problem going 50-5, we did last week with that combo
your an idiot locks dont get chances like that, the main point of a sl lock is to be able to dot and take hits..
Ret pally, MS warrior, Resto Shammy….. nuff said were 2014 rating lost 8 games……WF totem FTW
I play a warlock right now and my 2v2 is a resto druid with me benig a 27/34 SL/SL lock, i was wondering what a good 3v3 is, atm my 2v2 is 1920 and i am 420 resil. Would u please leave me suggestions
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I think there are many builds that can be successful. As I am a BM Hunter with a Shadow Priest, and a Holy Paladin. The priest provides, dots, dispells and fear. He dispells iceblock, pally bubbles, as well as drains mana. A dream come true for a hunter. Our Paladin is very well skilled and keeps us up well. I dont think Blizzard designed this game to find only 2-3 good 3v3 builds.
u cant use lay on hands in arenas…
Im playing 2v2 with frostmage atm and we are above 2k rating.
But my best teams this far was rogue, mage, disc priest and resto druid, hunter, rogue. withhunter and druid we got to 1900 very very easily but the mage priest rogue team we are soon at 2100 !
it pwns totally. Im mutilate rogue with full s3 gear and my mates equiped also good. we can burn healers mana easily. most of ppl try to go for mage but its nothing but kiting.. going to rogue is useles. priest can easily keep wel geared rogue alive meanwhil mage sheeps and nukes. go for disc priest ? lol ;D
The best 3v3 team by far is 2 fire mages and a boomkin, tthey all go in stealth then the druid tells the mages where the healer is….then the mages time out pom pyro and immediatley knock out 1 player becasue of the boomkins +5% crit makes at least 1 of the pyros crit. then its 2v3 and the mages can crowd control while the druid cyclones and heals. YOU CANT LOSE WITH THIS TEAM……if you have resil.
you can’t lay of hands in arena, peace.
lol hunter/discpriest/holy pally is exceptionaly good we were just screwing around and had a 1650 rating no effort at all
btw, whoever said a pally used Lay on Hands in arena is a few tools short of a tool shed.
it’s hard to tell with all the comments on here, but can a Pally use lay on hand in an arena battle?
Just checking.
My Frost Mage (by Frost mage I mean he has no talent points in any other tree outside of frost) and my friend on his Disc Priest were undefeated in 2v2s last week. And we usually do really well. I would think that if we added anything to the mix we’d have a pretty good 3v3. We have a shamman that wants to join us, but he’s elemental and i’m hesitant.
Sorry, I’m babling now.
No, for all you hunters out there whining you cant find a good team I understand how you can feel that way but your wrong. Because of the excessive amounts of hunters lately most people cringe when they think of a hunter in a arena battle and see the future line of sighting. Look over your talent tree for a moment and you’ll be suprised. One of the most key things a hunter has along with its major dps is mana drain. Make sure no matter what spec you like (Marks//Survival or Survival Marks) you need improved stings. Everyone is using a hunter like he is going to me some burst dps or something and if thats what your looking for go with two mellee classes and a pom mage. This class is all about for me Survivability. Ok now here is a few tips on how I brought up 1400 teams to 1950.
2v2: Everyone thinks a hunter goes the best with a druid and in my opinion this combo does not work at all. The best thing about a druid is how he can line of sight things and not get rooted and ofcourse cyclone. Yeah you might hit up 1850 if you guys know how to play but thats only if you guys are at about 500 resil a pop. My favorite combo is a hunter and a disc//holy priest. Yeah great you have a squishy with you but, That is two mana burning classes and we can knock out any healers mana within 30 seconds of starting the arena. Hunters make sure your dropping a trap every thirty seconds for your priest to kite them over. Oh yeah and once they have zero mana they arent going to drink either your pet isn’t going to let that happen. Kill the dps while keeping viper up on the healer and your done. Lost first three games with this combo and then went on to win 32 in a row.
3v3: Hunter Resto Drood Disc Priest: Do I have to explain? pull them back to you and mana burn the healer(s) while keeping CC on the dps. Game Over. Pce out
No lay of hands! If someone says they used it, they are lieing.. Case closed! But when my soulshard is activated (again… would be lieing :-p)!
There isn’t a “best team” (I like the rock/paper/scissors reference). But the very first post had the right concept. I personally play a destro lock (mainly because I love intercept, and I’m buffed up on haste).
There are a lot of good teams out there, but you aren’t going to win 1850+ ranked teams unless you have 450+ resilience (the exception is hunters… and their mass atk power, look at the topped ranked teams).
My current team is MS warrior/destro lock/disc priest .. we win about 80%, but again arena has alot to do with gear. We could be a crappy team but if a green or blue team walks up against us…. they will die.
Would 3 rouges be a good 3v3 combo? They could stealth to the healer/squishey and all attack at the same time, kill whatever they attack and then vanish to do it again. I don’t know if this would work or not. what do you guys think?
I’m just asking for a tip.
I am a holy paladin and was going to try out a combo of MS Warrior, Boomkin druid and me as healer (holy paly)
Would there be any chance of winning with it? XD (A)
LoH cant be used in an arena….
If you feel like you want to win with a ALL 3 dps team go with ele shaman,frost mage and a dagger rouge. this way if you are all on one person there is no way they can keep them up. there is too much CC in this group to even get hurt
lol… unbelievable that the BEST 3v3 in the game by miles hasnt been mentionned… or maybe it has, i rushed thru the comments :p anyway…
Disc priest – healer, takes ages to kill
20/0/41 or mutilate rogue – locks down healers, nice dps
frost mage 17/0/44 pref. – awesome dps, with the rogue can pretty much take out enemies squishy/healer in a few seconds…
RMP – Rogue Mage Priest – Try it now!
Im a resto druid and im thinking of trying a druid/ frost mage/ subtlety rogue… all stealth in…
for 2 dps, 1 healer:
sap healer and sheep stronger dps, then go for squishy dps, for good players itll make them use their trinket on the CC, then i cyclone healer, for 9 sec ( if timed right), feral charge bash, should be enough time to down a dps without too much healing pressure on me
for 3 dps:
same way without healer, melee dps is easy enough CC for druids, and mages can just hold sheep for most of battle, more healing pressure on me of course
2 healer, 1 dps:
CC one healer and dps and pressure other healer… basically just watch their dps and make sure they dont get to touch you
id like some input to this… im working on finding the best makeup for a resto druid in 3s…. was also considering teaming with either: enh sham/arms war, disc priest/ arms warr, shad priest/ marks hunter, arms warr/ subtlety rouge…
Hi me and two of my mates have just entered the 3v3 WoW tournament, each of us are normally very good in PvP but we just can’t seem to fina class combination that works for us.
These are the classes we can play well as:
Me: MS warrior/rogue
Friend 1: healing priest/retri pala/hunter
Friend 2: BM hunter/ele shaman/arcane mage (has no experience in frost)
Could anyone please suggest a good setup…?
None of us like being healer much so any 3dps formations would be helpful
Lock and 2 rogues is the new RMP
destro = blows for Arena
SL/SL or felguard burst spec are the only ways to go
PDWarlock
would a Warlock, Hunter, Priest make a decent drain team?
Wasnerello, MS War | Retadin | Ele sham = good group for 3 dps team
Resto Druid, MS Warrior, and Me (Shadowstep Sword Rogue) = PWNAGE!
you might not think it but Warrior Ench shaman and Druid gets on very well we also used a paladin but we got the team up to 2000 with no worries at all HF with this combo
if gear had nothing to do with it, in other words, everyone had full mercialess gladitor? what is the best combo for 3v3
??
thanks
About the Destro thing, i want to just say that destro is a bit OP for 2v2.. Haven’t tried it for 3s.. Anyway, back on track, I am an enh shaman and my current 3v3 make-up is me, an MS warrior, and holy paladin. this combo works very effectively as I can potentially heal, blessing of sac provided by the pally, and WF totem for the warrior makes for a substantial amount of heavy DPS.
I can keep up sustained, fast dps while the MS warrior applies heavy, sudden dps + WF totem. We have found that we can easily beat teams by attacking the dps first, even through heals and defeat them easily. Even healer, healer, warrior teams can’t keep the hels on the warrior to catch up with WF and MS. We have also been very good about keeping RMP teams away from winning. the only thing with RMP is timing. timing of use of trinkets is crucial and hard-switching targets right on time is a must. I have noticed that RMP teams are easily beaten by a grp of heavy melee DPS’rs.
i have noticed that MS warrior, enh shaman, holy-din/resto drood works well for rogues. we’ve nick-named each other “rogue-eaters” lol. My shaman is at 405 resil and roughly 7k armor so i usually get focus fired by rogues, but slapping on a shield brings me to 13k. “lawlrogueskthxbai” lol.
I’v only recently started gettign into arena had a 2v2 with me (resto druid in instance blues andkara epics) and Enhancment shammy (in SSC epics) We did pretty well until he quit so i join a 3v3 with Ret pally and Lock, we’re currently grinding honor for the S2 stuff. I was just woundering whether you thought it would be a good combo, if not what do you think we should get?
I agree with whoever said MS warrior Ret pally and resto shaman… windfury totem with those two dpsers is unstopable…………. Iwin
my 3v3 team consists of SL/SL lock, resto druid, and disc priest. we have 32 wins 2 losses. and the 2 losses were from random D/C. we dot everyting up while the priest mana burns there healer, and druid heals and CC warriors and rogues, mages.
its honestly one of the easiest 3v3 combos ive played. so you definatley dont need 2 dps.
I was thinking Resto Druid/Disc Priest/MM Hunter. Its got heals, bubbles, fears, CC, drains and decent dps from hunter. Only thing im worried about is if the hunter gets drained then theres no dps or anything. Im a hunter and looking for good 2v2 3v3 and 5v5 combos. hit me up with ideas!
impossible to be honest. you cant use abilities with longer than a ten minute cooldown in arena so please explain the lay on hands.
I currently am a BM hunter with a holy pally and ShadowStep rogue. This isn’t too bad of a combo. So far we are 32-25 and the pally is in t4 gear. Def try it once.
I like “a few fries short of a happy meal” better
RMP (rogue, mage, priest), and DWL (Druid, MS Warrior, SL/SL Lock) are the far best teams
you cant use lay on hands in arena…..
My friends and I have had a “trash” 2v2 team that we use for practicing, and a 3v3 team for when we’re on a hot winning steak. In 2v2, seemed like ret pally and disc priest was an amazing combo, as both the ret pally and disc priest have their own forms CC/stuns to control the opposing team. However, disc and ret pally work best with fury warrior in 3v3. Warrior and priest both have “fears,” and the ret pally has a few stuns. Warrior has hamstring and such to hold back the melee dps, and since IN MY OPINION, ret pallies/fury warriors have among the best dps in the game, both of them can quickly clear out the other team. Warrior usually uses his “fear” first, then when the other team regroups together (assuming they are MOSTLY melee) then priest uses their fear. This provides a long time for the team to be incapacitated while the dps can do their damage. Disc priests reflective shields and quick healing penance can keep the group alive with almost no time spent concentrating on healing. Priest should keep main heals on warrior, and if the ret pally is taking to much damage to heal him efficiently, he can just bubble and heal, then jump back into the action. Disc priests have a long survivability IF THEY KNOW HOW TO PLAY. All together, this 3v3 team combination has set our record to 30-5, or 6-1. Not the best rating, but a still a good one.
*note*
-I find the best place to heal the group is right beside the melee dps. You can fear the group, and if the healer gets ganged on by dps, the melee dps will be right there to rip them off of you =]
im a destro lock and i am not op!!! holy plys ret pallys arms warriors (bladestrik suks) and restro druids r op!! run 2v2s with rogue and 3v3 with rogue restro druid… (3v3s we have never lost a game)
disc priest/ rogue/ mage all work well together in 2v2 setups like , disc/mage, disc/rogue, and rogue/mage. good CC followed by lots of support by each class, draining system, counter melee, and caster….it’s just good in all!
disc/rogue/mage…think about it
All I gotta say is PMR
LOL resto druid/Disc Priest/warrior faceroll comp no shit for ppl who don’t have skill at all have druid healing and priest mana burn the shit outta the other teams healer while warrior is already having ms up…
now people look at this team disc priest/ sl/sl lock/hunter (with improved drain mana ofcourse) EVRYONE has a drain mana of his own in 10 sec the healer has no mana beacuse of tons of dot’s and 3 diffrent mana drains and he will NEVER drink not one but two pets to chase up the healer. evry team that uses a healer will loose to this team