The Shattered Star

From what people responded to in the Season 4 Thread, here is the current list of people and gear.

Upper Geared Chars:
Druid (Feral or maybe Resto) - Steph
Priest (Shadow) - Jay
Priest (Disc) - Will (Pad)
Rogue (Subtle) - Will (Pad)
Hunter (BM) - Jay
Hunter (Marks) - Pete
Hunter (BM or maybe Marks) - Bill
Warrior (Arms/Furry) Jerry
Palidan (Holy) - Jerimie

Lower Geared Chars:
Warlock (SL/SL) - Steph
Shaman (Elem) - Mark (Oz)
Shaman (Resto) - Jay
Mage (Ice) - Jay
Mage (Fire) - Jerimie
Druid (Resto) - Will (Pad)
Rogue (Subtle) - Pete

Looks good...now for the hard part, eh? How shall we build the perfect team? Let's turn to our resident expert...Will? (Muahahahahahaha!)

(I'll have an undergeared Arms/Fury warrior soon...ding 69!)

Oh, and Lilleth IS resto...tweaked the build a bit
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/cla ... 1500001000

(might take a point out from somewhere to fix the Nurturing Instinct so it's 2/2)

I also welcome any tips/advice on this build for arena

PvP healing gear isn't as high as my feral, but I've knocked together a make-do hybrid set of Kodohide/Dragonhide, to take advantage of the +35 resil 2-piece bonuses of both.

Lilleth wrote:Looks good...now for the hard part, eh? How shall we build the perfect team? Let's turn to our resident expert...Will? (Muahahahahahaha!)

Ooooook... well... IMHO...
We are too physical top heavy.
Only way to effectively compete is to bring up some of our lowered geared guys.

*We should be striving towards*
5v5
Most Successful:
War / Pali / Priest / Shaman / Mage (Most popular build and the standard for the 'cookie cutter' makeup.)
Next most currently successful (in order):
War / Rogue / Priest / Mage / Druid
War / Pali / Priest / Shaman / Lock
War / Priest / Shaman / Mage / Druid
Rogue / Priest / Mage / Lock / Druid (or Shaman instead of Lock)
War / Priest / Hunter / Shaman / Druid
War / Pali / Hunter / Priest / Shaman or Lock

If it is still confusing to figure out which to go with,
a couple rule of thumbs to make it a little easier:
There are only 2 builds really:
A. War / Pali / Priest / Shaman / Mage
B. Rogue / Priest / Mage / Lock / Druid
Everything else is a variation there of.
sooooo...
then go by class:

A. War / Pali / Priest / Shaman / Mage
Warrior - is in all these builds so leave it alone.
Pali - can be replaced by Druid.
Priest - is in all these builds so leave it alone.
Shaman - can be replaced by Hunter, Rogue or Lock.
Mage - can be replaced by Hunter or Lock.

B. Rogue / Priest / Mage / Lock / Druid
Lock - can be placed by Shaman.

3v3
Warrior / Lock / Druid (This is leading both Bliz and Pro Championships atm)
Priest / Mage / Rogue (The most popular in Arena atm)
Warrior / Priest or Rogue / Druid
Rogue / Mage / Shaman
Warrior / Pali or Shaman / Mage or Druid
Priest / Shaman or Druid / Mage or Lock
Rogue / Rogue / Druid

Since we have soo many Hunters,
I will add suggestions for them as well.
Even though they are not doing so hot overall in 3's (unfortunately).
Priest / Hunter / Druid (Hands down the best Combo for a Hunter)
Warrior or Rogue or Pali or Shaman or Lock or Mage or Druid / Hunter / Druid (yes 2 Druids )
Warrior or Priest or Rogue / Hunter / Shaman

I will post here later what talent builds should be,
but I think I posted enough on this right now.
As all this research has taken half the night to gather hehe.

Only 10 can be on team so here it is:
Primary:
Warrior - Jerry
Palidin - Jerimie
Priest - Will (Pad)
Hunter - Pete
Mage - Jay

Secondary:
Rogue - Will (Pad)
Palidin - Bill
Priest - Jay
Shaman - Mark (Oz)
Warlock - Steph

Practice ATM will be on Sundays

i didn't read everything closely but if you are overloaded on hunters might want to think about overloading a 5 v 5 team with hunters just because it'll be practically impossible to LOS all the hunters and the extra pets can really hurt as long as you are not sending them in first and sacrificing them. One resto druid (don't get tree form) can pretty much keep everybody alive while running around shape shifting.

Revamped my build to the one I played with last night:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/cla ... 5010000000

But, I've been messing about and also have the option of this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/cla ... 5010000000

Thoughts?

Seems we have fell back on to Mondays again for PvP night.
Though hopefully we will still try and shoot for Sunday first.

Also, here is the list to keep up to date on current PvP trends:
PvP Websites to help with arena:
Arena Teams - Top rank teams both 2000+ and 2200+ listed, plus % of class makup/team builds.
Arena Ranking - Clean top team by catagory format, click on a team to see quick class/skill/stat layout.
Arena Junkies - Guides, Macro's and Discussions by high ranked players.