Need help calling targets

[Menron]

Heya,

Me and some friends started a 3v3 team this season, we have some decent gear and know how to play our class and all, buttt.
In arena we sometimes screw up completely because we simply don't know what target to nuke/switch to.

We play: Resto druid, Arms warrior, Death Knight (Blood)

Could any of you guys just name some major threats to our team and if those should be targeted, etc. or just a simple tactic?

I would appreciate the help ^^

Cheers!

[Bobzor]

Cleave tactic is go lock.

[skawboen]

Well first of all you should naturally use vent, have 1 person call out (personally I prefer the healer on that job) what to do and when to do it. You run a very strong setup with high armor, op MS effect, slow, peels and high damage aswell as healing output.

When you face non-druid healers you can always start with a DK pulling the healer to you, have the warrior grant him hamstring and druid get some rejuv and regrowth up on all 3 of your team as pre-healing should they burst one hard.

If the healer is paladin he will bubble early (unless they vastly outgear/outskill you) and here the druid should call who to shift to. If he ain't paladin you will stress him and force cooldowns early, wait for these cooldowns/bubble to be over before you pop a warrior skillstorm and a dk gargoyle on his head to finish the game.

Hard to give general advise more than just have 1 lead the team over vent and spend a minute or two after each arena to discuss what went wrong and what could have been dangerous for your team, also after wins.

[Possiblyreefer]

depends really

if you are playing Vs different healers

Resto drood:
change it up, when he hits 3 lifebloom stacks switch it up and hit something else, when he pops innervate then cyclone him as much as you can, dont want him getting mana back. just keep dk pet on him and he cant drink

resto shammy:
hit the squishy, he can heal often for the same amount on most targets, hitting him will only give him mana, and try to keep totems to a minimum

disc priest:
putting massive pressure on the priest will help, hes only got cloth and his bubble to survive. Try getting him in an open spot where everyone has LoS to him. get your DK to strangulate once his shield is down and the warr to hit bladestorm

holy priest:
just train something, they wont last long

holy paladin:
anything that hasnt got plate unless he uses wings. you could try and take him but he will bubble, then you could just CC the dps up. for example cyclone the lowest hp one as then they cant get healed, when bubble drops off you have 2 options, either switch back to pala, or cyclone him and hit the dps that is lowest and doesnt have massive defensive cooldowns (retri pala that has used wings or something) or go back to him and train him again

prot holy pala:

train pala -- interrupt healer -- about 50-60% but strangulate on -- pop skillstorm -- dead pala

[onaqui]

Both you 2 dps's should know what they usually kill quicker. Rogues, ferals in catform, ret's (yes lol, they have no defensive CD's except bubble) and further. But ur 3v3 isnt all about going for whoever dies quicker, in most of the cases it's about just opening on whoever is closest with deathgrip, hamstring, petstun their healer and hopefully a cyclone to. Your goal with this is not to just instagibb the target, though u might do that if ur lucky, but to build pressure, when he gets above like 60% HP again, warrior charges to next target and the DK follows or you split dps, DK interrupt/dps the healer while the warrior is chewing someone else down.
The most important thing is not who you call to kill or switch to, but that you do and that both dps's try to burst that target, by blowing cds at the same time and stuff. Like bladestorm should always come with a strangulated healer and preferably followed by a cyclone on the healer.

Switching is probably always good against most healers, with priests you switch when your target gets pain supression, paladin healers are nice to switch to in the middle of some big heal, leaving his target at like 60-70% HP and some diseases ticking, while the paladin rescues himself from both you 2, then you switch back to the dps who's already low and just kill it.

When dealing with resto shammys, dont get stuck in the "do not attack the restoshammy because he'll just get mana", since when u switch to him he's gonna have to earthshield himself to survive, costing like 800+ mana, and then probably using other totems to get away, costing another 500+ mana, switching to wolf-form, and hopefully wasting some cooldowns along the way.


The only real time when you should not switch, or switch very little, is against a double healer warrior setup. You just go crazy on that warrior, keep him in defensive stance to minimize his damage, and you will probably win the mana-war. If the team contains a protholy-paladin, you should perhaps switch to him when the other healer tries to drink, while ur druid should try to keep the other healer in combat.

[Arithras]

Nice comp !

[Menron]

Thanks for the replies guys!

I'm sure we can put them to good use ^^

See ya in the 2500+ brackets!...ok, maybe not but we'll try :P

Cheers!