This is pretty much a rant:
Recently, I’ve noticed more and more people complaining about certain setups in the 3v3 arena bracket, constantly calling them “easy mode” or Overpowered”. I am going to go over why, I myself, think they need to get their heads out of their ass and realize there are counters to these teams, and they need to shut the fuck up and stop sucking if they have trouble with it while playing one of these said setups. (Disclaimer: This is all biased from my point of view on things, obviously. So if you disagree, I really don’t care.)
First off, I play my Undead Warrior with a SL/SL lock / Resto Druid. We got to ~2210 and my account went inactive for a month and the team turned into a point farm for my alt hunter, so it dropped quite a bit. But anyway, back to the point. I get tells CONSTANTLY about my team being “easy mode” and how “little skill” it takes to win. These people have ZERO idea what they are talking about, and will continue to do so until they play this setup in a decently rated bracket. In the 2150-2200 bracket, there is all sorts of competition that put up a good fight that often times comes down to a 2v2 or a 1v2, etc as we win or lose, but one team in particular that when played correctly, leaves our team with a ~70% LOSE ratio or worse. That is Disc Priest, Frost Mage, and AR/Prep Mace Rogue…
It’s a retard strong setup against what we play, and people who think otherwise need to learn to play the damn game. When our Druid Ferus (who is like the best damn healer I know) is OOM from mana burn and stunlocked from double AR / double evasion / double Imp. sprint with Imp. kick thrown in, wile I (the Warrior) am CC’d 90% of the time with Frost / pet Nova and Polymorph, there is such a small amount we can do it’s ridiculous. The lock tries to CC his heart out, and THAT was hard before, when every priest didn’t have fear ward, and now they DO.. To us, a well played Rogue/priest/mage team is “easy mode” or “overpowered”. Of course there are some exceptions to this, when the druid/lock/war team is in 5/5 season 2 and everything else including weaponry is T6… then they just whack people over the head with their gear. Catacylsm’s Edge, HOOOooooo! (but still lose anyway because it’s so highly stacked in mage/rog/priests favor)
Now with that being said, the Priest/rogue/mage team. When we go up against them as Warrior/SL-SL lock/resto druid, I normally end up bringing in my Undead Rogue for the next game who I have spec’d Mutilate for the time being. When we make that change the team we consider to be “easy mode” or “OP” becomes a lot easier because my rogue has a lot more utility to bring to the table than my warrior does in the sense that he has several different ways to avoid being CC’d as well as the ridiculous new Blind. Our win / lose ratio goes from ~70-30 to about the opposite, 65-35ish. Still a hard matchup for us, but a LOT smoother.
Another team that we find to have a big win ratio against us is the Ret. Paladin / Warrior / Shaman makeup… I feel bad for saying this, but this makeup just beats the shit out of us. Even with clutch CC from ferus, we can not for the life of us save Dynamo (the lock) from certain death. With the burst a ret paladin (with Stormherald) brings to the table that includes Windfury, AS WELL as the MS mace warrior, his pet insta dies, and he gets stunlocked from that point on and Ferus just can’t out heal the burst he gets from a full set of sunders with 2 Stormheralds procing Windfury all over him. We played the match up a good 5-6 times with a 100% lose ratio. Yet another team my so called “easy mode” team has a large amount of trouble with… And apparently a few others do as well…
With that being said, I have a few good buddies I talk with daily, that play pretty much this exact same setup, only a Holy Paladin instead of a Ret. Paladin (which you should go Ret Robocop, you’re the mother fucking Robocop, go beat some ass!). They get called “the cheese setup” and “easy mode” all day, but I sit in vent with them from time to time wile they do 3v3 games and I quickly found out they also have a counter when played correctly… can you guess what it is? Yeah, Disc. Priest / AR/Prep Mace rogue / Frost mage…. they have an enormous amount of trouble against this team, and they are upwards of 2280 in 3v3… I sit there and listen to their play by plays and all the apposing team has to do is CC someone, LOS their target (shaman in most cases) from their healer, and it dies. A consistent form of CC screws their setup up so bad it’s almost comical.
So if these setups are considered to be so “easy mode” and “Overpowered” why do they have such a high lose ratio against other certain, COMMON teams? I think the people who call any setup easy mode, need to just stop playing, or make a team that counters it, if that’s what it takes to make them stop whining.
Happy Holidays you whiny bastards.
