For a brief period of time we held the highest 5v5 rating in the world at the start of TBC, and that was with a conventional comp
We eventually became the first team in the USA that I was aware of (and I STUDIED arenas back then) to pioneer the 3 healer 5v5 team: sl/sl lock, mm hunter, disc priest, resto sham, resto Druid
It took our bracket by storm, although we were already rank 1, with this comp we had a 95% winrate and were so far into r1 it wasn’t worth it to queue anymore. We used to get tells from level 1 alts of the top 5 teams asking us when we were going to be done queueing lol. The comp has a lot of cc, and it’s incredibly hard to burst someone down vs it. With 2 people healing, it almost always freed up a healer to assist on dps. But the real threat was the priest. Our priest was stellar, one of the best in the game IMO, and if he was left alone with bloodlusted mana burns + viper, it means one of their healers was oom in literally 25 seconds. But we didn’t need to mana drain, we could win a surprising amount by just staggering cc chains
I did well as HLD in 3v3, was usually between r5 to r3, but there was an alliance hunter named Megatf who was my arch rival in a mirror comp. We lost more than we won to him, and he held the r1 3v3 spot
2v2 I didn’t care much about bc I didn’t have a healer, our Druid was playing with a war friend of his in 2’a. Hunter/Druid was the power comp, but I was very active on Arenajunkies and met one of the best holy paladins in the USA there, and he told me he was playing on like 7 different accounts at once, and to see about getting him an account for hunter/holy pal 2v2
So I started asking all the paladins I could “hey do you want to get a free glad title?”. Didn’t take long for one to say yes and give me his account info. His gear was mediocre, but it didn’t matter. We went from 0 to 2500 in one week. The problem was his guild asked him how he had such a high rating having never been into pvp and he made the mistake of telling them the truth. And some jealous nark in his guild anonymously ratted him out to blizz. He got temp banned for 1 week and a GM deleted our 2v2 team
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I really didn’t like 2v2 anyway, even with such an amazing paladin. That was were without dampening (invented much later), a team could just turtle and run almost indefinitely. Extremely frustrating...