Eric Replied

I’m actually a couple hundred miles away from home (Michigan) in the wonderfully cold city of St. Louis. Contrary to popular belief, it is no warmer here than it is in Detroit. On to the actual WoW-related news.

Hazard recently (like 5 hours ago) linked me an interesting site which has a comparison of popular team combos for both 1850+ and 2200+ rating. I don’t know if the 2200+ teams are counting the 1850+ teams too, but you could just subtract the numbers and get some values. This also doesn’t take in to account specs. (Shadow vs. Disc. Priests).

I’m not quite sure how up-to-date these stats are, but on to some data:

2v2
Paladin&Warrior
1850+: 20% of All Teams 1850+
2200+: 13% of All Teams 2200+

Priest&Warlock
1850+: 20% | 2200+: 16%

Priest&Rogue
1850+: 16% | 2200+: 17%

Druid&Warrior
1850+: 13% | 2200+: 20%

3v3
PRM
1850+: 23% | 2200+: 30%

Paladin&Shaman&Warrior
1850+: 18% | 2200+: 11%

5v5
Mage&Paladin&Priest&Shaman&Warrior
1850+: 25% | 2200+: 32%

Warriors Are Everywhere … Hunters should be too?
It’s always interesting to see Warrior do well in a space (2s and 3s) typically thought to be dominated by Rogues, Priests, and Druids. As always, Hunters appear only in 5s, but this leads me to wonder if there just aren’t any good Hunters or if the Hunter class in general just has limited effectiveness in PvP. Between Arcane Shot, Viper Sting, and a plethora of CC options, I figured I’d see alot more Hunters in the mix.

Shaman are Seemingly Rare
Interestingly enough, Shamans don’t make up any of the major combos in 2s and only show up once in the 3s matrix as Pal/Sham(presumably Ele?)/Warrior.

What do we do with this information?
It’s nice that we have all this information, but surely there’s something we can do with this. Well, with this information at hand, one would think that people would build teams around countering these sort of setups (especially PRM). If you knew 1/3 times you’d play against PRM, wouldn’t you setup accordingly?

Well, short answer is that you need the resources, but if you had the people, you would. The better question is “What would beat that sort of setup, but wouldn’t outright fail to any of the other popular combos in the top 5 list?”

Data Source: Arena Statistics: Team Setups

P.S. I was going to use an image of Armory for today’s post, but apparently they’re having maintenance.

-ERP-

Monday, December 10th, 2007 at 9:29 pm.
Filed under Theorycraft, WoW PvP.
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