[5v5] @ Drain/Sustain 5v5 teams

[goodolarchie]

Trying something new this month and running Holy Pali, Resto Sham, Holy Priest, SL/SL lock and me, MS warrior. We cruised up easily to about 2050 and now we're encountering problems as all good teams are tested here. Our weak spot is that our priest is weak to offensive pressure, and when he can't get burns off because he's too busy kiting, LOS'ing, or spamming instants, our healers often get burned themselves or run OOM keeping him up. We do fairly well againt 4DPS teams but as any team goes, warriors are weak to a good rogue, Afflock, Spriest, Ele sham once wound is stacked up. I'll usually try to shield bash the shadow priest or shaman and LOS the rest whilst spamming spell reflect and hoping the rogue doesn't use a weapon chain. Still, enough silences, CoT, spell lock, wound poison etc. and they can kill me before the shadowpriest or shaman are OOM from burns. I wear about 350 resilience. The rest of the team is 400+. Most games we burn a mage or hunter or shadow priest first, who then becomes my focus DPS target and is killed while they burn the healers mana. If they don't have one of those offensive mana users we just split burns between their healers and kill the weaker one. We don't have a hunter to use for the super drains but bloodlusted drains work well enough, if both are free we can run 2 people OOM within 30 seconds.

What strats and targets do other drain teams here use in 5v5?

[Alphatier]

You will have to be quite aggressive to make them turtle, so your priest can mana burn away.
You already said that against high rated teams, your priest is pressured and you will be mana burned yourselves. Most high rated teams use a mage and a priest, so go on both of them, pressure them, mostly the priest, so he can't get burns off.
And I really dont see how you can die with 3 healers with you.

My former 4 dps team ran into something like your's, only they used a hunter. It was sick how fast they burned us, but two of these "offensive mana users" in our team were burned in seconds. And with three healers, we couldnt kill anyone. Sick team for 4 dps.
Not so much for normal 3 dps teams though. They will put heavy pressure on your priest while mana drain can be dispelled if need be, otherwise he will just be cc'd. Also their priest will be free to mana burn himself if you don't pressure him.

This team really depends on their warrior being a hero.