[3v3] How to beat Druid/Warlock/Rogue?

[Raynor]

I'm convinced that this is the druid/war of 3v3. It has 0 counters, and does so well if everyone on the team is top quality.

[Tribby]

Druid/warlock/warrior is better

[Raynor]

Rogues are more versatile imo and are harder to control.

[Nighteyes]

Played two seperate ~2.2k rated druid/warlock/rogue teams today. Beat them both overall in a series by a pretty convincing margin.

As our combo (mage/warlock/hpriest) we rotated between dps on the druid and rogue depending on positioning and whoever the rogue was attacking(there are a lot of situations that come up, so I can't go in to specifics. if you want specifics I will elaborate), kept hard mana drain on the druid and cc'd the lock as much as possible. Eventually we outlast them to a situation where the druid is oom and we dps the rogue down.

And yes, in my opinon, druid/warlock/warrior is superior.

[Shadowborne]

Old 3v3 that was ranked 9th or 11th on BG9 dominated this combo. We run holy priest/lock/resto druid.

Warrior/Resto Druid/Lock on the other hand is the Warrior/Druid of 3v3.

[Hershram]

My team has yet to lose to Warrior/Warlock/Druid. The team we do seem to have trouble against is Warrior/FMage/Healer as I die to this team combo's burst; where as Warrior/Warlock/Druid don't have enough burst together to take something down as everything is being locked down by our 3 sets of CC's. Also we faced a UALock/SPriest/Shaman yesterday and beat them twice but lost the third game as they dispelled Fel Armor and focused our Lock who was focus draining the Shaman's mana and not focused on surviving, and they were dispelling all HoTs being placed on our Warlock.

[vathral]

Agreed, warlock/warrior/druid is more superior when the WARRIOR knows what he is doing. When I ran as warlock/warrior/druid, our team would outburst a lot of combos, but when it came to playing defensively or outlasting, our warrior was so bad (constantly smoked everything you can think of), so it didn't go too well. I bet we'd prolly do better than 2k if he was well, smarter.

Now with a rogue/druid/warlock, there are definitely counters to this combo from my experience (been playing as UA lately, thinking about switching to 27/34 or some variant), and the best bet from what I've seen to beating this combo, if you can CC the druid or mana drain/burn him before the rogue/lock kills one of your DPS, you will be fine.

[Draine]

For me and my setup it would be much harder with a rogue. If its war/lock/druid the warrior would die within seconds to our bloodlust + frostmage / sp burst :>

[Insight]

fmage/lock/hpriest > rogue/lock/druid

[leogeo2]

rdruid / hpriest / war > rogue/lock/druid

Kill the lock pet, focus the lock. Put mana burns onto the druid when ever possible. Keep Rogue either cycloned, hamstrung or entangled and never let him near myself or our druid. Abolish poison on us to get crippling off so if the Rogue is hamstrung, we could just easily move away from him.

I'm usually the one getting focused but the Rogue does most of the damage and we just keep him cc'd. I try to get close to the druid as I can so I can get fears on him. After the first he'll just start eating the next two so the lock takes heavy damage in that time.

[Bulzok]

Pally/War/Spriest beats it, too. I've used my 3v3 for grinding tons of alts and other people points, so don't mind the win percentage..... we're grinding up to a rating where we'll have guaranteed Glad right now, and that's the team we're using. We fought half our battles this week against druid/lock/rogue, and won every one.

Start dpsing whatever target you feel like, then once the druid's popped and I have a bit of rage, Dot/silence, my melee, and judgement of justice = a dead druid pretty quickly. If he stays caster to heal, I rape him. If he bears up and kites, my priest's dots rape him. If he decides to do anything else (can't think of another logical way to play it) I assume we'll still rape him.

[Dirane]

Interestingly enough I play both Druid/lock/rogue and Druid/lock/warrior in my 3v3 setup.

The key to beating either group is to force the druid to come out and heal the weakest link (warrior/rogue). The SL/SL lock is too tough to take down and will waste your time. I found that if you burst the rogue and force the druid to come out while LoSing fears then switch to druid and then back to rogue to be very very dificult to deal with.

Also the counter to this team is pally warrior SL/SL lock or Rogue/ice mage/hpriest

My hardest group makeup to fight is IMO the most balanced Rogue/Ice Mage/HPriest

[rot]

Rogue/Spriest/Druid seems to do really well against them. With coordinated CC, a shadow priest instead of a warlock allows sufficient burst during a full duration cyclone.