Just specced resto this week to try and get my arena teams to high ratings, and I was getting frustrated with feral pvp.
I have over 10k hp, 9k mana, 395 resil, and 1666 healing so I'm pretty well geared. I'll have enough arena points to get the S3 helm on Tuesday and I should have enough honor to get the Guardian's neck tomorrow. After that I plan on getting the 40k honor pvp trinket for more resil (I have the blue one) and then who knows, maybe start getting feral pvp gear again but that's neither here nor there.
I realize that my biggest issue at the moment is a lack of experience. Only time can fix that.
Last night I tried 3s for the first time with an enhancement shammy friend of mine. Couldn't find a warrior at first so I listened to my guildies and tried a rogue and we got spanked by every team. They'd focus the shammy, he'd die, then it'd be 2 on 3. Nothing we could do about that. I tried to tell them that it was a terrible comp, but they wouldn't listen. After a 0 - 7 record, I disbanded the team and joined a warrior friend of mine who logged on, with the enhancement shaman.
We proceeded to spank every team, except one. One that we faced 4 times in a row, even though I kept staggering the queue times. We are gonna try to raise the rating tonight so here's where I need advice. That team was RMP (rogue mage priest). I don't see how to beat them. In case you forget, I was rolling with warrior, enhance shaman, resto druid. We should have a lot of melee gib potential, but if you think this comp is pretty terrible let me know and I'll convince the shammy to just sit out 3s and I might do 5s with him for points, maybe get a warlock.
Is our comp just doomed to fail to a RMP team? Here's what would happen: they would focus the shammy. I would try to pop out and heal him. If I tried to CC anyone, they would CS me / kick me / whatever and I'd be screwed for a time. So I would just sit out and hot him up. He would still die. NS -> HT. Rejuv -> Swiftmend. LBx3. Didn't matter. He'd live for a time, then the CC pressure on me would create a gap and he'd die. Then they would kill me, then the warrior. What could we possibly do against that combo? Stand in the middle and spam /dance?