3v3, Arcane Mages

[Cun]

Anyone have an idea how to beat these without just a luck of a high burst?

I play 3V3 with MM Hunter (Myself), Ret Paladin and Disc/Holy Priest. We're all 4/5 Brutal and Vengeful shoulders and stuck at around 2k rating because of a 3 arcane mage team. My BG group is fairly small and we usually end up getting put up against these guys when we tried tonight and we won about 3 of 10 games against them which I'd say was purly luck from high crits from the paladin.

Can't figure out a good strat to take these 3 :/

[A1m]

stay near to pilars and keep dots on them to prevent them going invisible.

acctually you can't really counter arcanemages. So maybe just wait for lvl 80.

[Devolsh]

Tell your priest to start SW ing you sheeps and have your paladin and priest heal you using fake casts while you kite.
Don't really see how you can even lose if you play defensive enough :\

[Cun]

Tell your priest to start SW ing you sheeps and have your paladin and priest heal you using fake casts while you kite.
Don't really see how you can even lose if you play defensive enough :\

We do all that, but 3x cast of arcane missles and whatever that new arcane spell is all at once really hurts.

[Igzz]

Ugh my suggestion would be to LoS them as much as possible :S. I haven't been doing arena for a bit because of the damn bugs with it :S.

[thewargate]

Indeed, we just met a team two times, we've got them EZ mode :P

[Skymaster1985]

Or maybe play very very offensive ?

Priest fear, you put a mage in a frost trap...etc !

If you and your paladin run on them it will put a lot of pressure on one who will iceblock.

Be sure to have shied and priest hot before going.

Don't forget to flare where the mage iceblock to avoid invisibility.

[Roflkartoffel31514]

I play the same lineup (retri hunter disc)
U have to play offensive, use your CC instant. The Ret should spec the talent "Divine Guardian" (30% reduced damage for all raid members) and use bubble at the beginning of the fight.
Focus one mage until the gets invisible and so on... The Disci should be able to heal the damage because its reduced by the ret bubble.