Considering Ret pally and paladin/druid 2v2 team

[Theretpaladin]

Now i'll start off by saying i'm not the most hardcore of player but I do love playing most aspects of the game from Raids to PVP. Ive read through a few topics and I seem to get the idea that most of the advice given is to get teams to around 2000 rating or a really high rating. I'm not looking for that, but i'm looking to be competative team even if i'm not with the big teams.

I currently play a ret pally with full Val gear and 3 items off 213ilevel gear. I've become fed up of playing arena with other people because my first partner could never stick to arena times, and although my current partner is much better than my last we're not performing as well.

I've been considering trying 2 ret paladins so I can nuke and destroy one person and then tactically take down the last person. I was considering a druid because it gives me the same flexibility in terms of dps and flexibility but it also gives me the option of ranged attacks too. I've not seen that much on 2v2 teams so I dont know how successful they can be, but surely they cant be that bad if i'm only looking to compete?

If anyone can tell me what class combo's might work better that would be awesome too.

For anyone wanting to reccomend me trying 3,4,5 boxing as much as i'd love to I really cant see myself doing it because of finances as i'm off to uni in a few months and i'm using the free time now to experiment with wow :P

Thanks in advance

[Dominian]

Well it depends on what you mean by "competative" 1600 rating or 2000 rating?

Im not saying 2 rets will fail but the setup lacks mortal strike and your rather weak vs plate. Id rather take 2 DK's tbh or maybe ret/DK would work..

I would recommend you to go 2 casters or 2 meele, one of each will get though when people hump the pillars.

But then again 2 dps without a mortal strike will be hard, i can keep my 600 resillienced priest up for 30-60 seconds alone vs DK/ret. (unless there is some realy lucky critts) Then my cooldowns are mostly used and i wont be able to keep myself up, now give me 900 resillience and you wont be able to kill me before im oom. (well then i assume you wear 500-600 resillience and not full pve gear)

My DK will however pull the ret paladin away and slow both of you so i think we would have had a pretty easy win.

[Fat Tire]

There are 3 types of 2v2 games. CC Chain/ Mana OOMing/ WTFhappenedheblewmeup

Setting up a CC chain for a kill or OOMing the healer. There are several tactics for each and depend on your class synergy.

2 Rets could Wings/ 1234 someone down anyone during an HoJ no prob. You dont need MS in 2s unless you are playing the OOM game which will not work for you. Depending who youare facing you could both Bof and run straight after you you wanted to blow up. Obiviously, you would want to go after anyone who could peel well if there is a Dk just blow up the DK. Ret burst is too much for any single healer even a druid who has full rolling hots.

Try it and see what happens. What is the worst that could happen? 8)

[Theretpaladin]

Theres definitly some good points there, though i'll definitly need to work on my Res gear a bit on both characters. Mortal strike wont really be a problem provided I can take out the healer fast, and CS, Judge and DS on 2 pallys at the same time would definitly take out the healer efficiently as long as I go for a fast kill and dont give them time to think. From that i'd definitly have an instant flash heal which I could potentially use on one pally and just nuke the remaining dps player down with full health.

Am I right in thinking that 25% damage is still the cap if I have 12% res?

[Fat Tire]

Well dominian made a great point. I wouldnt really expect to go really high ratings wise.

Honestly I would go after their DPS and not their healer. By putting so much pressure on the healer you will run them OOM or wtfblowup their dps. Really your only choice.

With that said there is a 2500+ Ret/Ehc shaman team atm and they are amazing. They use alot of PvE gear tho so 2 melee does work.