Best Teams for World PvP?

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Edit: Note: Regarding Fear, for PVP builds if you have a profession slot open after taken Engineering and can take Blacksmithing, you can preemptively give your team 30 seconds of fear immunity via the Glimmering Mithril Insignia.

8Warlocks+2Priests would overwhelm most players you got dots on even if they had a dispeller on their side. Note however that you only put DoTs on a limited number of targets per Global Cool Down (GCD) so there are limits... A Lock team would also be semi-survivable to charges as locks can be semi-tanky and can chain fear to "repel boarders" &/or AoE if getting Swarmed... Note that Warlock AoE is a little more dicey as your locks start dealing self-damage while AoEing which can actually help your enemies burst one or more locks down... While Locks can "run and gun" by flinging DoTs (and not really care which direction they are facing) and have good sustain via life-tap I think at least for AoE they are immobile which can work against you...

If understand much of Bruce Lee's love of Mages (NOTE: He actually abandoned his Classic level 60 4Lock+Priest team for 4Mages+Priest which is a pretty huge statement), Mages can do more instant AoE damage per GCD with no cap on the number of players affected and can do some of that AoE while moving or at least initiate it at range. They can pop invulnerability and blink into groups and wipe anyone in range (and then go out in a blaze of glory)...

If I were to pick between the two (Locks vs Mages) now, without playing both some recently, I would likely choose Locks as it fits my historic playstyle better (more defensive and setback rather than aggressive). I also have more trouble with movement so having very tanky damagers, who don't care which way they are facing, pets who auto-attack, etc with both spirit-of-redemption/soul-stones better fits my play-style so for Classic I would pick:

8Warlocks+2Priests;

Note that I have always main'ed Paladins so in Classic I am again forced to play Alliance... When Alliance got Shaman in BC I actually preferred my 10Shaman team for PVP and my Paladin+9Shaman for PVE over my 8Warlocks+2Priests. I did have a Mage at cap for free water/food/ports and a few Mage twinks (39 & 49 if I recall correctly) but otherwise when I tried Mage teams they just didn't seem to fit my play-style as much as either Shaman or Locks...

Even though I eventually choose Shaman over Warlocks in BC and WotLK I am hesitant to say they are better in Classic as I didn't play them at 60 and don't know how much the class pros/cons changed between Vanilla and BC (though WoTLK). It should also be noted that, even though I did both PVP & PVE my priority has always been PVE and I love Hybrids so Hybrid Shaman just fit better with my Hybrid Paladin better. Hopefully someone who plays Shaman at 60 can give you more insight on them vs Mages & Warlocks...