5v5 - Thoughts on Improving

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So at this point their focus target becomes your "offensive purge" player, which is worth an unmeasurable amount of DPS if they're trying to heal with priest or druid instants (and they likely will be).

My philosophy in 5v5 is to ensure you have an offensive dispel on whatever the focus target is. This is because I have experience from both ends. On my priest I can survive a warrior until I'm approximately OOM if I'm not purged. As a warrior I've seen this too, but I've also seen from both sides a priest getting flattened in no time when someone else is doing nothing other than spamming purge / dispel on the target. When you do this you can kill a target that is being healed with much less DPS. Without this you are likely to be hitting the target until their healers run OOM. Ideally you want the first focus to be a healer, but in your case this probably isn't possible.

I would take this to a previous thread Bolty posted about how a holy priest beats a shaman (they typically don't). A shaman has huge control over healing classes. With an offensive purge to stop HoTs and a shock (rank 1?) to lock a school, they can greatly reduce the effectiveness of a healer (easy to do with focus and assist) and still have time to dps/heal. Also an earthbind totem to reduce movement if you have running battles helps keep the other sides melee more under control. With healing not landing, it forces the other side to start using cooldowns which should give you the tempo to play your type of fight.