Raidboxers, why shamans?

[Trammel]

I was personally wondering why raidboxers were leveling shamans.

It seems to me that if you had a relatively (to us mere 5 boxing mortals), large number of characters, you would want to go with some combination of mages/priests?

Surely 35 priests spamming holy nova would make short work of anything?

[Skuggomann]

Umm... totems? Mail? Ranged? Hybrid class? Uh...... seriously.

wow i see your just over 4000 now, gz.

[Feardis]

i think the overall dps insanity as opposed to having a meat sheild with normal dps and healers
makes it quicker then say your guild kara run

and i dont think a tank could hold aggro
mayb a pally...

[Trammel]

ok re: mail

Who cares?

35 holy novas will kill everything in 10 yards, heal you for at least 5k (every priest) every 1.5 seconds.

35 Reflective shields would make AOEing you pretty amusing.

Priests are equally ranged, and while you might lose some long distance CL killing power, 35 SWPs are going to kill anybody - while you move every GCD.

Same for MBS/SWDs

Pain supression

Penance...

Fear ward...

I mean if you really wanted you could throw in a shaman in each group for tremors/groundings/thunderstorm rotation...

[suprafro]

36 magma totems/36 nova totems/36 fire elementals and 36 thunderstorms > mage priest aoe with that many characters

Grounding and tremor for every group

Just imagine the insanity of target random on 36 characters + chain lightning, not like you would really need to very often when your totems and thunderstorm will just auto kill everything though

Hope the guy makes some city raid videos, because i'm sure they will be incredible to watch

[Trammel]

Ya I guess thunderstorm/raidwide healing/mana streams might really give them the edge in larger scale stuff.

[Daleka]

Normal guild kara run, 1 maybe 2 shamans - 2-2.5 hours
4 shaman kara run, every totem available - cleared to aran in just over an hour. Raid makeup: 1 Tank (warrior), 4 shaman (ele), Pali (holy), Druid (feral), Rogue, Warlock, Hunter

Didn't finish the run because it was late and the tank had to leave. All bosses dropped in no more than 1.5 minutes. Shamans just put out more dps and all around buffs than most classes as a whole. I was also able to off heal when needed. Mobs just died too fast most of the time, and the Pali just sat around and sometimes dps'd. I plan on trying my full team this week with 2 healers.

[Leon]

35 Enhancement Shaman = 70 Spirit Wolves

[Tidomann]

Are healing/mana stream totems raid wide? I don't think I've noticed mana stream on the entire raid, just my group.. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I do know it pulses.. But my friend told me when he was in another group that he was not getting ticks off healing stream? @_@

[Trammel]

Honestly I'm not sure, there were mentions of one or the other stacking at minimum I think.

I'd log in now and test it but servers are down ;/