WoW 5 Boxing - which is best class to use 5 of

[Flight]

I already have a Warrior and a Priest at lvl 60 (and a 60 Rogue, 60 Hunter, 47 mage).

I am hugely torn between 5 Mages, 5 Warlocks or 5 Shaman. I am thinking of purely PvE.

I am a newb to Shaman having only played to lvl 60 and before BC release.



I would hugely appreciate thoughts on which class to run and especially info on how Shaman run together - synergies strengths, weaknesses etc. I saw the vid of 5 Shaman and they seemed to have some huge rock pets tanking, I don't even know what those are and would appreciate info on them.



Thanks so much and apologies for taking folks time up.

[jabowah]

Obviously 5 shaman = 5 sets of totems, which is awesome in later levels but not so much in the very beginning (until you get the fire totem for 5xSearing totem/Fire Nova/Magma)
I'm not sure how I would level them, I leveled mine as enhancement (2 different shaman, both solo until level 50) which wouldn't have as much downtime as elemental would and it's a lot faster killing things than being restoration.
The deadzone might be a small issue if you're meleeing everything.

The earth elemental (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=2062) is an earth totem spell you receive at level 68. Lasts for 2 minutes or until it dies, 20 minute cooldown. Has an AE taunt and does melee damage. A decent totem if you're soloing an elite without a tank, as long as you remember to heal the elemental when it gets low on health, and as long as the fight doesn't last over 2 minutes. The counterpart to that is the fire elemental (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=2894) which has the exact same cooldowns but does a fire nova and fireblast until it runs out of mana. You can't have both up at the same time, but can drop one after the other.

[Flight]

Thanks jabowah, thats great advice.

How would the Shaman get on in instances from about lvl 30 up to 60, with just the 5 of them ?

[kahnra]

check out home.comcast.net/~xbx/xbox.htm
this guy has videos of his 5 70 shamans doing instances and pvp arenas

[Xzin]

Thank you for your contribution. X-box came by a while ago and posted his videos :) It still is pretty amazing to watch though!