Would 5 Druids be effective?

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1 Resto, 4 Boomkins... or 5 Boomkins.

I'd like a list of pros and cons, but the armor and versatility are really what I am looking at. Not to mention the HoTs and DPS... ntm cyclone.... lmk what you guys think.

[Vyndree]

Cons: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=16880

Expect some fun button mashing times.

Another con, 20 min cooldown: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=26994

Other than that, it's just peachy :)

[simpletom]

i was doing 5 druids i got up to 23 then dropped a druid for a shaman i had from another team make up shes 35 so got some catching up to do, seems to work nicely.

not sure how much im going to miss the option of 5 chain lightnings yet, but after watching Ellays latest pvp video im starting to have second thaughts.

25 at the moment its a bit too early to tell if this is going to be any good or not.

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15 treants could take down any boss lol

[Los]

This is a potentially dangerous wilbur thread

5 boomkins could be fun imo!

[Eteocles]

5 Boomkins are INSANELY DANGEROUS at high lvls once you have the gear to support it. Ebola has 5 Druids on Mag US who're around 66+ now and can pretty much oneshot mobs with quintuple-starfire, let alone the wrath spam and moonfire/IS stacks lol

Best part though: Treants. A whole effing 15-tree Forest at your disposal! Proof:

http://home.comcast.net/~gotnks2/WoW/TreantX15.jpg

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In my honest opinion I don't see me dying, so there are no real cons...

treants are hard to control, considering they attack whatevers close.

I'm trying to decide between 5 SPs for the 125% damage back to health and 2%% damage back to mana.

What do you think, druids or spriests?

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In my honest opinion I don't see me dying, so there are no real cons...

treants are hard to control, considering they attack whatevers close.

I'm trying to decide between 5 SPs for the 125% damage back to health and 2%% damage back to mana.

What do you think, druids or spriests?

trust me loads of deaths, it might not be a total wipe (which is worse when they dont all die haveing to run only a couple back is a pain in the ass)

im intrested to know how ebola does all the ents at the same time dont they come out on a point and click?

i think you should try 5 shadow priests then you can tell me if its any good :) have 4 priests at the moment at about 30s they had a shaman healing, got alittle fed up of not being able to manage instances. Would love to see 5 shadow priests in action, i was trying to find a shadow priests dps formula somewhere on the interweb to work out the incomming healing per second, but i immagine its around the 300-350 mark (its alittle hard to work out even with the formulas becuase if you spread the VE (10 second cooldown) over 5 targets and kept all dotted up the healing would be immence. And as long as VT is up never oom. and more stun locking with blackout than a combat mace rogue :) had 4 shadow priests and it was on nearly every pull.

shadow priests are due to get a buff soon for pvp i hope as its pretty bad for solo priests at the moment.

spec all 20/0/41 for some serious mana burnage.

if you go the druid path i recomend one shaman in the group for heals, complements the group really nicely with totems and heals are in my opinion better, as if things get really bad i just use 3 of the 4 druids to hot up my druid tank.

will be giving the shadow priests a go again soon as they get that pvp buff, but will only be 4 not 5.

dont just do druids for the trees i cant see them being that effective in pvp myself more of a destraction gimmick, and besides priests have their own little shadow fiend.

if you go Draenei priests exepct to never run out of mana, racial doesnt stack but its on a 5 minute cooldown, just do one after the other. Human priests with feedback for some crazy mana drainage, also desperate prayer very nice. Nightelf have this great dot that if you ever get oom you can always slap them with it no mana cost and 30 second cooldown, also some shadow melding action :)

see this is why i roll like every other week i get all excited about a group then get to about level 30 then think hey i know what about 4/5 <insert class> that would rock. I think my end result will be one of each class on each account its already getting to that point.

i should warn you that your going to have to shift to holy nuke to fight any deep destruction warlocks as you will be constantly procing nether protection so they will be immune to all your shadow damage, but destruction locks are weak as piss (5xholy fire = dead), and you wont find that many in high rateing brackets, they have no soul link so drop very fast. A warlock without soul link is easily the squishiest class in the game at the moment.

hope this helps you

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Fire mages are the squishyest. After they go off it takes 3 minutes for them to go off again.

I'll probably do both, I have 8k gold to burn so who knows.

[Slats]

Shadow Priests biggest BIGGEST downside is they have fuck all mana efficiency.

4x Prayer Of Mending makes them a royal bitch to kill though. :)

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Shadow Priests biggest BIGGEST downside is they have fuck all mana efficiency.

4x Prayer Of Mending makes them a royal bitch to kill though. :)
after a mindblast and a shadow word death i would assume that most things would die

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I agree and at 125% health back, shadow word death could jsut be used twice and boom dead target.

[Ebola]

I have 5 lvl 70 priests and the problem i see with shadow is ....

in order for vamp embrace and vamp touch to be viable, your target has to live.... the ROI in healing and mana for mana spent is not good when your target dies in 2 shots

Personally the build I found best overall was a disc holy build, but thats just me....

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Thats the beauty, I can respec anything I feel like, or spec to a build that I deem usable for myself.

I can see me letting my targets live, in one way.

PvP:
Psychic Scream - All
VI VE SW:P - Each DPS
Mana Burn - The Healer(s)

PvE:
Unknown for now...

[Slats]

Shadow Priests biggest BIGGEST downside is they have fuck all mana efficiency.

4x Prayer Of Mending makes them a royal bitch to kill though. :)
after a mindblast and a shadow word death i would assume that most things would die

Yes but those spells arn't cheap, include the fact you might need to recast Prayer of Mending, Heal a priest or a party member etc - the popping in and out of Shadowform is very expensive too.

MB and SW:D are not cheap nukes either at all - I just found after 2 or 3 battles I was all out of mana and twiddling my thumbs.

They are still pretty damn fun though.

[Allokra]

Thats the beauty, I can respec anything I feel like, or spec to a build that I deem usable for myself.

I can see me letting my targets live, in one way.

PvP:
Psychic Scream - All
VI VE SW:P - Each DPS
Mana Burn - The Healer(s)

PvE:
Unknown for now...

I havent run any of these combos but I like the 5 druid route maybe a little better than 5 SPs. While leveling up it probably doesnt matter...but if you do end up trying heroics someday you may get to a point where a tank may be essential or at least make things a lot easier. In that case you have the option to at least convert one druid to a tank. I hate the limited rezzability though...that is the only downside for me...because of that I probably would substitute one druid for a shaman or SP.