Pros and Cons, 5 man setup.

[dancook]

I'm still trying to decide how to setup my 5 man team..

I already have 64 mage, 62 rogue and lvl 34 priest which I regularly play..

In the past I have levelled to 60 and raided with about 4 priests, 2 mages, 2 warriors, another rogue. (seperately/dual boxed)

One sticky suggests a tank/healer/3xdps - could be looking at paladin, priest and hmm 3 mage/warlock?

Priest + 4 Warlock would be nice, what with 4 x voidwalkers for tanking? would it be good for higher level instances?

But then I've never levelled a shaman or paladin past 40, and there would be a new experience there.. but I do have a passion for priests.. argh..

Does anyone have pros/cons for certain setups? any limitations?

[Steph]

Make a tankadin and two more ranged dps, maybe a warlock and a shadowpriest. Take your 64 mage and nuke the stockades over and over for the new chars. Move on to SM and add the priest when ready.

That will see you at least to 40 in nearly no time with a setup that can do nearly anything. You should go a with a real tank char if you want to do instance. Paladin's AoE tanking is highly recommended because you do not need to micromanage targets.

[Xyxy]

Hey this is my first post :D

Id recommend a pally tank over a warrior since warriors are more 1 on 1 tanks where as pallies would be able to hold agro on a group of mobs just as well. It would be ALOT less maintainence holding agro with your pally while dpsing with your 3 toons and healing then it would with a warrior, constantly switching mobs to sunder, heroic strike etc...

[dancook]

Make a tankadin and two more ranged dps, maybe a warlock and a shadowpriest. Take your 64 mage and nuke the stockades over and over for the new chars. Move on to SM and add the priest when ready.

That will see you at least to 40 in nearly no time with a setup that can do nearly anything. You should go a with a real tank char if you want to do instance. Paladin's AoE tanking is highly recommended because you do not need to micromanage targets.

Thanks for that, are you saying stockades from level one? or from a suitable level?

Also I'm horde :)

[Xyxy]

RFC would be your best bet for sure, how ever there is a min lvl of 8, so do some quests up until then ^.^

There is also a method of dotting and zoning out of the instance before the mobs die, yielding MAX xp for your alts. I went from lvl 12 - 13 rested in 7 minutes doing this method. Simply amazing, i would recommend it. Takes some practice tho.

[dancook]

RFC would be your best bet for sure, how ever there is a min lvl of 8, so do some quests up until then ^.^

There is also a method of dotting and zoning out of the instance before the mobs die, yielding MAX xp for your alts. I went from lvl 12 - 13 rested in 7 minutes doing this method. Simply amazing, i would recommend it. Takes some practice tho.
So with my mage, maybe finding a suitable flamestrike that kills on the dot. I'll give it a go :)

[Slats]

Priest/Warlocks are for World PvP / Battleground PvP.

See the thing is you have to work out what you want to DO with your team.

Sounds like you like PvE though. I also like Priests but I think Priests right now are in their weakest form the yahve ever been in, they need some decent buffs or some itemization fixes.

[Xyxy]

Ahh I think it would be impossible to do it with a mage efficiently :/

your best bet is to just nuke the hell out of the mobs old school AOE, reset instance rinse and repeat tbh. I did it on my priest that has nearly 840 spell damage in holy gear. Mages would be be rather ineffecient trying the ol' dot and run method