Tanking Heroics and Class Combos

[mmcookies]

Does anyone regularly 5-box heroics?
If so, what kinds of class/spec combos do you use?

Do you have any special considerations for tanking?

[Xzin]

Xbox does with his shammy only group. Not so much tanking as "one shot the first mob and then grounding totem the rest and kite" but it seems to work. Barely :)

[Mannyman]

Yep, was gonna say Xbox is the only 5 boxer I've heard of to conquer heroics. I just bought 3 more accounts for a total of 5, so hopefully my priest/mage/locks group is up to the task at lvl70. If it doesn't work, eh well it'll be fun anyway.

[Kurgan]

Once I finish getting my hardware together I'm thinking of rolling with the following crew

1x Protection Paladin
1x Restoration Shaman
1x Shadow Priest
2x Affliction Warlocks

Of course this is pure PvE with the strictest intention of conquering all 5 mans, normal and heroic, every boss. The reason for this being a need for a diverse set of skills to take on all the different boss battles.

[mmcookies]

Hmm, I imagine some bosses would be especially difficult if they require specific tactical movements?

I checked out the YouTube videos of the 5 shammy team. It certain is impressive. All that chain lightning and chain heals are quite effective. The 5x shammy utility seems extremely efficient as well...

Maybe I should try that =P

[caldvn]

Heroic Mech and Slave Pens are easy with my primary group, which has prot warrior. The secondary group get's wasted with a prot paladin with full blues and a few epic pieces.

If you plan on farming heroics, I suggest you use a warrior over a paladin. Full blue geared warrior lasted 2x longer then a full blue paladin.

[Shogun]

Still deciding on my setup atm... can't decide on the pali/warrior thing, tho I'm thinking as I've played warrior tanks it might be easier to setup, also I love the idea of a command/key push that does the following:

Warrior: Charge
DPS 1: step right
DPS 2: step left
Healer: Step back
Hybrid/DPS3: Step forward

That'd look pretty awesome :)

Wondering if this setup might work well:

Warrior: Tank
DPS: 2xShamis or mages or locks (not one of each, for simplicity)
Healer: Holy Paladin
DPS 3: Shadow Priest for Mana and HP regen etc

I already have a 70 warlock, and a 70 priest, so I'm tempted to level 5 mobs and then swap in the lock and priest as needs be, but, I'd like to learn to play them as 5 from day 1. Can't decide :/

[Shogun]

Starting to think that a setup with:

1 Warrior a Tank
4 Shamis

Might work really well, and then at 70 I have the choice to swap in the warlock and/or priest or at 60 swap in my 60 mage/hunter/rogue. Also have a 54 Paladin, so I'd have that option at around that level. So I think I'll go with 1warrior, 4shamis, and later once i'm practiced at boxing and macroing 5 toons I have other options :)

[caldvn]

FYI Hunter blows for boxing, and also having a second melee makes it twice as hard to box.

[Shogun]

FYI Hunter blows for boxing, and also having a second melee makes it twice as hard to box.

Yeah I doubt either would make it into the group :)

But i'll roll the tank on the same account as the rogue, so there wouldn't be 2 melee at any time, and if I did bring them along it would be purely to boost them from 60-70 once the main 5man team was 70 :)

[caldvn]

As far as group go, up to you, but easiest way to level? 5 mages and your level 70 healing them.

Otherwise a tank 3 aoerz and a healer + your 70 healer, there are a lot of places you can aoe/xp grind.

[Shogun]

I have levelled toons with the lvl 70 healing them, but I want to play 5 (not 6) from lvl 1 to 70 without outside help (apart from cash ^^) and then procede to do instances with either that 5man group, or some of them with other toons swapped in. Still toying with the idea of the paladin tank, I have a lvl 64 warrior, so I could lvl him to 70, have the paladin on the same account, and just see how it goes when I get there, if the paladin can't tank heroics succesfully, I'll swap to the warrior :)

Might be back to Pali + 4 shamis then -.-

[Mannyman]

I can only pray that 3 pets are good enough for tanking heroics. If not, well I'm screwed then.

[Shogun]

I'm going with 3 warlocks, a mage and priest. I can only pray that 3 pets are good enough for tanking heroics. If not, well I'm screwed then.

I wouldn't count on them being able to either hold aggro, or take the beating they'd need to, my main is a 'lock, and I wouldn't count on the pet lasting too long in instances. On trash they might be fine, but bosses will wtfpwn them :/

[Mannyman]

Yeah, that's what I've been telling myself for a week, but I was trying to keep things as simple as possible. Controlling 4 different classes is a tall order. If I control a warrior as my main, I'm not sure if I'd have enough buttons to control everyone else.

[caldvn]

Lot of classes you can simply the process with the same button...

Same goes with warrior and 3 casters and healer, healing will always be seperate unless you wanna burn healing mana unnecssarily...

Warrior sunder can be associated with mage fireball, warlock shadowbolt, and a shaman nuke... but of course you'll want to have 2 sets of sunders, one so that you BUILD up aggro, and the other where you use it to keep aggro while you're nuking. That's general concept... everyone will tweak for their own use.