PDA

View Full Version : 5 box AOE group - Instance leveling guide. (in the making)



Effex
04-16-2008, 02:34 AM
Thought Id write down my experiances leveling my team to hopefully help anyone considering it.

The idea:
Destroy packs of elites for great XP using heavy AOE damage.

Team setup:
1 Pali tank - AOE agro
1 Holy Priest - AOe healing and dmg
3 destro Lock's - AOE dmg

Macro / Key setup
1st button with the following on each class(note: macro's dne from memory as wow is down its patchday)
pali - macro /startattack /castsequence consecrate, seal of righteouseness,consecrate, consecrate, consecrate
priest - prayer of healing
locks - macro /cast[nochanneling]heallfire /petattack [target=healingward] /petattack [target=lava spout totem] - swop the petattack parts to suite instance these are for uldamun

2nd button
priest - macro /cast [target=<YOUR TANK NAME HERE>] Power Word: Shield

Pulling/Killing:
all /follow tank - if all chars are roughly the smae lvel only leadin char will get agro
PW:S your tank - do not do this mid pulll as priest will get agro'd unless u consecrate just before
run into agro range of mobs as many as u feel confortable with, CLICK pali's consecrate to start his AOE agro, halfway threw consecrate mash button 1 till all mobs dead. step back on all chars to break hellfire as soon as mobs drop.



SM - Graveyard lvl30-35
9/10 Ease of killing
8/10 XP
7/10 Drops

Did loads of runs of this place, its a great place to start and get your skills up. no mobs interupt, only downside is elites are spread out a fair bit limiting your pulls,some nice caster loot, and a few nice tank bits from the rares that spawn. keep the caster off hands that drop theres a nice dagger in the next instance :)


SM - Library lvl32-37
7/10 Ease of killing
8/10 XP
8/10 Drops

Gets a bit more tricky now but still easy once you get used to it. few casters to LOS but the worst bit is scarlet gallante's they cast hammer of justice, this will whipe you if it hits your priest. heres a nice trick. they will not cast on a player that has PW:S on him. so PW:S tank - pull, consecrate, PW:S Healer. have /petattack [target=focustarget] in your hellfire macro just to add more targets to the enemy threat list and a chance for them to waste stun on a pet.

For the end boss. he silences/sheeps and does a nasty AOE - park you casters at door out of range of spells. run in with tank, keep him at max range, when he shields it means he's going to AOe nuke. run your tank to the side wall. after nuke run back.


SM - Armoury
2/10 Ease of killing
*/10 XP
*/10 Drops

didnt do this instance, I knew Scarlet Defenders had shield bash making healing and hellfire very difficult. if anyone has please post your comments.


SM - Cathedral
4/10 Ease of killing
7/10 XP
7/10 Drops

Did a quick run, scarlet wizards will arcane explosion as soon as more than 1 char is in range, AOe is still poss on groups without them but it realy limits you on pulls, plus sorcerer's will slow / frostnova your tank making large pulls hard work.


Uldaman lvl37 - ***
7/10 Ease of killing
8/10 XP
7/10 Drops

Currently here, cleared it at lvl37 no lvl39, loads of diffent mobs 95% can Be aoe'd easily, heres a few to watch for:

Bats - cast aoe silence
basilisk - sleeps a target
Dark iron dawrfs - shield bash
2nd trogg spawn - can AOe but these guys hit HARD suggest 2 packs maximum till lvl40



Additional Notes:
Pyroclasm - Warlock talent - "Gives your Rain of Fire, Hellfire, and Soul Fire spells a 26% chance to stun the target for 3 sec." the 26% chance is the total over the spell duration not each pulse, still nice but definatly not the "WTFBBQ sauce stunlock of pwnage" I was hoping for haha

Emo?
04-16-2008, 02:37 AM
U Should be fine, gl :D

Tasty
04-16-2008, 02:44 AM
1 prot pally
1 holy priest with holy nova
3 mages

:P ...imo

Effex
04-16-2008, 03:21 AM
Please forgive my spelling, got a major headache have the lights off and cant see the keybaord.

Effex
04-16-2008, 03:25 AM
1 prot pally
1 holy priest with holy nova
3 mages

:P ...imo

I wanted 3 locks at 70 this is just how Im leveling them. not making the perfect aoe leveling group. plus locks do more DPS with hellfire than mages with arc explo, have pets, soulstone, and at 70 seed of corruption spamming goodnss!!!

also holy nova is a huge mana hog. better to let him aoe heal and let the DPs do there job.

Doubleo7
04-16-2008, 06:00 AM
I have this same set up. I love it. Hellfire x 3 is great DPS. Prayer of healing and Consectration seem to be made for supporting walock pwnage.