Another shaman questions thread (sorry)

[fling]

I have 4 accounts, one of which has a 70 tauren shaman, and I would like to try my hand at a 4 elemental arena team with a healer, pretty standard stuff. I plan to primarily arena, and also do dailies, grind up enough faction for enchants, maybe run a few heroics I guess with help. My questions are:

1. As far as leveling, should I roll 4 new shaman, level 3 up to catch up with the current 70, roll 3 shaman and some other 3th class to help with leveling, or boost the 3 new ones with my main shaman?
2. My 70 shaman in an enchanter/herbalist, is there any other professions that would help alot with my new group that I should level along the way?
3. Is there any reason I should roll up 5 accounts instead if my main purpose is pvp/dailies, and I can probably bring friends to a lot of what I do?
4. Any random advice you have.

I'm thinking of going with a Tauren death squad, but if they seem to big I may go with troll or orc instead, they all seem to have advantages. The only bad thing is if I switch from Tauren, I would have to level an extra shaman. Thanks!

[Enti]

As far as races go I always thought it be cool to have 1 of each race for shaman.. tauren, orc, troll.. then you could make a femtaur to be w/ your main if he's tauren

For leveling.. it would probably be quicker to use your 70 to run the other three through quests, that way levels pretty damn quick, I used a hunter to level 3 toons of mine because of aotp, however you would have ghost wolf @ lvl 20 also making it fast for questing.

For proffessions.. seeing as you already have a 70 with professions it would probably be quicker to just focus on leveling and then decide profession afterwards for them for whatever you wanted and level them up as a 70, makes it a lot easier and quicker (epic mount and such) could probably get 1-375 or close per day per character

That's just my opinions, gl to you :)

[dancook]

1. As far as leveling, should I roll 4 new shaman, level 3 up to catch up with the current 70, roll 3 shaman and some other 3th class to help with leveling, or boost the 3 new ones with my main shaman?

Maybe roll a Paladin, so then you can have a tank, 3 shaman and invite a healer for instances... and then four shaman for pvp or something

[Boylston]

If you want to PvP/Arena, 4 shamans is fine. 4 Shamans will run normal mode instances fine as well. If you want to do heroics, go with a Pally healer or a 5th DPS of some sort (not suprisingly, a shaman works well).

Taurens and orcs both have their bonuses. I personally prefer orcs since the avatar is more compact. A tauren would allow you to hide them all behind the main, though, if you made the new guys orcs.

For easiest leveling, powerlevel the three new guys to 40 using instance runs with a L70. Shaman would work fine here but a mage or AoE melee class will do better. Quest with the three of them from L40-58, using your main shaman to help out if needed. Put him ungrouped and on follow to discourage gankers if you're on a pvp server-- he can help with tougher quests also if needed this way. Go to outlands at L58, quest for the good Hellfire gear, then add your fourth L70 shaman when the new guys get to L61-62 or so and farm Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Slave Pens, Mana Tombs, etc. Come out when you need to complete key quests (lrn2wowheadsearch) for elemental gear upgrades or when you get bored of instancing. Can quest more if you're not on a PvP server, but you'll level faster by avoiding ganking and staying in instances if you're on a PvP realm.

Only reason to get 5 accounts is to do heroic content, IMO. 4 shamans is all you need for arena and probably has an advantage in all BGs except for AV, where the difference between 4 and 5 is not super huge. If you're making the plunge to 5, might as well do it right and grab a pally instead of another shaman.

Sorry for the terse reply, but your questions left a lot to be desired. Most of this has been repeated multiple times in very easy-to-search-for messages...

Good luck,