So starting my 5 box next week or two had some questions.

So right now I 3 box mage/hunter/priest up to 50 but that got booring.

So I want to lvl up one of these not sure what team I will use.

5 shaman already have a 70 shaman so not sure if I will do this.

4xwarlock 1x healer gotta love the dot dot die :}

or this team

1 pally
1 priest
2 locks
1 mage

or ditch the mage and keep 3 locks.

Only reason I am thinking of keeping the 3 locks is for pvp running around and dotting with the preist and locks would be nice if I had the priest shaodw spec and used the pally to heal/stun.

I also want to be able to 5 man the instances in outlands and hopefully heroics so tell me what you think is good.

your last statement says most of it imo....if you want to do heroic instances 5 boxing, if thats what you meant - you will need: strong tank, strong healer and strong cc -- with that in mind the classes you listed is good (pal, pri, lock x2, mage) -- but I'm not sure if it's doable to 5 box that and do things like CCing etc while keeping mobs locked down with the tank.

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Originally Posted by Perrigrin

your last statement says most of it imo....if you want to do heroic instances 5 boxing, if thats what you meant - you will need: strong tank, strong healer and strong cc -- with that in mind the classes you listed is good (pal, pri, lock x2, mage) -- but I'm not sure if it's doable to 5 box that and do things like CCing etc while keeping mobs locked down with the tank.

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It's definitely possible to keep CC locked down on multiple targets while tanking the others. My suggestions are as follows:

- Use the tank as the "main" character who everyone else follows.
- Bind separate focus buttons for each of the 3 CC'ers and a separate key for each of their CC spells (banish/poly). This way, you can target a mob with the main, make that the focus for warlock1, target something else with the main and make it the focus of warlock2, and target a 3rd thing with the main and make it the focus of the mage.

I use the Number Keypad to do this. 1,2, and 3 set the focuses for my 3 CC'ers, and 4,5,and 6 are my CC spells. Once my targets are set, I quickly hit 4,5,6 and pull with the tank. If 1 mob comes out of CC, you can cast that spell with 1 button (for ease of use you might want to make it set a raid icon when creating a focus so that you can better see)

- And finally, you just need to bind healing spells for specific players. What I mean is, have a key for Renewing Character1, Greater Healing Character1, and Flash Healing Character1.... for each character. I bind all of these to my Nostromo n52 pad. Makes it easy to heal all my targets individually.

Do you think I really need a mage?

Having 3 locks following me around in pvp will be fun too. stun them with the pally and watch all the dots tick away on them.

Kinda torn between w/w/w or w/w/m

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Originally Posted by ahnubis

Do you think I really need a mage?

Having 3 locks following me around in pvp will be fun too. stun them with the pally and watch all the dots tick away on them.

Kinda torn between w/w/w or w/w/m

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What I was told when I asked a similar question is that you need poly if you want to do heroics. Plus you get alot of utility like portal, AI, and water.

I ended up doing Pa/Pr/M/M/Wa but I was going for PvE only.

Polymorph is really only needed in a few areas. The real bonuses with mages are the water and portals. They just save you huge amounts of time.

Gallo,

I am currently doing 4 warlocks, 1 priest. However I am looking for a more PVE oriented grouping.

The only thing keeping me back, is it is so complex. I just read that you use N1,2,3 to focus and 4,5,6 to cast the CC spell. I love that idea, and it seems easy. However, how would I go about casting the focus?

I don't know the focus macro, or any idea how to go abouts doing that. If you could help out, that would be great. Thanks

I have N1,2, and 3 simply for "/focus" after I already have hit my big button to have the clones target the main characters target. Then N4,5, and 6 are "/cast [target=focus] polymorph". That way, after you Poly, you can hit your big assist button and DPS away until the sheep breaks and hit your N4,5,or 6 if the sheep breaks and it will automatically cast Polymorph on the previously focused target.

This is all assuming that you're targetting mobs by doing "/assist MainCharacter" rather than making each mob a focus and casting all your spells that way.

You'd be surprised the PVE content you can clear with five Shaman. 5 earth elementals tanking a boss is pretty wicked.

66 I think. Pre-BC nothing hits hard enough for it to matter. I cleared most of them easily.