4 priests and a shaman

ok a long post ahead you have been warned.

Ok so to start the story i started my multi boxing with 3 warlocks, this soon changed to 3 warlocks a druid and a priest, i found it pretty hard controling the 3 classes and couldnt see how a druid would be better than another warlock in end game pvp. So i redid the druid priest to a warlock priest and caught up with the 3 other warlocks. I had no problems doing instance runs and this was my only way of leveling at the time. It got dull very very dull i ended up getting so sick of grinding RFK, the negatism on daggerspine towards boxing didnt help, so i decided to roll back to my other realm Ghostlands, a very friendly and welcomeing realm if anyone decides they want a chance of realm. EU that is.

I decided i wanted a change i didnt find alot of challenge in doing the instances i hardly had to lift a finger one my priest infact. the voids did all the tanking and took no damage. So i thaught of a combo that i havent seen anyone do or hear of anyone try, 4 priests and a shaman.

In theroy this is a lethal combo, when you consider how imba priests mana burn is in pvp, along with earthshield, 4 lots of Vampirc Embrace, and Vampirc touch, grounding totems and heroism buffs i thaugh this could well be the best arena make up that noones really tried.

Im level 32 now, and it was no problem getting to 20 took hardly anytime at all, i used simular macros and the same bongos ui layout i used on my locks. 20-28 no problem maybe an hour a level this was all done questing. 28-32 has been a nightmare, things have really slowed down, i do quest non stop one after another, sometimes i can hand in up to 10 quests at a time. Its takeing me 3-6 hours a level, killing mobs is giving me 60xp a kill, i went to SM GY and got my ass handed to me they cut my shaman and priests to shreds shaman lasts obviously alittle longer but not much most of the mobs in SM GY were casters so haveing armor didnt make a whole lot of diffence and keeping the shaman on top with aggro is dam nearly impossible, i went to RFK and the XP is too low worth the amount of mana needed to kill the mobs. So im pretty stuck with pure questing atm by the looks of things.

im starting to see why the 4 priests 1 shaman combo hasnt ever been done before.

So i need your support and advice do i hang in there with the priests and shaman see how it turns out after i get shadowform, i was thinking atleast then between 4 shadow priests they could tank and swap the shaman to just heal, swapping aggro useing fade when things get intense on one priest. My options are drop the shaman for another class or drop the priests for more shaman, (this would be a shame as this has been done before i really wanted to try somthing new, and no oomkins wasnt even an idea i wanted to give a try). Anyway i need your advice to what i go onto doing as this 6hours a level thing is getting me down big time, i thaught 2 hours a level on my locks was bad but this is really bad.

please help me guys.
if i chance this would be what i would like to give ago

5 shaman or push on with 4 priests?

other options could be level the shaman to 70, then level a the priests up with a paladin useing the paladin to tank?

thanks for takeing the time to read everything

simpletom

First, there will be both positive and negative comments from anyone looking at a multi-boxer. Never take any negative comments to heart because it isn't about you, it's about the playstyle and their uninformed perception of it.

Your composition is also very unique, I suppose the main outlook first to ask is what are you looking for in the long term? Pve / PvP , and what style? Burst or DoT. We can go from there

You've hit on some of the tradeoffs that exist in the multiboxing world. If you play squishies, you need someone to tank for them. While shaman wears mail at 40+, they are not designed to be a main tank in instances. They'll do in a pinch if you outlevel the instance a bit or are overgeared but generally they're just not cut out for it. I'm sure you were bored a bit with the locks at lower levels but they get more interesting as you level into the later game. Plus you get AoE through hellfire/rain of fire that is respectable if not as effective as mage AoE.

I did a 4-priest combo with a friend of mine playing a protection paladin and we did excellent in all the instances we tried, even being geared in greens and blues. Your biggest problem is that leather/chain is OK but you have very little mitigation options and almost zero capacity to generate AoE aggro. With the low mitigation, you have to shift out of shadowform to renew or heal, which kills your DPS. With a real tank you can stay shadow and just let VE take care of most of the healing. The exception is certain bosses or mobs that just hit really hard.

Also, if you're in the EU, do you guys have patch 2.3 yet? It greatly speeds the leveling process from 20-60, especially questing.

thanks guys for the fast responces

To Ellay
Well my previous pvp style has always been with my warlock, i was always swapping specs about, i didnt love being felguard spec, but everytime i spec'd away from Soul Link i would miss it so much. Im kinda looking for somthing new, ive thaught of 2 different ways to play my priests to keep it intresting and also make it alot harder to predict the tactics needed to take them out, should they ever get as famous as you are. First being 20/0/41 is a pretty common mana drain spec, idea was to dot up and mana drain healers, with the resto shaman healing. -or- go holy/disp spec for the smite nuke with heroism buff would be pretty painful, also with the option of mana draining targets, priests would be more squishy but 4 times circle of healing would be pretty sweet, ive heard its rubbish in 5v5 arena but thats comminc from one priest i immagine this mana friendly aoe instant heal would be a great fun. To answer your question im mainly going to be pvping with the group, i dont expect the priests to see any pve action. The shaman is mainly to heal in raids for the guild. Im also a big fan of the way shaman are, i think they are a truely unique class.

to Udmahedhurtz
Ye we normally get our patches about a day or 2 after you guys get them :) the 2.3 was awsome i didnt really knowtice much difference until the late 20's but it is good, im knowticeing no change in the xp rewarded from quests tho.
i did have fun with my locks but it just felt like i should be trying somthing new for a change rather than a class ive already played for a very long time. I realise that shaman cant tank now i thaught maybe they could manage just enough to hold aggro on the target till the priests have finnished beating it down, but the only thing i have to hold aggro is frost shock which isnt enough.

thanks again guys for responding im sort of leaning towards leveling a paladin to 32 to catch up with the priests on the shaman account, and then level the shaman solo, do 10 levels on each so they stay pretty close in levels and when they get to 60 drop out the paladin and try just leveling to 70 with quests i loved the bc quests, well most of them. When ive established the pvp thing i can level my alt paladin up so that i can try doing heroics with the 4 priests. well thats the plan does sound like alot of work when i write it out but im sure its going to be worth it. I would love it if we had the chance to meet up in the arenas guys i know that being over seas from you guys means the only way would be in tournments but i think boxer vs boxer would be alot of fun :)

please add any bits of info guys i always take it in and really apreciate any help. going to go to bed now and try to sleep on this, so ill probably stay awake for another few hours thinking about it.