seems talk of boxing mages is dead.

I started out 3 boxing 1 priest 2 mages loved it went to 5 hbox and went 5 shaman I do not enjoy them as much as the 3 box so I went a different rout that I love
1priest , 2 mages, 2 locks I love this make up

What I was based on 2-box to 3-box at the time.

Account 1: Prot Warrior 70, Rogue 70, Prot Pally 70.
Account 2: Priest was 62 for the longest time as a healbot.

Then I got a 3rd account, and moved my Prot Pally there.

I rolled a Holy Paladin in Account 1, and at 60 I ran:
>> Holy Paladin, Shadow Priest, Prot Pally
Sure I can survive huge aoe pulls but the DPS was not there from the Shadow Priest (poorly geared tho)

After I got the Holy Pally and SPriest to 70, I got a 4th account and xfer my Warrior to the 4th.
>> Holy Paladin, Holy/Disc Priest (I abandoned Shadow spec), Prot Pally and Arms Warrior.
It's a lot of micro to allign the warrior to be in melee range and do his Slam + MS rotation with occasional shouts.

Anyway, I decided to power level Mages and Shamans using this setup:
Account 1: Frost Mage & Elemental Shaman
Account 2: Elemental Shaman & Frost Mage

Account 3: Prot Pally

Account 4: Resto shaman



I had my healer from account 4, and 2 dps. I paired 1 Frost Mage + 1 Elemental Shaman as I levelled up. It worked great because I was getting totems and Blizzard in my AoE instance boosting.

But come level 60 and clearing Blood Furnace, I find having 3 shamans easier than having a "level" mage in the mix. It was not long when my Shamans were levels 62 and the Mages were 60. I then decided to just level the Shamans to 70 asap and work on the Mages later.

So I guess I'll see how the mages play out since I just finished levelling the 3 shamans to 70 last night. :)

@ those who want to try something non-shaman-like but don't want to get owned, you may want to try 4x hunter + (healer), you get chain mail like shamans, you get a tanking pet, and the dps is decent. Especialy since the last patch that buffed hunters, they took out the hunter deadzone so ranging isnt as big an issue. Plus you can't argue with 4x big red hunters & pets ^_^

@ Xzin, cant use ankh in arena, sorry =P
other than that, correct though =)

2 mages, 2 priests and a pally... i LOVE my 5 box team...

They suck for arena's, they aren't viable for 10/15/20 man pvp either... I'm pretty solid in AV but who isn't... I am very solid at PVE however and a gold farming machine.

for aoe instance farming nothing gets close to 3-4 mages with a holy priest healing.makes daily collection quests sooo easy. :)

Ironically I have given up on my pve team for a while and have gone old school... 4xlocks and a priest... I like to play with class synergy ;)

i started with 2 mages but decided to focus on warlocks mostly for pets - pets, engineering pets, non combat pets...3 boxing a little circus is fun!

mages are great , in my opinion do whatever you like, if you are into it enough you can make it fun. (i should note that i'm not going for arena with the locks so i'm not worried about that aspect)

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Originally Posted by 'Xaedra',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59633#post59 633

Shaman setups (x5 Shaman/x4 shaman + 1 Paly) because they are viable in both PVE and PVE

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Dont you mean PVP and PVE :P

I made 3 mages and am happy with them so far. My PvE setup is warrior/shaman + mages though, so I got them mainly for the CC and free water/food is always nice. Really it all depends on what you want to do with your team. I work nights and have a few hours every morning after I get home to do dailies, heroics, etc. However it's very hard to find a group, much less a good group at this time of day, so I made my own 5-man group. I don't PvP very much on the mages, got them their 1h Gladiator swords and Vindicator bracers, mainly for PvE use though. Been having fun doing alt T5 raids with the 3 mages and running lots of heroics for badges.

Im using 3 shaman 2 mages we just hit 62.... i have frost nova on 1 key and blast nova on the same key for other mage and vice versa on another key. It works well...then chainlightning with arcane explosion! is like pow.

In 5mans
I setup focus keys for my mages to have two seperate focus targets for sheeping but it takes a bit to setup the initial pull then you just rape each target in turn. I can still usually leave a caster up as 3 grounding totems usually enough to eat each spell cast. 3shamans compliment two mages real well.

Best thing about shamans is there buff's like omg 5x totem of wraths is awesome. 15% to crit 15% to hit. Plus heroism plus trinkets...plus a tank that can hold aggro...no wait f*ck we're all dead bugga.