What's up with all the mean back and forth in this thread. People can get too judgmental at times :(
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What's up with all the mean back and forth in this thread. People can get too judgmental at times :(
Welcome to the dark side :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by 'BobGnarly',index.php?page=Thread&postID=35549#pos t35549
Maybe the wow forums were down or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Ripper',index.php?page=Thread&postID=35586#post35 586
I have weekends and holidays. i started this thread to ask two simple questions, and all i got was abuse (Apart from one or two people who i thank very much). If you are fed up off reading the same question over again, dont even come inside the thread, it was obvious what the question was about in the title, you didnt come in intending to help me, all you wanted was a way to vent all your anger, well now youve done that i hope your happy, and can respond to this post in a way that wouldnt put anyone new to multi-boxing off the whole idea.
So i am at the conclusion, 5 shammys can do a few heroics, but in order to do most of them i will have to have a tank.
Thank you
This conclusion was easily reachable by only scanning the titles of the last 30 or so posts that are in the general forum. It's also probably reachable by reading some of the stickies in the beginner area (esp. the class selection guide(s)).Quote:
Originally Posted by 'IWestyI',index.php?page=Thread&postID=35722#post3 5722
You are the new one to our community, and to be fair, have written a couple threads now in two different forums that have asked no new/unique questions. If every person "new to multi-boxing" behaved in the same way, we'd have 10,000 threads about "should I roll 4xShamans or 5xShamans" and "write me multi-box macros please" etc etc...Quote:
all you wanted was a way to vent all your anger, well now youve done that i hope your happy, and can respond to this post in a way that wouldnt put anyone new to multi-boxing off the whole idea.
We can be amazingly helpful, but don't dilute the forums with requests without doing any homework and expect an overwhelmingly friendly response from 100% of the community.
I did my homework, i have read 4/5 Guides on how to multi-box, but i have not seen this class selection thread, where may i find this?
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/in...lass+selection
That is what i get when i search class selection before anyone rages.
Found one, but it still did not directly answer my question.
Just one more thing, are resto shamans good healers?
http://www.otherhand.net/resto/Resto_Shaman_Guide.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by 'IWestyI',index.php?page=Thread&postID=35813#post3 5813
I found this informative link in less time than it took for you to type your message. Search engines can be your friend.
LOL, you do not learn?
by searching 'healer' and 'shaman in that box in the upper right...
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/in...ghlight=healer
Tanking Heroics and Class Combos
[WoW] Best PvE Setup
[WoW] Best pvp healer for 5-box
Heroics from a Multi-boxer perspective
Having healer vs Not Having a healer
Druid or Paladin healer?
And the best yet:
4 Shamans, What kind of healer?
Thread title? 4 Shamans, What kind of healer?
You fit straightly into the "I'm too lazy to do anything myself, PLEASE HAND FEED ME, I WANT TO BE LEET BUT TOO LAZY TO RESEARCH"
Doh, I posted in the wrong thread, but I'll just duplicate it here.
My approach is from one character's strength and weaknesses.
My first character was a warrior and I played it and learned how it is.
Then eventually, I come upon things in the game that I can't quite do, or do well. I would say, if I only had some small heal over time, I can take on these 2 mobs. The idea of a priest standing in the back tossing heals over time sounded great. And what about the priest tossing from dots on my warrior's target as well?
Soon I am taking on 3 mobs at a time. My first challenge back at level 60 was how do I clear those 5 packs (Officer, medic, +3) in BRD to get that dark iron node. I could almost tank all 5, but that damn officer and medic heals. Simple tank and spank wasn't enough.
I eventually learned how to handle that 5 pack. Mind control on the medic kills the medic fast. During the MC, The warrior charges the lowest add. When the medic dies, warrior does AoE and priest dps the one fast. After the fear is gone, I'm back to a 3 mob situation.
Fast forward to TBC. I levelled a paladin on my priest's account, and I end up having a Warrior + Paladin at level 60. I did not do BRD as much, but when I did quests, I found out that my Paladin can handle 3+ mobs without a healer. It sure was slower, but I used my warrior as DPS with some good shouts and debuff that benefits the paladin tanking: thunderclap, demo shout, and battleshout to speed up the killing.
Anyway, when it comes to instances, a tank is a tank no matter what class. The tank's job "buys time" or helps increased the "margin of error" I can do in a fight before things get out of control. That's how I approach it; based on what the game event and mechanics.
A warrior can do the tanking job. It may not be as efficient as front load threat. but a warrior has a bit more health and mitigation compared to a paladin when "just stating out and gearing up." This little bit of advantage can be overcome by a paladin over time as the paladin gets geared up.
Overall, the paladin is "easier" to micro manage in normal 5-man instances. Having a high DPS team helps here.
But when it comes to heroic, a fresh paladin geared with quest items and random blues will most likely not last versus heroic trash without good heals, and good dps. That's verus 1 trash heroic mob. What are you going to do with the other 2 or 3 mobs in a pull?
A similarly geared starting out warrior for a heroic instance will have a slightly more hp and slightly better mitigation than a similarly geared paladin. It will still not be trivial to tank one heroic mob. He'll have a much hard time tanking 2 as a paladin regardless of threat.
The heroic videos shows high DPS team. These teams have been geared well above the heroic trash mob encounter, and just about even par with certain boss mob encounter. I fresh DPS team with quest items and random blues will not survive the first pull of a heroic instance. They will not have enough dps, and not enough health to survive a couple of heroic trash mob hits. Having a tank "buys you time" to learn that encounter. Or if you don't have a tank, then you would be farming for better gear before you tackle a heroic instance as a pure dps team.