What classes are you leveling in Wrath?

I'm really torn on this... I'm really worried that a tank will be required in some instances. I remember trying to do the level 80 strat with 5 shamans and getting rocked in beta - but I only make a couple attempts.

Right now I'm thinking 1x pally, 1x boomkin, 3x shaman. Mostly because I know I can do instances this way.

I'd REALLY like to do 5 shamans or 4 shaman and my boomkin, but not having a tank might be tough....

On the plus side, a prot pally is a really good healer now, so worst case I can just make the pally my healer when I don't need a tank.

It's tough, but I think I am going with:

Pally+4xHunters, with Holy, 3xBM, 1xMM
Pets will be 4xGorillas, or Worms if the Gorillas prove to be problematic. Gorilla AoE adds a lot of DPS to pulls, and hasn't been a problem for cross-aggro of unintended mobs yet.


Blessing of Might + Trueshot Aura on 8 party targets is a ton of buff synergy. Compared to the Priest+4xBM Hunter setup I ran to get them to L70, the above configuration has something like 4300 more AP across all the group. My early tests with Beacon of Light and a Glyphed Holy Light have shown that the Pally does a fine amount of healing with this setup. Pallies are arguably easier for boss fights, since they can just spam a powerful single-target heal on the tank if needed. Priest has been a good healer, arguably the strongest, but with the nerf incoming to Circle of Healing, I am willing to trade BoM and the superior pally buffs for the Fort and Heals of the Priest.


Long term, I will level my 4xShammies as well, almost certainly with a Boomkin in tow. They are better geared and less likely to get PvP while leveling. My decision to start with hunters is primarily so I can keep them in instances and avoid world PvP problems at launch. Plus, I have a lot of fun with them in instances, probably moreso than the shamans.

I'll be going with my current team in sig.

I'm sure with the DK, I'll be forced to create yet another alt-army though..

I'm going to be starting out with the team I'm currently playing:
Paladin and 4 Elemental Shamans.

I finally settled on a secondary team: (might become my primary team if I like it enough)
Death Knight, Druid, Mage, Warlock, Shaman

I'm going to level my 4 shamans up first. Then maybe 4 DK's or just level my other 2 box groups to 80. Figure having 3 groups at 80 doing the dailies will be crap loads of gold per day.

I have a similar problem to the original poster.

I have a 5x Mage team, and I need to introduce a tank for instances in Wrath.
I'm thinking either a Prot Warrior or a Prot Pally. Hrm...

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Originally Posted by 'Boylston',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146117#pos t146117

It's tough, but I think I am going with:

Pally+4xHunters, with Holy, 3xBM, 1xMM
Pets will be 4xGorillas, or Worms if the Gorillas prove to be problematic. Gorilla AoE adds a lot of DPS to pulls, and hasn't been a problem for cross-aggro of unintended mobs yet.


Blessing of Might + Trueshot Aura on 8 party targets is a ton of buff synergy. Compared to the Priest+4xBM Hunter setup I ran to get them to L70, the above configuration has something like 4300 more AP across all the group. My early tests with Beacon of Light and a Glyphed Holy Light have shown that the Pally does a fine amount of healing with this setup. Pallies are arguably easier for boss fights, since they can just spam a powerful single-target heal on the tank if needed. Priest has been a good healer, arguably the strongest, but with the nerf incoming to Circle of Healing, I am willing to trade BoM and the superior pally buffs for the Fort and Heals of the Priest.


Long term, I will level my 4xShammies as well, almost certainly with a Boomkin in tow. They are better geared and less likely to get PvP while leveling. My decision to start with hunters is primarily so I can keep them in instances and avoid world PvP problems at launch. Plus, I have a lot of fun with them in instances, probably moreso than the shamans.

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Have you tried 4 hunters and feral druid. you the 5 percent buff to crit for pets and hunters is much better than paladin in my playing. make druid your main and let the pets tank you have fun works great.

With RAF, I've been able to level up 4 teams, just started my fifth last night

First team: Horde Paly + Sham (2) + Druid

Second team: Horde Paly + Mage (2) + Priest

Third team: Alliance Shammy (4)

Forth team: Horde Shammy (2) + Druid + Rogue (on same server as second team)

Fifth and current team: Alliance Paly + Mage (2) + Druid (same server as third team)

I wanted to be sure that I had a tank on each server I leveled up a RAF team, just in case. If I have enough time by Dec 8th, I may work on a warlock and/or hunter team but tanks were definitely a priority, I'll probably gift levels to a warrior as well.

i have retired my 5 shaman for a new setup see siggy. i tried paladin like for like in comparison to DK. failed, look slike when my copies come through the door i wont be playing DK on muliple clients !!




Shame!

the only one i have to lvl out of the box is my warrior. but hes gonna become an alt once i setup my DK. so DK will get to 80, then warrior. all the other classes i have will follow suit.

i made the mistake of takin a break then draggin my ass when i returned with BC and was almost 1 1/2 years later before i finally hit 70. i wont make that mistake again.

Going with my pally and 4 shams first. Want to get them to 80 so i can get into a good raiding guild.

After that i will probably dual lvl a death knight and a priest. I currently have a priest at lvl 60 (was part of the 3 locks, priest, pally group, but haven't really touched them sense they got to 60). Reason for this is that i really want to make the dk as my main solo toon, I also think that tanking with him will not be as easy as a pally for boxing. I really want to get a druid in my team, but kind of don't want to waste the time getting him to 60. With the dk starting at 55 and basically leaving the starting zone at 58, bringing the priest in will be pretty easy. Dual boxing will probably lvl them much quick to 80 then doing another team of 5.

I was first planning on levelling my Protection Warrior and 4 Elemental Shamans, but now that I got my Holy Priest to level 70, I will take him along and remove a shaman.
PvP at the moment is just not fun anymore, so I'll be focussing on PvE first to get some gear and level my professions further to the new max skill level.

I'm really torn going into the xpac. I want to level 1x pali + 4x shaman but I really don't want to leave my fiance behind this go around so I want to keep her in my group the whole time. This means I either need to leave the tank behind or leave a shaman behind and I cannot make up my mind. With my end goal being pvp my thoughts are to level 4x shamans with her but with release tonight I want to avoid questing which means I need to run instances which probably require the paladin. Anyone know how effective felguards are for tanking bosses?

I am really hoping my melee group will make it and will be instance friendly... barring that, im intrigued by 5x balance druids and 5x shadow priests (seems like a hell of o a lot of self healing going on there).

We'll see.

First team I'll level to 80 will be Warrior, 3 Shammies and a Druid. Love the earth and moon buff the druid brings to the table.