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So after starting my 5 man mixed with a pally, mage, lock, shaman, priest and got them to 20 I decided I wanted to run a boomkin. My problem is should I ditch the warlock now and get a druid to 20 or level with the lock and replace at 60? Has anybody else dealt with this dilema (I'm sure there's tons) and what did you do?
If you're leveling under RAF, you probably want to bring at least 2 teams to 60 to get yourself enough alts for a lifetime. That'll give you a third team grantable to 60 and is only a couple days playing time under RAF. I'd keep the team together rather than loose time and the RAF bonus. If you really want to switch out ASAP, start a new 5-man team and get them to 20 before the switch. Getting to level 20 under RAF should take all of 2 hours.
If you're not leveling under RAF, stop. Level under RAF.
Yea I want these guys at 80 asap so I'm considering not even doing a second team and just switching in my 60 druid when time comes. My raiding schedule kinda limits my time I have for this.
Thanks for the advice and more is welcomed!
For a minute there i thought i was on a parenting forum when i read the topic :P
Haha I could see that happening. Makes for a good laugh. I ended up spending last night getting a druid up and kicked the warlock.
Not sure here, but what do you get from the Druid that you aren't getting from a lock? I mean, your pally will be your tank, right? Better to have an off-tank that is a pet than something you need to manage. I have to say I have loved my Warlock's Voidwalker in instances - especially with Fel Domination you can have a tank re-summoned in seconds - with no durability loss :)
Note: Warlocks are so nice later on, that I am leveling a new one to replace one of my mages.
Well I plan on having it boomkin so the crit bonus will help the casters plus motw and a b-res if needed.
Check out the spell power buffs a Demo lock can add when their crit happy pet is in battle. SS is a fair trade for B-Res - in certain situations one is better than the other. The choice has already been made, I know, but you are losing a lot:
Better CC. The Lock is the most versatile CC in the game - including a great off-tank
DoTs... a great source of DPS that keeps ticking throughout the fight.
Health Stones - free Healing Pots for the whole party. Yum
Pet DPS... I can't tell you how nice it is on long collection quest chains ... you simply DoT, sick pet, and ignore 1 mob while fighting others. Come back and the mob is either mostly dead or dead ... with little effort on your part.
Yea I get what your saying and when you really look at it, it just boils down to preference. My preference is to the druid, I like the idea of how a b-res can by dynamically altered during a fight also innervate is nice, motw seems like a better overall buff but once again personal preference. One of my really strong arguments for switch from lock to druid is, I'm not to sure how I feel about priest healing so I wanted to keep my options open to a shaman or druid.
I've resisted leveling up a lock (stil have over a month on RAF left, so no hurry yet). My hesitation has been with the hassle of shards. Playing the class solo, no big deal, I used necrosis on my lock to keep a set number of shards and made sure to drain soul before the mob died. It seemed like one more thing I'd have to micromanage in a 5 man group. Now, if you have some great tips on how to streamline things when it comes to shards, I might add a lock or two to the next group I level to 60, maybe lockx2, shadow priestx2 and frost mage.
Yea once you get the macros down getting and maintaining shards is way easier.
You dont actually need to land the killing blow to get a shard, so I dont see the problem in using a hotkey on all the accounts to drain life. All the locks would then gain the shard.
I have a 3 lock team, currently running with a shadow priest and a feral druid tank. It's awesome. I'm sure eventually I will need a dedicated healer, but having 3 felguard offtanks along with my bear druid, and the shadow priests regen buffs, I rarely have to heal, often just after a battle, just so i can keep the priest in shadowform.
I can also confirm that when I use 3x drain soul, I get 3 shards. Very handy for when im shard farming. Just dot dot dot and drain soul. Best part about my team is that outside of instances, i put my druid in cat form, so he actually does dps. My prot paladin is way overkill outside of instance elites. I have yet to get my lock team to 70, and have only done ramps, BF, SP, and UB thusfar. No, wait, I think I did part of a couple of the Auchindoun instances.
I'm gonna level up some druids next, get them to 60, maybe level up a team of hunters, just for kicks. But then, I'd seriously have to stop leveling alts. I already have too many teams :)
I say go with what you like. RAF gives you the ability to have a "do over" on at least 1 or 2 toons. If you chain RAF'd, you can insta lvl team 2 from 30.9 to 60.9, and just park em at 60 if you ever change your mind. Much easier to start a team at 60 than at 1. Plus you can throw in a DK to the 5th acct to even that part out :)
Yea the way I have my accounts set up I will end up with a free 60 hunter and lock. Which will end me up with 1 of every class above 60 plus a second shaman. I plan on doing strictly multi-class groups so I'm not worried too much about leveling a second team up. I will take this team to 80 then one by one boost my other 60's to 80. Teams now 44 hoping for 60 by this Sunday.