Season 8 ideas - Boxing Shaman, yes, but with a twist...

[Ualaa]

The first season we play.. without gear, is basically a gear up season.
The first season we play with all of the previous season's gear, is a lot better.

Unless of course, its an expansion, and everything from previous is pretty worthless.
Well maybe not worthless, but a big step back from quest rewards even.

[Altsoba]

The first season we play.. without gear, is basically a gear up season.
The first season we play with all of the previous season's gear, is a lot better.

Unless of course, its an expansion, and everything from previous is pretty worthless.
Well maybe not worthless, but a big step back from quest rewards even.

Thank you for your encouragement Ualaa thats really nice of you .

An youre right I just get a bit frustrated with the damn... almost died thing over and over again . But I guess thats the way it is. Spoken with other Multiboxing PvPers and what they said is pre-weapon shield its like that, once you get both that "problem" just magically disappears.

[Altsoba]

So, along with the DK in 3s it was a really interesting night. We didn't go too far, only 1320 but we faced and beat pretty well geared teams. We also did a lot of stupid mistakes but was overall a very positive experience.

Some default strategies:
Pick nuke target;
As soon as they charge, the DK - Strangulate healer, grip nuke target; chain the other if melee too;
Nuke target;
Nuke target down, usually one of my shaman if not both are in bad shape, DK put pression on healer and dps (enormous survivability tbh, I almost never had to heal him), I spam heal (macro one heals the other, so if one is stunned, he gets healed) till full life;
I heal DK if needed, put pression on healer first, if he goes back, chains on the other dps and try to kill him.
But pretty much if nuke target is down, even if one of my shaman is down, we were able to win (even got some ressurects btw) many times.

Compos like > Rogue-Mage-Healer
Opening on all on the healer, grip/chains/icy touch/strangulate.
Healer down, spam groundings, spam heal as mentioned above, survive rogue, drop magmas
DK grips rogue out of my grasp, that gives a couple of seconds at least, means two lhw are likely to pass with no problems, strangulates and/or both pets go on caster
By the time Im "surviving the rogue" the mage is already in pretty bad shape and most likely have already ice blocked so he dies fast. The DK kills his pet/mirror images pretty fast too.

I really enjoyed playing with him but unfortunately is someone with no time for consistent 5v5. He got his 3 relentless offset and I'm really glad he did . Thanks Panku.

It's quite promising imo the initial comp I spoke about, the healer, dk and 3 boxing shaman.
With some really basic maths, I see it as:

Each elemental shaman burst:
Orc Racial
Pyro Rockets
Flame Shock
Instant LvB
Lets say some unmitigated 15k damage.
That times 4 = 60k

The same thing with Ebon Plague and 3 Shaman:
45k +13% = 50.8k
Its a net loss of about 10k but imo and I have to test it one of these days in 5s its worth it applying at least some of the strategies above mentioned. Also, not to forget that even if the DK is making a lot of control during the nuke, hes still hitting the nuke target and so its not at all a net loss of 10k.
The other thing here is that we talk about the burst but it's important to remember that the Ebon Plague will be there during the whole fight to debuff the targets.

Some advantages are that he can for example keep the warrior or any other melee away from my group and silence a healer/any caster.

Different approach but a warrior could also be awesome in this hmmm can we call multiboxing hybrid? ^^
MS
Fear
High survivability
(add more here ^^)

Thank you all and I'll keep posting updates.