Another NEW Team..Question ..melee

[Fuzzyboy]

I'd advise against shaman healer also - mostly because of the lack of AE heals. Druids and priests both have a decent AE heal, but for chain heal to be effective, you need to target it, since it heals the first target more than the successive targets and it doesn't hit all group members.

With priests or druids, you can simply choose to have one party member as the static AE heal target - which means another decision you don't have to think about.

The thing about group synergy is that unless you're raiding, you don't need any synergies. It's nice with tremor and heroism and haste/flametongue/WoA etc etc, but it's not needed. You can faceroll-farm heroics with the current emblem gear with any tank / healer / 3 x dps (since you way way outgear the content), so the synergy is only needed for the first runs until you gear up and even then it's not required, it just makes things a bit easier.

On the other had, a group that plays well in terms of mechanics and require less micromanagement is more enjoyable to play (IMO), since it less you focus more on the encounter and less on pressing the right buttons.

I've done paladin, priest and 3 x rogues and had aboslutely zero problems except for a few annoying encounters with AE mechanics (and boy was I glad I had a priest at that time) - like that heroic-only boss in nexus who does an insanely annoying combo of AE fear and whirlwind that will one-shot blue geared melees.

[booker]

Yes..a AOE Heal is for me very important. so i should take a second look at a Priest. I know that you outgear any 5 men heroics, but maybee then i can try some 10 men content..or start @ Grim Batol and do 25 men

[Shodokan]

I'd advise against shaman healer also - mostly because of the lack of AE heals. Druids and priests both have a decent AE heal, but for chain heal to be effective, you need to target it, since it heals the first target more than the successive targets and it doesn't hit all group members.

With priests or druids, you can simply choose to have one party member as the static AE heal target - which means another decision you don't have to think about.

The thing about group synergy is that unless you're raiding, you don't need any synergies. It's nice with tremor and heroism and haste/flametongue/WoA etc etc, but it's not needed. You can faceroll-farm heroics with the current emblem gear with any tank / healer / 3 x dps (since you way way outgear the content), so the synergy is only needed for the first runs until you gear up and even then it's not required, it just makes things a bit easier.

On the other had, a group that plays well in terms of mechanics and require less micromanagement is more enjoyable to play (IMO), since it less you focus more on the encounter and less on pressing the right buttons.

I've done paladin, priest and 3 x rogues and had aboslutely zero problems except for a few annoying encounters with AE mechanics (and boy was I glad I had a priest at that time) - like that heroic-only boss in nexus who does an insanely annoying combo of AE fear and whirlwind that will one-shot blue geared melees.

When i played my shaman healer solo before i started boxing again... 1 chain heal was healing a group of people to full and was incredibly mana efficient. Sure you can't target yourself too but how often is the druid going to be on top of the 4 melee to actually get the AOE heal themself as well? Also, druid's AOE heal is on a 6 second timer opposed to a shaman who can get 2 whole heals off in the time it takes a druid's stuff to tick.

[Khatovar]

I'd advise against shaman healer also - mostly because of the lack of AE heals. .

I do just fine with a shaman healer, they work very nicely with a melee group. Riptide can be rolled on 3 targets and chain heal can be glyphed to hit 4 targets. Plus Earth Shield. ES on the tank, roll Riptides on DPS if needed, 1 chain heal takes care of the whole group. Plus you're sitting on a healing stream totem the entire time. I have never had any problems with the shaman as my healer and I can't think of any other class I would put in there instead.