Swap out huntard for what?

[d0z3rr]

Ok I finally made up my mind once I started messing around in MMO-Champion's RaidComp: http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/#

I'm going with:

Prot warrior
Resto Druid
Spriest
Demo Lock
Survival Hunter

I will forego the mage intellect buff (kinda worthless anhyways), and the mage's water/portals. Since all you have to do is go to Dalaran/Shatt for portals. The mage doesn't really offer anything else the other classes already have - the druid will give some int and can decurse, the lock and hunter both have replenishment so that will be up quite a bit.

With this group my tank with have a shitload of stamina

[Alemi]

Ok I finally made up my mind once I started messing around in MMO-Champion's RaidComp: http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/#

I'm going with:

Prot warrior
Resto Druid
Spriest
Demo Lock
Survival Hunter

I will forego the mage intellect buff (kinda worthless anhyways), and the mage's water/portals. Since all you have to do is go to Dalaran/Shatt for portals. The mage doesn't really offer anything else the other classes already have - the druid will give some int and can decurse, the lock and hunter both have replenishment so that will be up quite a bit.

With this group my tank with have a shitload of stamina

Couple of points:

• Portals go away when Cataclysm comes out - whether you buy it or not
• Hunters loose replenishment in 4.01 (which is either in 4 days or the following Tuesday)
• Int directly affects spellpower in 4.01 (which is either in 4 days or the following Tuesday)
• Destruction locks offer replenishment, not demo
• The only buff you added for stamina that I see is MOTW, which is 37 stamina in it's current fashion.

[d0z3rr]

Meant to say destruction.

Stamina I get blood pact, motw, prayer of fortitude.

[Alemi]

Meant to say destruction.

Stamina I get blood pact, motw, prayer of fortitude.

But blood pact isn't an increase over Commanding Shout on your warrior, so that seems like a wash. And you had Fort from the holy priest in the original setup. Just saying, not much of a stam increase in the new group you proposed.

Also, come cataclysm, Blood Pact, Commanding Shout, and Fort will not stack (all are straight stamina increases).

Boomkins in 4.0 are much easier to manage, but fall much into the ele shaman category where to maximize dps you have to use the instant starsurge procs that come from moonfire/is ticks effectively and you will have to do some kind of bar switch since the new mechanics REQUIRE you to switch between wrath/starfire depending on your eclipse state. (I.e. you can no longer stay in one eclipe mode, go to neutral and return back, you must see-saw). The other problem is the real inability to castsequence Sunfire into your rotation without it getting hung up or failing all together.

An ele shaman would work very well with your setup, providing buffs that everyone needs and utilizing what everyone else gives. A secondary option would be the mage - which would give you a bloodlust as well come cataclysm.