Priest + 4 mages, questing

[Nikita]

Deep in the arcane talent tree you can specc into having Arcane Blast slow your target + Arcane mages do more dmg! I use a simple dps macro like this:

/#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat/target Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast
/cast Arcane Missiles, Arcane Blast
/use 13
/use 14

And @ lvl 63 Im doing 1,1 k dps++ on boss fights. Something to think about

Edit: Didnt see that last post about you respeccing to Arcane. Keep us posted thou!

[valle2000]

Will a group of 4 mages + healer be able to do dungeons as well?

If I'm correct I've seen someone doing even heroics with 5 mages? If so, does it mean it's doable or is that person extremely skilled and it's actually very very difficult?

[RSM72]

Will a group of 4 mages + healer be able to do dungeons as well?

If I'm correct I've seen someone doing even heroics with 5 mages? If so, does it mean it's doable or is that person extremely skilled and it's actually very very difficult?

The 5x mage thing works because you are able to burn most bosses down very fast. Some even before they use their abilities. Going 4x mage + priest will reduce your dps by like 20% and thus make that strategy somewhat harder. I did blackrock caverns in a 5 mage team several times to farm faction and that is somewhat easy but I still think runtu (the guy doing the videos) is really skilled.

I played a team of 4 warlocks + priest to 81 and successfully did almost all pre-cata instances with that team. Had to return 1-2 levels later to complete one or two because some bosses are very hard for a 5x caster team. Having 4x soulstone available really helped with not running back in case the healer died.

[valle2000]

Okay, thanks.

Does mage have any kind of self heal?
Or is healing completely out of the question if using 5 mages?

[shadewalker]

Okay, thanks.

Does mage have any kind of self heal?
Or is healing completely out of the question if using 5 mages?

You can glyph for some healing.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=42738/glyph-of-evocation

And there are always bandages
http://www.wowhead.com/skill=129

[smalltanker]

Additionally, 4 x frosties would give you elementals... The elementals could pull and then wait 3-10 seconds and open up with some frost bolts and later some frostfire. The ice barrier + other mage shields + mirror images + blink + invisibility can give some great aggro mechanics... and icy veins helps as well for the haste

[valle2000]

The 5x mage thing works because you are able to burn most bosses down very fast. Some even before they use their abilities. Going 4x mage + priest will reduce your dps by like 20% and thus make that strategy somewhat harder. I did blackrock caverns in a 5 mage team several times to farm faction and that is somewhat easy but I still think runtu (the guy doing the videos) is really skilled.

How well does a shadow priest perform compared to a mage? What really annoys me now when trying out 5 mages in dungeons is that everytime one of them dies I must release and run all the way from graveyard. So my thought is if I can put a shadow priest in one slot just to get resurrection ability (not use for any holy healing at all).