Is 5 protection paladins considered the way to go?

[Lyonheart]

This is purely my opinion, but:

If you want to be able to easily and endlessly run dungeons, a team that is able to pick all the roles of the LFD tool is going to be ideal - you don't have to be in the role (heal, dps, tank), just allowed to select it. Personally, I found it annoying having to travel to the dungeon manually and it took time that I could otherwise spend killing things and leveling up. For this purpose, and for a new boxer, I would think that 5 paladins or 5 druids would be ideal. Maybe a *little* tricky because they are a melee team and might be a tiny bit harder to get the hang of.

If you wanted to have a team that wasn't melee, but could still run dungeons easily without having to travel to them, you could do the typical "trinity" team - 1 tank, 3 ranged DPS and 1 healer. It's the way many boxers start off, but I feel like you're trading the complexity of melee teams for the complexity of having to manage at least 3 different classes. I started with a paladin tank, 3 elemental shaman and 1 resto shaman when I began boxing in Wrath of the Lich King, and it was a solid team.

5 hunters are good too, but you can't run random dungeons with them - you have to get to the dungeons to run them. Adding a healer doesn't seem worth it - it won't let you queue for dungeons, and it's probably going to add complexity that you might not want right off.

Right now I have 2 teams - 5x DH tanks at level 110 and they are mostly doing world quests now to gear up a bit, and I like them quite well, and 5x paladin tanks, at about level 83, and they are incredibly fun and all I've done with them since I hit level 10 is run dungeons through the LFD tool.

I agree with this. Hunters are great..but you can't que for dungons with them, you have to go to the dungon location. 5 Palies..5druids work well because you can que for dungons. IF that does not matter to you.. 5 hunters work.

[davidmage]

I agree with this. Hunters are great..but you can't que for dungons with them, you have to go to the dungon location. 5 Palies..5druids work well because you can que for dungons. IF that does not matter to you.. 5 hunters work.

Aye this is true. I updated my text with some more reflection about this. I now remember that I actually did not level my hunters the regular way, I boosted most of them with the Legion pre-order offer. And when I leveled my paladins, I just blazed through the levels by only doing dungeons via LFG tool.

By the way, did anyone try running dungeons at all with 5 hunt at lower levels, are they doable? Might be a considerable factor also.

The person in question is completely new to WoW, maybe it could still be "fun" to take a little longer time, and experience all the quests and the content outside, instead of powerleveling through repeating dungeons? And travel to the dungeon manually (assuming 5 hunt pre 110 can clear it) which was the only option in earlier days. And I don't know, but the game felt different, and not necessarily in a bad way, when we did not have these handy tools to teleport us everywhere. (At least for the first time experience)

[kate]

By the way, did anyone try running dungeons at all with 5 hunt at lower levels, are they doable? Might be a considerable factor also.

I have a team of hunters that I stopped playing around level 40, not because they were bad, but because of the aforementioned annoyances running to dungeons to level up. They absolutely wrecked stuff in the dungeons, no problems at all.

The person in question is completely new to WoW, maybe it could still be "fun" to take a little longer time, and experience all the quests and the content outside, instead of powerleveling through repeating dungeons? And travel to the dungeon manually (assuming 5 hunt pre 110 can clear it) which was the only option in earlier days. And I don't know, but the game felt different, and not necessarily in a bad way, when we did not have these handy tools to teleport us everywhere. (At least for the first time experience)

I would say, for questing, multi-boxing quests as a new-to-WoW player would be an awful experience because so many quests aren't boxer friendly, at least 1-60. Even as an experienced player and a pretty experienced multi-boxer, I dread 1-60 questing with a multi-box team due to how annoying it is, and that's as someone who knows what to skip, where to go, and all that.

[JohnGabriel]

The traditional trinity team is great for timewalking and holiday bosses because you can queue in LFD. But keep in mind you'll quickly outgear heroics and will spend most of your time doing mythics so you have to run to the dungeon anyways. 5 hunters wont be extra work.

In previous expansions it was really useful to be able to queue in LFD, but in Legion its ehh.