Discussion: 3 mage+tank+healer teams

[Vipeax]

Can't wait to play around with this setup and see how far/how many mobs is possible to just AoE down with Arcane Explosion, it seemed like limit in RFC was 6 or so.

I dropped the warrior from my mage+priest group and will be running 4 mages instead. Just spamming Holy Nova along the mages doing AE keeps them alive in SM even with classic damage numbers.

[Quiding]

I dropped the warrior from my mage+priest group and will be running 4 mages instead. Just spamming Holy Nova along the mages doing AE keeps them alive in SM even with classic damage numbers.

Will that be viable in max level though? I think mobs might 2-hit you there?

[Vipeax]

They don't. Even the first pull in Scholomance, which contains 2 of the hardest hitting melee mobs of 5-man dungeons doesn't pose a threat at all (with private server damage numbers!). They hit less than half on classic, but you can't level to the required level to handle them on the stresstest so it's not possible to create proper footage to showcase this.

The second room of Scholomance does become a problem, because that room contains a pull with 3 'shadowpriest'-like units and they manaburn your mages so. The first Stratholme pull contains 4 non-elites and 3 elites. This pull is not doable on private servers, but should be fine on classic. It might be possible on private servers if you fix the target of the mages to each attack a different elite to spread the damage initially, instead of 1 getting bursted down.

[Hksix]

Another vid: Entire ZF Event done in 1 pull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZD4_4q5yNI