What would the best main DPS class to use for a 40-man raid setup?

[Fuii]

You're more likely to find a raid spot as fury warrior then a mage.
While there are a lot of furies out there already (same for mages though) most raids tend to take a fury over a mage if a decision has to be made (assuming there are already mages and fury warriors in the raid)... its just more consistent and far better scaling damage.

Even with pre-raid gear, a fury warrior will most likely deal more damage to a boss than a raid-gear mage.

[dustofoblivion]

You're more likely to find a raid spot as fury warrior then a mage.
While there are a lot of furies out there already (same for mages though) most raids tend to take a fury over a mage if a decision has to be made (assuming there are already mages and fury warriors in the raid)... its just more consistent and far better scaling damage.

Even with pre-raid gear, a fury warrior will most likely deal more damage to a boss than a raid-gear mage.

You misunderstood my question. I want to 40-man multibox, and I'm wondering if my main DPS class should be a fury warrior or a mage.

[valkry]

You misunderstood my question. I want to 40-man multibox, and I'm wondering if my main DPS class should be a fury warrior or a mage.

Fury warrior 100% then, not even a question, warrior all the way. faster you can nuke that boss the better, nothing beats a brown, end of story.

If you want to 40 man box, you want to get to a point where you can ignore mechanics (or just burst fast enough to skip them). Once you get some gear warriors scale incredibly well. The rotation is easy as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFG2HNGYGU - <Apes> speedrun of BWL, note that almost 50% of the raid are browns.

[Kruschpakx4]

the question is can you multibox 20 wars properly enough to do more dps than mages who need 1 button for dps in a 40 man setup, because I doubt you will have time to manage rage in any way so you should compare the dps with a "bad" warrior, not likely to find those in <apes>

it will also take an eternity to gear those wars there like...7 items for dps wars in MC, 4 of which are 2h weapons

[nodoze]

You misunderstood my question. I want to 40-man multibox, and I'm wondering if my main DPS class should be a fury warrior or a mage.

the question is can you multibox 20 wars properly enough to do more dps than mages who need 1 button for dps in a 40 man setup, because I doubt you will have time to manage rage in any way so you should compare the dps with a "bad" warrior, not likely to find those in <apes>

it will also take an eternity to gear those wars there like...7 items for dps wars in MC, 4 of which are 2h weapons

I would think Mages would be easiest to play and keep alive from a ranged perspective.

Would all mages top DPS in raids were you can leverage ignite mechanics?

[strokes]

the question is can you multibox 20 wars properly enough to do more dps than mages who need 1 button for dps in a 40 man setup, because I doubt you will have time to manage rage in any way so you should compare the dps with a "bad" warrior, not likely to find those in <apes>

it will also take an eternity to gear those wars there like...7 items for dps wars in MC, 4 of which are 2h weapons

It's pretty easy to be in the 50+ percentile dps as a warrior while multiboxing. I can do it while healing on my resto shaman. Fury is a joke spec for raiding. You only need to micro manage rage if you're going for 99 parses. If you have any weapon skill, you can smash out 60-70 parses relatively easy.

Your biggest issues are gonna be mechanics, not dps.

[nodoze]

It's pretty easy to be in the 50+ percentile dps as a warrior while multiboxing. I can do it while healing on my resto shaman. Fury is a joke spec for raiding. You only need to micro manage rage if you're going for 99 parses. If you have any weapon skill, you can smash out 60-70 parses relatively easy.

Your biggest issues are gonna be mechanics, not dps.

Aren't Mages who are able to DPS from range going to be better able to deal with most mechanics?

Just seems pretty straight forward that attacking from range and being easier to gear (as well as doing better with shit gear) makes Mages a better proposition to be multiboxing in larger numbers.

[strokes]

Aren't Mages who are able to DPS from range going to be better able to deal with most mechanics?

Just seems pretty straight forward that attacking from range and being easier to gear (as well as doing better with shit gear) makes Mages a better proposition to be multiboxing in larger numbers.

With enough warriors, a lot of fights stop being fights. No other class can pump as much damage in 30-40 second kills (what you would have to be doing to make ignoring mechanics viable). The best mages(99) barely compete with great warriors(95+) on parses.

Warriors will be the better composition if (really big if) you have enough of them well geared.

I am completely ignoring the fact that you would go insane before you could gear that many warriors that well.

[Kruschpakx4]

Your biggest issues are gonna be mechanics, not dps.

which favors ranged classes, as much as i love warriors in vanilla for multiboxing but thinking of garr, gheddon, rag and to some extend shazzrah with 20 warriors and not investing thousands of gold in pots each run i dont see them being much faster than a caster setup...certainly not cheaper either if you want 20x lionheart+devilsaur+flurry+deep woods+resistance potions