Shadowlands Alpha Theorycrafting

[daviddoran]

I'm going to be trying:

1. 5x Druids (1 Guardian 4 Balance, all with resto affinity)
2. Prot Paladin Resto Shaman 3x BM Hunters
3. Prot Paladin 4x Elemental Shaman (maybe one resto?)
4. 5x Paladins (1 Prot 1 Holy 3 Ret, maybe 4 ret?)
5. Holy Paladin and 4x Blood DKs (are these going to be nerfed in Shadowlands? DKs are only in the 80s atm)
6. Mistweaver Monk and 4x DHs (unsure on this, no experience with monks or DH, but might be interesting)

I will probably level up 5 shaman, 5 druids, 5 hunters, 5 paladins, 5 DKs and 5 DHs, mainly via questing, and split em around to different dungeon teams at 60, but we will see how the questing goes, and how boxing friendly they are, vs how boxing friendly the dungeons are.

The real question is, do I bother getting more hivemind clusters on any of these teams? I only have it on the Druids so far, and it took me like 12 hours, and I did not enjoy the process.

Looking at this list and I am probably not going to get everything leveled up, for the first couple patches anyway. I'd guess that the lower in the list the less likely they will make it to 60, let alone run dungeons.

[Lyonheart]

I'm going to be trying:

1. 5x Druids (1 Guardian 4 Balance, all with resto affinity)
2. Prot Paladin Resto Shaman 3x BM Hunters
3. Prot Paladin 4x Elemental Shaman (maybe one resto?)
4. 5x Paladins (1 Prot 1 Holy 3 Ret, maybe 4 ret?)
5. Holy Paladin and 4x Blood DKs (are these going to be nerfed in Shadowlands? DKs are only in the 80s atm)
6. Mistweaver Monk and 4x DHs (unsure on this, no experience with monks or DH, but might be interesting)

I will probably level up 5 shaman, 5 druids, 5 hunters, 5 paladins, 5 DKs and 5 DHs, mainly via questing, and split em around to different dungeon teams at 60, but we will see how the questing goes, and how boxing friendly they are, vs how boxing friendly the dungeons are.

The real question is, do I bother getting more hivemind clusters on any of these teams? I only have it on the Druids so far, and it took me like 12 hours, and I did not enjoy the process

I could have made this exact post, as I have the same exact teams..only difference is my 4 of my shaman are only 100. I plan to level them to 120 before the expac ( maybe during the pre-patch ) I also I have one rogue and one monk that i boosted to 120 to open my lockboxes. I plan to level them the same as you..all one class.

I have a team of warlocks at 100 as well.. not sure if i will level them..if there is a exp bonus thing during the pre-patch for expac.. i might level the locks and anything else im missing..ie priests..warriors and 4 more monks and rogues. We still have no idea what will be best comps..we can only awesome at this point.

I have only done the hivemind with my druids as well.. i kind of regret doing them first, the druids are the one team that gets the least out of it. I find when im questing or doing WQs I use insta-flight form more.. it comes in handy for PvP though. So, i plan to do the hivemind on all my teams at some point.

Now if we could get someone who is currently boxing in Alpha to start posting updates!