Melee-Cleave Boxing End Game Dungeons

[Apatheist]

Any SWWWW boxers farming Naxx Trash for the BoE's? I've been a retailboy and i'll likely never get around to it until TBC.

Can't say for sure but it doesn't seem likely. Naxx trash hits very hard (ghouls hit for 1500ish on a full T2 warrior) and without CC a single healer won't be able to keep melee alive.

Might be possible for mages and maybe even warlocks with curse of exhaustion. Though, I seem to recall Blizzard patching something that made mobs reset if you tried to kite them beyond a certain point. If kiting does work, you could sub in a warrior with 3 mages just to soak up loot.

If not, there will be tons of trash farm raids to join.

[nodoze]

Any SWWWW boxers farming Naxx Trash for the BoE's? I've been a retailboy and i'll likely never get around to it until TBC.

Can't say for sure but it doesn't seem likely. Naxx trash hits very hard (ghouls hit for 1500ish on a full T2 warrior) and without CC a single healer won't be able to keep melee alive.

Might be possible for mages and maybe even warlocks with curse of exhaustion. Though, I seem to recall Blizzard patching something that made mobs reset if you tried to kite them beyond a certain point. If kiting does work, you could sub in a warrior with 3 mages just to soak up loot.

If not, there will be tons of trash farm raids to join.

For a 5boxer I agree with Apatheist that likely W+3M+Healer would be the best option for trash as being able to totally CC at least 3 mobs is just too strong (and you maybe be able to round-robin CC a few more).

If you are more than 5boxing then likely I would do more Mages and maybe a 2nd Warrior and/or a 2nd Healer. Two 5boxers working together (or a 10boxer) would be strong with 2Warriors+2Priests+6Mages. Some swaps I would consider would be swapping out the 2nd Warrior for a Druid/Paladin Tank or a Priest for a Druid/Paladin/Shaman Healer and maybe 1 Mage for a Warlock for curse/buff/stones/etc.

I prefer Paladin Tanks and Druid Tanks for 5mans Dungeon grinding teams but a well geared Warrior does have the highest mitigation, control, & at least single target threat and seems best for raid trash packs that are mostly CCed.

[Apatheist]

Even with a geared trinity setup using a dedicated tank, you wouldn't be able to farm Naxx trash. The mobs hit too hard for a single healer to keep up.

To do this farm you need ranged characters that can slow. Which pretty much means mages or warlocks. I'm not certain curse of exhaustion slows mobs enough and if you made one mistake and didn't refresh it quickly enough on a ghoul, you'd die.

A paladin to hold agro with BoK spam while your mages blizzard would be a pretty solid strategy for alliance boxers. The ghouls have around 95,000HP. If you stacked enough MP5 to use rank 1 blizzard without going OOM, it does 8 ticks of around 50-60 damage depending on gear. 95000/200=475. Around 8 minutes per pull. That's pretty doable. If your gear is good enough to use higher ranks of blizzard, it'd be a lot faster.

I think PMMMM should be able to manage this as well. With a decent amount of hit rating on your mages plus permafrost, you could just kite around using CoC on cooldown similar to the ZF farm. You'd have to be incredibly unlucky for a ghoul to resist all 4 CoC's.

Problem is, the trash drops aren't very exciting for casters. There's a really nice nice robe for tank warlocks and a unique fire damage ring. That's about it. Nowhere near as OP as the melee weapons.