New boxer,Prot pala+Shadowpriests, can "we" solo instances?

[Griznah]

Heya!
Currently I'm only tri-boxing, but now that I've had it set up and everything is looking nice, I was concidering going for a full group.
I have a protpala and shadowpriests, would that setup be doable for me doing instances on my own?
The shadowpriests can supply some healing,manareturns(at later levels) and also good DPS.
Any input?

[JonnyB]

Heya!
Currently I'm only tri-boxing, but now that I've had it set up and everything is looking nice, I was concidering going for a full group.
I have a protpala and shadowpriests, would that setup be doable for me doing instances on my own?
The shadowpriests can supply some healing,manareturns(at later levels) and also good DPS.
Any input?

I know there are others out there. I started the same group on the weekend. Only up to 33/34 with them. I've never had a pally past 15 before so I'm actually doing a lot of questing rather than powerlevelling to get a good feel for things. With a priest being my main for years I'm pretty confident this may work very well. I'm not sure if VE off 4 priests will be enough at 60 or 70, so I'm thinking prot pally + 3 shdaow + 1 holy would be fine in most situations. Heroics would be interesting for sure. Having done many heroics on my resto shaman / holy priest with a prot pally essentially being the cc, the attention required to keep them up might make it problematic with all the management of the 3 different roles.

Hopefully I'll be in Outland by the weekend. (i tried multiboxing my 70 priest/shaman/warrior/mage and found it extremely difficult. Even 2 different classes seems to be a good challenge, which i guess is why 5 x 1 class groups are so popular. )

[mickske]

I run this setup aswell.

4x shadowpriest + VE is enough to keep your tank up pre-60 instances, imo. Toss in a couple of renews now & then (but say goodbye to shadowform) and you'll have no trouble at all. In Outlands (I have only done Ramparts)
this didn't really work. I specced 1 priest to Holy as the main healer and everything works great now. I feel like I have somewhat slow dps though, this due to the fact that Mindflay cannot crit, I don't know..

Vampiric Touch will be a disappointment when you hit 50, but it gets better in Outland as you get more spelldamage.

[Tonuss]

Caster classes have it a bit rough at first in Outland. Unless you were running raid instances for gear before hitting Outland, you probably have very little spell damage. But as you work your way through the Outland quests and instances your spell damage starts to increase pretty fast.

Paladin + holy priest + 3 DPS seems to be a good setup. Paladin can keep aggro on several mobs rather nicely, and as the DPS gear up they're able to burn stuff down faster and faster. My paladin/priest/hunter/mage/warlock team did well on the first two Ramparts bosses, but managing three separate DPS classes was a bit inefficient. I'm leveling up a paladn, priest, and three hunters now.

[Sanctume]

I was 3-boxing before using Paladin, SPriest, and Holy Shock Pally and I did not like the SPriest.

The SPriest took much more micro-management to drop the cast sequence and dps rotation.
Later, I switch to a Smite Priest build and it was ok--but still felt slow dps--and longer down time as I needed to drink up to get mana after pulls.

I was doing Shadow Labs first room at the time too.

[Griznah]

Thanks for the replies.
I've started with another 2 priests and settled with the idea that I need to have 1 as a healer.
so, protpala+3shadow+1disc/holy as of now.

[neux]

I want to bring up the same question, well almost same, but this time for 3.1
and with DK tank?

in other words I want to know if 4xSProests+DK or 3xSPriests+DK will work?
or I better stick with tested and proven 4xEle+DK or 3Ele+DK? << 5th one would be a friend.

I never run more then tri-box, usually dualbox, and had alot of fun with Boomking and demolock,
but now I want to make at least quadbox and have a friend run with me for 5th spot or make a full group.

in any ways, spriest sounds kinda interesting, but I dont know if it is worth it...

[Catamer]

try all pallys, everyone can take a beating, everyone can do dps, everyone can rez the fallen, everyone can heal.... and ret pallys are very simple to play ( concecrates,judgements and melee swings ).
finished uldaman at 38
I'm 5 boxing but i've done every instance except the one in inside of the horde city ( i'm alliance ) well within the range normally acceptable for the instance, I'm heading to Zul'Farrak now at level 42-43, just need to get a few more quests.

[Tezze]

Pshhh, I prebought a TON of BoE sorcerer, invoker, etc gear so that when my guys hit th 57-58 range they already had decent gear. They go for like 4-7g per piece on the AH so its not a big deal. Ijust started a warrior, 3 priest group thats going pretty well but w/o a dedicated healer you basically just give up shadowform.

[neux]

I see...

then it seems that 20% commutative healing from total damage is no go, regardless of angle you look at it ;(


PS: I am really sleepy here, cuz I am setting up 3 shamys (already have forth at 56) so I think my grammar and logik is majorly sukzor :P