Viability of 5 shaman in WoTLK

[Multibocks]

if anyone was interested Im watching the stream at http://www.mogulus.com/petra_wow_channel

it's pretty good and Petra does dungeons all the time. I just watched a fight in the occulus that I have no idea how a mb'er will be able to beat the boss. You all get on dragons and dogfight the boss. Not sure /follow would work in that ?(

[Maxion]

Bosses now hit for way too much to handle with a shaman team. The final boss in ramps at level 60-63 will totally annihilate a shaman if you have to tank it for any more than a couple seconds. The shaman end up successful when they outgear instances and then DPS burn things and overwhelm content to the max.

My shaman team cleared ramps at lvl 61 using the strategy to dps the dragon first in the air without aggroing the rider.

[Multibocks]

Not to resurrect an old thread, but.... I just realized that the way shaman win most boss fights has now been disabled in WotLK, Bloodlust now has a giant cooldown that means you will be only able to use it once per boss fight. I'm thinking I may have to actually level a tank now for doing instances regular-like... I guess I could use the 5 shaman to clear trash faster and then bring in a paladin/druid/war/dk to tank the boss. /cry

[Xar]

Not to resurrect an old thread, but.... I just realized that the way shaman win most boss fights has now been disabled in WotLK, Bloodlust now has a giant cooldown that means you will be only able to use it once per boss fight. I'm thinking I may have to actually level a tank now for doing instances regular-like... I guess I could use the 5 shaman to clear trash faster and then bring in a paladin/druid/war/dk to tank the boss. /cry

Hmmm, most of the bosses go down within the first heroism. I also use drums for haste and haven't tried stacking it yet but there's the haste potion. So far in beta I'm doing more damage (haven't tested since the last patch though).

[Schwarz]

I have downed all the bosses in heroic slavepens without the use of bloodlust or totem of wrath. I don't think this is going to be that big of a problem.

[Multibocks]

bah I always forget about drums and pots... gotta work those into my macros I guess.

[maxcom]

earth elementals are still lvl70 at 80

[Multibocks]

OH.... MY.... GAWD.... shamanx5 is screwed.

[Vyndree]

earth elementals are still lvl70 at 80

Bug report it. It's a beta, it's not polished. Some things haven't even been implemented yet.

OH.... MY.... GAWD.... shamanx5 is screwed.

CALM DOWN.

[Rin]

earth elementals are still lvl70 at 80

Bug report it. It's a beta, it's not polished. Some things haven't even been implemented yet.

OH.... MY.... GAWD.... shamanx5 is screwed.

CALM DOWN.

^ This. Also, I understand that the 5x shaman team may not be as effective as it has been in the past, so a consideration may be to level a tank. With the R-A-F, I've heard of people doing 1-60 in less than 24 hours (most of us have at least 1 level 70 around to help us complete the kill quests, right?), You can pull off the other 60-70 in probably a maximum of 5 played days. Please keep in mind that Blizzard isn't totally done with WoTLK (hence, beta), but if the final release does end up like the beta, you've gotta start thinking outside the box a little . There's nothing wrong with 5 shamans, but if you're going to want to survive WoTLK Heroics, you're going to want to have a tank (at least for the time being).