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[quote='Kyudo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=118435# post118435]DPS and Synergy for PvE just wasn't what I hoped it would be.....[/quote]

Could you elaborate a bit on that? I'm quad-boxing Boomkin & 3 Elemental Shammies (i'm only at lvl 32 though) so I'd like to hear more about the issues you encountered.[/quote]I won't pretend I concentrated on it for more than about a week, but I had aspirations of running heroics and tearing up PvP with the 1 druid and 4 shaman combo. I geared up the druid with some decent quest blues, gems and enchants, as well as getting 375 LW for the crafted boomkin set. A couple of days after she hit 70, her spell dmg was as high as the shamans (who'd been 70 for about 6 weeks by that time). Her gear profile is here if you are interested:
[url]http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kilrogg&n=Floriana[/url]

I tried a few instances, and found that pulls required much more careful planning, and that the druid really didn't work as a tank, her armor was about the same as the shammies in Moonkin form, and even non heroic bosses and mobs could down her pretty quickly. I'm sure this theory of a "panzerkin" is doable to a certain extent, but my pally in a mix of blues and epics could take 3 times the beating she could. It also meant that she couldn't keep aggro, cos of all the healing she required to keep up.

I worked a fair bit on cast sequences, but despite her having slightly more spell dmg than the shammies, her dps was only at around 60% or so of the shammies.

So overall for me, it didn't feel right, things just felt more "solid" with the pally than the druid, so I got disillusioned and havent really played with her since. I'm sure others have achieved much better results through hard work, theorycrafting, pratice and determination, but if you ask me, if the 1 moonkin, 4 shammy combo was that good, it would be a lot more popular here. A quick check on the acheivements by group composition ([url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=8228'][WoW] Group Composition Accomplishments[/url]) for this type of group doesnt even list it as a group, so it's not exactly proven itself as anything matching the potential viability of other groups.

I've since levelled a 5th shammy to 70, and because of ease of cast sequences I find this group easier, but I haven't been PvPing with them nor have I made any serious attempts at instances. My initial impressions are though, that they are easier than 1 boom, 4 shammies, but still definately harder than the pally/shammies for instancing.