PvE Progress

[Drakkun]

Just started a new trio that I eventually will use for 3v3 arenas.

Shaman (Resto) - Phuuk
Warlock (Demo) - Phuuc
Warlock (Demo) - Phuuq

Current Level: 23

Edit: I am finding so far that 3 chars with 2 pets can function in a 5 man setting rather well. With my setup, I have 1 healer, 2 DPS, and 2 tanks. The VW's have just as much health and armor as a true tank. I know this changes at higher levels, but is working great for now.

Instances
RFC - cleared at 15, no wipes. VW's tank, shaman heals, warlocks dot + drain
WC - cleared at 22, no wipes. Took a long time though, almost 2 hours.

Completed SFK at 24. Now to start farming SFK and WC until I hit about 28. I'm also thinking about adding a 4th character as 3-boxing the instances takes a long time to insure no wipes.

[Oswyn]

Wow, time flies!!! I've been meaning to post my progress, but before I knew it I hit 40 with my 5man (er person) team.

Quested until 25 before I read about boosting, then used my 70 holy pally to take us through Stocks and then SM. Started to do ZF, but seems like it's taking too long. Will see if questing is faster at this point. If only I had a 70 mage!

[d0z3rr]

Currently 53 on my 4x huntards. Last instance I ran was a Princess Maraudon run. I tried out Sunken Temple and Blackrock Depths. Both turned out to be immensely boring but pretty easy. So since about lvl 47 I have been questing ALOT. It's actually really fun and about as fast as instance grinding. I think the only reason I'm actually enjoying the questing is two things:

1. Questhelper!!!!! (best addon in the world)

2. The zones are fun. I love Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes, EPL, WPL, Winterspring, Felwood, Un'goro crater.

[betrayed]

ding lvl 47 4x hunters

ding lvl 51 1x priest 4x locks

ding lvl 62 4x shammies



Venture Co. / Horde FTW!

[mrmcgee21]

I've now cleared every TBC 5 man instance. Currently working on the heroics. I have heroic Ramparts, BF, and SP done. Working on H underbog currently. Running a similar group makeup to skarlot. 1 war, 1 lock, 1 priest, 2 mages. I use 1 desktop, 1 notebook, just 2 screens. 3 casters on notebook, lock and war on desktop with keyclone.



Thext

[firest4rter]

First post for me in this Thread.

I lvled to 19 on Blood Mist Ilse and then headed to DM and have been in instaces ever since. My general plan of attack is make sure I get all quests for the instance and run it until done. This has meant doing some running around and some painful quests at time, but mostly ok. I have also run instances multiple times until read to progress to the next instance.

So far it has gone like this.

DM- 19
SFK- 22
BFD - 24
RFK - 25
Stocks - 26
Gnomer - 27
SMGY - 30
SMLIB - 32
SMARM - 36
SM CATH - 37
ULDA - 39
.......

Not sure if I will keep doing instances now or head off and clear some quests.

I'll run Ulda a few more times and then decide.

[marvein]

updates for me, been doing other things recently.

dinged 44 just a bit ago. instance updates are:

armory full clear on first try at 36.5 (some where 36 others 37)

cathedral full clear at 38 with a couple wipes. mostly caused by those damn scarlet wizards.

one shotted uldaman(including archeades) at 40 but didnt really like the instance so only ran once

mara orange side... eww was able to do it at 42 but it was painful with resists and such. and @43 i still was not able to kill noxxion. he spawns just too many adds for me to deal with and I usually wipe at around 20% after the 3-4th spawn.

mara purple side... full clear @42. was even easier than orange side IMO. Celebras is just laughable. did wipe some usually do to the stealthed mobs arriving at worst possible times. I still have some deaths but usually its just because i go fast, if I slow down so I can use my cooldowns every pull It would be easy mode but take a lot longer. (cooldowns being bloodfury and omgyes elemental mastery)

mara inner... still working on this. As of 43 I was not able to even kill those hydras reliably. They hit way too hard, too much hp and resists were horrid (they are 46-47 after all). Princess will be interesting. I actually was not aware she was immune to nature (mentioned above) so my strat wil be intersting for this. It is no big deal though because I plan to be here for atleast a little while to gear up my guys, lots of excellent caster stuff in here which should really help my damage output (plus i still need 2-3 levels to even equip any of it) After this I may dable in ZF but the savage set in BRD has caught my eye so i think that will be my next target. Not to mention the cloth drops from humanoid mobs will be handy later for tailoring alts and first aid.

PS - Im having a BLAST. and vyndree/suvegga you guys are awsome.

*update* pushing thru inner mara, lvl 44 with the resist rate and new rank of lightning bolt made the hydras easy mode. These elemental patrols really piss me off. all immune to nature and spawn lots of adds when they die. my melee is ok but they have some prety hefty defense. But what is making me hate this place are these damn demietradon packs.. the 3's were bad but these 4 and 5 pulls are pretty much a garaunteed wipe. they always get to my party and then just chain silence everyone. All I can really do is pop cooldowns and kill one or two in the group then ankh and repeat and it really annoys me..maybe just farm outer and move on as much as I want those daggers off princess...

[farkenell]

1) Ragefire chasm.

pain in the ass instance, its so long to walk between bosses. its quite easy however and doing quite well with not much wipes. if I was more careful I could get it done without wipes. average time is about an hour for 2 bosses, (I took a break from killing 2 came back later killed another 2).

after getting concecrate its way easier holding aggro on mobs.

2) 1x pally (tank) 1x lock 2x mages - all lev 20

I think maybe I shoulda replaced one of the mages with a shammy but I think it might get abit complicated, I haven't levelled or played a shaman before so I don't know how complicated it could get.

[firest4rter]

Update from me.

Went into ZF at lvl 42. Luckily for me I dinged 43 at the start of the instance.

This has been the most challenging instance for me yet. The blood drinkers, and witch doctors require some thought for positioning every fight (god I hate using my brain) and the Hunters were just painful. I learnt to take the hunters down real fast, as if they Hex my pally who is my leader, the shammies just run around in circles following the frog, whilst I quickly remember what keybind I have to hit to change leader. If it was 1 or 2 hunters this is no problem, because you can just burn them down from distance and leave the aggro with the Shammies. The problem is when its 1 or 2 hunters with supporting witch doctor and blood drinker. This requires the pally to pick up aggro on the dr and drinker whilst burning down the hunters. Now for whatever reason, maybe its how the mechanics work, when ever in this situation, without fail my pally would get hexed. I guess its the hunters job to take down the one with the most aggro. I could get myself out of this situation, but it was annoying and usually resulted in one of shammies getting killed

I ended up clearing the instance at lvl 43. No good drops. Plan on running 2-3 more times before some easy quests around Tanaris and then off to Mara.

Im currently lvl 46.

[Poolboy]

Well, I've actually never posted here with what I've done so far.

My team (see my sig) was a collection of a mid 60's Priest I had sitting around (she was one of my 1st chars created at launch and I feel like I actually play the healer role very well), and a low 60's Hunter that I had recently level due to never having played one yet. The Huntard was poorly geared and truth be told I was not very good at playing him. I was everything wrong with the average Hunter player rofl. No shot rotation to speak of, just pet + pewpew, loot and carry on.

I decided to roll up a Pally tank and 2 Mages and get to questing, with a wee bit of boosting thrown in early on.

Sooooo... my peeps are now:

61 Paladin
61 Mage
61 Mage
64 Hunter
68 Priest

I went to Hellfire at 57 with them, and I basically did all of 57-58 in a big fat AoE grinding explosion. It was very fast and very profitable. Then at 58 I started questing Hellfire, finished all of it, then went into Zangarmarsh.

My team is sitting at 61.75... and completely out of Outlands quests lol. It sucks. So I figured I would take them into Ramparts and grind it out.

Ugh. What a relity check. Being that I quested almost exclusively I hadn't really tested my setup in a dungeon in a long while. I got spanked a bunch of times, my setup, strategies and macros need some help. Multi mob pulls, healing, wipe recovery etc etc all a big mess. I spanked Gargolmar twice, and gave up for now.

So, back to Azeroth to do Strath/Scholo quests and basically re-learn my team for dungeon running. The instances so far are way easier and the quest exp should easily get me to 62. At 62 I can hand in all those Fertile Spores I looted and get my Pally his Sporeggar shield, the Ench recipes, etc etc. Not to mention a whack of new quests open up at 62.

I think with some more practice and a little bit more exp/gear I should be a lot more comfortable in Outlands dungeons.