The Post 3.02 Ideal Team Build, has it changed?

[Noids99]

I have always run with a mage in my 5 man group. Started with Pally, 3 shammies and a mage for PvE. I have druids and shammies levelling to give me the option of 5 shammies or 4 and 1 druid, but looking at the mage builds I am reconsidering.

1. Both fire and frost have the ability to add 10% spell crit to a target.

2. Fire has an insane AoE nuke sequence with DB, insta Flameshock, Blastwave knockback, second insta flameshock. Both of these knockback/daze and disorient effects are on lower cooldowns than Thunderstorm and if used correctly can continue dps on any melee that get in your face indefinitely. On top of this, pyro is now actually functional for more than an opener and with mediocre gear testing last night was critting for 4k for me.

3. Frost and Arcane have close to the best CC in the game IMO with poly and either slow or deep freeze.

4. Frost mages are one of the hardest classes to FF with iceblock/barrier and cold snap. Add 4 potential healers behind the AoE power of a mage and you have a potent combination for long range nuking and crazy burst dmg/aoe.

[Griznah]

Depends on PvE or PvP.
I love my setup for PvE atleast. The shadow priest might not be the best, since it's not easy to make a good rotation for.

[Schwarz]

I have been wondering about this myself. My current plan is to take 5 shaman into northrend and see what they can do. I am tempted to add a lock to the group so they can all benefit from the curse that would be placed on the boss. Shaman are pretty much trash clearing machines right now. Grounding totems makes ranged easy and thunderstorm makes melee easy. I think only time will tell on what is the best group.

Right now it looks like shaman at level 80 might not be in the same ballpark dps wise as some of the other casters. I am sure that if this is the case then we should see a buff to elemental shaman at some point. So the way I figure it is you struggle leaning new content but will probably eventually get it down. Then if you get a buff everything becomes that much easier

[TheBigBB]

Only PVE raiding and high-end arena really pushes you to the limit, so I think some people will still be successful with 1-class groups in some areas. It's not necessary to have the best DPS on the planet even in a heroic. However, the best team for PVE I am sure is a mixed team, which is why I went that route when I learned about the stacking changes. You can amass so many buffs so easily with a mixed team, and with tanks doing more damage, your mixed team would be way superior. I couldn't be happier with this team in PVE already as compared to my shaman team. However, I wouldn't even dream of stepping foot into an arena or any serious PVP situation with a tank, 3 DPS and a healer. I have no idea what the dominant PVP setup will become. Even as it stands, most successful PVP MBers were not using a team of 5, but rather they had a healer played by someone else. The only thing I'm certain of is that the dominant PVP groups will still use the shaman as the gold standard.

[Coltimar]

My 1 Pally x4 Shaman was sucking majorly at first. DPS was low, healing sucked, many of the abilities like EM weren't working when I mashed the macro. That all changed today when I decided to spend the talent points on my other two shaman, lol. DOH! I couldn't figure out the crits for 900 I was getting with LB on my back two guys! id10t error.

[Aethon]

I just think I'm lucky to have started my druid/shamans before the talk of the nerfing/changes.

Best bit of random forethought I ever had.

[Multibocks]

Im thinking of doing priest or druid healer and 4 warlocks for pvp only. The thought of dot and forget each target has me pretty intrigued..

[Noids99]

mmm... druid healer is looking mighty good. The insta group heal looks awesome indeed.

[Multibocks]

wha? what group insta heal? I missed the boat on this one.

[offive]

The locks and priest combo is very nice for PvP. I litteraly hit 60 last night with a batch of 3 locks and a priest last night (one last batch of RAFs to go). With all the exploration acheivement players out there I was able to have some fun. I was impressed with the performance of that team in world pvp, and can't wait to get them to 70. Yes I got the "Make love, not Warcraft achievement" on two... guess I need to make a /hug macro button.

I will be building a batch of hunters and droods with boosting and grant a level in the month I have left. I figure I might as have a few of all classes, then I can work whatever angles work out to be best in the future.

On a side note, my orignial team's warrior tank is much better now with all the changes, shockwave crit! I need to load Omen to check on the windshock rotation threat reduction for shammys. I also need to load Recount to see how the DPS classes are performing in general.