Melee Boxers

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I leveled my shammies to 52 as enhancement/melee. After that, I will never level a melee group for PVP. For PVE only, yes.

[menes777]

Do the damaging effects of consecration stack, like say you have 5 Paladins, and all of them cast consecration. Will all 5 of the consecration spells do damage or only one?

[Bigfish]

Pretty sure they stack.

[menes777]

Thanks Bigfish

[HPB]

It stacks. While attacking a group of mobs, many times by the time the one I'm focusing on is dead the rest are close from concecrate stacks.

[Redbeard]

Lol ill never make it to 80.. decided to switch my team again. Switching out one paladin for a fury warrior. In order to use free RAF levels for the warrior i have to switch my DK to another account so Im really starting two new characters.

Oy.

[ghonosyph and the moocrew]

Feral druid/3 blood spec dk's

pure ownage, tho i'd love to rock an unholy spec, but i'm so used to blood and its passive healing that i cant really bring myself to switch. With rune tap(with glyph) vampiric blood(with glyph) and deathstrike (with glyph) you get SOOOO much passive healing, every 30 seconds to 2 minutes you're healing for 30 to 70 percent of your health... on top of the 4% every so often from improved leader of the pack from the druid. use the druid to tank, dk's to dps, add a shaman in later for totems and chainheals to round it off and you've got a decent group.... i wont go back to my caster group as long as this still works for me tho hehe cant wait for arena, i think i'll be 3's ing my druid and 2 dks or my shaman buddy will heal for me and i'll dps with the 2 dks hehe

in general melee boxing is MUCH more difficult because of positioning, but here's some tips i've come up with to help out.

unbind on your main your movement keys(w,a,s,d,x..i use x for backup and s for tabtargeting) on your alts bind SHIFT -W and shift - x to forward and back.... this will let you tank with your main... with a quick shift w or x you can move your alts into melee range, and back them up.... this allows for your main to stay put and your alts to move up and down as needed to reach the mob.... i tried binding follow into my attacks, but as soon as the mobs move alittle bit you're screwed... try binding follow command to your F key, thus if you need to force the clones to face a certain direction or come closer you can hit the f key(i also have this as my assist leader key) so /follow leader /assist leader and they do their thing.

i thought maybe about trying to macro shift q,w,e to my 3 alts forward keys, so that i can chose to move each one (one with q, one with w, one with e) if i need further adjustment.... only problem with that is that it cuts out your close-finger keybinds for other commands hehe.... perhaps getting a little numpad on a usb cord and using that to move the alts might help too....



all in all i love melee boxing ... especially with dk's

[RobinGBrown]

How do you guys deal with follow breaking? Do you have /follow on every attack macro?

I have a 'Tackle' macro which goes something like this (using focus based macros and typing from memory):

/follow focus
/assist focus

It's on my T key so I just hit that to turn the followers.

The technique to using this is to run THROUGH the mob and spin that pulls all your followers into melee range, if the mob moves circle round it on your leader and press T again to Turn your followers and Tackle the Target - see, there's a mnemonic as well!

Forgot to say: 5 paladin group (prot main, 2xret, 2xshockadin - pre patch3), also mixed melee and caster group with warrior, rogue, pally

I think that 3 pallies + 2 others will be best in future as there are only 3 judgments you can stack now, I used to have each pally use a different judgment pre 3 so 5 was really useful, especially with 5 different auras and 5 different blessings - gives you a pile of buffs on each char that makes up for poor quality gear quite nicely - I was RAFing them up

[Nostromos]

Five blood spec Deathknights. :thumbup:

lol! Were you in Coldarra questing yesterday?

Wasn't me boss I roll on Garona :}

[Svpernova09]

Love it and have the /y "get over here" macro for death grip lol.

OMG that stuff is SO annoying.

A solo boxer was using that crap and I reported him for spamming because he'd button mash his death grip button and I couldn't read anything on my screen.

/agree

I run 3 DKs all Frost atm. Thinking about switching up, I really like unholy but right now I can Icy Touch, Howling Blast, and if the mob isn't dead from that, I just Blood Strike.