Update: How the 5x Boomkins are doing

[Evilseed]

How are you instantly dropping all the trees? Im guessing you are going to each instance and doing it, possibly with 2 monitors? Id like to know exactly how you do it if you dont mind.

I have a tool I wrote which does it perfectly. Its fully legit just like how keyclone is and is very sensitive to concerns about multiboxing. I'm going to be releasing it to the public very soon. Basically I'm doing a lot of stress testing as it is. This tool of mine is an ABSOLUTE GODSEND. I can cast for example 5x hurricanes anywhere instantly all in the same spot for massive pwnage. Plus popping 15 trees instantly is magical onto itself. I'm going to be PMing some people soon to test things out if you're interested.

[algol]

The only big thing I see shamans having is a totem to break fear

Go play in Plaguelands for a while and tell me it's not nice to have.

But it's not the only thing. Totems are unusual in that having two elemental shamans gives you more buffs than one elemental shaman. The only other class that can really claim that is Paladins...who used to be the Shaman's mirror class. It's a team that's very good at dealing with a wide variety of situations, so it's a very good team to work with until you know what you want and what you're giving up to get it.

I have a tool I wrote which does it perfectly. Its fully legit just like how keyclone is and is very sensitive to concerns about multiboxing. I'm going to be releasing it to the public very soon. Basically I'm doing a lot of stress testing as it is. This tool of mine is an ABSOLUTE GODSEND. I can cast for example 5x hurricanes anywhere instantly all in the same spot for massive pwnage. Plus popping 15 trees instantly is magical onto itself. I'm going to be PMing some people soon to test things out if you're interested.

Be careful. Anything that even positions the mouse for you is heavily into grey areas, if not already into the forbidden territory of automation. It sounds like you're describing something which does that. There are several already that do - we just don't use them widely because we like keeping our accounts.

[Evilseed]

Be careful. Anything that even positions the mouse for you is heavily into grey areas, if not already into the forbidden territory of automation. It sounds like you're describing something which does that. There are several already that do - we just don't use them widely because we like keeping our accounts.

I have a very open and active dialog with Blizzard through some other angles that I have with the company. No worries here. My program revolves around the same concept that "Pull 1 lever and 5 levels are then pulled" example that Blizzard is giving for the AOK in multiboxing software.

[Negativ1337]

Sounds AWESOME.

I kinda regret im leveling 4 warlocks and a priest.

Can you do heroics?
And if you cant you should wait for dual spec

You can go 3 boomkin, 1 healer and one beartank and then switch back to boomkin after all

Howlong did 1-80 took?
I dont like the tauren starter area nor the barrens since i have done it too many times.

Please tell some more about arena, heroics and leveling I am really having a lot of questions at these 3 points.

-Totemic

[Evilseed]

Hey there,

Okay so I'm not 80 yet, in fact I just hit 75 today (http://wtbblue.com guides rock at helping me lvl). So far I feel extremely powerful. I can take on multiple geared 80s at once w/o a sweat in world PVP. *blush* I even spent 30 minutes camping a group of 77s for a load of fun

For heroics, I'm not sure as I'm not 80 yet. However, I fully expect it to be possible. If the instance mechanics allow for multiboxing (as in, character placement isn't too difficult, nothing funky required), then 5x druids should easily be able to do heroics. Right now I'm doing normal instances easy w/o a tank. 5x Boomkins have such ginormous DPS and armor that a real tank isn't required at all. For example, in Utgarde Keep, I can clear the instance without getting hit at all except for the bosses. When I get to a boss fight, I simply dump a billion HOT heals on my lead guy, and let him attack first to get aggro, and then balls to walls DPS. Boss fights typically last seconds. One key thing to know is that aggro is NEVER a problem as long as your lead guy has more +spelldmg and you let him get a spell or 2 off first.

For arenas, I don't know. I actually just hit 70 right before wotlk came out so not sure. I do know that I steamroll every battleground ezsauce. Every 5box shaman (or 4xsham 1xpally) team I ran into on BGs I would blow them out of the water hardcore.

Read this: 5x Typhoons will kill everything in its path 90% of the time in a HUGE cone shape 30+ yard path.

This means my opening move in PVP is quite often my only move against same-level people. I can wipe out 5-20 people in 1 move. Right now 5x typhoons does about 12k of damage. My characters have 11k of health each. All of my druids themselves would die in a split second, just like how I do to others. I compare this to chain lightning. Chain has a lower cooldown, however, typhoon can insta kill everything in its path. Plus the knockback is PWN!!

Also, 5x druids are IMMENSELY fun due to the fact they can stealth. Stealthing opens up a new aspect to this game and gives you a new way to be sneaky and PWN the crap out of people.

You ask me about arenas? I'm not sure to be honest how it would go. I believe 5x druids have the tools to be unstoppable in areans. The trick is learning how to use them. 5x druids have these key skills:

---5x Typhoon - Will do IMMENSE damage and possibly end the game right on the spot.
---15 Trees - People sometimes forget about trees and boomkins. 15 trees can kill a paladin in about 3-4 second. 15 trees will kill cloth in an INSTANT. Literally, the clothie will go from 100% to 0% instantly in a burst if "WTF HAPPENED".
---5x Insect Swarm - Instant cast dot that, at level 75, does around 18,000 damage.
--- 5x Moonfire Spam - Moonfire by itself is sorta blah. When you can do 5x at 1 keystroke it becomes an IMMENSE force
--- ZOMG WTF HEAL ABILITY - 5x Boomkins have AMAZING heal ability. With 1 button you can toss HOTs on a guy giving them literally 5,000 health/second

Basically 5x boomkins have all the tools to dominate every scenario. The only iffy part is they can't deal with fear as well as shams :P

[Negativ1337]

Alright awesome,

And how did 1-70 went? Could you do a lot of Outland instances, did you leveled with RAF, are you tauren or nelf? Is it hard (boring) to level them 1-40?
And can you HOT in Boomkin form? Because you cant heal yourself in it i know.

Edit: forgot something
How do you recommend druid talents? Should i put first points till i get clearcast in resto? And what realm do you play on?

-Totemic

[Evilseed]

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[Evilseed]

Hey there,

1-70 was an absolute breeze. All my accounts are RAF linked so the initial level was awesome. I hit level 40 in 6 hours and level 60 in 22hrs. Tight huh?

As far as TBC goes, I can easily grind any instance. The cool part is that with the pure DPS of Boomkin, I never needed a tank for any TBC instance at all. Plus you can do what I call Tree Tanking. You can use your trees to tank a bit giving you enough time to womp on them with insane DPS.

When I say insane DPS in Boomkin I really mean it. Starfire hits for a HUGE amount of damage these days. At level 70 I was doing nonstop 4500 crits with stupid crap green gear. Boomkins crit often, too.

You can't heal in Boomkin form, but HOTs are all instant for the most part. So you HOT then pop back to Boomkin form. I have a macro as well that keeps my main guy in Boomkin but all other 4 will HOT him. This maintains my main guy in high armor form in case he needs to act as a pseudo tank while he receives some literally insane heals from the hots on him.

So for example, in Azorl Nerub (however you spell it), there are trash mobs that have 80k a pop. What I do is before the fight I toss 5x renew on my A guy, and 1x on the other guys. That takes about 3 seconds. Then my A pulls 3 mobs, 2 have 40k 1 has 80k. Within less than 20 seconds both 40k mobs are dead and the 80k elite is near dead. If/when my initial HOTs wear off on my A boomkin, I hit one of my buttons which immediately makes my 4 other Boomkins pop out of Boomkin form and HOT up my A guy.

Think about it this way: Because of the sheer HOT healing power Boomkins have, you literally can make multiple people invulnerable for long periods of time. At level 75, unless a mob can do a sustained something like 7500dps to 1 guy, theres no way I will die unless I choose to. Considering that 80 end game elite bosses don't do 7500 dps, well, you get the point.

As far as talents go, dump them all into Balance until 75. I haven't gone past that so I'm not sure from there, but 75 is a long ways away for you. Balance has immense healing power so you really don't need anything offered in the resto tree since you'll primarily be using your HOT heals multiplied by each of your Boomkins

Any other questions?

PS - Once you go instant cast flight form you will never want to go back again.

[crazysithslayer]

What kind of build did you use 1-40? feral? or balance? Cuz Im sure this group shines at 40 with boomkin

[algol]

I have a very open and active dialog with Blizzard through some other angles that I have with the company. No worries here. My program revolves around the same concept that "Pull 1 lever and 5 levels are then pulled" example that Blizzard is giving for the AOK in multiboxing software.

Sounds good. If you can get it to work in a way they don't object to, especially if you can demonstrate either logically or through approval that it's an allowed method...well, there are a great number of ground-target spells I would love to have easier access to.