Farming Emblems of Heroism as 5xShamans

[Shonkey]

I tried so hard to go through heroics with my 5, and am able to only solo the same 2 bosses you do. Unfortunately, the rock elementals aren't even close to being useful as they were @ 70. For normal instances, I've 5 shammied everything up to, but not including occulus. I haven't even attempted that one yet. As for heroics, that's a different story. The problem is that some of the mobs and bosses can one shot anybody that is not uncritable, and even if you could reach the defense cap on one of your shammys, you'd still have no way to hold aggro.

I'm not trying to discourage you from attempting them as running 5 shammys, but rather explaining what I feel is more efficient for "Farming Emblems of Heroism as 5xShamans". This is how I do it with my 5 shammys, and I'd love to hear how others are doing it, and if there is a more efficient way.

As for 5 shamans, I gave up about a month ago and began running with 4 + a tank, and simply swapping the guy with the most emblems out each run. IMO, look for a reliable tank. I found a druid that I typically run 7+ heroics a week with, and the difference is night and day. Rather than trying to get lucky to see maybe 2-3 heroism tokens a day, i can gather a 30+/week in addition to the frozen orbs and abyss crystals (if one is an enchanter), etc. Not to mention all the dream keeper shards (so far, i've already bought the head/shoulder WG enchants, along with the mammoth on each shaman and am currently over 100 on each one.). If you already have a leatherworker, then you can craft some nice druid tanking gear and help them get started, and best of all, feral druids are uncrittable, however any other defense capped tank should work just fine.

Make sure that you look for a weekly group for both 10/25 man vault and 10/25 man sarth. Both are very easy fights to 5 box. and provide quick emblems. I found 25 man sarth to actually be the easiest of all 4.

As of right now, I can farm Gundrak, Drak'tharon, UT Keep, Nexus and Strat without any issues. I tried Azjol-Nerub when we first started, but couldn't down the last boss and haven't reattempted since. I'm sure we could do that one since our gear has improved greatly, but I don't see boxing teams having much success on Ahn'kahet due to the crazy last fight. Violet Hold is a crap shoot depending which bosses you get. I'll likely attempt Halls of stone and lightning in the near future. Halls of Lightning may prove to be impossible as I'm guessing the balls of lightning and static overload from Ionar hit a lot harder in heroic.

Good luck

Actually Halls of Lighting with Loken is doable while boxing if you have enough Nature Resists. I do runs with 3 shamans (boxed) while friends play the tank & healer. With Lonar we just run back and forward and heal thru his balls of lighning and static overloard. No real issues. Loken is the big issue however the shamans put down the NR Totem and put on some NR Gear to have over 200NR and we just stand around him and burn him down.When he casts his lightning nova the shamans chain heal (twice) to assist the priest and then we continue. Using this strat we got him down and got the achievement - http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=1867