Experiences with my new mixed team

[Fuzzyboy]

I've been doing quite a bit of experimentation lately with composition and group setups. I started my MB-career with 5 shaman, then later switched to 1 paladin + 4 shaman. Come 2.4 I switched a shaman with a druid for the spell damage debuff. With my team at 80 in WotLK I decided to try out paladin, resto-shaman and three hunters. I didn't like them, in part because I had trouble AE healing and because the pets required more micromanagement than I had imagined. Finding myself in a pinch for some of the achievement and wanting a pure-dps main for raids, I decided to switch yet another shaman for a mage. Needing a RAF-levelling partner, I also decided to level a priest to switch for my resto shaman in order to get better AE heals.

So now my team looks like this: paladin (prot), priest (holy), mage (frost), druid (balance) and shaman (elemental). Having three chars (paladin, shaman, druid) already geared helped a lot gearing out the newcomers, but I have to say that I'm VERY happily suprised at their performance. Aside from the fact that I practically have raid buffs in instances (fortitude, arcane brill, gotw, bok etc.), the addition of the priest is simply amazing in terms of healing and utility. Mage ports, food and poly is all nice and the dps output is great also (parsed 5700 dps on trollgore and herald just spamming frostbolts, which is a few hundred dps better than my shaman who has better gear), not to mention replenishment which comes with 3.1. Joy joy :-)

I really haven't had any administration og micromanagement issues in spite of the setup with five different classes, but I suppose my previous experience has helped alleviate the learning curve a bit. Anyway, I just wanted to recommend this setup to anyone who's considering a mixed team - the synergy is great - druid provides spell damage taken debuff, moonkin aura, +hit debuff (if needed), mage provides utility and increased crit taken debuff, shaman provides +spell damage buff (tow).

[shaeman]

Very interesting.

Can you give a few more details.
What level are all members of your team - are they all max level now?

What instances have you done with the team (and if all max level, which heroics if any).

[Elgert]

Glad to hear that this group composition works at higher levels. My first multiboxing team is exactly the same, but still at level 31 (RAF does not work in denmark X( ). And as shaman said ... more details please :P

[Fuzzyboy]

All members are level 80. My paladin, shammie and druid has the best gear you can obtain from rep/emblems/heroic drops, but I'm still in the process of gearing up my mage (http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...horn&n=Manapie ) and my priest (http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...rn&n=Shadowpie).

So far I've done all heroics apart from Old Kingdom (working on 2-minute herald at the moment) and Oculus (haven't attempted yet). I'm aiming to get both down with my new chars soon, but it will probably require some respeccing.

I levelled the priest and the mage up together (RAF), which was a surprisingly good combination. I had the priest specced as disc and the combination of holy nova and arcane explosion is really really nice for drop-quests. Holy fire + frostbolt is sufficient to kill mobs before the reach you so no problems there either :-)

[Fuzzyboy]

Glad to hear that this group composition works at higher levels. My first multiboxing team is exactly the same, but still at level 31 (RAF does not work in denmark X( ). And as shaman said ... more details please :P

I'm happy to provide details - just ask away :-)

[Fuzzyboy]

Glad to hear that this group composition works at higher levels. My first multiboxing team is exactly the same, but still at level 31 (RAF does not work in denmark X( ). And as shaman said ... more details please :P

Btw, RAF works fine in Denmark if you're the invited person (if you have a swedish friend, for instance, you can have him invite you and RAF up to 60 with him - assuming of course you're levelling a few chars and not a full team) :-)

[KvdM]

Suggesting that a mixed group can perform better then an all shaman group... that's blasphemy. You'd better hide before the cloth wearing shaman inquisition finds out

On a more serious note, glad to hear more people are experimenting with finding more optimal builds.

[Ken]

Glad to hear indeed.
I had similar findings when switching from to 4 shamans + warrior to 3 shamans + warrior + priest to a full multiclass group.

Errrr .... I mean ... you're completely wrong! :P

[edit]
My current setup possibilities are:

[warrior/priest/shaman] + [mage] + [shaman] + [hunter] + [druid]
I'm currently mostly active with the warrior(80) as tank and druid(68) as healer. This way I can get some tanking gear for the druid by doing instance boosting.

[Bigfish]

Glad to hear indeed.
I had similar findings when switching from to 4 shamans + warrior to 3 shamans + warrior + priest to a full multiclass group.

Errrr .... I mean ... you're completely wrong! :P

[edit]
My current setup possibilities are:

[warrior/priest/shaman] + [mage] + [shaman] + [hunter] + [druid]
I'm currently mostly active with the warrior(80) as tank and druid(68) as healer. This way I can get some tanking gear for the druid by doing instance boosting.

Good to see you're so butt-hurt over that other thread you have to make it spill over here.

[Feider]

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit but how much do you do to take advantage of proc'd abilities with this group? (Hot Streak, Brain Freeze, Eclipse, etc)


I run a mixed team also and I have gotten a little silly with this. I'm curious about your experience with that.