Going from a identical PvP class team to a mixed PvE class team.

[daviddoran]

It's infact a really grand idea, seeing I'm quite used to playing with elemental shamans already. Out of my current 4 accounts, 2 of them got TBC + Wotlk, while the two last only got TBC, so it's doable.

I am going to roll them on an entire new server (once I find out which one), so having a high level to support all the lower level characters would be great. One of the classes I know little to nothing about is Deathknights though, I also kept getting told that prot paladins are the way to go for PvE teams. 8|

What I had in mind was a prot paladin, priest + 3 mages, kinda a normal setup. But a deathknight + 4 shamans would probably be easier, only thing to worry about is the fact that I know nothing about deathknight tanking, but that can be learned. So for now I'll keep that setup as what I'm going to roll, thanks.

I have both of those teams, (Pally priest 3x mage and DK/4x ele shaman) and they have a very different playstyle. with Pally priest mage, you have a ton of buffs, but they are all passive, i.e. you just buff up and forget it. The team is very aoe capable, tanking healing and dpsing. Most non elites die with just consecration/holy nova/arcane explosion, single targets are cake too. It's way easier to play DK+ Shaman. You usually play the tank as a "main" so with pallys, its almost too easy, just a /castrandom is good enough for most. With the DK they have more abilities to micro, but shaman dps is easier. Shaman are also nice becuase of the relatively stationary nature, which makes playing a melee tank easy: park the shaman at range, cast totem farm, set D&D, start nuking. just map shaman dps macro to all keys your DK will use, and its practically ezmode. (I kinda cheated and equipped my DK with every piece of socketed gear i could find, even pally gear, and mail gear, and stacked either the +18 or the +24 stam gems, and had around 11,000 HP at lvl 63... That basically means i never need to heal, and just nuke away. I would occasionally do a 4x chain heal, but that was rare. I will probably dual-spec one to Resto, for decursing and fights that work better with more healing than DPS (longer ones) and mana tide totem.

In short, I'd say DK/Sham is way easier, and since you already have 4 lvl 59 shamans, I would just make a DK on an account with wrath, xfer the shaman off of that acct to a new one with at least TBC, and go straight to outland. Better return for your time. I wouldn't dream of leveling 5 toons without raf.