My new team...Well Perhaps. Need advise =)

[Gramzngunz]

Guys im bored to tears ive been playing the hell out of my 360 (vesperia)/ps3 (chronicls) and im starting to get bored with those.

I LOVED Tales of Vesperia! One of the best 60 hour single player experiences I've had in a long time I even just started over for a play through in EX mode >

[Multibocks]

Ok I havent logged into my DKs since recent nerf, but I dont imagine they can do 5 in a dungeon anymore. I run 4 with a druid healer and all DKs are blood. With stacking auras it was awesome... with nerf I imagine it will be much harder. Also I have found I enjoy priest healers much more than druids lately.

Another thing, I realize that suggesting a healer will make the group automagically suck in pvp, but eh there it is. (everyone targets your healer first, so he always feels like the odd man out when he's dead and your DKs are all alive and getting honor)

[blbjtb]

[Update]

Last night I went home loaded up my accounts made my 4 dks (already had the 5th one @ 80 no use loggin him in) and I started my quest towards well whatever. Last night after playing for 5 hours I got to level 60 and this is my finding.

Playing 4 melee classes which I was really under the impression of being a nightmare was easy as can be. With follow strobing on and all my skills macroed I was ripping things a part in just a few hits. All 4 dks were blood with imp rune tap as well as the glyph. with this every 30 seconds I was getting a 90% heal when ever any of my team was a little down. I would roll up on groups of mobs and IT PS spread the plague and blood boil and just laugh as the xp would flow like wine. having all 4 ghouls out, combined with blood worms and dancing runeblade was literally the funniest thing ever! Nothing and I mean NOTHING stood a chance. To be honest the excitment scale was quite high then it would dip down while questing/grinding then it would shoot back up once I got a new skill.

Then last night something hit me.... What do I really want out of these guys? To be honest I really dont know.
Do I want epic single target dmg? Because my 5 shammys beat this hands down
Do I want to do heroics? I already have a team that can do this quite ez mode
Do I want someone that can AOE like a champ? Again 5 nova totems combined with 5 thundshocks is an AOE champ
Am I just totally bored with nothing to do? Possible but last night I played for 5 hours and didnt stop and to be honest I really dont want to put myself through another 20 levels of epic grind.

So my conclussion.
Do I think they can do dungeons? Yes I really do a 100% heal every 30 seems really good.
Do I think they can do Heroics? Not without a bunch of blood sweat and tears.
Do I think they would whip total ass in world/BG pvp? Oh hell ya I really dont think someone could take them out if your playing them right (again every 30 sec is a Lay on Hands for your entire team basically)
Do I think I will get them to 80? probably not the sole reason being that I dont want to invest the time. The time to level them. The time to Gear them, and the time to devote to them the time I really feel that they need.

So Im back at square one. Wondering what to do with my free time. Wondering what game I can play to pass the time after a long days work. Wanting to find something that will challenge me. My biggest hope is that Champions Online will be someone fun/decent, and boxable as this looks like a great game to me. I tried Aion and I have to so im not that impressed with it. I did the chineese beta thing and dispite the fact that I couldnt communicate with anyone I felt that the game was missing something especially once you get to level 30 and get tossed into the Abyss but thats an entirely different story.

So im looking at you boxers! What are you doing to pass the time? EQ2? WOW? COH/COV? I just dont know here are my views of those games

EQ2 I only leveled a Necro to 30 something and this was quite a while ago. The game was a ton of fun to play however the combat seemed pretty bland.
WoW We just went over that no need to repeat other then to say I have 6 level 80s and not a care in the world to actually play them =(
COH/COV looked like it would be super fun to play but apparently its a real pain in the ass to box and you can only box however many comps you have. (that being only 2 in my case) so im not thinking its really worth it. (side note how funny would it be to have 5 masterminds FF/Dark Miasma robots.) Then again you really wouldnt be playing @ all you would just summon your crap and walk through stuff.

Thank you to all my boxing friends I have to say this is probably one of the best / most mature forums I have ever been a part of and I continually check this place even with im not boxing. Thank you to the mods and the community that make this place what it is!

Thanks for reading.
-Jon

(P.S) Tales is a freaking great game! I am enjoying the hell out of it but there seems to be some sort of disconnect for me when it comes to playing Console games I cant put my finger on it but im just like so blah about it.

[Solon]

Honestly, 5 DKs is fun, 5x Death grip on round robin is great when fighting ranged users, "Get over here!" lol. Putting 5 ghouls on aggressive and strolling around in enemy territory on PvP server is amusing for quite some time (whoops, did I just clear out Westfall? I wasn't really paying attention.) Clearing low level instances for achievements by walking through them until you put the ghouls on passive at last boss is fun. Leaving one slave on PvP in a PvE server so that level 80 can't resist attacking and gets wtfpwned by level 60's is priceless. Still, I wish I had a healer.

Please tell me how you get 90% heal on 30s timer, maybe it would help me out. Though usually if I'm gonna wipe, I can't wait 30s.

[Gadzooks]

I'm playing mixed classes, because I like learning how each one works. I switch up my main every once in a while, so I can get a better feel for each class, and fine tune my macros.

My long term goals?

Not sure, either. I'm feeling burnout approaching, so I may take a break. I have a lot going on in RL anyway.

My goals were to get a team into Northrend instances and Heroics, and while that's still a goal, I'm not sure I need to go there yet.

I may shutdown all of the accounts but one, and have it to log in and do dailies and the Argent Tourney and such, or just goof around with BGs.

I'm not quitting in anger or disgust, I'm just not feeling the motivation right now to keep going, even though my team is working very smoothly and I have some pretty efficient macros going. (Priest, pally, rogue, and occasionally a mage for DPS).

I've felt this way before, it was when I'd quit teh game for a month or two. No big deal, just a break.

We'll see.

It doesn't help that I saw a video on Justin.tv of a guy playing Fallout 3, and I really want to give that game a try.

[Solon]

Fallout 1 and 2 were great games with poor graphics in an excellent setting. Fallout 3 is a poor game with excellent graphics in an excellent setting. I enjoyed it for the first 3 hours or so, and then kept thinking wtf is going on? I won't ruin it for anyone that hasn't played, but I will say it is probably the only "RPG" I ever played that I couldn't stand to play all the way through even a second time. Your "choices" made no real difference in the game world (ok, except for one, but even the most "evil" choice had no significant advantages or setbacks). The dialogue was dismal. I enjoyed Mass Effect and the KoTOR series so much more, even though I love Fallout's setting. /end hijacking

[Freakinred]

I'm enjoying my quad boxed DKs. I'm heavy Unholy with the rest in blood. The 30s heal is just awesome, and I really enjoy the ghouls. Army of the Dead X4 is a bit of a letdown... but oh well.

As far as why I'm doing it? Well.. it's a game. Honestly, if you've reached the point where you need a reason to be doing anything in wow then I'd say you're no longer viewing it as a game and should considering something else. Just because we've all sunk a bunch of money into WoW doesn't mean we should be more committed to it than our "fun" levels allow.