4 shamans and....a prot pally?

[TMNT]

Im curently 4 boxing 4 shamans (named after the ninja turtles ) but i have a freind that has a 30 pally and he said i can have him. hes only 3 levels behind but i could spec him prot. would this be better for leveling via instances? Currently what i do is have 70's run me through over and over and its pretty good exp.but that will only last till so long. So should i take the slower rout and level this guy up with me?

[fwc566]

your already taking the slow route by running urself through instances like that, so do as you please.

[TMNT]

Slow route? its very fast. I was told thats how Aeill leveld up. He said it was the fastest...

[fwc566]

Slow route? its very fast. I was told thats how Aeill leveld up. He said it was the fastest...

Aeill leveled before 2.3, quest XP past 20 makes it far more quicker than leveling instances.

[TMNT]

Iv also done way to many red quests. i dont know where to go. every kill quest in barrens, stonetallen, STV, 1k needles are done...

[fwc566]

Iv also done way to many red quests. i dont know where to go. every kill quest in barrens, stonetallen, STV, 1k needles are done...

download joanas guide, if you want to be nice get it from her site, joanasworld.com

if you are poor you might be able to get it for free from other places but i wouldnt condone violating copywrites :wink:

Its a guide completely filled with quest stacking, it will say go hear, accept these quests, run into the world, do them in this order to complete them the quickest.

[TMNT]

so is that no to the pally?

[Bena]

I'm currently leveling a prot pally and having a blast. I have a 48 war but for now pally is going to be my main tank. Leveling him as prot is very easy with a pocket healer and aoe grinding leveling goes very fast.

[TMNT]

4 Shamans=no aoe really

[Vyndree]

Everyone's giving you bad advice. I would suggest they try to actually multibox this group composition before shooing other people away from it. Or at least give reasoning to your logic. The forums are here to share information, not to be snotty little brats because someone doesn't use the "perfect spec" or the "perfect leveling route". It's a game, people like to have fun with it, now play nice boys.

Prot pally + shaman works fine, aoe is fine -- the problem with magma totems/fire nova totems is keeping the aggro off the totems (since they have 5hp and are easily 1-shot by critters). Have the pally consecrate and you can aoe away. (Psh. Shaman have no aoe. Yeah. Right.)

Check my sig for 4x shaman 1x prot pally videos (pre-RFD I used a warrior and swapped the pally in and out since I already had a prot pally leveled to 40 prior to multi-boxing)

As for the ability of a 4x shaman 1x prot pally to perform in comparison to a more "standard" group, let's compare Suvega's 1x war, 3x mage, 1x priest group with mine. I was able to clear Ramps at 61 (dinged 62 upon downing the last boss) while Suvega struggled with 3 mages, a 65 warrior, and a 70 tier 5 priest.

It is perfectly viable -- shamans mitigate more damage with mail so are more forgiving when pulling aggro, grounding totem is awesome spelldmg mitigation for the pally, earth shock is awesome, stoneclaw can act as a temporary CC (like the adds on Omor), ranged taunt works WONDERS, pally aoe aggro is amazing, and with almost 5 "dps"ers things go down like rocks. Chain lightning is better than aoe, imo, since it's ranged and allows time to range taunt if there's accidental aggro pulls. Everyone can rez, there's wipe protection 5x an hour counting DI.

On a side note, from 1-60 questing is WAY faster. In outlands, that would depend on how much world pvp is going on. Typically instancing alone is slower than questing... if you can go through all the quests without getting camped.