When can 5 shamans do equal level instances?

[Nepida]

Otlecs, thats kinda my plan in reverse. I'm going to level my 5man sham to 70, but I also have a 70 healing priest and tankadin I can put into the mix (just would require one char transfer) to make a more rounded 5 man if needed for heroics. When and if I get that far

[Contents]

At 33 I can clear everything up to SM:Lib. and the only problem I have in there is the houndmaster, but I've only tried him once so I'm sure I could do it if I reevaluated the situation.

I cleared SM:GY at 28 and everything before that I did once I was able to accept all of the instance quests so most of the mobs were green to me by then.

[elo]

I just started my 5 shammy group and have done the following

Deadmines @ 20/21 (must have healing stream totem)
Stockades @23
SFK @ 23/24
RFK @ 24

I'm running 4 elemental and 1 resto shammy who actually "tanks" for me. One thing that helped a TON was to go drop ~40g at the AH and get some reasonable gear for them. I increased mana 40% on the elementals and stam by about 25% on the resto.

My rythm usually is just this
Lightning Shield x5
Healing Stream Totems x5
Searing Totems x5
Pull with resto shammy using a shock (frost is nice)
When in range then Lightning Bolt x4, start hitting with Resto
If multiples come then I'll drop Stoneclaw Totem x5, these will get non focused mob attention and has 50% chance to stun.
Rinse and repeat Lightning Bolt as necessary with occaisional Shock x5
If Resto starts taking more dmg than healing totems can keep up with then self heal but keep the elementals killing.

I'm sure down the road I'll need to work some more ellegance into this, but hey, only been at it a few days.

GL!

[Remote]

I cleared Deadmines at 20. If you're having trouble, kite.

How exactly do you "kite" with 5x Shaman? (or 4x..3x..2x...). As a former hunter, the kiting principle is simple enough (slow enemy, run, jumpshot, wash, rinse, repeat....). With a single Shaman, I can frostshock kite alright, but what do you do with the other 4? Earthbind totems and fire totems? Seems like it would take an awefully long time.

I should probably make a video of it. It requires perfect execution, but is very possible. Aebox's video will give you a general idea...but he isn't very good at it(at least not in the video): http://youtube.com/watch?v=cVOlj4Th2-w&feature=user

Basically, drop an earthbind; cast lightningbolt and chain lightning back to back; run away and drop 5 nova totems; when you've got some distance cast a chain and drop more totems; continue to drop 1 or 2 earthbinds as your run backwards and stop to cast chain lightning.

[marvein]

I cleared Deadmines at 20. If you're having trouble, kite.

How exactly do you "kite" with 5x Shaman? (or 4x..3x..2x...). As a former hunter, the kiting principle is simple enough (slow enemy, run, jumpshot, wash, rinse, repeat....). With a single Shaman, I can frostshock kite alright, but what do you do with the other 4? Earthbind totems and fire totems? Seems like it would take an awefully long time.

I should probably make a video of it. It requires perfect execution, but is very possible. Aebox's video will give you a general idea...but he isn't very good at it(at least not in the video): http://youtube.com/watch?v=cVOlj4Th2-w&feature=user

Basically, drop an earthbind; cast lightningbolt and chain lightning back to back; run away and drop 5 nova totems; when you've got some distance cast a chain and drop more totems; continue to drop 1 or 2 earthbinds as your run backwards and stop to cast chain lightning.

that particular video isnt a great example of it, his first 2 SP heroics he does a much better job at it. hunter kitingx5 is quite similar in theory to that, just got to keep into account fewer ways to slow the mobs (trap+cuncussive Vs 2 totems and frost shock) and if they get in melee range you have a problem.

[Remote]

Well, in Heroic Blood furnace I kite all the two-pulls(they hit really hard). For the first pull I just kill one, and then run out of the instance. Then I zone back in and kill the other. After that I have plenty of room.

[Ztar]

Up to Uldaman I cleared every instance with my 5 shammys being 2 lvl below the highest lvl boss in each instance. The only exception to this was the last boss in Uldaman that gave me some hazel with all the adds�

None of the times I did any kiting� Healing stream, Stoneclaw, Fire Nova helped a lot though. Oh and I did this as enh, not elemental. Lover lvl gear tend to be good for str, agi and sta. Not so much for int and + spell dmg.

I now replaced 1 shaman with a 70 shaman I had since before. And my former boxing main is now exploring the lifestyle of twinks in the 40-49 bracket.

At 50 something I respect elem. But cant say much about how instances would go done using all same lvl, since I now �tank� with my lvl 70 shaman.

// Ztar