How Good Can A 3-Man Team Be?

[Greythan]

That is so true and something that still bugs me a little. I'd hate to invest all the time getting these guys up to 80 only to find that they are never really going to cut it in instances. Did you guys who have went to 5-box do so for this reason? Or did you do it purely for the sake of 5-boxing?

I chose to five box to have access to five different classes and experience their gameplay. And, do be able to solo instances.

Every instance in the game is five boxable. Its all over these boards. All different class combinations as well.

I'm clearly not an expert in the matter, but I've always bound my heals to a 2nd bar when dual boxing. This way I can just press shift+1, shift+2, etc. to fire off a heal to the appropriate party member when needed. I can see why you'd like this automated in a 5 man setup and if you figure it out completely, I think that would be something anyone could benefit from.

You'll want to avoid a 2 key press healing system as it will break down under pressure.

I started by configuring my numpad to be my healing with a holy priest. 1 was gheal tank. 2 prayer of healing. 3 flash heal priest. 7-9 flash heal DPS. etc.

I've switched to using Healbot with a window repeater in IS from my tank to my priest's window. I love it and its SUPERIOR to the keypress system for me. YMMV.

This was something I was debating as well. Akera, I really like your suggestion of taking a hunter as dps. They are easy to manage and the pet could provide for some nice off-tanking if needed. But is the loss of group buffs that a shaman/druid provide worth it? If the group consists of pally-hunter-? ... who should the healer be? Druid or Shaman?

No experience with a hunter here.

However, using a shaman, mage, warlock for my DPS has been very very easy. There is a ton of /click macro and castsequence macro knowledge in these forums. Research and set them up to a single key and you can mash away solid, ranged caster DPS without any hassle. From what I've read, a hunter will fit into this as well. All up to your preference.

[jddc78]

I've switched to using Healbot with a window repeater in IS from my tank to my priest's window. I love it and its SUPERIOR to the keypress system for me. YMMV.

This makes a huge amount of sense and I'd love to try this. Are there any references you could point me to in order to learn how to set something like this up? Just the part about the window repeater. I used to use a combination of grid & clique. So I'm aware of how to get that up & running well.