5+ Raiders, where are you?

[David]

I went into Ulduar10 and killed a few bosses running my tank as MT and using my resto shaman to heal the full raid.
Keeping up with the healing compaired to the other 2 healers. You can box critical roles imo. It`s ahrder but also makes a lot more fun!

[Alemi]

So, you've Main Tanked, Main Healed, and DPSed these fights then?

Everything I have done as ranged dps only is a joke. Stupid simple. When you start playing critical roles, things get crazy.

Oh... I can taste the condescention!

Ranged dps have their role and challenges when multiboxing. Naxx was pretty ridiculous easy, I agree with you. But Malygos as ranged was pretty difficult back in the day. Everything past Kologarn (with the exception of Thorim & Crazy Cat Lady) in Ulduar would hardly be considered "stupid simple" for ranged. I would go as far to say some are downright ebil. And a majority of those fights are dps centered. So - you can bring the most awesome healers/tanks but if your dps can't cut it, you're going to wipe.

To say dps isn't a critical role is silly. Each fight is different and some roles have more important parts of each fight, imho.

[Multibocks]

As dps most of the time all you gotta do is strafe outta fire, etc. Not brain surgery, so ya its stupid simple. Try tanking +dpsing or tanking + healing or healing + dpsing, then I will be impressed. Btw you spelled "condescension" wrong, a fact I take pleasure in telling you. OOOOooh the irony! (I'm kidding here.)

[Multibocks]

Remember when I tried huntersx4 + holy priest healing raid? LOL, ya that was ugly.

[daviddoran]

I'm still not used to mouseover healing. I've used Healbot in the past, which helps as i dont have to target anything, and i can press my normal dps buttons. I guess i could map my dps buttons to multiple keys and have them trigger mouseover healing, like one button is little one button is big heal....

[daviddoran]

a couple patches back I was tweaking my priest, and was configuring healbot to work better for AoE heals with healbot. Healbot must have been designed with holy pallys in mind, left click flash of light right click holy light... great for pally whackamole style healing, but other healers require more finesse.... Party healing is laughably easy on a priest, but raid healing adds complication. I've been meaning to program my 2 party based aoe heals with a modifier key, one for group 1 and one for group 2 (for 10 mans, 25 mans, hopefully theres more healers...)

Although, that Naxx 10 run yesterday was insane, I brought my 5 shaman, Fur brought his team, so together we had 8 shaman.... we cleared spider and plague wings with one tank and 1 dedicated healer, with 8 chain heals making up the rest when needed. It was kinda funny actually. We did Loatheb without a healer, just chain heals during the healing windows. Easy Peasy. Then we did OS10, easy as pie yet again, only issue there was the drake that goes immune, had to use an earth ele to tank the add in the portal, he nearly died after 3 hits, so I had to spam some heals on the ele (was prepared to use more but tried 1 just to see.)

Chain heal really takes the guesswork out of raid healing, for certain situations. Just bunch up and spam the hell out of it.

Now I gotta figure out which of my shaman to dual spec resto, should I do the "main" like I do with my pally? or should it be an "alt" boxed toon, and heal with macros?

[daviddoran]

yeah, that's what I was thinking. Only problem is that my main is the acct my tank is on, so id have to do 2 as resto, if I wanted to run heroics with a dedicated healer (which I don't really, 4 dps is easier now that my tank has 35k hp self buffed.

[Meshuggenah]

You Sir, are not multiboxing in a raid environment.

Definitions don't change based on your personal preference. Try boxing 5 DPS through Uld or ToC and I think you'll find it's plenty challenging.

[Zaelar]

Definitions don't change based on your personal preference. Try boxing 5 DPS through Uld or ToC and I think you'll find it's plenty challenging.

As long as you have a way to avoid icehowl's charge and click on the portals on twins to change fast enough the only threat I can think of is the warrior bladestorming your group. For uld I could see some of the later bosses giving headaches.

[Alemi]

As dps most of the time all you gotta do is strafe outta fire, etc. Not brain surgery, so ya its stupid simple. Try tanking +dpsing or tanking + healing or healing + dpsing, then I will be impressed. Btw you spelled "condescension" wrong, a fact I take pleasure in telling you. OOOOooh the irony! (I'm kidding here.)

I'm happy to provide you with some joy. Regardless, I tanked/healed/dpsed Naxx with another multiboxer before the original shaman fix (back when we were doing really craptacular damage comapred to other classes and couldn't outgear the encounters) back in January. My only point is, to say "moving out of the fire" is all dps has to do, is by far simplistic at best. It's like saying all a tank has to do is "keep threat high". All of Mimiron, Freya's add phase, General Vezax, all 3 Yogg phases, are highly dependent on smart dps and not as simple as "getting out of the fires." There's lots of other things going on, yes - but point being you can't just be dumb and mash buttons to get through these fights either.