Quote Originally Posted by gitcho View Post
been mulling over my team comp, and now that i'm getting my 4th team to 80, i'll have quite a few characters to chose from. I've been running a pally, disc priest, 3x arcane mage and have been thinking about swapping out 2 mages for a boomkin and shaman. This all started when my brother asking me why he was getting 3.4k dps in a raid, and only 2.6k in heroics.

My thinking was that a mixed team would perform better because:
1. Significant DPS increase across the board b/c of the buffs - all gear being equal. I was really surprised at how many additional benefits you get - found this great site on raid buffs that list how big of a difference it is. http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com seems to indicate WAY more buffs for my mixed comp than my existing comp does.
2. Phat lootz is almost always valuable to one of them - meaning gearing would be faster.

There's other reasons like combat rez, and 4-healers-in-a-pinch that make this seem great, but am I chasing a pipe dream? Any downside's to running a mixed comp vs. Pally, priest, 3xmage?

Currently have at:
[1] Pally, disc priest, 3x arcane mage @ 80
[2] 5 x ele shaman @ 80
[3] 5 x shadow priest @ 80
[4] 5x boomkin/resto @ lvl 66

(*sigh* if only i had the discipline to run dailies)
I run a mixed team as well, Prot Pally, Holy Priest, Boomkin, Arcane Mage, Destro Lock. I enjoy it, I have more options and buffs and abilities, but a "classic" team of 4 shaman or tank/heal/3 dps probably gets through Heroics faster than I do.9

The downside is it's more complicated getting your macros in place, timed right, and knowing how and when to take advantage of procs, like Eclipse on the Boomkin.

For example, my Lock is falling behind in DPS, because I need to adjust the timing on his click macros to mesh into the pally's, which I just adjusted- it's too fast, and he's spending too much time spamming "Spell not ready". My team is capable of 2k dps consistently in normal dungeons, 1.5k in Heroic (with huge crits over 2k easily), and the Lock is dropping to sub-1K lately. Oh well - it just means more time at the training dummy.

It's just more micromanagement - it's why I rotated my rogue out for the Lock, because I was spending too much time watching the rogue to make sure she was positioned right.

Do your dailies. They're great for trying out and adjusting macros, and they're easy money and Ebon Blade rep. I got exalted on my tank without even noticing.