Adding more to my 5-man team

[cmeche]

I currently have 5 accounts......80 shaman on each account and a Prot Pally also on my 5th. Im getting a new computer that will handle these 5 accounts easily and will probably allow me to add more accounts if need be. I mainly pvp with my 5 shaman group and was wondering what class would benefit my team the most if I add in a 6th and 7th toon?
Running 5+, I am mainly concerned about WG, AV and IoC. My 5 currently are elemental.....so adding in a healer or two would probably do wonders for my survivability. But then there is also raid buffs that would come in handy also.

If you had 5 Elemental Shaman, what additional class/spec would bring the greatest results?

[Multibocks]

A healer of some sort I would guess....

[Smoooth]

I would add in 2 resto druids. They can wild growth all day long to heal you and you wont even have to worry about targeting with it or being in the same group. Plus you can thorns your whole group to give some nice damage to that melee guy that runs in and aoes you.

[Ualaa]

A boomkin or a warlock will up your damage some.
A priest or druid are both highly mobile healers, more so then the shammies even.
You could easily go with two more shammies, which would be very easy to macro into an existing team.

[cmeche]

Just read up on wild growth......It would be pretty interesting casting double WGs with the glyph to heal an additional target.
How would that compare with 2 resto shaman spamming chain heal? I do have a 73 priest and a 72 druid that I could transfer to new accounts.

Its crazy how much I am thinking about this durring the day....

[Ualaa]

With two of the same class, they can double stack HoTs or double cast Holy Nova etc.
If you could effectively macro a priest and druid together, both is an option too.
The only real drawback is each bring some unique spells to the table, which is additional keybinds.
Just need to match things up as much as possible.

My Disc priest casts something like:
/castsequence reset=7 Penance, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal

Power Infusion can be automatically placed within their spells, or perhaps on the Heroism/Bloodlust keybind for the hot/active toon.
But you'll want access to Mass Dispel, Psychic Scream and Pain Suppression; I cannot think of druid equivalents really.

The druid will get you Cyclone, multiple HoT's, Wildgrowth, Swiftmend, Battle Rez etc. You could pair Wild Growth with Prayer of Healing.

That also gets you Fortitude, Prayer of Spirit and Mark of the Wild.

I'd like to say, one of each can work - and it will to a degree.
But two of the same will likely be easier to control and closer to optimal power.

[cmeche]

Ty for the info. Adding 2 druids does sound like a plan I might take.

[daviddoran]

Druids keep you mobile with cheetah form and ghost wolf, and let you pre cast hots before coing into battle which can help a lot. Plus Druid can battlerez your main, and add some additional cc to prevent them from losing Los or range. Do it and let us know.... I might try it as well....

[heffner]

Two druids would make your team a menace!

[cmeche]

Account 1... 80 ele
Account 2... 80 ele
Account 3... 80 ele
Account 4... 80 ele... 60 druid... 60 shaman
Account 5... 80 ele... 60 druid... 60 shaman
Account 6... 60 druid(resto)
Account 7... 60 druid(resto)


OK, I bought two more accounts and raf'ed them up with two of my current accounts......well I was able to get 6 toons over 4 accounts to 60. I am going to at least be adding 2 resto druids to my team......and while im lvling them up to 80....might as well have 2 more tag along for the ride to 80.

So out of those two vacant slots, I have the option of 2 more druids or 2 resto/ele shaman. At this point in time...i have no plans on adding more accounts....but if I do, It would be nice to just transfer one of these toons over instead of lvling up from scratch. With the 2 resto druids.....would you lvl up more druids or the 2 shaman?

There is the option to add a boomkin to the mix which brings that aura and the 13% spell debuff. Or two more shaman...maybe 1 ele and 1 resto for improved totems......and massive chain lightning. :P

Any ideas?


Also, how squishy are resto druids for pvp? That is one thing that is worrying me compared to resto shaman