5 Shammy Heroics

[daviddoran]

I tried this as well, and did Drak'Tharon keep successfully. Got the trollgore achievement as well. Wiped once on the dinosaur, but didnt attempt again, and just skipped him. I'm not nearly as geared as the OP, but it looks like it's possible.

[gitcho]

Not only is doing it without a tank/healer an accomplishment, but doing the timed run with time to spare AFTER a wipe (and a half with the Ankhs) is a very nice accomplishment. I'm still sportin deadly/furious on my 5 shammys, but maybe ill give it a shot? I've soloed the bosses in AV with just the 5 of me, so I'm guessing it wouldnt be so bad for me....

i'm in full deadly/furious with my 5 shamans too ... is this do-able with 2300 sp? my hit isn't that great, but i could gem for it ... what's your general strategy? drop 1 rock ele per fight and try to burn down the boss before the ele is dead? or is it different for each fight

never thought it would be possible - would love to hear what you think about it with my current gear level

[daviddoran]

I have like 2.1k sp before ToW, and 20k hp on each, and most bosses, i just zerged down fast. The encounter is designed for 3 dps, so when you run 5, overgeared dps, its like triple what its meant to be. Add in heroism and its just insane. I used elementals on certain bosses, that hit hard, but mostly, just zerged down, ocasionally stopped to mass chain heal to full.

Edit: oh, and i have dual spec pve and pvp, but i forgot to change it, so i was full PvP spec/gear, and i know i wasnt hit capped... it was really easy, especially considering you are only DPSing...

[gitcho]

well, my sp is around 1850 BEFORE totems ... my shamans in full pvp gear with pve spec, do 3k on the raid boss, and about 4.4k dps (with hero) on the lvl 80 target. My hit is only at about 30 - do i need more hit to do this?

[Zappy]

I was doing Drak'Thraron, Gundrak, and UT Keep in a lot lower gear and under hit cap (like 50 hit and around 2k SP before TOW). Granted, there are some fights that were very close calls almost all the time. Trollgore was one of them. I since started farming badges for my 4 pally / DK team (haha - i'm such a bandwagoner) and this was when I really noticed a huge difference from before, so I decided to step it up and try some of the other heroics.

The biggest things that helped me is to 1) have hot keys to have everybody heal an individual toon, so that as one guy is getting burnt down, they all stopcasting, and immediately heal him. 2) Keys (such as arrow keys) that move your entire group, so for fights that you have to move quickly you can move. Drak'Tharon and the soul mages come to mind.

Another thing is that if you are close, but just can't quite squeak it, you can use drums of forgotten kings, drums of the wild, scroll of fortitude, food buffs etc. to buff your entire team. You can tell from some of the screenshots where I was using some buffs and no buffs. The difference I'm seeing is nearly 4k HP -- 27.4k buffed, vs 23.6k without them.

[Ouroboro]

Dude I just got your reply in my thread about using 5 shamans and now I can officially say that you are my hero. I do have a few questions however.
Are all of your shammys spec'd into ele? or are one or two spec'd into resto for healing?
Also does it take a really long time to complete these dungeons when compared when you que in dungeon finder with a single toon and get a full party? I'm just curious, but this stuff is really crazy that your running through, now my 5 shamans have hope lol.

[daviddoran]

Not quite the same, but a guildie and me did the raid weekly, which was Noth, with 10 shamans. I believe he had one resto shaman, but my 5 were elemental. the damage he did was a complete joke, and even when the curses popped, mass chain heal solved that. I bet that 10 shaman could go pretty far in Naxx, but im sure there will be road blocks. Maybe get one enhance shaman with pvp gear, and tanking off set stuff, spamming frost shock...