3 rogues and a druid - Go resto or Feral?

[shaeman]

I fancy some stealth fun in battlegrounds (no arena for me) with some characters I have lying around.
My laptop can only handle 4 in battlegrounds (and my desktop died on me), so i'll be running a team of 4 for now.

I have 3 rogues within a few levels of each other and a druid to add to the party - but can't decide on resto or feral.
I am very much in two minds of what way to spec the druid.

Resto I can heal, but lose DPS. (so it would take me longer to kill something, but they might live longer and kill more as a result).

Feral I gain a nice chunk of dps but lose effective heals. (so I could kill things quicker, but might not survive long enough to kill loads).

Given the above team, would you go resto or feral in BG's? (or bite the bullet and get another rogue )

[genocyde]

feral imo

[Ualaa]

I would go dual-spec, resto for PvE but feral for PvP.

You can mix it up, and see what works best.
But many have pointed out, healers are focused on, and you'd only have your one toon healing.
Not sure if resto, without tree form, is at all viable.

I'm guessing Feral + 3x Rogues will be better.
As you have ressurrection if you need it.
And then you have a full stealth team, that will be brutal with IWT spam, stuns and such.
Excellent for rushing towers/bunkers, or recapping them too.

[remanz]

I thought killing for rogues were never the problem. It is after you kill someone and you are out of stealth. Now what do you do. People can't live through stun, healing debuff, slowed, and being beat on by 3 rogues. Going feral in bg, you have no heal. You lose 1 rogue. You break the team. Then you have to wait for him to rez. Or your toons scatter in different graveyard. I am sure you know about all those rezzing frustrations in bgs.

You have to have someway to regen health and beat on your second target. And resto druid gives you that.

[shaeman]

Upon mulling it over I think that adding a druid either Resto or Feral might gimp the effectiveness of the team.

Specifically in situations where I want to use vanish - and having a kitty that can't really restealth until out of combat either standing there and taking a pounding or acting as a huge neon sign pointing to my stealthed rogues isn't great.

I'm thinking of being able to vanish all of the team at the same time, all attacks being completely synchronised.

I'm thinking that I will probably get a 4th rogue so it's a one class/same spec group and resign myself to being a crack suicide squad. If one dies the others are going down fighting

[Trick]

I'd love to hear how this works out for you. Just this week I revived 3 rogues that I RAF'd to 60 nearly a year ago, after I purchased 4 PvP Heirlooms and the leather chest for each of them. Only played them about 20 minutes since then, but having some trouble getting everything in sync yet.

[shaeman]

I'd love to hear how this works out for you.

I will do. At the moment the rogues are spread out across the levels.
(63,62,48,26,24). So will have to get the 48 and 26 up to 63 asap.


No RAF, so will have to see if i have enough stonekeeper shards for any items.

[Ualaa]

Vanish is not 100%, even if you macro Cloak of Shadows and /Stopattack into the Vanish Macro.
Still, everyone having the same abilities makes for easier and more efficient play.

The AV trinket, for teleporting to defense is a very good idea.
If the team is split, you can have everyone teleport to the same area.
And as a stealth team, you have a much better chance of rejoining the offense, if you don't want to play D.

I like the idea of having a Resto for heals, on the team.
But a tree is a marked target, most of the time.

[shaeman]

I figure i've always got the option of adding my druid to the party, but will try the rogues first.

I'm also going to bite the bullet and get a RAF account and start two fresh rogues to get up there.
I'll need to setup a new battlenet account to do it but that's easy enough.

Shame my next session is solo raiding - really want to get a move on with this team now.