Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
I'd say the easiest team to start with would be:
- (Prot) Paladin tank.
- 3x or 4x Elemental Shaman (dps)
- If you go 3x Shaman, go 1x Boomkin or 1x Warlock for the 13% spell power buff (warlock is better, in that there is no Eclipse to manage).

3x Shaman can handle healing for all 5-man content.



However, if you want your first team to be able to both PvE and PvP well.

Swap out the Paladin for a Druid.
Feral is almost as good of a tank as a Pally, a little harder to macro but still very strong.
And then dual-spec the Druid to Boomkin, and run with all casters in battlegrounds.
Out of curiosity, why would you say the feral tank would be harder to macro than the paladin? I see the majority of teams being pally tank + what-ever (4x shaman, or what-have-you). Currently I'm running a bear tank with my shaman and I have 4 total abilities to keep track of with the bear. In all honesty, if you get a nice weapon, you can toss out a faerie fire, and then just spam swipe all day and not have to use a single other ability on the tank.

My bear is currently running at about 5500 gearscore, and I just spam swipe in combat (single target, or AoE). This let me put my shaman spells onto my numpad rather than using a click macro and I got their single target DPS up to around 4k on each of them in heroics. Being able to fully control the use of wind shear, flame shock, lava burst, LB and Chain made a HUGE difference in the dps they put out (went from 2100 or so using the click macros to right at 4k using numpad sequencing).

Granted, I may not understand paladins well enough to understand the major reasons to use them as a 5-box tank, but, for me at least, bear tank is amazingly easy.