Holy Brick Wall Batman!

[Maxion]

If you're not using a true tank and healer, prepared to be dissapointed.

The BC 5x Shaman days ended at BC. You need to do instances the way Blizzard intended now...

NOT True.

My 5 Shamans killed several bosses in northrend instances on the way to 80, even full cleared Gundrak at 75.

It's just a lot easier with a real tank, and optional healer (as long as someone is healing).

[Hivetyrant]

NOT True.

My 5 Shamans killed several bosses in northrend instances on the way to 80, even full cleared Gundrak at 75.

It's just a lot easier with a real tank, and optional healer (as long as someone is healing).

It's true, especially if they are geared.

I hoped into a group last week that had 4 shamans (on my priest as heals)
I was ready to leave when the player said "Keep me up and watch this!"

We cleared Heroic Gun Drak in record time, shaman teams are OP

[Fursphere]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

[Ughmahedhurtz]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

This.

Yes, it is _possible_ to do 5-shaman groups in Northrend dungeons.

BUT.

To do it, you'll have to bring the best possible gear AND macros/pets/consumables/etc. that set you up specifically for that (no tank) situation.

With bosses that are pure ezmode tank n spank, I could see you struggling through it once you got past the gear/level check. For bosses like Ingvar the Plunderer, I just can't see how you would successfully get through that fight as a 5-DPS group at level without spending money on shadow resist pots, raid-level consumables, twink-ish enchants on all your gear, Best-In-Slot gear for your level, etc. And it would seem to me to be paradoxical that you'd need BiS gear to defeat the bosses that give you the BiS gear.

I'd love to be proven wrong.

[Ualaa]

Sometime in early BC, they reduced the experience needed per level for 1st to 60th, by 30%. In early WotLK, they did the same for BC content.

Effectively, 1st to 70th only requires 70% as much experience as it did when that was current content.

Add to this two 10% heirloom items, which stack (0.90 x 0.90 = 0.81 = 19%) for a 49% reduction in required experience per level for 1st to 70th.

Without heirlooms and the experience reductions, each level from 1st to 70th would have taken nearly twice as long. If a given quest was giving a half a bubble, it would have given a quarter of a bubble without heirlooms when that was the current content.

[Shodokan]

I beg to differ. You can do 60-70 in an entire weekend if you're bored. You definitely cannot do 70-80 in an entire weekend.

I did 70-78 in 1 weekend and i didn't even play the entire weekend. Close enough?

[MiRai]

I did 70-78 in 1 weekend and i didn't even play the entire weekend. Close enough?

No. You're still 3.3 million XP short of being max level. Which is essentially levels 60-67 according to this.

[Hivetyrant]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

Yes, that's exactly what I meant, hence why I said it /facepalm

[Fursphere]

No, you inserted the word "especially" - implying that it can be done without over gearing the content.

[Hivetyrant]

It can be done in 219/226 as well, but most people don't consider that "geared" anymore.

Regardless, does it really matter?