Good melee group combinations

[Drommon]

Another 3 class comp I thought of is furyx4 + feral druid. This could be prot warrior + 3xfury + resto druid for instances. This team seems like it could cut through PVE with great ease like the 5xpally group.

[Redbeard]

Drommon, my gear is still half shitey so its pretty rough to be honest. At this point i'd like to respecc the shaman to resto, but if I do I lose out on 10% AP from unleashed rage.

So what I have now is kind of a hybrid enhance / resto spec where I go far enough into enhancement to get unleashed rage and far enough into resto to get earth shield + improved earth shield... still working out the bugs.

Armory Sturmhoof on Kil'Jaeden if you want to check it out lol. We'll see if it works out.

[Boylston]

Another 3 class comp I thought of is furyx4 + feral druid. This could be prot warrior + 3xfury + resto druid for instances. This team seems like it could cut through PVE with great ease like the 5xpally group.

Fury warriors are hard to run for maximum DPS. There, I said it.

There is almost no reason to put in a warrior for a PvE team. The allure of the warrior is the mortal strike debuff and invulnerability removal for arena/BG.

[Redbeard]

Fury warriors are hard to run for maximum DPS. There, I said it.

But they're fun and they look awesome =)

[Drommon]

Drommon, my gear is still half shitey so its pretty rough to be honest. At this point i'd like to respecc the shaman to resto, but if I do I lose out on 10% AP from unleashed rage.

So what I have now is kind of a hybrid enhance / resto spec where I go far enough into enhancement to get unleashed rage and far enough into resto to get earth shield + improved earth shield... still working out the bugs.

Armory Sturmhoof on Kil'Jaeden if you want to check it out lol. We'll see if it works out.

I checked out your shaman, I think it is good to go hybrid to keep the melee flavor you have. On an unrelated note, I recently made all the pallys in my 5xpally team Shockadins. With replenishment I don't run out of mana and they usually 1 shot mobs or 2-3 shot elites. Currently they are level 75. I am finding out the hybrid build can work well when thought out. It seems to be the case for specialized teams.

I like warriors myself and I think I am going to put some time into figuring out how I can make them work well in a melee boxing group thats capable in doing heroics.

[lightstriker]

I have been thinking about this for a while, too. What melee combo will give the most melee buffs.

DK Blood/Frost Hybrid. Abominable Might for AP. Improved Icy Talon for attack speed.
Pally- Blessing of Might, Kings, Santuary
Shaman - Strength Totem and Windfury(?), Not sure if WF and Ab Might will stack
Druid - Leader of the Pack, more crit chances.
War/Rogue - decrease armor

[Zugdud]

I run:

UA/Prot Warrior + Ret Paladin + Enh Shaman + Blood DK + Resto Druid for PvE
Arms Warrior + Ret Paladin + Enh Shaman + Unholy/Frost DK for PVP + Resto Druid / Holy Paladin for BGs (Disc Priest partner for Arenas)

I did not design my team around optimal PvE performance, but it work's quite well. These classes/specs have zero proc management and fairly simple priority sequences, so I find it easy to get fairly close to optimal performance with each class using spam macros.

[raylion]

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone is running a pally and 4 enhancement shaman with any degree of success? Mostly want to know whether the 4 shammies could heal effectively in heroics (I suspect probably not unless geared but you never know).

EDIT: Had a brief search through and couldn't spot too much in the way of details...would seem most are using their shammies as elemental (or 3 ele 1 resto) when in heroics.

[Redbeard]

If you wanted to babysit maelstrom weapon procs you could probably do a fair amount of healing as enhancement... if i recall they get +30% AP -> SP conversion so they do get a bit of +healing.

Edit: Obviously you'd be hurting your dps to do so.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

In my runs with the pally team, the single biggest problem with melee groups is being in range for AoE boss effects. That being the case, passive/semi-active healing become a big part of living long enough to kill whatever you're killing. As things stand today, ret pallies are the kings of self-healing with judgement of light and lay on hands. For those really rough fights, seal of light is stupid amounts of passive healing with each hit. I think probably the only thing that would heal better would be 4 rets and a bear druid for Improved LotP heals.