AV this weekend

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well ya. I don't use FTL so if my leader goes down I can't move the other guys (opps), still even dead I can target and the others, although they cannot move (as a group) will still kill ally in the area, then I run them one at a time (I always ahve the ablitily to play one character at a time as good as any single player but the others stand and do nothing in the mean time) into ally spaming archane explosion untill all die. So beacuse I don't use FTL I am more suseptable to loss onece my main is killed. Still the restro shaman is usually the last one standing cause I target himslef with the chain heals and let the 2nd and 3rd heals heal the mages. And he has his self rez so its not so bad as it sounds.

Of course the Shaman is the target of the enemy and at some point with 5 guys attacking him his heals are interupted and he dies ....

Now add in the Prot Pal and the Shaman healer is targeting the Pal with the first chain heal (and puts riptide on himself), well the Pal is unlikely to go down against even 5 guys and with bubble and self healing probably alwasy going to be the last of my guys to die. Also I think with earth sheild and riptide on the shaman and the chain heal on the pal the shaman is better healing himself then having no riptide and doing the first chain heal on himself (chain heal eats riptide so ...).

They going to attack the Pal first, won't work cause he is being healed. So they target the healer first which gives my Pal free movement and my whole group free movement then to get out of aoe's and just be free to kill whomever. With just the shaman he is having not to move to cast chain heal, and is getting slowed and buffs striped etc. I could just park the shaman and the Pal will still have the group moving out of aoe's etc. The mages being able to do full offensive while on the move is a nice plus.

Pal means I will be always able to target and move as a group untill the mages die basically and thats a big plus for me. And if the shaman goes down and I win I can rez with the Pal even if the self rez is down.

I just can't see how a 5 shaman group would be better then a 4 shaman 1 Pal group under any circumstances, even with FLT.

The reason I have not set up FLT is that I am set up around 36 boxing and if someone can kill my pal with 22 healers (well now 7) I figure let them win.

The Prot Pal allows me to move freely as a group and target enemy untill all the mages die as the Prot Pal will normally be the last character standing, prot pal is not for dps.

And prot pal does have some very nice stuns effective against single characters, if I see a Priest running at me for physic screem well a hammer of judgment gonna stop that fasts, and the Pal has the 2 second silence racial also.

I doubt I will be doing much "end game" between now and cata, I have 15 level 1 undead mages (wotf) to level up ..... and another 12 characters at level 50 plus to get to 80 ..... bleh.