5-box with many armour types?

[traedoril]

I ended up going with:

Paladin
Warlock
Mage
Priest
Hunter

As that was what the blood elves could come up with.

I am finding it quite tough, to be honest and am seriously considering sucking it up and making an all-orc, Warrior+4 Shamans, or blood elf paladin+4 Shamans (or 3 Shamans and a Druid.)

At 23 the holy priest struggles to keep the group alive. Single target damage/heals are easy enough, but zero aoe healing at this stage sucks. This might get better at higher levels, but I'll be behind on gear for awhile.

I'll keep going on this group for awhile longer, at least long enough to get the priest to smite spam heal and see how that works out instead...

Go disc at lvl 30 spec into attonement. Win.

[luxlunae]

Go disc at lvl 30 spec into attonement. Win.

A thousand times this:

If you 2 step spam 12 on all characters disc priest:

1: /castsequence [@focus] Power Word: Shield, Renew
2: /castsequence reset=5 Holy Fire, Smite, Smite, Smite

Win. That will get you to level 50 by itself.

I'm not sure at 23 why your dps are taking damage at all?

[luxlunae]

Also I wouldn't recommend trying to mix in a pet class on your first team. Just too many aggravating things go wrong with a pet class, even when single boxing!

[Destahd]

A thousand times this:

If you 2 step spam 12 on all characters disc priest:

1: /castsequence [@focus] Power Word: Shield, Renew
2: /castsequence reset=5 Holy Fire, Smite, Smite, Smite

Win. That will get you to level 50 by itself.

I'm not sure at 23 why your dps are taking damage at all?

Thanks for the macro, I'll be trying that in a few more levels.

As for why the DPS take damage...

Some boss fights have summoned adds and turns out Avenger's Shield isn't enough aoe aggro.

SFK in particular, Baron Silverlaine was quite tough due to the summoned adds and any fight with adds, is a pain. Even just bunches of enemies can suck, although this is relative to size of group and proximity. If AS can hit them on entry (and I can sheep one) it can be ok. Usually, trash/single target is ok.

When I get Hammer of the Righteous the issue should go away, I hope! (it should get much better at 29 all around, I think. How on the Paladin and Atonement on the Priest.)

Also I wouldn't recommend trying to mix in a pet class on your first team. Just too many aggravating things go wrong with a pet class, even when single boxing!

Yeah, this is pretty universal across games I think. Lesson learned here, but I'm stubburn and will stick with this team awhile longer.

One might say I can now see the value of 1 Paladin and 4 Shamans. K.I.S.S.