Newb query about heroic squad setup

[Bravo]

Can't say, never played a mage. But you wouldn't be able to balance out the agro as much. Your mage would either pull too much agro and then defend himself with cloth or do less and if it's doing less, not be able to grab agro. Your spells would be casting at differnt rates. I also have my shocks mixed so 4 cast earth shock, but one casts frost shock which has higher threat and I can pull agro off a charater which might be taking too much of a beating. I'd personaly just level 5 guys then if you want later on mix and match to suit your play style. Just have fun, your playing a video game.

[aetherg]

I'm curious actually; on heroic, he gains an ability that fires bolts at all players outside of his circle every 5 seconds. Can these be absorbed by grounding totem? Pandemonius has a very similar-looking ability that is vulnerable to grounding totem (totally trivializes the fight). If this is the case for Murmur, you could treat this just like normal mode, as long as you remember to chain your grounding totems.

[Bravo]

I dunno, I stayed inside the circle the whole time, I didn't bother healing the earth elementals and decided to take the hit when he did his sonic boom (only took about 50% of my health away) chain healed after.I switched windows to who ever got Touch of Murmur and ran them to the other side of the circle and forgot about them becuase they're silenced for a while afterwards, and murmur was already at 5%

[kayb]

I'm curious actually; on heroic, he gains an ability that fires bolts at all players outside of his circle every 5 seconds. Can these be absorbed by grounding totem? Pandemonius has a very similar-looking ability that is vulnerable to grounding totem (totally trivializes the fight). If this is the case for Murmur, you could treat this just like normal mode, as long as you remember to chain your grounding totems.

Grounding totems dont absorb those bolts. Counts as an aoe attack I guess.

And @Bravo: Yeah, you can do pretty much anything with shamans when you got good gear. But you can do heroics with a classic setup in shitty gear. Thats basically the only differance. My shammies have over 9k unbuffed health now, and over 10k armor, so they're becoming little tanks as I progress into better gear =)

[Mokoi]

Howdy,

As a side question, has anyone ever healed a 25man raid with 5 shamans? Wondered how the organisation works with that, or if it's too random heals to control 5 at once.

Thanks Lilal

I have tried this.

I respecced 2 of my Shamans to Resto with about 1400 healing each. I wasn't sure quite how to do it at first, but I think I figured out a good way.

I had 3 main targets on both of my shamans. 3 different macros to target a different target and heal them. 6 keys bound for chain heal and 1-6 became heals on 6 different people. Tanks, Melee and Certain ranges DPS who clumped.

Worked well in conjunction with my existing macros to target one person and LHW / Chain heal at once (mainly used on main tank after transitions etc)

tricky part is setting up your UI so you can quickly heal who needs healed and making sure your guys are standing close to their healing assignments.

for the most part, I only used the 2 keys that were assigned to heal the tanks I was assigned to tank. and only used the other 4 to heal sporadically. the bonus, is chain heal heals a lot of people when theres more than one flying around.

Not the recommended style of healing, but adds a certain flare to the game that makes it very interesting =)

-Dan

[Bravo]

[quote='kayb',index.php?page=Thread&postID=44946#po st44946]But you can do heroics with a classic setup in shitty gear[/quote]

Remote, myself, and I'm sure some other 5 shaman teams on here were running a few heroics in [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=20733#post20733']greens[/url]

[Lilal]

So I've got my 5 levelling slowly (only 8 atm aww :P) and seeing I didn't want to make needless threads, does anyone know what addon the bars in LancerX's movies are? Seems nice to have the casting/buffs etc, rather than the standard set.



Thanks Lily

[kayb]

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Yup, did that myself. Though only Slave Pens, and a boss here and there. Took first boss in Sethekk halls easy enough day after I dinged 70, but it kinda stopped there. Wiped alot on the Ravenguards after this, so I just stopped running it. I did clear it just to do it, but I never did it again cause I wiped alot after the first boss. It would probably be very easy for me now, with better gear.

[Motoren]

Im running 1 pally 1 priest and 3x mages and it seems to go ok for me.. im doing a few heroic bosses now and trying to get some gear for the pally. I have many times been thinking of switching to 1pally and 4xshamans mostly due to stupid fearing mobs. Its alittle harder to control 3 different characters too, but i guess you get used to it

Giz

1pally 1priest 3mages

[kayb]

Gotta hand it to ya Bravo. Been testing your idea for the pve stuff I do, and it's riddiculously powerful. I just swap out the normal lb spam macro that I use in pvp every time I go to do heroics. I thought stuff was easy before...but oh man =)

/cast [target=targettarget, help] lesser healing wave; lightning bolt

The downside is that theres alittle more drinking than before, but that's not to bad I guess.