[Classic] Good farming team?

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First, thanks so much for your input. It has been invaluable. ...

You mentioned you plan to do 3 War / 3 Pal. What does that look like for you? 1 Pal tank, 1 Pal healer and 3 arms/fury wars for dungeon leveling? What would you drive from, the tank?

If I did 4 War / 1 Sham would I need one of those wars to go prot? I am thinking so. Then I suppose I would drive from the prot tank for dungeon leveling as well?

I tested a Prot War/Resto Shaman/2 Mage/ Warlock in RFC on a private server. My biggest issue was keeping aggro as the prot warrior. I know practice will really help. I need to not have my dps macros assist the tank since the tank is tab targeting each mob to grab aggro. This did make me wonder though if perhaps Druid with swipe/maul would be easier. Druid/3War/Shaman?

Although 4 war/shaman might still be ideal, but I am just concerned about no cc and holding aggro. Perhaps holding aggro isn't as big of a deal if the dps are warriors and can take a hit.

Any advice with this would help greatly. I essentially would like to end up with an optimal 5 man farming group that includes my main (shaman), and possibly at some point have a 4 shaman/1 priest pvp group.

Agreed Apatheist provides great info.

I am pretty sure he plans 3 DPS warriors and 2 Healing Paladins often in melee range sealing the main target & I plan on doing a similar configuration. If the content really requires a true Tank I think he would convert one of the warriors although one of the Paladins could be a mana heavy Tank option as well. Maybe he will chime in on this as well as how he plans to drive them.

PVEwise Druid/3War/Shaman would give you a Tank option that could convert to a Healer when Tanking isn't needed. It could also open up some stealth options for you and a give you a battleground flag runner option.