[Classic] Good farming team?

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You can tank on shamans with the right build. They actually have very high single target threat between earth shock and rockbiter weapon with windfury totem. They just can't hold agro on multiple mobs very well. The water cost is an issue but overall, the cost of leveling a second team just for farming would be higher. Finding a mage to summon you several stacks of water for a couple gold shouldn't be to difficult.

If I were going to make a team exclusively for farming dungeons I'd probably go paladin, priest, 3 mages. Consecration+Arcane explosion is easily the fastest way to clear large groups of trash and a prot paladin with a mage in the group for free water is pretty efficient.

I agree that is pretty much the same group I would do if I were making a group strictly for PVE farming and if I didn't want both a Paladin & Warrior main for PVP. The added benefit of a team like that is that theoretically you could later raid with 4+ of them in a ranged DPS group (at least on raids a guild has on farm). I am not sure the Paladin would fit unless maybe the Paladin speced differently for Raid Healing and improved concentration aura to bring all 5.

From a clearing perspective how close do you think Paladin, Priest, 2 Mages, & Warlock is to Paladin, Priest, & 3 Mages considering the synergy of Warlock with Mage? Personally I would like the utility of Warlock getting the group together and sending 1 character to town and back between clears and would maybe be willing to trade a little DPS for that.