Quote Originally Posted by Usmcgruntz View Post
I am trying a 5 man team of 1 priest and 4 mages for high end level gold farming and PvP. I just got to level 21 after 1 day and 6 hours of playing. I thought once I got my team into deadmines it would go quicker since questing with a 5 man team is extremely slow. But it has gone even slower without having a tank to mass pull and aoe. Plus I am spending a majority of my time making water and drinking more than I’m pulling. It is taking an ungodly amount of time. I think I’m going to take my warrior fury/prot warrior and run them through or make a new one for dungeon grinding because not having a tank is terrible. One person dies after every large pull or if I don’t pull enough and smaller pulls then it takes forever to complete the dg. Also I can’t tank the last boss in dead mines without dying. So I’m being to think it can’t be done efficiently with that comp. what is everyone else’s comp and why and what’s your experience on how long it takes to level a 5 man.
If I recall correctly the recommended approach for 4M+Priest team is to take small clumps and AE them down and rinse/repeat and generally avoid bosses until you get up to cap and get semi geared.

It is one of the fastest approaches to cap with appropriate sized clumps and by appropriate I mean taking the biggest group you can kill without dieing which will vary somewhat based on your level compared to the dungeon.

I think folk are split about having a tank or not. Some folk who have one wish they didn't and some folk that don't wish they did. Tanks pushing AoE threat is harder after the nerfs awhile back but it does still work (just needs more shouts up front).

Personally I think it is wise to at least have an option for a Tank. If you already have one at cap and are fine with using it for running dungeons when your mages get to cap you may be best served to just focus on clearing clumps as fast as you can to get to cap and then mix in the tank when you feel it is warranted.

Maybe someone can give some insight into their setup/approaches and/or contrast/compare to what you are doing as your current team should be one of the fastest out there (if not the fastest) as long as you are OK with skipping hard bosses and just getting to cap ASAP.