5 Chars Dungeon Powerleveling Multibox

[xandorz]

4x priest 32/11/5
- QUAD HOLY NOVA

Does that actually work or does it run out of mana before killing things?
Holy Nova has a 7.14% spell power coefficiency. Costs 675 mana with mental agility. Deals ~200 damage per target.
Enough mana for ~7 Holy Nova at lvl 60. 7 * 200 * 4 = 5600 damage, before considering crit and spell power.
Looking at some random mobs in BRD it says they have 6-8.2k hp (on classicdb).

Would deal some more damage with Power Infusion and Inner Focus, but both have a 3 min cd.

Feels like it might be really tight on mana on such a team.

[mrdsp]

Can I sidestep a little and just ask...

If your doing dungeon runs, purley for leveling so nothing high level... Do you NEED a tank or can you overwealm the mobs and bosses with DPS?

I'm thinking of running 10x Shaman for Classic but I'm swaying to having to add a tank of some sort in there but that would leave my team with 8x Shaman 2x [Tank] when my end game really is just wPvP and hanging around (as is now haha!).


I'm not sure I have the willpower to run two sets of instances (2x teams) so not 100% if dungeons will work for me until I get there but would be nice to have the option.

[Moorea]

Does that actually work or does it run out of mana before killing things?
Holy Nova has a 7.14% spell power coefficiency. Costs 675 mana with mental agility. Deals ~200 damage per target.
Enough mana for ~7 Holy Nova at lvl 60. 7 * 200 * 4 = 5600 damage, before considering crit and spell power.
Looking at some random mobs in BRD it says they have 6-8.2k hp (on classicdb).

Would deal some more damage with Power Infusion and Inner Focus, but both have a 3 min cd.

Feels like it might be really tight on mana on such a team.

I did all the dungeons at level back in the BC days with 5 priests spamming holy nova (with sometimes 1 or up to 4 deaths on some boss fights) - my forum icon is still that team
it was fun though a bit repetitive 1 button play style

[Apatheist]

Does that actually work or does it run out of mana before killing things?
[Holy Nova]

It doesn't. Holy nova is incredibly weak in PvE. I see it used is in PvP occasionally, you can use rank 1 to get rogues out of stealth.

If your doing dungeon runs, purley for leveling so nothing high level... Do you NEED a tank or can you overwealm the mobs and bosses with DPS?

All low-mid level dungeons can be tanked by anybody with decent mitigation who can hold agro. No need to spec protection outside of raids. It's more about your gear than your talents. If you look at the warrior protection tree for example, there's nothing past the third tier of talents that increases your survivability. In dungeons it's more important to make sure you're maximizing your threat output so you can clear faster.

[Uhnknown]

I don't know that i'd call Holy Nova incredibly weak, you can use it on a single Priest to farm non-elites in DM - But aye, you definitely won't be spamming it to kill elites in a dungeon, or atleast any that are within a few levels of you.

[Apatheist]

I don't know that i'd call Holy Nova incredibly weak, you can use it on a single Priest to farm non-elites in DM - But aye, you definitely won't be spamming it to kill elites in a dungeon, or atleast any that are within a few levels of you.

There are some niche uses for it but it's still incredibly weak. I don't know why anybody would want to farm with a priest. You could level a mage and farm with that and it'd be far superior even with no gear.

As a boxer it makes even less sense. Not even worth the talent point IMO.