How's Everyone Progressing so Far and What's Your Group Comp?

[kadaan]

Finally got around to starting up a team on Atiesh-Horde. Doing Warrior (tank) Priest (healer) and Shaman/Warlock/Hunter for dps. Randomly ran into Kojiiko in the starting area .

[Seekah]

I couldnt make a level since sunday. So yesterday i finally dinged 31 and ran to SM GY with my team of Warrior, 3 Mages and Priest.
First run went super smooth. Will do some more today. And since I can only play today and Sunday I hope to be 33-34 by the end of this weekend.

[Kraxx]

Has anyone any success with 4 Warriors and a Sham-Healer or is this group only viable with some decent gear later on?

[nodoze]

Has anyone any success with 4 Warriors and a Sham-Healer or is this group only viable with some decent gear later on?

When/if I do a Horde team one team I have thought about is 4 Warrior+Shaman. That being said I have done 3Warriors+2Paladins into the 20s and have some lessons learned am interested in folks feedback on 4Warriors+Shaman.

With shamans not getting healing totem until Level 20 and not getting Chain Heal until Level 40+ I am curious how they have found having a single Shaman healer was with 4 Warriors before then.

Personally I found it best for my Warrior group to wait to go into the Deadmines until Level 20 and ideally would wait until 22+ for attempting full clears. Overall I found 3 Warriors pretty strong except for when I faced 2 or more of the AoE caster mobs (like Defias Evokers) and really needed to step back and get my Shield Bashing rotation down to get through those.

One thing I noticed is there have been many times I have been grateful that I have 2 Healers as even trying to be careful on pulls I have had many times where the incoming damage seemed too much for a single healer to keep my team up. Even when the spike damage was manageable from a single healer there have been several fights where I would have gone Out of Mana (OOM) on a single healer. I mitigated this some by setting up rank 1 'Holy Light's until I got 'Flash of Light' at level 20 and taking turns healing from one healer so the other can leverage the 5 second mana regen rule also seemed to help. I also added some mana pots for both for boss fights. It should get much better once I have full Illumination talents at level 29 and even better when I get 'Seal of Light' at 30 but I have to get to to Level 29/30 first and am concerned that it would have been much more frustrating to get there with a single healer...

Note that I have these healing concerns even running 1 Warrior as my "Lead" and making sure he was running 1H+Shield and had the best armor and mostly in Defensive stance pushing AoE aggro so that damage was mostly focused into the most mitigated spot on my team (though all of my team is in mail with shields when needed).

Bottom line is that I am interested in what other people running Warriors have felt regarding healing, especially if they only have 1 healer... Eventually at cap once my Warriors are fully geared I anticipate that I swap one Healer for a 4th Warrior but up to this point so far I am glad I have had 2 Healers.

[Mercbeast]

Warriors are kind of painful until 36. I'm running 4x warriors + 1 priest. It was unbelievably slow going instance grinding until 36. I started with dead mines as well, at 18, and I basically just farmed the first two bosses until level 20 or 21. Then I did some full clears for the quests. I did stockades to 27 then moved to gnomer until 31, and then did SM GY until 35, Library until 38, armory until 42 (to get 4x ravagers, it took me like 35 full clears to get 4 ravager drops), Cathedral until 44.

The big issue is you just don't have the cleave that mages and warlocks do until 36, and even then, it's not a terrific amount of cleave. Mostly even now pulling more than ~6 mobs is pretty pointless because my bread and butter aoe abilities only hit a max of 4 targets, or 2.

(edit) I will say, once horde has wind fury totem, their warrior groups would be noticeably better than alliance, for obvious reasons.

Like I said, it was incredibly slow, and it only picked up around level 40, where I was able to maintain 35kish xp per run (real xp per hour probably closer to 30k, due to running out etc). To give context, my /played at level 28 was 4 days 9 hours I think, and the fastest hunter I solo mob grinded to 60 back in 2005 was around 4 days 12 hours. Now, granted, a not insignificant portion of my time on this group was basically jumping up and down to avoid going into a 20k queue

[Drakhoun]

Hi all,

I have 2 teams:

1. Horde- warrior, priest, x3 fire mages
I was able to AOE grind RFC at level 16 using AE. I can pull up to 3-4 mobs at one time. Cleared about 5/6 times and hit level 19.
I then did WC. I was able to AOE 3-4 mobs at level 20. After about 3-4 runs im at level 22 now.

2. Alliance- paladin, priest, x3 frost mages
I went to DM at level 20. At 21 I can easily AOE 3-4 mobs and clear the dungeon. Team is at level 22 now.

What I learned thus far:

1. A lot of people have been reporting me for ‘botting’ which is annoying. I hope Blizz dont auto ban me as im only multiboxing and its legal.
2. Watch Dalo’s youtube videos. It helps a lot. Thanks bro!
3. Warrior is great at holding single mob threat. But its a bit tricky with multiple mobs. When there are 3 or more, i had to use sheep.
4. I feel like warrior has easier rotation than paladin.
5. Paladin holds aggro for multiple mobs with retribution aura and consecration very well, better than warrior.
6. I use judgment as ‘taunt’ for my paladin and it works very well. Dont keep judging. Keep it for when you lose threat. I can hold aggro with consecration alone and use judgment when i lose threat.
7. I have to be careful that i dont consecrate the area where i have sheeped a mob
8. Fire mages does a lot more DPS than Frost mages at this stage. But not by a huge margin.
9. Priest healers almost never run out of mana. The only time i run out of mana was when i fought VC at level 20.
10. Paladin team was generally able to AOE more mobs at one time as paladin was able to hold threat better with multiple mobs.
11. Its good to go to the dungeons when you are at least same level as most mobs.
12. Multiboxing is so much fun!

ps- i hate druid of the fang (can put your priest to sleep for 15sec) and the raptors as they keep calling for help. I realized its easier to just LOS pull them.

[eclipz8002]

Hi all,

I have 2 teams:

1. Horde- warrior, priest, x3 fire mages
I was able to AOE grind RFC at level 16 using AE. I can pull up to 3-4 mobs at one time. Cleared about 5/6 times and hit level 19.
I then did WC. I was able to AOE 3-4 mobs at level 20. After about 3-4 runs im at level 22 now.

2. Alliance- paladin, priest, x3 frost mages
I went to DM at level 20. At 21 I can easily AOE 3-4 mobs and clear the dungeon. Team is at level 22 now.

What I learned thus far:

1. A lot of people have been reporting me for ‘botting’ which is annoying. I hope Blizz dont auto ban me as im only multiboxing and its legal.
2. Watch Dalo’s youtube videos. It helps a lot. Thanks bro!
3. Warrior is great at holding single mob threat. But its a bit tricky with multiple mobs. When there are 3 or more, i had to use sheep.
4. I feel like warrior has easier rotation than paladin.
5. Paladin holds aggro for multiple mobs with retribution aura and consecration very well, better than warrior.
6. I use judgment as ‘taunt’ for my paladin an it works very well. Dont keep judging. Keep it for when you lose threat. I can hold aggro with consecration alone and use judgment when i lose threat.
7. I have to be careful that i dont consecrate the area where i have sheeped a mob
8. Fire mages does a lot more DPS than Frost mages at this stage. But not by a huge margin.
9. Priest healers almost never run out of mana. The only time i run out of mana was when i fought VC at level 20.
10. Paladin team was generally able to AOE more mobs at one time as paladin was able to hold threat better with multiple mobs.
11. Its good to go to the dungeons when you are at least same level as most mobs.
12. Multiboxing is so much fun!

ps- i hate druid of the fang (can put your priest to sleep for 15sec) and the raptors as they keep calling for help. I realized its easier to just LOS pull them.

I think I saw your group in desolace tonight

[Drakhoun]

I think I saw your group in desolace tonight

Haha its probably not me. I’ve yet to go to Desolace. My horde are all trolls with pink hair

[omegared]

What I learned thus far:

1. A lot of people have been reporting me for ‘botting’ which is annoying. I hope Blizz dont auto ban me as im only multiboxing and its legal.

Yeah i get a lot of grief as well...as if, all of a sudden, nobody has ever seen a multiboxer before.
Sometimes you get a compliment, or questions about it being legal or not.
Ran into a multiboxer yesterday, which was cool.

Anyway, running 5 fire mages on Mirage Raceway as the team i originally planned on playing, warrior priest and 3 fire mages, are on Shazzrah which always has queues several hours long.
Am level 16 now and just starting in Redridge.
Collection quests are a pain in the butt, the rest is just as tedious as i remember from Vanilla.

[Andreauk]

Yeah i get a lot of grief as well...as if, all of a sudden, nobody has ever seen a multiboxer before.
Sometimes you get a compliment, or questions about it being legal or not.
Ran into a multiboxer yesterday, which was cool.

It's been 50/50 for me.. most the time people on Alliance chat and ask me stuff.. the real hate is towards my Horde team.. get a lot of reports and /spit haha

I am on NethergardeKeep realm.