Currently WMMLP: considering W vs Pal & L vs 3rd M

[Purpleflavor]

Thanks a lots to you both. Some goods arguments there. I'll stick with my comp.

@Purpleflavor, indeed, I am pretty much doing what you describe with the war. Just had the feeling that I was losing agro to easily (to the priest heling in particular) and then, even demo shouting does not bring back mobs to me. Have to single pick each of them with Taunt, then losing focus on the remainder of the team for a while.

I had heard that Pala is much better at aoe aggro and was wondering.

As for mage vs lock, I guess the utility brought by the latter makes sens even at the expense of a bit more management.

Now, back to the game ! :-)

Just a small tip that might help, if you are losing aggro to the healer, you are likely healing too early in the pull. You generally dont want to start healing until the tank is around half health, and with stamina buffs from both your priest and lock the tank should have a lot of health. Pre-hotting and shielding in classic is really bad for a tanks mental stability, which is another reason druids are bad 5man healers. By the time the tank dips down near half health they should have gotten out a battle shout and a demo shout, pop a big heal and a renew on them and you shouldnt be able to pull aggro from him at all. The two shouts before you land your first heal will produce about 400-450 threat, and healing threat is always reduced by 50% plus any talents or threat reducing buffs you have active. This is a big reason why people like pally's, as Salvation allows healers to get away with generally keeping a tank topped off and playing inefficient.


yes a pally tank is much better at aoe aggro atm.

With Salvation, Sanctuary, holy shield, and consecration they are on par at holding aoe aggro with warriors, but there is a newly discovered mechanic with greater blessings and righteous fury that works similar to a warriors battle shout, but doing double the threat of shout, that is pushing them to the top of aoe threat of all tanks.

With Salvation and speccing your dps/healers into threat reduction talents, you can be pretty careless on pulls as long as your pally lands a decent consecrate on everything.

Warlock aoe starts to shine at level 30 when they get hellfire. When you get hellfire, your lock will be top aoe dps.