Scholomance 4 Mages 1 Priest 37min run (Video)

[nodoze]

I am not sure why you think this would be hard to even if you played 5 characters. I am new to WoW and I was going to play 4 mages and 1 priest myself, but then my friend wanted to play a priest so I decided to only play 4 mages. I have been multiboxing in others games like Dark age of camelot were I was multiboxing 5-8 characters so I still have a good understanding about multiboxing. Running up and down the stairs with a priest and then press assist + frostbolt on your mages is not that hard, you only need to press 2 extra keys when you are running around with your priest and there is probably otherways you can kill this boss. In the last boss fight one of my mages get ported in to another room and I am easily able to move him around and cast other spell with him and at the same time my 3 other mages are casting frostbolts on the main boss.

Him running around pulling mobs when I was drinking my water probably saved us a min or two for the total run. Shackling a mob with a priest at the same time as you are doing dmg with mages takes 1-2 key presses depending on your keybindings.

The reason why I use polymorph on almost all mobs in this video is because I am using my PvP spec and honestly you dont really save that much time when you aoe small groups. I could aoe if I wanted without taking any damage with my frost shields up but I rather do it super easy and just use polymorph and save my mana.

I am not saying 4 mages 1 priest is the best setup for PvE, I myself hate PvE and I am only playing WoW for PvP and that is the reason why I picked 4 mages. 4 mages 1 priest are probably the strongest setup for PvP and I have been able to farm all dungeons so far without any problems. I have even been able to farm most bosses with just my 4 mages without a tank or healer in my group when I was farming my BIS items. You just need to play smart.

I actually think you are a talented multiboxer and your experience multiboxing shows. Even though you may be new to Warcraft your polish is evident, especially with the smoothness with which you polymorph (among other things). That is part of my point...

I have nothing against Polymorphing per se. It is great to avoid damage when/where you can. I also don't have any issue with a non-tank team but do want to caution that some folk may regret not having a tank option. My point is more that a group running a proper tank should also be able to clear fast (without having to poly though they certainly can) and should be able do do all bosses (not just some or most). In the end it should be safer & easier for the average multiboxer.

[Apatheist]

some folk may regret not having a tank option.

My reason for preferring teams without a dedicated tank, which is why I chose warlocks as my main team, is that the tank is generally a wasted character once you're done farming dungeons. One melee class mixed in with a ranged team isn't much use in PvP or raids. With 4 mages/warlocks and a healer you can feasibly step into raids or wPvP and all of your characters will have an impact.

[nodoze]

My reason for preferring teams without a dedicated tank, which is why I chose warlocks as my final main team, is that the tank is generally a wasted character once you're done farming dungeons. One melee class mixed in with a ranged team isn't much use in PvP or raids. With 4 mages/warlocks and a healer you can feasibly step into raids or wPvP and all of your characters will have an impact.

Understood and I get that though most of the goals and discussion on the forum center around the ease of clearing dungeons to fund a main.

Warlock(s) can get very Tanky so you are kinda tanking ;-)

Remember also that not all Tanks are forced into melee in PVP/Raids as a Paladin Tank can be an effective Healer, a Druid Tank can be a semi-effective caster/healer, & a Shaman tank can be an effective caster/healer.