Melee-Cleave Boxing End Game Dungeons

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The purpose of this thread is to get all positive examples of PVE boxing of Melee Cleave groups of end game WoW Classic dungeons into one thread.

Note: Before this thread was started it seemed the majority of comments from melee-cleaving boxers on this forum were from those that were not happy with their melee teams and multiple boxers have abandoned their melee-cleave groups at levels as high as 58 or even after they got to 60 to go with Magic/Ranged/other teams instead... Having multiple viable team makeups and play-styles for boxing is great for the community so lets please focus this thread on getting some good examples where melee-cleave is working for at least some folk as well as maybe also work on tips/tricks/advice to help those for whom it isn't working for... There are already multiple other threads extolling the virtues of mage/warlock/AoE/other teams so lets please not pollute this thread with a bunch of magery, PVP, or any other non-melee-cleave PVE Dungeon topics...

Videos of boxing Melee-Cleave Groups in Dungeons:

8Warriors+2Shaman in UBRS: from MrPeakyBicepsMan
4Warriors+Shaman in LBRS: from_Swydi
4Warriors+Shaman in DM-E: from_Quiding
4Warriors+Shaman in Strat-UD: from_Swydi
4Warriors+Shaman in Strat-Live: from Quiding
5Paladins in DM-E: from Dwon
Druid_Bear+3Rogues+Paladin in SM: from Gnomepower
Druid_Bear+3Rogues+Paladin in Strat-UD: from Gnomepower
5 Shaman (4Enhance+Resto) in Scholo: from Gnomepower
5 Druids (swapping tank/heals/3cats) in BRD stealth run from Fleaplus

Builds for Melee-Cleave Groups in Dungeons:

Shaman build for Melee Cleave (from WoWHead);
Shaman build for healing 4Warriors (thanks Quiding);
Shaman build for healing 4Warriors (thanks Bzyta);
Fury DW with Deflection instead of Imp Heroic strike (from Quidling)
Arms 31/20/0 (from Quidling)
Rogues for boxing (from Gnomepower)

Some notable motivational quotes from fellow boxers running Melee Cleave teams:

I can tell you my 4 warrior+shaman team ... all have HoJ and gladiator chest, arms sword spec with destiny (boe 54 dps sword) and I regret nothing

even though you cant aoe pull as much as mages, you constantly burn through groups and don't need to rest nearly as often as caster teams (shaman uses mostly spirit/mp5 gear)

... There was a period where my team (3 warriors + 1 Paladin + 1 Priest) hit 60 where any high level (non DM E, BRD, LBRS) dungeon was rough. ... I prioritized getting the quest blues (including the DM West 2H weapon which is sick) and once I grabbed all of that the difficulty switch got turned off. I [now] slam through dungeons like they are nothing. I haven't done UD strat yet, I'm going to bang it out tomorrow but everything else has been cleared (other than post-rend UBRS which I'm not even going to bother with). ...

I currently have 8 warriors and 2 shamans at 60 and am having an incredibly easy time doing rend runs. I can kill rend in 20-25 minutes which is faster than most groups of regular [players] can pull off.

Mage heavy groups are definitely significantly easier to manage and are less gear dependent but I’ve found that now that all of my warriors have lionheart helm, devilsaur sets and are almost in full pre raid bis I can just face roll through pretty much every dungeon much faster than a caster group could....

Note: One thing every one of the above positive quotes has in common is that melee cleave groups excel in dungeons AFTER they get decent end game gear... For many people Melee-Cleave teams are painful until they get decent gear (approaching pre-raid Best in Slot (BiS) levels)...