5 man team with three hunters, am I crazy?

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On my server I see a 5x hunter team farming dme.
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I started a shaman and 4x hunter team, just for fun.

I agree with your team structure.

Personally I have never understood what 5 hunters has over 4hunters+Healer (especially a Shaman healer).

I understand there is some simplicity to running 5 of one class and 5 pets going crazy is funny but 4 pets is pretty similar... To be fair I haven't tried both groups in Classic (so I can't speak to from direct personal experience) but it has always seemed compelling to me that a Healer (especially a Shaman) adds much more to 4 Hunters than a 5th Hunter.

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I agree with your team structure.

Personally I have never understood what 5 hunters has over 4hunters+Healer (especially a Shaman healer).

I understand there is some simplicity to running 5 of one class and 5 pets going crazy is funny but 4 pets is pretty similar... To be fair I haven't tried both groups in Classic (so I can't speak to from direct personal experience) but it has always seemed compelling to me that a Healer (especially a Shaman) adds much more to 4 Hunters than a 5th Hunter.

You take basically no damage in DM:E. The limiting factor is how fast you can run through it.

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You take basically no damage in DM:E. The limiting factor is how fast you can run through it.

My comments were not specific to DME as it is just one area of one dungeon. That being said it would be interesting to know how close the relative clear time of a 5 Hunter vs 4Hunter+Shaman (semi-passive with totems) is for something like DME. If there is a lot of stopping for looting anyway such that drinking isn't a big slowdown a Shaman in DME could go full offensive in addition to totems. Be interesting to see the relative ease and clear times of those scenarios...