Really need help with group comp and few other questions

[WOWBOX40]

I would say you definitly want to learn how to play in current and hard 5man contents first, before you venture into current hard raids.

Reason being you need to practice and finetune your movements, interupts, remove curses, clense magic etc etc.

For raids, you will also need atleast 2 tanks (ability to have 3 if need be is a pluss, to smoothen out those debuffs: holy cow the trash can be brutal btw) and the ability to cover most abilities.

You can fidle around using this tool, to find out which classes and specs cover certain abilities: https://www.wowhead.com/raid-composition The abilities are shown to the right and below, as you click and drag a class into theraidgroup, it will show what you then will get, abilitywise. *If you hover your cursor over a ability you have, it will even show the spell used, in case you dont remeber which class / specc could use what.

You will also want to find out which classes which classifies as a "melee", during certain encounters... (suddenly you might have one or more standing there among the ranged healing , lets just say it will not turn out positivly).

I would highly recommend something like a http://www.stinkyboard.com/products/stinkyboard, its awesome when it comes to move the slaves around in a clump, to avoid certain abilities. You can ofcourse also use modifiers to increase the number of possible keypresses. Like, no modifers moves all slaves, with 1 modifier it moves characters within melee range etc etc etc etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co9IubSWWNI

I also have good experience from using: http://www.scythe-eu.com/uploads/tx_...2-View2_03.jpg Its decent enough if all you want is to use the left pedal to move them left...and right one to move them right, then you have 1 in the center leftover for what keypress you want. They also sell 1 pedal and 2 pedal varients.
*though these pedals are for casual play (or could be an addition, if you use it with one foot, then the stinkyboard with the other)

Sidenote: some raid encounters can force you to go to two different areas at the same time and fight stuff (could be different directions or even to a different phase/world= very difficult / "impossible" when current content.

Im able to farm the trash with 20 characters on mythic and heroic mode in the current raid, thru getting raid saves from some friends. Its brutal: one single error on the mobs or too late movement = easily could lead to a wipe. I also had to create multiple custum keybinds to CC certain mobs. Just learning to kill these trashpacks is quite a feat in itself imho :P My characters are around 445 ilvl currently.