5x ele shamans vs 4 ele shamans+1 druid tank

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Hello all!


Background: time limited player (2-ish h/day average) managed to level 1x 60 Shaman (resto spec) just recently, on one of the highest EU pop servers. Geared him up a bit, ran a few raids … etc.
Then ran into consumables issues for raids, which let me to ways to find good (and preferably easy) gold or farming strategies, that don’t require spamming for 1-2-3 hours for groups (or the ever nice: join group then immediately get passed leader and told to ‘spam for tank cuz I need to go for a smoke for the next 40 minutes, also pizza guy at door’).


Naturally I thought of regular gold farming methods, like DM:E jump runs: nope – tauren hitbox issues required more consumables to fix and the whole finesse positioning was stressful. Most other open-world lucrative areas camped/drained .. and so an idea popped up of doing some multiboxing and blow everything up instead, +the fun factor.



Since I already have experience on shaman, naturally I red up about 5 ele/resto shaman being viable for Classic dungeoning/PVP, maybe even in TBC and beyond (Outside of BG’s of course)


So now the uncertainty:

1. Is having a tank available (going for druid, as the easier tank) for other 4 ele/resto shamans, faster clear time (or maybe lower stress) in high level 5 man instances (lvl 52-60), compared to full 5 ele/restos ?
2. Any experienced 5 ele/shamans team in high level dungeons can offer some insight ? did you ever think: “man! If only three was a tank here now I’d have smoked that pack/boss instead of wiping!”
3. If 5 ele/restos are viable, should I drop the druid from the team at lv 48 (to minimize xp loss from lvl difference), and swap in the 60 shammy I have already, to run the full 5 ele/resto team?
4. Or should I keep lvling the druid to 60, and use it for dungeons, with swapping in 1 shaman for pvp sessions only?

Also thought about mix-team, like mages DPS group + warrior/Rshammy. But as first time 5-boxer I want to keep it simple, and I do like the option to go 5x chain lightning some alliance at times while being un-aoe fearable…


Cheers!

Thread moved to the Classic sub-forum, as it's best suited for that section of the forum until we move to the new domain.
-MiRai