Good 5 man comps purely for pve / dungeon leveling

[Gh0ztEye]

Curious which team (5H or 4H+Healer) do you think is better for farming dungeons? My gut has always been that a Healer brings more to the table than a 5th Hunter but I never ran either team in Vanilla nor Classic so curious to hear from someone who has...

Note that I ask in part because your signature says your hunters are 38 and curious if it is out of date.

My sig is current, I'm at 38 on a sham + 4X hunters. The hunters are orc, 2 trolls, and a tauren all with engineering for cables. In longer fights previously I would either go oom and sham eventually died or grabs aggro and gets killed. I've only done SM a couple times since upgrading my pets to birds n gorillas and they are 34-35 so a bit underleveled still but it was a huge difference aggro wise.

I should also note that I have another PrLLLL team I just finished leveling to 35 for prof/summon toons and the hunter combo feels smoother. I run an imp and 3 VW to ping pong aggro currently. The healing on the lock team is much better but I just don't need to heal as much on the hunters.

I believe 5x hunters is viable due to this guy https://www.youtube.com/user/BlackDrgnu/featured and a 5x Troll hunter w/ gorillas on my realm I've talked with. I think this guy in the videos could do better yet if he made a spellpower set on his main(pseudo healer/more magic damage) and did a bit of mend pet via click bars or something of the sort in his group which is something I will probably try. I would also probably go orc for that little extra bit of pet damage/aggro.

[Diwa]

sham + 4X hunters.

How often does the Shaman pull aggro?

[The Crowd]

How often does the Shaman pull aggro?

please note this is only my personal experience;
when I was leveling I used fleshrippers With screech and it was effortless until SM range Where they just got insta gibbed, I happened to pick up 3 broken tooth cats running too and from uldaman and dear lord I spent more time corpse running my healer than anything else... any group of mobs with more than 5 (so normal aoe packs) were horrible... the scorpions pits in ulda, the aoe packs before boss in arena evenT in BRD and such forth were pure hell on earth... mobs in your dead zone. You could end up wiping to 2 normal mobs if you had a panic reaction...

Someone suggested ungoro gorillas with stomp... so I duly noted and went tamed 4 with stomp and set about again and ya. Even worse... sure they had an Aoe but it’s on a 1min cooldown and doesn’t even generate much agro.

I thought, right this is it, I’m gonna bench this team.. and I said I’ll just grind some timbermaw rep for my shaman before folding him into a different team and I noted that while doing that the owls from that area seemed to take longer to die than most regular mobs around them when I agro’d them... so que taming 4 of them, never looked back. My old method was bind every pets attack to different keys so I could Send 1 pet to tank every mob in packs of 4 easy, I don’t even need to do that anymore. 4 owls go in, on one target, they have a damage reduction so they require a lot less healing, and they have screech... the only time my healer pulls agro now is when a passing patrol happens to agro mid chain heal cast, and it’s not even an issue I just send all pets to the patrol, regardless of what they are doing. Haven’t panic wiped once since and if I have a situation where there’s a lot of damage coming in I just auto attack the hunters, chain heal with the shaman until oom, then park the shaman and use meant pet on my hunters until their oom by which time my shaman is nearly always about 75% mana again. Rinse and repeat.

[Gh0ztEye]

How often does the Shaman pull aggro?

Very rarely. When it does it's usually because of something I did such as using chain lightning and didn't change the pets targets or a random pat/runner pulling another group. My Sham is full resto atm with the Healing Grace talents.


I just did two full SM Armory runs and did't have any deaths. I even had a couple reeaally long fights because of runners chain pulling(3-4 packs).

I also redid a few macros and keybinds. I had petattack baked into the damage rotation and while it worked it wasn't ideal for switching pet targets . I've pretty much moved everything around and am using a petattack macro with one toon adding in a hunters mark and I feel like I have much more control now.