Wow Classic TBC

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For me to go Horde I would have to level up Paladin+4Shaman from scratch on a new server and lose access to my current 60 Paladins, 60 Mage, & all my Warlocks and other alts... In the end if my goal remains to be the best Paladin Raid Tank and Paladin Raid Healer I can be I likely will go Alliance again...

I would stay alliance. In TBC, elemental is relatively unchanged levels <40 and low level dungeons should be pretty close to what they are now.

I've tried leveling feral 4x shaman in dungeons. Its not bad but it is a slog. I would argue that you could level a mage to 60 and boost 4x shamans to 60 faster than you could level purely through dungeons with ele shamans. No idea after 60.

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I would stay alliance. In TBC, elemental is relatively unchanged levels <40 and low level dungeons should be pretty close to what they are now.

I've tried leveling feral 4x shaman in dungeons. Its not bad but it is a slog. I would argue that you could level a mage to 60 and boost 4x shamans to 60 faster than you could level purely through dungeons with ele shamans. No idea after 60.

Thanks! I already have a 60 Mage on Alliance to feed my Paladins and other characters level 55 water/food and to give my 5box teams Mage ports and dungeon resets (it is on my 6th account).

I have tried the big-pull-blizzard strats and while I got down the SM one I frankly didn't like it and went back to 5boxing... I do see the power/value but just don't enjoy it like I do 5boxing... That being said, even if I liked the big-pull-blizzard strats, I am pretty sure that gets nerfed in BC+ as AoEs have damage caps &/or diminishing returns. I don't remember exactly what was implemented when but I remember that when AoE farming on my Paladin it was best to limit pulls to around 8 mobs before issues started to kick in (and the limits may have changed some between BC and WoTLK but not sure as my memory is vague)...

If that is the case, between AoE nerfs and instance reset caps, it may be that Mage boosting 4 alts will not be optimal from Classic BC onward (which for me is irrelevant as i don't like the play-style)...

With the above in mind I will likely be 5boxing a team to cap (either Alliance or Horde) upon Classic BC launch. If I stay Alliance I will likely do one of the following:

• 5 Shaman;
• Druid+4 Shaman (if I don't get a druid to cap before then);
• Paladin+4Shaman (if I want to have 1 Draenei Paladin at cap to add to my stable of other race Paladins);
• Warrior+Shaman (not likely as I already have 3 Warriors at ~40+);

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If you're speculating on a character copy I'd still not bother leveling that spec past 50 in classic. Just copy the 50 shamans over and enjoy wrath totems in all its glory while cutting through dungeons with no manaproblems.