Quote Originally Posted by dustofoblivion View Post
Hey there,

That second party doesn't have 4 warriors because I didn't have enough space and I want extra utility. I want to have 2 Curses. I want to have an extra mana burner character (in this case, drain mana) for that optional AQ boss in the future. Having an extra warlock saves a lot of time if I want to make healthstones for my entire raid. Also, more importantly, in the future, I can use my druid as a tank and put it in the 3-warrior group for extra melee physical crit chance, and instead have the warlock in my main tank party for Blood Pact. Or, inversely, I could have the tank druid in my main tank party and instead have the hunter in that 3-warrior group (Trueshot Aura might be better for Fury Warriors than the increased crit chance, since they already crit a lot with Recklessness).

At first I wanted to go full Fury Warriors for maximum burst, but then I realized that my life would be a lot easier if I have some mages to CC raid trash mobs and kill them one at a time, and also to AoE-burst down adds summoned by certain bosses in ZG. Furthermore, while Sheep CC is optional in ZG, it's almost a necessity in AQ20.
Thanks for the detailed response. Great info.

There is already at least one pretty much all warriors+shaman raid group out there and variety is good so I am glad to see a different approach.

It sounds like Weepy is potentially at the other end of the spectrum with 9+ ranged (8mages+1warlock so far) and only 4 warriors (all of which could be tanks if need be) and 1 Priest & 1 Shaman at this point. If Weepy on his remaining 5 slots goes something like Druid & a mix of healers & ranged (mainly mages) on his remaining 5 slots he could be as reasonably close to a "rolling ignite multibox raid" as possible to cover the other extreme...

So with both extremes potentially covered it would be great to see how your more balanced "middle-of-the road" approach goes.

The only other thing I can think of is to review Tazeon's comments closely and make sure you have tanks and healers covered.

Tank-wise I suspect you can be good as any of your current 7 Fury Warriors could either off-tank or be converted to a full Prot spec if need be and you already have both a Druid and a Warlock available/planned to press into at least specialized Tank service so I suspect you are good there.

Heale-rwise I am a little more concerned (especially if you convert the Druid to being a Tank) as you only have 1 Priest and 3 Shaman and I have always heard that Shaman were mana inefficient... My understanding of "conventional wisdom" is that only Priests and Holy Paladins are true full raid healers and Druids/Shaman are more niche due to "classic hybrid-tax" mana issues (but take that with "multiple grains of salt" as I always main Paladins so only played Shaman from BC->WotLK on and thus can't personally speak to Shaman in Vanilla/Classic). For built in AI assistance & mult-boxing simplicity it is hard to argue with chain-heal so hopefully shaman can get your healing done in Classic if needed (and that could free your Priest to focus on doing shields/HoTs)... I 5boxed Paladin+4Shaman & 10boxed Paladin+9Shaman (& various other combos) so I know they can get it done in BC->WotLK just can't speak to Classic...