hunters - IWT facing target problems

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I almost hate to say it but did you try 4MP?

It has been praised as pretty much the best composition for both PVP and PVE with uncapped AoE damage and the highest burst of any team. It is the best team for wiping an entire enemy raid (just in ghost form all rezzing at the same time and popping LIFS & sappers and just spamming AoEs till everyone is down can even wipe an entire raid with world buffs).

The comp gets it's main spell Arcane Explosion at 14 and rank 2 at 22 so it would be easy to get a feel for the main play style (level by gathering small to medium clumps and AE them down mostly avoiding bosses to cap and once at cap you just use your huge burst cool-downs+trinkets to smoke bosses). It should be the fastest team to level to 25 if you want to compare apples-to-apples with your other compositions. It is also one of the easiest to level from the standpoint that you have free food/water that you can create quickly on 4 characters and just trade once to fill up the Priest and go... The one thing I hate about 4MP is not having a Warlock for the utility but you have 4LP team past 20 already so you can place Warlocks wherever you need them to summon your around the world and soul-stone your Priest before you start your run. For example parking 2 Warlocks+Alt near a dungeon can get your 4MP team there quickly... I use Warlock alts for this even when I have one or more Warlocks on my team... For example I parked a level 20 warlock and two level 1 rogue alts at SM to allow my team to get full rest between grinding sessions (including my higher Warlocks that I was leveling to 45 there).

Many people swear it is the fastest to both level with and to clear all end game dungeons with and can do all bosses once in pre-raid BiS but even if it can't you can always power-level a single Tank to flesh out a tank-and-spank option. Even if you don't want to learn the blizzard-kiting power leveling stats (or don't like them once you try/learn them) worst case you farm gold with 4MP and pay to have your PVE Tank power-leveled quickly...

I have not considered this setup before, historically I have run priests with great results but raw damage or sudden onset I found can kill off a member quickly if on cd.

don’t get me wrong I found warlocks to solo with more reliable and stable just the damage was not brutal enough in some fights but I had the power to live for a long long time.

the other issue was fear, the totems for me will be the ticket, also I found shaman aoe from CL and fire totems was mental along with round robin Tauren stomps to create hell on earth for melee.

i used to run a team of mages for farming from memory and it was fun, but I worry about squishyness. I prefer for the passive mail and shield with totems to prevent ranged damage.

main thing was being able to burst few people dead in 2 seconds before I get cc’d or worked on. the chain lighting and shocks make it instant kill, chain healing also a nice touch with mana totems etc

i have made a lot of teams so I will put the 4mp into consideration, I’ve just ran shaman for too many years and they are great but I like to mix it up!

MMMMP is the SSS tier of dungeon farming. Nothing even remotely comes close for ease of leveling.

MMMMP using only holy nova, arcane explosion, conjure water, and drink is more effective than practically ever other team. The gap widens when you actually put effort into playing well.

agreed, done this 10 years ago, it’s crazy good lol

through my goal is burst, protection and kill or be killed. PvP then pve, that order.

the shaman just burst bosses