Heroic dunegons and 5m setup

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Just wanted to share my experience and thoughts in tbc private servers and tbc beta.

Leveling
TBC beta: I tested warlock 58 boost(demo build) and BM hunter to compare dps uptime, doing quest and killing mobs.

Warlock 58: Felguard [...] Was very disappointed compare to the hunter.

Bloodfunnel: [...] u need to eat/drink. Its a slow stdy leveling, with potensial downtime as stated above.

Hunter 58:
Well what can I say, they are overpowered at this leveling stuff, and if things go sideways - u can always run away and feign death and live another day- [...]

PVE Dungeon leveling and Heroics TBC:MY thoughts.

1x paladin +3 warlocks+ shaman.:

My concern after the recent nerfs to software/hardware boxing, is the dps rotation and switching to always needing to lifetap as well.
Its the mouse over windows - that needs to be as easy as it can be. One singel macro for dps is preferred.
Having the group wander into a bunch of mobs- while paladin is tanking- using hellfire/rain of fire- or SOC- I can understand seems nice=).
But that doesn't kill singel bosses with ease either- need to test this- but hunters doesnt have mana issue like warlocks tho- and healing with ur shaman - he should be focusing keeping the tank alive- to ease the stress on everything, not being a mana battery to a certen class.

1xpaladin +3hunters +shaman:

One thing to remember , Hunters have misdirect(that focus the starting threat to the main tank ) and u have 3 of them - so threat issues ?dont think so.
Hunter talent Ferocious Inspiration stacks?,(so they say), so with 3 hunters, this will mean 9% increased damage to the party , ,the paladin tank will have good benefit from this. Feign death for removing threat as well.- still 3% if it does not stack- its better then nothing=)
Since the hunter in tbc comes with a Pet in all specs( u prob will play BM anyway) they have 3 more tanks to help out when things go sideways- choose diff pets with diff debuffs to the target as well, like melee AP debuff - they also have dots- thunderstomp aoe dmg and threath- fire breath aoe dmg. Pick and choose.
Hunters can help heal pets with one clickandforget spell.

And ofc the main aspect- simpel easy high damage output with one singel macro.

My setup will be.-
Addons that is a must have:
Ema
GSE
clique

shaman with clique mouse over+ a chain heal macro-

Paladin with a (wowlazy GSE macro) he will also have an interact with target macro in another macro with gse macro.
Hunters with a (wowlazy gse macro , building shift ctrl modifiers, normal rotation- then shift pop cds etc. all in one)

The main thing that does this so easy with focus mouse over windows, is my Razor keyboard- that spams this gse macro for me- so I only hover my mouse over and that screen spams the dps macro---- so then its just to move the mouse around fast- and pewpew.

*My shaman then has no keybindings in that action bar slot- but focus on clique addon for heals-

made a quick video right now,
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Video is uploading.*

For reference note following thread I started on 11/5/2020 right after the 1st input broadcasting change:

https://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/57978-Best-Teams-for-no-broadcast-multiboxing

As stated between 11/5/2020-11/10/2020 I and many others agree that Tank+3Hunters+Healer should be a solid team after the changes.

I would love to see a video but I don't think private server videos can be linked on this site so I would not upload it here (you can send me a PM here or a DM on Discord with a link instead).

Also if your razer keyboard is auto-spamming anything that is against the ToS so I would recommend a different approach.

Personally I have changed my team from Paladin+3Locks+Shaman to Paladin+Mage+2Locks+Priest/Shaman. I would like to do Shaman but I don't think I will have time to level one up in 2 weeks before 6/1 so if I become active again when the portal opens it likely will be with my Priest as the healer (and at least 1 Mage)...

I agree that Paladin+3AoE_DPS (Mages/Shaman)+Healer teams will need to have single target DPS rotations for bosses and plan to do that via a GSE macro. That being said most of my time will be grinding groups of mobs and I am still going to stick with all AoE for non-bosses (except now I plan to mix in at least 1 Blizzard instead of all Hellfire/Rain_of_Fire).

Note that even with Paladin+3Warlock+Priest team I always have had free water/food so when I eat/drink on the Tank/Healer I also just eat/drink on my DPS (even though I could lifetap instead). I was more likely to lifetap my Locks when I could Input Broadcast but now that Input Broadcasting is against the ToS I try to use the least amount of clicks/buttons where possible due to pain in my carpal tunnels...

I don't really focus on leveling single characters or farming with single character but I agree that Hunters are likely better than Warlocks for many things including likely single character leveling/farming (but certainly not AoE). That being said you may want to retry your single Warlock leveling and farming with a build more like this for a better comparison:

TBC Warlock Infinite Mana build