Heroic dunegons and 5m setup

[TheMias]

Before I say anything, AFAIK there is no free Boost for the TBC launch, but you can pay them 40 bucks for the privilege - hope that does not change your plans Nodoze


I ended up modifying my own plan for TBC, though less to the TOS changes but rather to the short time span of Pre-Patch. Originally I was going to rock 5x Shaman, but since I already have a geared up Paladin with all the level 60 goodies for boosting, I'll be going with 1x Paladin + 4x Shamans. Like Nodoze said, that is the best combo IMHO for clearing with speed and ease of configuration in mind.


As far as feasibility goes, I can tell you that you can do all of the heroics with a hodgepodge team of 4 (mage-boomie-priest-war) using absolutely no broadcasting as I did this back in the original TBC with my collection of under geared alts, even Magisters Terrace. You just have to be prepared for a long slog and a lot of deaths in that case. Heck, even did Kara with my brother Tanking (post nerfs near the end of the expansion). So having 4 of the same class with bloodlust and an occational drum will do far better.


As far as the speed of your actions go, yeah it can look almost like broadcasting using hover over mouse focus. But I will say it is very noticeable IF someone is paying attention that there is always a delay from the 1st to the last DPS, and that occasionally some don't do jack on a mouseover pass. But that gets so tiring even without a disability, and you limit yourself to just mouse up and mouse down with NO modifers. So I'll just use the mousehover activates window feature of windows 10 and press buttons - will be slower, but I think with a paladin tank you have the headroom for a slower rotation.

[nodoze]

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LoL the humor is appreciated. I don't drink much, don't smoke, don't do fast-food or other indulgences much, so spending $40 on my hobby for a boost for a strategic change of a class/spec for a slot or two on my main team is not something I would frankly even blink at but I obviously understand if others might...

Thanks for sharing and in general I agree with most everything you said except that I personally would not be able to clear many of the Heroics with a hodge-podge team like that even with lots of deaths and slogging... I am pretty patient and persistent but I would switch to a better comp before banging my head against a wall for too long. Even if I have lots of weak-classes or meme-specs in my stable I generally try to have a dedicated optimal 5box team for dungeons for each expansion and generally will only swap in one weak/meme class-spec for a single slot at a time. For example for TBC (without the new ToS concerns) I would have Tankadin+4Shaman (and a 5th Shaman on my Tankadin account) and then swap in as needed (Tank+3Shaman+weak_link) to minimize pain. In original TBC I had on my main 5box accounts 5 Paladins, 5 Shaman, 5 Druids, and at least 4 of the rest of the classes to mix/match as desired and try various things. Considering the ToS changes I don't know that I will go that far this time around but I will likely try to have at 70 cap my main 5box team optimized for how I want to run dungeons and then will have at least 1 Rogue, 2 Druids, & a 2nd Paladin (Healadin) to swap in for any dungeon drops or marks I want for those characters.

Though I am not an expert in this area I believe if you put the time into some strong GSE action sequences you likely could have a full complex single target rotation on mouse up and a full AoE rotation on mouse down for each class per slot (or use keybind or whatever).