Quote Originally Posted by nodoze View Post
Yeah I also got thrown for a loop and I pulled my original account from back in Vanilla out of my 5box also...

The two main approaches I would consider are:
- All AoE team where no one except the healer needs an input more than once per 8 seconds to maintain DPS;
- Traditional Paladin+4Shaman team that is spammy and if done efficiently could look like Input Broadcasting;

I modeled each of your accounts options in slots 1-5 for various teams as follows:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1022772595

I tried to model ways to minimize your 58 boost costs and power-level costs (where you pay gold to some Mage to power level your Paladin or help you finish a 32 Shaman) yet give you lots of good options ton consider...

The Team options in bold are the ones I would consider if I were you and personally I plan to go with one of the two I marked in Cyan/Light-Blue...
Holy cow, man. I was excited for potential responses, but had no idea I'd get something this golden. Like, really, I'm pretty much stunned somebody'd take the time. Thanks so much!

It's starting to click about the "8 second rule" for lack of a better term. I have respec'd my current classic group to give that a try in Strat later tonight, and if that goes well, my lock's epic mount quest.

I have Druid, Mage, Mage, Lock, Priest for now. Excited to see how it goes. (If I had 2x lock, I'd def try that.)

If it's viable, I'm perfectly fine to grab another lock to sub for a mage as you suggested. The pally will come later, of course.

I'm still quite new to this, but it seems to me the 8 second rule type of group may just work! Although I'm pretty damn bummed I won't get to experience PaSSSS. I was so looking forward to that lol. But who knows, maybe we will get some clarification down the line that lets us do more spammy comps in relative safety. Not holding my breath but will be thrilled to have even one functioning group from Day 1 TBC so that I can level my primary toons later via quests after the rush is gone.