Wrath and Cata best teams.

[Peregrine]

I am looking to box again on Wrath (will prolly level 4x shaman to pair with my bis geared prot pala) for RDF and stuff.

I am looking for honest advices what would be the best setup for Wrath and Cataclysm as well ( Cataclysm input highly appreicated).
Basically, I'll box for fun and stuff but looking in the long run what is best to do.

Highly thankful from pro boxers what I should run as manual boxer for Wrath/Cata.

Thanks!

[Flash]

I'm definitely not a professional but I have been manually boxing ever since they disallowed software and hardware boxing solutions, but I figured I'd comment to get a conversation started (there aren't many of us left!).

For WOTLK:

The classic Paladin, 4x Shaman setup has gotten me the best results for pushing "harder" content (titan rune beta heroics). I've also had a lot of success with Paladin, 3x Boomkin, RSham. This squad obliterates regular heroics with the massive starfall/hurricane combo. I've also run Paladin, 3x Demo Lock, Disc Priest which has very high sustained AOE dps, but the Felguards die more to AOE and cleave than I like and I prefer smooth runs without having to deal with resummoning pets. I have a Paladin, 3x Spriest, RSham team that I'm working on (2 priests are level 76 and one is 80). In theory I thought this would be fun to play with all of the self-healing the Spriests do, but managing their dots is annoying to have to do now that everything is manual.

FOR Cata:

In Cata I plan to run the Paladin 4x Shaman team primarily, with one of them being Resto (may swap for a different healer). Having 3x earthquake with the knockdown effect (that doesn't DR, but can only happen once per mob per cast) sounds strong. Being able to unintentionally disrupt caster mobs in heroics has a lot of RNG attached to it, but it sounds like it could be fun.

Just to see how it goes, I also would like to try out Paladin 4x Disc Priest. I'm not sure what the damage of a Disc Priest looks like in Cata, but if I can manage to get half the dps of an actual damage dealer on each priest, it'd basically feel like running dungeons with 2 dps, but with the safety of them all being able to heal (and shield themselves, which might be useful on movement-heavy fights). Smite dps with Atonement means constant heals going out, and I can supplement with true heals from the priests' big healing toolkit. If it's bad, Spriest has some great single target dps in Cata from what I've read, so I can always dual spec shadow.

With the changes to Hunters (using focus instead of mana, trap launcher, auto-shot while running), I'm considering bringing up my level 70 hunter squad for Cata. Having to swap aspects for mana right now feels annoying, and having to run into melee to explosive trap (or miss out on the dps) is also annoying. These two problems go away with Cata (trap launcher coming in WOTLK phase 4 ).

Curious to hear what others are currently running or planning to run!

[Peregrine]

That was exactly what i wanted to hear or discuss.
I think for Wrath i'll deffo go for paladin tank and 4x ele (got 5.8 tank (bis bis) so it's gonna be cake kwalk to carry shamans once they are 80. Still didn't start em but plan in day or two to prep em for for RDF when it goes out and then spam it.
For cata I was thinkin hunters but i think i might stick to eles if they are that good. We'll have to see.

Yeah, very few now of us left. I just got back into classic HC (lv 42 hunter 4x) so heart wanted to pump wrath as well.

Ty for input, really good insight.

[nodoze]

I really prefer WotLK to Cata... Cata was the beginning of the end for me...

Any word if they are going to keep 1 or more Classic-WotLK servers active and not force us to go to Classic-Cata?

[Moorea]

Given we still have Classic servers, pretty sure we will have perpetual Wrath one (even if indeed BC ones are gone so… maybe not)

[nodoze]

I really prefer WotLK to Cata... Cata was the beginning of the end for me...

Any word if they are going to keep 1 or more Classic-WotLK servers active and not force us to go to Classic-Cata?

Given we still have Classic servers, pretty sure we will have perpetual Wrath one (even if indeed BC ones are gone so… maybe not)

Please try to remember to post back here or at least via a private message if you hear they do keep one or more Classic-WotLK server(s) going.

I definitely would want to transfer there and ask for the heads up as I am not that engaged these days & some things have to be acted upon in a timely manner (many of my Classic-Wow characters were forced to Classic-BC & beyond because I didn't take timely action to keep them on Classic-Wow &/or clone them to be in both Classic-Wow & Classic-BC)...

[Flash]

Just to update, I've been having the most fun lately with Pally, 3x Fire Mage, RSham. The damage is high and consistent for both aoe and single target, and I get to cheese some mechanics that would be harder to pull of with other setups. For example, mage armor trivializes Forgemaster Garfrost in heroic Pit of Saron, because the increased frost damage debuff that he pulses wears off before it can stack.

A friend has been running Pally, 3x Survival Hunter, RSham (though he intends to switch to warrior tank). The aoe and single target is very good and sustainable for 5-man content, even at sub-optimal gear levels.

[Moorea]

Sadly btw it seems (at least so far) they plan on moving all wrath realm to cata…

[DGiraldo]

Just to update, I've been having the most fun lately with Pally, 3x Fire Mage, RSham. The damage is high and consistent for both aoe and single target, and I get to cheese some mechanics that would be harder to pull of with other setups. For example, mage armor trivializes Forgemaster Garfrost in heroic Pit of Saron, because the increased frost damage debuff that he pulses wears off before it can stack.

A friend has been running Pally, 3x Survival Hunter, RSham (though he intends to switch to warrior tank). The aoe and single target is very good and sustainable for 5-man content, even at sub-optimal gear levels.

I have been itching to go back to 5 boxing... how are you avoiding player base reporting and also avoiding software detection?