5 Box PvE Team

[voodoogriff]

Ok so I'm planning ahead to when I get my hardware (I'm a OCD planner and I wanna have my macros written and ready to go when I have my hardware in place).

I've decided to go with a Blood-Elf 5man PvE Team, my fiancee switched Horde and has been on me to roll Horde too. But I've seen the problems she has getting groups and I want to make it so we can just 2man any instances we want. And since Prot Pallies make boxing an instance easy, Blood Elves are the choice.

Now she plays a MM hunter, so she's going to be pretty much worthless in the way of buffs for my 5man unless I go with at least 2 hunters. But I want some CC.

I've decided to go with at least 1 BM hunter (for FI).

So the base 3 is going to be Prot Pally, Holy Priest and BM Hunter.

The dilemma is: for the other 2, do I go with:
#1 2 mages for sheepx2
#2 mage + BM hunter(And switch the BM hunter out for my fiancee when she wants to instance and otherwise have FIx2 when I'm 5boxing
#3 Mage + Warlock (soulstones, healthstones, etc)
#4 BM Hunterx2 and screw the CC with FIx3 for 9%dmg in a 5man

Right now I'm leaning toward either #1 or #2.

Any input?

[accretion]

I'd be tempted by #3, but it would mean running 5 different classes, which could be a challenge. You'd be portable (mage), wipe-proof (lock), well-fed (mage) and have lots of additional utility, assuming you had enough bandwidth to control it effectively.

[voodoogriff]

Sheeps looks good on paper. But with a Pally tank, you don't need CC.

True, which is why I was leaning toward Pally/Priest/BMx2/Mage. Just have the mage along for occasional caster CC, food/water and portals. And when I'm "solo" playing I'd have FIx2 (mmmmmm +6% damage is the sex) and if my fiancee was tagging along I could either drop the mage (after a food/water dump) and have 3x Hunters, or drop a hunter and still have CC.

And controlling 5 chars wouldn't be that hard considering I've got a couple of months to work on macros/key placement.

[zarocks]

Sheeps looks good on paper. But with a Pally tank, you don't need CC.

Agree absolutely. You're going to be mowing stuff down so fast, you won't even have time to worry about sheeps. Then again, I'm only in the 40's and haven't come across any of the "hard" stuff yet!

[d0z3rr]

I do have to say that FI is kinda hyped, even with 4 of them stacking I don't notice an insane amount of dmg increase, the mob still dies pretty steadily it's not like it just drops dead as soon as I get 4x FI. I'd have to do some testing, but I don't even notice a big increase in my avg white dmg with 4x FI. It's almost like you're only being affected by 1, but 4 of them are showing up. I am pretty pessimistic, so don't take my word for it!

I would go with mage+lock, you get portals and a soulstone. And if you have money management issues like I do, a lock gets you another free mount in addition to your pally, so you save $$$. lock = more stamina, wipe insurance, curses, fears. mage = portals, sheep, intellect, free food/water

And extra bm huntard doesn't add anything except an annoying pet that needs to be fed/rezd constantly.

[Jaws5]

Well since you soon to be better half is a hunter and Marks. I would go with

Pal tank
Holy Priest(Orc shammy would be better for hunters but BF can't be shammy)
3 BM hunters

[balrog78]

Sheeps looks good on paper. But with a Pally tank, you don't need CC.

How to tank 4 bogstroks in slave pens heroic without CC and pre-kara gear?