Looking forward to WOTLK, there are a lot more 10 man raids coming down the pipe. So is it time to start thinking about kicking it up a notch and move to 10 boxing? I have been, starting a thread to theorycraft about ideal group makeup
Of course its a little hard, since we don't know much about WOTLK 10-mans and how the fights will work. But we can look at it from a multi-boxing perspective and figure out what combos would be easy to control and flexible enough to handle most fights. Movement fights and gimmicky things like that will of course be hard no matter what class makeup you have. But surely some if not most of the content will be doable by a 10-boxer.


What is the best group makeup for 10-boxing? Nixy is using ... Prot Paladin, Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, and 7 DPS = Mage, Warlock x2, Shaman x4 ? Any other successful 10-boxers out there?

Seems like a good balanced 10-man group is 2 tanks, 2 healers, and 6 dps, with some hybrids in there so if you really need extra healer or dps you can swap roles. With sufficient gear you can start dropping a tank or healer for extra DPS, but for hitting L80 and starting on 10 mans it seems a balanced group would be best (then respec something later on).


2 tanks : Protection Paladins. Well, 1 tank is good for most all existing 10 man content but on some fights 2 tanks are pretty much an absolute requirement (like ZA Bear boss). So maybe go 1x Prot Paladin, equip the druid with tank leather that would otherwise just get melted, and pick up a DPS.

2 healers : Tree Druid, Holy Priest perhaps? Great single target heals + HoTs, AoE healing for raid damage, fort + mark. Seems like the best 2-healer combo you can get. Druid gets all the feral tank gear so if you need him to tank he can.

6 DPS : Thinking about... 1x Shadow Priest, 1x Warlock, 4x Shaman ? 1x spriest is almost a given, obviously. 1 warlock seems like it's worth it for SS, soulwell, +damage curse and they make pretty good 1-button-DPS with some clever enough macros. And I already have 4x L70 Shaman... but I could level something else easily enough. 4x Mages perhaps for sheep and AoE power? 4x Warlocks and for Seed of Corruption AoE madness?


Ideas? Thoughts? How will a Deathknight fit in?