Boost with Paldin or level shammy

[Perrigrin]

As you seen in my numerous other threads I am currently enjoying 5x shaman leveling.

I do have a 70 paladin in decent t4/5 gear (both for tanking and healing) on my main account (1 of the above 5).

Now, my goal was to get a few heroics ran before Lich King is out - So I'm debating swapping in the pally and boost - And I'm looking for opinions on this. Would it be significantly faster?

So for PvE - How does the 1 pal + 4 sham combo compare to the 5 sham combo (dailies and instances).

And same question for PvP.

Trying to make up my mind here, would be nice to have the option to go 5x shaman at 70 - But getting impatient with the leveling. I'm semi leaning towards that it would be more fun to do the bosting for the 4 shamans first, then for the last shaman once they are 70 - Think that would net me 5x 70 faster?

Thanks for the input!

[Drizzit]

If the pally is a tank then PvP the pally will just be sitting there almost doing nothing. If it is a healer then it will be healing lol. If you want to do PvP i say go with the 5 shams.

In PvE you can do all heroics with 5 shams or 4 shams and a pally tank. 5 Shams there is a lot of kitting that you have to do. With a pally you don't have to kite.

[Perrigrin]

How strong are 4 shaman in PVP compared to 5?

Also, any ideas if boosting x2 will be quicker than leveling x1? :P

[Sanctume]

As you seen in my numerous other threads I am currently enjoying 5x shaman leveling.

I do have a 70 paladin in decent t4/5 gear (both for tanking and healing) on my main account (1 of the above 5).

Now, my goal was to get a few heroics ran before Lich King is out - So I'm debating swapping in the pally and boost - And I'm looking for opinions on this. Would it be s

Look at your end game goal. You want a little bitof both pve and pvp.

I only have 4 accounts, and I ran my prot pally with 3 shamans (1 resto) and it does the job for my needs. I often get a mage to tag along for my taxi and food needs. But i have guildies welcome to join me.

Lately, I'm trying to get a 4th shaman--so I can do arenas. I tried Ret Pally and Shockading for arena with 3 shamans and they are ok. So far, I'm averaging 2-8 but I'm still working on getting elemental gear for the resto.

I can do heroics fine, but that's because my tank is also the MT for my guild and we run KZ maybe 1 every 3 weeks. Did ZA once to kill the bear boss though.
I started working towards badge gear and its good for tanking pieces.

That said, my tank+2 ele+resto is capable to do heroic with 1 other.
In BGs, I grinded well as Prot + 3 shamans. Sure I sit there most of the time, throwing Avenging Shield and Stuns, and consecrate, but it's the best spot to put on BoP and run Devotion / Consentration Aura.

I had some success with Shockadin build taking Imp Sanctity aura for 2% more damage for the group. But despite spending 75k honor in gear, I did not have all the gear I want to make it worth while, so I stay at prot until I get more gear to swap into.

I think with a prot pally + 4 shamans, you can clear heroics. I usually do heroic when the daily heroic is the one I can clear: Mech, UB, SP, Ramparts. I haven't tried others. Not much time to do all: money from daily, badge runs, honor grind, token grind.

[Perrigrin]

Thanks for the input -- any thought as to how much faster boosting would be compared to 5 man leveling (using quests & instance mix)?

My options for boosting is 4 sham+

either a decently geared prot pally

or a poorly geared frost mage (both 70 of course).

I am a bit worried that at 31 I have passed the levels where boosting really out shines 'normal' leveling.

[Draz]

I am just Curious, if there is a list of the MINIMIUM LVL for entering instances. For example, lvl 20 is the Minimium lvl for all the Scartlet Monestary Instances. What about Deadmines? And all the other instances?

[Stabface]

Yes. http://www.wowwiki.com/Instances_by_continent

[Dorffo]

I totally dig the pali + 4 ele sham thing for Heroics. I haven't had to respec one resto yet, but haven't cleared all heroics either (not cleared: MgT, Arc, CRypts, SL).

For PvP I just grabbed the healing set for the paladin and even without respeccing from a full Prot build I can do pretty well spamming flash heals on whichever shaman is the burndown target... I just setup actionbar 1 as my "tank" bar, and actionbar 2 as my "healer" bar for the paladin and that's worked out well with the gear swap.

[Perrigrin]

so, any input on the time when comparing:

4 shammies boosted with pally or mage + 1 shammy boosted with 4 shammies

vs

leveling 5 shammies from 31

[valtrex]

As you seen in my numerous other threads I am currently enjoying 5x shaman leveling.

I do have a 70 paladin in decent t4/5 gear (both for tanking and healing) on my main account (1 of the above 5).

Now, my goal was to get a few heroics ran before Lich King is out - So I'm debating swapping in the pally and boost - And I'm looking for opinions on this. Would it be significantly faster?

So for PvE - How does the 1 pal + 4 sham combo compare to the 5 sham combo (dailies and instances).

And same question for PvP.

Trying to make up my mind here, would be nice to have the option to go 5x shaman at 70 - But getting impatient with the leveling. I'm semi leaning towards that it would be more fun to do the bosting for the 4 shamans first, then for the last shaman once they are 70 - Think that would net me 5x 70 faster?

Thanks for the input!

I have the exact same dilema. I have a decently geared lvl 70 prot pally and I think a lot about using him to run my shaman team through instances. I love the idea of my 5x shaman group but leveling is sorta painful so far (only started a few days ago and im only lvl 14).