Well, I have decided to bit the bullet and level up another 3 shaman to give me a little bit more flexibility in group makeup. I also have a friend that has a level 62 warrior sitting around unloved due to not having much luck with groups since he’s a loldps spec so thought I’d start up a group to help him level as well with my initial thinking of doing 4 druids to tank and heal while he dps’s but I think I can change that around using shaman and still achieve my goals.
Currently I’m going to boost the 3 new shaman + 1 other up to outland using Smara with the following outline:
- 1 – 10 – Newbie zone
- 10 – 15- Deadmines
- 15 – 20 – Stockades
- 20 – 40 – SM
- 40 – 50 – BRD
- 50 – 55 – Scholo/Strat
- 55+ – Outland
Once I hit 55 with them I’ll (likely) stop worrying about the 4th boostee and just start running with Smara + Baanmee + 3 other shaman through Ramparts until they hit 60 and then drop Baanmee from the group and add in my friends warrior while continuing to use Smara to tank them through to 70.
Once the 3 shaman are at 70 I’ll be able to either run the current Five Fingers or Smara + 4 Shaman as dictacted by what I’m doing, eg Smara + Shaman for PvP, but also it could be easier to gear Smara up more quickly using just the shaman and then have him essentially boost the current group through instances for loot or badges by having him outgear the instances. This is dependent on me being able to use the shaman as effectively in instances as others have shown is possible in videos either on youtube or in the video forum at http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums.
I’ve got the 3 new shaman created already so it’s just a matter of leveling them up to 10 now to get them over to deadmines, and will likely do that tonight after I run my 10 welfare epic games and then tomorrow before maintenence. I think that will be the better way to do it as Smara is currently in Azeroth leveling up mining after I dropped blacksmithing on him as discussed earlier, got him up to 55 last night so guessing it will be another day or two to get him up to 300 and then it’s off to instancing properly with the Five Fingers. One side-effect of picking up mining with Smara is that I can drop it on Ivanasukle now which I was going to do with the intention of her grabbing inscription when WotLK releases but now I think I’ll put that onto a deathknight and grab tailoring on Ivana for the bop purple Spellfire items that seem to be great dps upgrades according to http://www.maxdps.com and some of the best I’ll get outside of sneaking them into a black temple raid somehow so just makes sense really.