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Rabidclownz · 12/18/07, 1:09 PM

We've been running a Elemental Shaman, Holy Paladin and Warrior setup. We're all fairly geared and have significant rating gain for the two weeks we played.

Our warrior uses S3 Shoulders/Sword and rest S2 with all S3 Honor gear
Our pally uses S3 Helm/Weapon and rest S2 with most S3 Honor gear

You can run my armory (Rabidclownz) to get gear specifics but I'm in the range of 919 +dmg and 410 resilience. I'm working on my Icon/Hex and a BM Trinket and might actually consider running without a Medallion in the future. We find that our longetivity is decent. I've moved away from my crit-heavy gemming during S2 towards +Dmg favored gems/enchants due to the prolific nature of resilience. With 400 being the minimum resilience on any healers, I find that my steady consistent DPS from +dmg proves to be a more reliable source. With the water shield changes, the gains from EF by stacking crit just aren't worth the effort. I've found that moving out of the mana cost reduction and instead into Mana/5 has also proven useful. I play a lot of kite game on rogues and warriors interacting significantly with my paladin via ventrilo. I focus target macro rank 1 ES onto the healer, spend most of my time redropping totems and call for BoP and burst to bring down targets when they are low. I generally save bloodlust for mid to late fight. We hit 1895 but with Finals were unable to play during the previous week or would surely be over 2k and in the top 25 on the Battlegroup by now. The real challenges we run into are from Rogue/Mage setups and Dual-Healer/Warrior teams. Generally when a similarly ranked good setup of either is queueing we lose a few then call it for the night. There is little you can do against a quality Rogue/Mage setup and if the Dual-Healer teams have druids they are able to outlast us due to Cc/drink. All told, I'd probably run this setup over a Ret Pally setup, but if I had to run a Ret pally I'd be pushing for a restoration shaman backing. You have no need for a 2ndary dispeller in my opinion and the scaling with WF is incredibly potent for your dual-2her attack. We attempted a warrior/lock/pally setup and it bombed terribly but that may be because of the quality of the warlock.

12/18/07, 1:09 PM	#10 (permalink)
Rabidclownz Glass Joe Rabidclownz Troll Shaman <Pretty Pink Pwnies> Deathwing	We've been running a Elemental Shaman, Holy Paladin and Warrior setup. We're all fairly geared and have significant rating gain for the two weeks we played. Our warrior uses S3 Shoulders/Sword and rest S2 with all S3 Honor gear Our pally uses S3 Helm/Weapon and rest S2 with most S3 Honor gear You can run my armory (Rabidclownz) to get gear specifics but I'm in the range of 919 +dmg and 410 resilience. I'm working on my Icon/Hex and a BM Trinket and might actually consider running without a Medallion in the future. We find that our longetivity is decent. I've moved away from my crit-heavy gemming during S2 towards +Dmg favored gems/enchants due to the prolific nature of resilience. With 400 being the minimum resilience on any healers, I find that my steady consistent DPS from +dmg proves to be a more reliable source. With the water shield changes, the gains from EF by stacking crit just aren't worth the effort. I've found that moving out of the mana cost reduction and instead into Mana/5 has also proven useful. I play a lot of kite game on rogues and warriors interacting significantly with my paladin via ventrilo. I focus target macro rank 1 ES onto the healer, spend most of my time redropping totems and call for BoP and burst to bring down targets when they are low. I generally save bloodlust for mid to late fight. We hit 1895 but with Finals were unable to play during the previous week or would surely be over 2k and in the top 25 on the Battlegroup by now. The real challenges we run into are from Rogue/Mage setups and Dual-Healer/Warrior teams. Generally when a similarly ranked good setup of either is queueing we lose a few then call it for the night. There is little you can do against a quality Rogue/Mage setup and if the Dual-Healer teams have druids they are able to outlast us due to Cc/drink. All told, I'd probably run this setup over a Ret Pally setup, but if I had to run a Ret pally I'd be pushing for a restoration shaman backing. You have no need for a 2ndary dispeller in my opinion and the scaling with WF is incredibly potent for your dual-2her attack. We attempted a warrior/lock/pally setup and it bombed terribly but that may be because of the quality of the warlock.