cowfields

I agree, I also prefer 3 healers. We've always done it with 3 healers, despite musing about one going shadow or swapping for a dps just to break our own records, but with a 3-healer setup we've still done it with over 11 minutes to spare and haven't failed since we succeeded the first time, about 12 or so bears later.

And if nothing else, I definitely prefer 3 healers for farming the bear. If you don't care about breaking records you get a lot more leeway and space to 'enjoy' the run. Okay - what I really mean is more space to screwup because you were chatting: Last run we had scouts adding (had 6 reinforcements and a full trashpack at one point), a tank death on the bear boss - quite probably all would have been failures if not for the extra healing power, but the run still got completed with 7 minutes to spare.

Our setup is always feral tank (me) dps warrior to OT / DPS, and a healing team of paladin, priest and shaman. DPS is usually a shadowpriest and an enhance shaman, with the other spots a somewhat random mix of rogue / hunter / warlock. We are all in T6 though. I think I agree with the earlier post saying you needed some but not all of certain criteria (T6, Consumables, 2-healer setup or an aggressively stacked group; we do the first and last in that list, I suppose).

We've started wondering if we can 'sell' a bear. I think that we can certainly do it with 9 people as we got a bear with an undergeared rogue friend who did less damage than me, I'm just curious if anyone has actually sold a bear yet, what sort of price they got, and any problems that they came across trying to boost someone who might not have even been to ZA before, let alone was ready for a speedrun?