WoW musings

Four shaman and Paladin team clear mana tombs.

May 13th, 2009

I had a bit of extra time on my hands yesterday and decided I would go back for a bit of multiboxing fun on my 4 shaman 1 pally team.

The paladin and 3 of the shaman are 65 with the resto shaman being a 71.

I chose Mana tombs as the instance to go to.  I’ve never run it much on any character, and it was the right level.

A couple of pulls in and I found that my lesser healing wave spam on the Paladin tank wasn’t going to be enough.  So I changed the macro to do riptide, lesser healing wave, healing wave, riptide, lesser healing wave, healing wave. Combined with the earth shield this worked a treat.

One flaw in my setup - I hadn’t specced cleanse spirit on my resto paladin. This cleanses a disease, poison and a curse.  This would have been useful, as I found a shaman or two would die after I’d finished off a group of mobs.  I noticed that they had a curse on them (I think).  I did get by just by hitting chain heal on the shammys, but I need to macro this so that they chain heal each other instead of themselves.

I managed to get through the whole instance with no wipes. Completed a few quests, then did the final escort quest.  It got a bit messy on the escort quest as I hit a mob that feared, hadn’t got my tremor totems down and so had a couple facing the wrong way.  Then a couple of the shamans died, and I thought I might actually die.  I tapped my follow, got the remainder of my team on target and killed him.  I then had to drink up, and res the two dead shamans. (I was worried the escort would go on without me, but that didn’t happen).  So I successfully completed the escort quest as well.

The 3 shaman all dinged 66 right at the end or at hand in.  The paladin moved to over half way to 66.

I did learn something else on this run.  I was pulling the group, and was going through my tanking sequence on the pally.  I started dpsing after the first couple of hits, but before the first consecrate kicked in.  This resulted in ranged spell casters hitting my shaman instead of the paladin.  I found it much better to wait till the consecrate hit then start dps.  That worked a treat and I had less problems after that.

It did take a while to clear the whole thing, and I may consider killing to the first boss only and reset in the future, but I’ll definitely run this again.

 

 

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