Gruul's Party ConfigFollow

Hi guys, after a bit of a hiatus (gearing up people in Kara, running through ZA with our best-geared people, etc.), our guild is finally going to hit Gruul's again (we're a very casual guild). I looked at the list of people going, and we only have one Shaman going. He's elemental, and his damage is pretty crazy - he'll probably come in second or third for damage done. My question for you guys, though, is where are a Shaman's totems most effective? First of all, this is his current spec. We'll have a Moonkin, a Resto Druid, a Shadow Priest, 4 Mages, 2 Warlocks, a Hunter, 3 Rogues, a Ret Pally, and 2 DPS Warriors. All of the healers (other than the Druid) are Priests and Pallys, and the two tanks are a Warrior and a Pally.

I'm just not sure which is better - windfury for a bunch of melee, or grouping this Shaman with, say, the Moonkin and a few Mages.

Edited, Mar 29th 2008 5:10pm by mikeyvach

I'm with fromanthebarbarian. The Moonkin aura and the totems will make your caster DPS group awesome.

Lets think synergy for this, Balance druid provides 5% crit to himself and his group, shadow priest gives mana regen, and shaman gives crit mana and spell dmg.

These three classes together can now do one of two things, make 2 pimp *** healing pallies or 2 pimp as dps casters (mage or destro lock), the only other class I would say could be put in this kind of a setup is a hunter beast hunter, but he gets very little from this kind of a group himself.

Anyhow, from what I recall Gruul is a dps race, you don't want him to get too many growths, I would heavily suggest putting your top 2 geared casters (mage or destro lock), the members in this group will do great dmg with all the buffs being thrown around as well as Bloodlust when its to be used, I wouldn't be surprised if this group would be top dmg.

Edited, Mar 31st 2008 10:05am by jmfmb