A Study Of N00bs

[Treesh]

Easier with the 'ideal' class selection? Sure. Impossible otherwise? Nope. More of a challenge, but that's where the fun comes in.
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I really agree with this. I think a lot of people get caught up in the whole "ideal group" concept. On Terenas for the longest time, the main tanks were either hunters or druids with a shaman as main healer (woot for when the new priests started coming up!). It made things interesting, but they were still doable. On Stormrage last night we did the deadmines with 2 mages, 1 rogue, 1 priest and 1 warlock. If the either of the two sets of jumper cables we had worked (or our third engineer had a set on him and that one worked), all of us could have gotten Van Cleef's head. As it was, the group overall was successful (he died, dropped his loot and the three left standing got credit), but it took a bit of work to have a voidwalker be main tank on VanCleef. Yes, I'm talking about lower level instances in these specific cases, but we also did a BRD run with a druid, a rogue, a pally, and two hunters. That wasn't an ideal group either, but we did it without much hassle at all. Ideal groups are nice when you can get them, but really, you can do the vast majority of the game without them.