Party Strategy Guide

[bkelly1984]

Terrific job

Thanks. I hope the community finds this useful once complete.

Not all of these roles are necessary. I think tank + healer + any 3 is the basic requirement and a lot of instances can be run with an even less optimal group.

I agree that a lot less structure will get a group through most instances but my goal in the document is to give groups a good foundation, so I want to cover all the bases. Then a party leader is free to assign whatever roles he or she wishes.

Moreover giving people overly specific jobs can reduce the effectiveness of the units. If there are 3 healers I'd prefer one main healer and the other two keeping alert to a main healer, a secondary healer and a "I don't look at life bars" guy

I'm not understanding you here. I believe overly specific jobs increases the effectiveness of a party as described in "The Reason for Roles". I also don't understand how your assignment of healers is any different than mine. Could you expand a bit?

Also, a minor nit there: assistee is usually called Main Assist. In fact I'd not heard the term assistee used for this role before

Ah yes. I changed it to "assistee" for a guild member who found the name confusing, but later decided to change it back. I forgot that I had already mentioned the role. This has been fixed.

1) Shamans can also heal

Of course they can. They cause me no end of misery in Warsong Gulch. Fixed.

2) It's healing skills, not healing talents, that allow classes to heal

Thanks. Fixed.

3) Hunters can at a pinch main heal, provided the others don't pull aggro off the pet.

I don't think the ability to heal your minion makes you a healer. It's not a very strong heal and has no ability to handle rule #1 situations. I would sooner mention that anyone with a stack of linen bandages could be primary healer.

4) Warlocks have healing skills too but warlock main healers are truly for the experimentally minded.

I've looked for warlock healing skills and not found any. Are you referring to the minion healing skills here too?

Thanks for the feedback Brista,

Brian