This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Quark]

This is something I try not to fall into.  I am willing to try almost anything to see how it works and sometimes it works better than others.  The Rogue, Rogue, Priest, Priest, Hunter run on Scarlet Strat was quite the experience (and ultimately unsuccessful).

It was fun, and might have actually been successful if we had known Scarlet Stratholme better, and each other better. It just took a long time to get through the initial part with no true AoE. The problem, once you get to Scarlet, is that without a warrior (even a paladin won't do, I think) a bad pull = death. There's just no way around it. Too many elites bunched up closely together.

Going through an instance slow is fine, as long as you don't wipe. We did :(, but I think with practice and a well knit group that area can be done with what we had.

I've been in 5-man groups with all cloth wearers (a bunch of 60s doing princess runs) to groups with 3/5 being plate wearers.

Two paladins as healers in BRD was fun, but I wonder how it would have gone if we were level and equipment appropriate. The Highway probably would have been suicide, but I do think the Highway allows for some strange group combinations. Highway is fun if you have high CC and no tank - I've done Sap, 2 Freeze Traps, and Mind Control with 2 bears tanking. We were actually confused at first, because I had been in a more "typical" group that had a much harder time on the Highway.

I am talking mostly about 5-man experiences here though.  In general I consider raids to be the end-game version of "easy mode" (with a 10-man on UBRS being the exception, although I've never personally done that) and I do them for fun and loot.

We had a 13-14 man on part of UBRS last night (Arethor joined late). Group 3 was all Rogues, and it made things interesting for us since we had to pay attention to our life more, and be ready to run/heal/bandage sooner.

Many times I'd prefer the challenge of 5-manning something and making it work.  It doesn't always succeed, but that just makes you stronger for the next try (I'm pretty sure noone else on Stormrage has hit double-digits of 5-man runs in Scholomance).

I'd like to eventually :)