5 DPS. 0 Healers. 0 Tanks.

[MeowthThatsRight]

My friends and I have gotten a bit bored of the game in its current state. I came up with this crazy idea and we are going for it. We will be starting new level 1 characters and progress through dungeons mostly as a means of leveling, what makes this special? We will all be pure DPS classes. Relying on mostly CC, kiting and pets we will try to get as far as possible into dungeons. I expect to get well into cata dungeons, I feel more pessimistic thinking we will probably not be able to progress much further than VP/Stonecore due to bosses (not trash mobs). My other friend thinks we could probably do all non heroics.

Current plan.
Demo Lock
Surv Hunter
BM Hunter
Frost Mage
Ass Rogue

We want at least 1 of each pure DPS class and we figured we should double up on hunters due to their pet's "tanking" skills, abilitiy to heal their pets, good kiting and awesome damage and CC.

Any thoughts, comments, advice? I cannot be the only one who has tried this!

[Alsonia]

If you play it right the demo lock can tank just about anything, if the hunter goes BM same is true... all while still being DPS. A Frost or Unholy Death Knight is also a very likely candidate.

[wowplayer]

be interested to know how far yall get. some dungeons have no room to kite and pet tanks arent all that durable in a dungeon setting. and dont some of the bosses do aoe type damage?

[stuperdude]

That'll be pretty cool. I don't know how much DPS you'll be pulling with pet tanks though. Sounds like there might be many enrage timer/RNG fails. I'd like to see videos though! :P

[MeowthThatsRight]

If I were to have videos it would be Cata content only. Anything before Cata will be chump change. Cannot think of any BC or WotLK bosses that would pose problems.

[Reg]

Voidwalkers are pretty beast tanks.

[Deleted]

I'd say crushing blows are well above the rather simple "healing" spells like mend pet. CC is good but mobs still catch up. Bosses hurt and most can't be cc'd. Low level? yeah ofc it works. Higher levels (60+ ?). Doubt it :P.

This game was designed to be played in one manner (encounters, spells, abilities are all tuned for specific group compositions like the traditional 1 tank, 3 dps, 1 healer). Also a poster above me mentioned aoe dmg.

Also you got 2 hunters that when attacked can't use their main weapon. (and they will pull aggro :P)

However i wish you the best and look forward to reading more of this (success ofc). GL !

**edit 1: also from my recollection of an older blue post, all bosses and mobs (even lowbies) have had their dmg and hp upgraded to match the new talent overhaul/skills/heirlooms

[Dald]

BM Hunter with a Bear could easily tank most, if not all, cata 5-man content. I've had my Bear tank Ozruk on Heroic when tanks could not and I did this as survival.

[w00t692]

You guys SERIOUSLY underestimate how much threat output there is with a BM tenacity pet. It has talents that increase the threat generation from growl and with misdirect glyph'd you can spam it as much as you want. Also they have mend pet healing buffs, my mend pet ticks for 16,800 on my pet every 2 seconds. It's good enough for normal dungeons EASILY.

Like i said, underestimated. You can go balls to the wall dps with a tenacity pet as BM.

---------- Post added 2011-01-06 at 03:25 PM ----------

be interested to know how far yall get. some dungeons have no room to kite and pet tanks arent all that durable in a dungeon setting. and dont some of the bosses do aoe type damage?

aoe damage? Pets take 10% of aoe damage.

[skylla05]

I could see this going very well, until Cataclysm dungeons. They're simply just tuned in a way that is far more rigid for something like this, but who knows... I'd love to see the results

[MasterOfNone]

wow really? whats the point?
you may do it because your bored, but what you will be doing to the void is the same thing as healing so ---->level a diff healer....
you arent going to be much use as dps since you are going to have to monitor your pet like crazy esp post wrath dungeons. not really sure why you would do this....

[Deleted]

I suggest taking a Warrior DPS, Pally DPS, DK DPS or Druid DPS, and a Priest, Shammy or another Druid or Pally DPS to queue for instances, so you don't have to run all the way. War/Pal/DK/Dru can queue as Tank while Pr/Sha/Pal/Dru can queue as Healer, ofcourse with all of them dpssing.

[Kagari]

5 hunters.

[Harlyboy]

Did this 1st week of wotlk... Only difference it was all DKs.. This was when presence applied to every1 in the grp/raid.. so you had the frost, 3 blood (6% healing) and unholy (talented).. Did alot of dungeons that way.

[Shinshiva]

I'd say crushing blows are well above the rather simple "healing" spells like mend pet.

lol. bit behind aren't we.

[Aragen]

wow really? whats the point?
you may do it because your bored, but what you will be doing to the void is the same thing as healing so ---->level a diff healer....
you arent going to be much use as dps since you are going to have to monitor your pet like crazy esp post wrath dungeons. not really sure why you would do this....

Cause it is fun? Oh right there is no such thing as fun on World of Warcraft.

[Rotted]

Well it possiable up to blood furance I would guess, I say this because when wotlk came out I remeber using a 5 man dk team to run ramps with hardlu any problems then problems on some bits in BF, we didnt have a unholy dk in the team hardly any run iirc, and I remeber 3 runs we had a 63 lock and 4 of us dks in ramps struggled a bit, then a prot warrior 63 struggled as much then a 65 ret I think it was who refused to heal anything at all >.< and we didnt even finish that run,

but yea basicly with your set up id imagine that would work up to bf maybe some of the wotlk ones but ones like sl I dont think so :S

[redsunrising15]

I, (BM hunter with beetle) tanked all of heroic stonecore with absolute ease yesterday. That's all. Didn't even ahve a healer.

[NGRazor]

Well, you will definitely be able to do all the 1-60 dungeons that way

[Deleted]

Wouldn't going with a Hunter's pet or Warlock's demon as a tank, technically be having a tank as well as someone to heal it?