The Greatest Group EVER!!!!!! IMO

[mtgap]

What do you think is the best 5-person group? This is a never-ending debate that I find interesting, so I am starting it up again.

I think it would be: {secondary talent tree}
1 protection{arms} warrior
1 holy{discipline} priest
1 marksmanship/survival hunter
1 frost{fire/arcane} mage
1 affliction{demonology/destruction} warlock

Does this sound good to you? Rate each of these things [crowd control, pulling, tanking, healing, damage, buffing, debuffing] on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being all you'll ever need. I would give it:
CC: 7
pull: 10
tank: 9 (hunter's pet is off-tank)
heal: 7
dps: 8
buff: 5
debuff: 9

[ArchAngelofDeath]

Personally, I think it depends on what you are trying to do.

We 5 man stuff all the time with a prot warrior, 2 rogues, mage and any healing class. The dps is sufficient that mobs die so fast the healer still gets bored. For things like 45 min runs, scholo, LBRS nearly any group will work provided they (like everyone says) understand how to play their class.

If you are talking about a perfect group for trying to set a record for speed through an instance, I could see maybe something like you listed, but I think I would personally take a rogue over the warlock. Warlocks do great damage but have no way to dump aggro. One of their benefits over a rogue is the soulstones and healthstones, but you said a perfect group (and a perfect group would be one that doesnt need a soulstone yes?)

[oramac]

perfect group? me and my friends.

60 Ret {holy} pally
60 BM {MM} hunter
60 MM {Surv} hunter
56 Moonkin Druid (dont remember the name of the talent tree)


ok, so its only 4 man, but we had vent and are all good RL friends so it worked out quite well for anything up to and including LBRS.

[mtgap]

For speed, definitely 5 mages. Extra stuff, sheep it. Kill other stuff fast.

My group is fast, and also very safe. That's what I meant. You have a healer, a tank, and wipe prevention, and 3 good DPS classes.

[Grendo]

4 Hunters and a priest. Hands down the most fun/quick/safe/worthwhile makeup Ive been a part of for any 5man instance.

[Pallas]

Myself and four others players who actually know how to play their toon and how the instance we are going to works.

Class doesn't matter.
Gear matters only a little bit.
How well you know how to play your toon is 90% of it.

[Dynatos]

Depends where you're going and what you're doing.

The most fun I've ever had was with a 3 Druid + 2 Rogue group. Bear, Resto, and Moonkin Druid, and 2 Rogues. We stealthed to every boss in LBRS and took them down within 1 hour.

[Fercil]

In general:
Tank
Healer
3 x dps

Classes don't matter too much, how good the player is does. Good feral druid is way better tank than sucky warrior for example. Place to go will also matter on the optimal group composition.

[wesje]

5 mages, blizzkite ftw

[Tiddly]

we did SM with 3 warlocks and 2 shadow priests all under 40 - lots of damage and chain fearing worked quite well :) Would like to try again at higher levels.. anyone tried this?