Box and Donator Advice

[Ayedin]

I'm looking for guidance settling on my 5-box team and the next donor weapon to get for myself.

Here's my current setup:

Warrior
Cleric
Shaman (w/ donor weapon)
Bard
Ranger

All are 70 with <50 AAs in half Kael/half Chaotic gear and 1.5 epics. I still have a lot of work to do before I can try the raid tiers, which is why I want to be sure about my group makeup before I buckle down to grind more AAs/gear. And if I'm going to invest in another donor item, I'm willing to roll a new character to get the biggest benefit.

I'm thinking about replacing my warrior with a SK w/ donor weapon. My thought is that the SK donor combined with WoA from shammy donor will help my team get through more content.

Are there any other potential replacements I could make to get me more bang for my buck? I'm considering changing a Mage in for ranger.

If I were to leave the team as-is the Bard donor looks fun.

Thanks for any advice you have to give.

[Safiya]

Mage w/ T8 pet will help you destroy early content. If it were me I'd take out the ranger and add 2 mages for lolezmode or a mage and a wizard for ezmode. You have a shm and brd so nukes can get buffed nicely and those 2 classes are pretty simple to box.

As for donors, I have none so feel free to ignore this...but I like the sound of the warrior pants.

...and I think you'd be fine starting now in ssra. Hit up the basement nameds in the ghetto area (not glyphed yet). Rhag 1 and 2 should also be doable np. I don't know what you are killing in Kael but if you haven't tried statue/idol/vindi...I would give them a go. Those all would certainly be possible with a T8 mage pet doing your dps but should also be doable now with the heals you have.

[Ayedin]

Thanks. The donor legs would be awesome, but they're a bit more than I can afford.

[moctus8]

yes mage T8 pet would be nice. your box crew sounds decent if you wanna switch your group up try.

Pally/sk (donor weapons) both are nice
bard
cleric
shaman
wiz (saflya said bard/shmmy buffs = bigger nukes) (donor staff for minion and mana pool)

i also take it you rock a bot? and if so witch bot do you use along with you planing on replacing the bot with 1 more toon in your box group?

[Ayedin]

I use a rogue bot, but I've been having issues with keeping aggro off of it. (There's a thread about this in the Bot feedback forum.)

[moctus8]

Yes there is. How ever i dont use a bot to often and it is a rogue bot. How ever i would say replace it with another box member that saying if you can box more that is

[Ayedin]

I may be able to do that. Maybe keep the ranger and add a mage.

So let's say I settle on:

Warrior
Cleric
Shaman
Bard
Ranger
Mage

If you had that team, and already had shaman donor, which donor item (weapon-level or less) would you choose?

[moctus8]

But for a box group of 6 id say

Pally/Sk (donor weapon)
Bard
Cleric
Shaman (you got donor)
Wizard (donor staff)
Wizard (donor staff)

or

Mage (T8 pet / Donor great dps) or monk/zerker (donor)

with that box crew alone you prob make it up to t7

[moctus8]

I would look into getting a tank donor weapon to keep more threat. If for dps id say mage donor since you thinking of adding a mage

[Ayedin]

Thank you very much for the advice. I'm going to test boxing six to make sure I can handle it.