What class and spec do you guys think can make boosting easier for a booster? I’ve heard Fire Mage and Balance druid are two main boosting specs right now, but what do you guys think? Do you prefer tanking as a booster with a DH or it doesn’t really matter when it comes to boosting Mythic+ or Raid, or faster gearing.
Survival hunter, brings in the most gold.
10/10 best boosts
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Skill>spec
I feel targeted
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For heal it is either shaman or paladin. For tanks it is mostly DH, druids and paladins. For dps it is whatever as long as you can do more than 6k dps.
Personally I don’t really like hunters ( I never boost with armorstack) and ele shamans on tyrannical weeks.
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Any spec can boost as long as you know what to do, the problem is when you get FOTOM boosters with you who are lazy af and barely pay attention during a run.
Depleted a mists 15 by 17 seconds last night because the second dps refused to help on explosives leading to a wipe on second boss, he finished with 1k dps above me but we failed the run because of him (and the healer to an extent wasn’t doing explosives either).
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Your main. 
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usually tank and healer deal with all the explosives, bit of a waste for dps to hit them
I boost quite a lot so here is my take.
For the record i boost on mage, dh, druid and hunter, and i heal and tank only for now.
Tank
In boosting compared to pushing, it’s more important to have good mob control and snap aggro than being super tanky. Though it is preferred if the tank doesn’t have to kite.
Also something to take into account when boosting is that you have 1 less kick.
Demon Hunter - is the one i find to be the best. Chains and silence sigils are great when boosting to compensate for the lack of kicks. They also do a significant amount of damage and are tanky enough to just face everything at 15 or below.
Druid - Is also a good choice, it can face tank and does damage, but lacks the mob control in soft CC that DH has.
paladin and brm are okay.
Healer
Since prides are rarely ever an issue at 15 or below, even with 2 dps players, you can take a healer that does a lot of damage to help out.
This can be week dependent but in general.
Paladin - By a mile the most damaging healer, especially great on tyrannical week. And since prides are so low a threat you don’t have to invest anything into them really.
Shaman - is good, mostly because it provides that kick that you’re lacking from having 1 less player. It also brings some good throughput healing and link for big pulls.
disc is alright aswell.
DPS
You mostly want big burst specs. If you do 20s normally and are boosting 15s, then you will have lots of time even if you do pack by pack, so the important part is to avoid wipes. You do that by having big burst classes that can delete dangerous pulls.
You also kind of want to pair a heavy aoe dps with a heavy ST dps, especially on tyrannical, but we’ll get to that.
Fire mage - Is just the uncontested king of boosting. Big burst every 1 minute and at that level you just delete packs. You also do both good ST and aoe.
Like you can feel such a huge difference when we boost when we have a mage compared to when we don’t, to the point where our usual tank says “great we have a mage for this key”.
Balance Druid - Is also good, but mostly when you pair it with a fire mage. What balance brings to boost is not so much the utility, you don’t need that in low keys, but it brings the giga ST burst for bosses. Trees do help if since your tank can go offensive build with them. I have a druid tank who would call for trees, then go into cat form and convoke for massive damage.
Windwalker Monk - Strong burst and on a low CD. Good mob control aswell and does both insane St and aoe damage.
Havoc DH - Also good burst, though not as good as the others, but is incredibly self sustained, tanky and does mob control.
MM hunter - i think it’s good and i do boost on it sometimes, but the CDs are too big i feel. Packs die halfway through your burst and then you’re waiting for so long. It’s still good though.
Outlaw rogue - Does decent overall damage, but also has the best mob control in the game to make up for being 1 player short.
Ele shaman - Burst on par with a mage, but twice the CD. Still does good damage during down time though.
Destro lock - could be considered, but i don’t think mobs live long enough for it to be good, especially not if you play with a mage. Have done some boosts with locks and it was a bit slow.
Fury warrior - has 1 min burst like mage, but is heavily limited by target cap. Still good though, but it is just a bad mage in every single way.
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Yep, the tank was doing them as much as he could but the healer barely did any, he had 9k dealt to them overall while I had 90k with mostly frost shock and melee.
healers that refuse to damage are the worst, holy priests are the biggest offenders to it to the point I and everyone I play with refuse to invite them…
only time I go out of my way to hit explosives as a dps is on my spriest cause free 40 insanity
That’s because the way we function doesn’t really leave us much ways to do damage, unless the group is exceptional at avoiding damage the dps from a holy priest is going to be low. If you’re taking too much damage, a holy priest can’t deal damage while healing and even when we do dps, we’re not really doing that much dps.
A resto druid as an example can just spend one GCD on sunfire on trash and deal far more damage than a holy priest if the group or tank is taking a lot of damage.
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- holy nova is garbage which leave HP with basically no aoe, dotting aside.
now if you spec night fae you can at least boost your groups dps passively I guess.
You don’t need pacific classes to boost in boosting community. Therefor you have to learn your class inside out, how to climbing rio and networking to find team to take you for making more gold. On the other hand, if you fail a lot they will remove you from community or your booster rank until next patch or expansion
It is much easier as meta class to get easy high rio but it doesn’t contribute to or display your skills. You can be DH tank and do 2.5k dps overall or a prot warrior with 4k dps overall in +15 boosting keys. i had team up with many druids,hunters and mages yet they weren’t aware of their own utilities. worse thing as tank you can get is a hunter that don’t know how to drop aggro on itself.
For example, curse casts on HOA can be dispelled by mage and druids trees can be useful to stack adds together while tank can get heal or reset any debuff stacks.
Tip : plate and cloth boosters are rare, so it is easier to get into plate or cloth stack with big pot
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It was a Spriest as second dps 
Holy has lots of free time, you pre apply hots and prayer of mending and you can just pump damage for free.
They never PI people, never mind soothe & first 20 seconds or so of every boss the healer has to do no healing, they just sit afk not casting 99% of the time, this is the same in +2 all the way up to +15, they are the worst players
That’s kind of classist! I feel discriminated…
Avenger Shield… Divine toll… Legendary Avenger Shield proc… Passive % Avenger Shield proc… my personal interrupt… stun… repentance…
Balance druid, super strong and versatile. Plus you can tank + heal if your boost partners aren’t around. Your boosting team is probably who you should ask.
I don’t boost but if I was a customer I’d want a DH Tank, HPala or RShaman Healer (not too fussy on the healer though), and a strong caster (Boomie or Fire) and a mobile spec like Hunter, Rogue, or WW Monk to quickly handle adds + mechanics that require positoning.
Which leads me into the other spec I think you should look at, WW Monk. Very good in M+, they’ve always been consistent, and they fly under the radar a lot of the time.
Lmao, you what. Prayer of mending doesn’t keep anyone up so you can “pump damage for free”. You get your FC to 5 stacks and maintain 5 stacks and then what keeps people alive is mostly heal + serenity. Prayer of mending, with my gear, heals for like 1k per jump. Like, yes, it’s nice but it won’t keep anyone alive.
And no, you don’t have a lot of free time in pugs. I’m constantly casting heals.
While I agree with you, please do not compare pugs to booster groups. In the community I’m in, people who do not use defensive cooldowns or receive excessive damage due to their own fault get heavily fined.
I like prot pala on paper, though the divine toll silence is half of the sigil on the same CD.
However what drags them down for me is that the 3 prot palas (one of them even 2.5k rio) i have had all went terrible, especially when it came to snap aggro.
I simply have no good experience in having prot pala tank, but it could work.