Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:46 pm by nodoze
I personally think that Wizards are better for MBing than Rogues or Great-Weapon-Fighters because, though all have good but different kinds of DPS, for MBing the Wizard does it from range & brings AoE Crowd Control for the darn Adds... TR may be highest single target DPS but the others aren't terrible and have good AoE options as well.
That being said BiggCarl has cleared the most instances and he has both a TR & a CW in his 5 man group. After seeing Biggcarl have success with a melee in his party I took one of my Rogues to dual-box with a GF & two healing companions to do the level 30 quests to get the extra bag and it wasn't as bad as I expected... It appears that melee background followers kinda "strike-walk" to the target with each mouse click even when a ways away but I found it best if you can get them really close before starting the fights. Before fights I generally paused on my GF and made sure the TR was close before heading toward the Mobs and I would often run past them a little instead of stopping prior to bring the TR closer before starting encounter abilities. With the Trickster's ability to teleport behind the boss and DPS plus the right talents he seems reasonably survivable and does really high single target DPS.
Even with the above in mind I am still going to stick with Wizards for good-enough DPS from range + CC (at least until Bow Rangers come out and can compare them). I am hoping I will find GF+DCx2+CWx2 as a viable team for Epic 5mans.
EDIT: For what it is worth my buddy's first main was his Rogue but now that he has leveled up his Wizard he prefers that much more and considers it much more survivable in Boss fights. With my healer the melee are so jammed up around the boss in fights it is really hard to tell what is going on with all the graphics & animations & personally I think I also would play the Wizard over the rogue if I wasn't playing either the tank or healer in a party. That being said I personally I haven't yet played either Wizard or a Rogue at cap yet (my highest Rogue is ~33 and both my wizards for my future 5man are ~30).