5 Palas ... or 4 Palas and 1 DK?

[nasaRed]

I'm currently leveling 5 palas, but am thinking of dropping one of them for a DK.
Would that be a foolish thing to do? I've not played a DK before and am keen
on trying it out ... but not sure how DK/Pala would play together. (Would
be leading with the DK).

[lans83]

well, they would do good with gaining the added healing from the pally's judgement of light spell. and if i'm not mistaken, the dk's bonus to spells for group/raid would increase the amount healed from hits, would it not? should boost the pally's consecration as well.

[Marathon]

Pally consecration times 4 is awesome. Its like as soon as the humaniod starts to run away they die from consecration . I love it.

[Lax]

Well, you have until level 58 to decide if you want to level them all together ;) I'm levelling up 5 paladins at the moment as well, and have a 60 DK waiting to tank in place of my prot if I decide to do that. Until then he's on boost duty -- I'm not on RAF so my levelling might be going something like -- level all 5 up at the same time, do collections on my prot pally but none of the others, and once he gets ahead, boost the other 4 a little bit. I boosted them from 8 to 15 or so then decided to catch the paladin tank up -- I've already got an 80 DK tank on my main server (pretty much decked out in pre-raid epics) so I wanted to see what a paladin tank can offer. If I decide I want the DK tanking I can keep levelling my 5 DKs from 58 as well ;)

[Multibocks]

My experience is that mixed melee teams are bad. It's just too much damn micromanagement. I tried druids + rogues all kitty form and it wasnt pretty. I have done all Dk and it was awesome and all hunter (+healer for later) and they are awesome as well. I think the difficulty of multiboxing ramps up significantly when you have to worry about cooldowns of multiple classes, especially when they are not spammable.