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Well I've Finally Decided To Make A Post.
I'm A New Boxer And Wanted To Know What The Potential Of My Current Group Would Be As Far As PvE Is Concerned.
Unholy Death Knight
3x Beast Master Hunters w/ Gorilladin Pets
1xHoly Priest
And Words Of Wisdom Would Be Much Appreciated
You've got whats basically all you need for a PVE group, a nice tank, 3 dps classes and a dedicated healer, you wont have a problem. Personally I'd go with the shammys for their utility but hunters will no doubt have their own advantages also, so its upto your personal choice. I currently run a frost dk, 3 elemental and a resto shammy, but I think for PVE my perfect team would be replacing the tank with a prot pally and the healer with a disc priest. The pally makes a good tank and has some nice buffs and the priest is prob about the best healer you can find, also if you spec Disc he has imp spririt which increases your shammys spell power abit.
Thats PVE anyway, my team might not be perfect but manages ok in heroics, however when i do bgs im grateful for the dps of the dk so thats a big bonus over the pally.
Also You Dont Need Caps With Every Word You Type.
With the 3.x changes, any tank can effectively tank about as well as any other.
If you like the DK, they're as good now as a Prot Pally, which prior to 3.x was the only really good choice for a boxer.
Hunters are low maintenance dps, which is what you want.
I have a 5x hunters team, and they run together well.
The only thing I don't like about hunters is that they switch from ranged attacks to melee attacks automatically, if the target comes in close.
The reason for not liking this is... follow breaks when a toon enters melee. So if your active toon is the DK and a mob closes to the group, you now have only the priest following the DK around, with the hunters standing there with follow broken.
A priest is an effective boxing healer. They have strong AoE heals, for when damage is across multiple toons.
I prefer a discipline based priest to a deep holy priest, but both work very well.
Discipline generally performs somewhat better in pvp and with single target healing, while primarily holy priests are better at group/raid heals.
Whichever way your priest specs, you'll probably pick the other Disc/Holy or Holy/Disc for boxing.
Your priest is your only healer, although the hunters can Mend Pet and the DK can do some limited self heals.
The DK ability to raise ghoul sucks a lot for a boxer, if you have a toon dead.
You raise your toon as your ghoul, and until they kill themselves, you cannot raise them via a ressurrection type spell.
If the ghoul dies and a toon is also dead, rez the toon before you resummon the ghoul.
That was fixed in 3.0.8 - they split it into 2 spells, raise ally and raise dead. Raise dead only raises an enemy corpse.
I would imagine you would be fine with that selection.
Couple of things to keep in mind.
Running multiple classes doesn't seem too difficult to me so far. However, since you are effectively AFK for the most part some classes will never maximize their DPS output when they are slaves. Some people may be able to do it, but I wish I knew how. You have to pay attention for random events to occur and then take the appropriate actions to maximize damage. So, some classes may actually be much easier to maximize their DPS. I never played a hunter, so I am not sure if this is one of those classes. Also, consider what utility other classes may offer to your group [for instances] before you choose all of a single class (not that it's bad or incorrect, but you don't want to regret not having a shaman or something down the road). Mixed classes can also be good for loot distribution too(i.e., cloth, mail, leather, plate classes). Of course, on the other hand having multiples of one class offers other benefits and MANY multiboxers have been very successful running 5 and 4 of the same class and spec.
Also, there isn't much point in your priest going holy until you really need it. Unless that's your preference, you can still DPS etc. However, you will probably be fine as shadow for a long time if you want to maximize DPS and still be more than adequate for healing. Leveling through questing is really easy though, so in the end the point is moot. You could level up a group of five naked toons that have never spec'd a single talent pretty easily I imagine.