Intance grinding

I know this has been posted a few times but I'll try not to ask any questions that have been asked before.
First of all I going to be 5-boxing and I love instaces.

I have a lvl70 mage and druid.
I want to level 4-5 chars in instaces and I would like to do this with out power leveling from my lvl 70 chars because I think it will be more fun that way.

And what are the best instaces for a the Alliance? there seem to be a list of instace for the hoard but I have not found one for the Alliance.
I was thinking:
Deadmines 18-22
Stormwind Stockade 23-29
Scarlet Monastery 30-40
And then make it up as I go from there.

My group is going to be set up around AOE
Pally tank
3 * mage/warlocks (might have to be all mages if I cant master control of 2 differnt DPSer)
And some king of healer
And a healer of some sort.


If I can handle a warlock it will make it easyer to stay at SM and I can HS back to repare and then summon back. (a warlock can summon him self and then HS, reapre and accept the summon)


Are these instaces good?
What type of healer should I get?
And how much slower is it to go with out power leveling?
How long would it take to get to lvl 40?

He is a list of World Instances and levels per the WOW website.

Scarlet Monastery - 28 - 44
Razorfen Downs 33 - 41
Uldaman 36 - 44
Zul Farrak 42-50
Mara 40 - 52
Sunken Temple 45-54
BlackRock Depth 48-60
BlackRock Spire 53-61
Dire Maul 54-61
Strathome 56 -61
Scholomance - 56-61

As far as healers just depends on your team make up. I personally prefer Priest or Pallys. But i am bias I have 70's of both toons.

I have an aoe grp. Prot pally, 3 arcane/fire mages and Disc priest. It works great. Dunno about the others cos im horde but SM was sweet. I stayed there from 28/29 till 41 and never got bored once. It is def easier and quicker if you are aoeing mobs a couple of levels below you least thats what I found.
I would def go priest for your healer so you have holy nova. It totally kicks ass! I consider it absolutely vital for what I do.
I would also def go 3 mages. Ive aoed all instances from RFD to BRD with 2 mages and lock and 3 mages is way better imo. Plus it is very handy being able to move and aoe. I wouldn't worry too much about repairing i hardly ever did and it was still dead easy.
Can't remember how long it took me to 40 but i'm almost 60 and sitting at almost 5 and a half days. I've always thought I'm quite slow at levelling as well.

For AOEing, what spells did you use? Just Arcane Explosion?

I run Pally/Priest/Mage x 3, and I haven't figured out a good way to use the AOE area target spells with keyclone, other than manually targeting a spot on the ground, which is cumbersome. Any thoughts?

I play the pally normally then for aoeing I just use 2 keys. One to make the 3 mages use arcane explosion and another to do the same but also make the priest use HN. I find unless it's a big pull I don't need HN every round so having two keys keeps it versatile and means I can save some mana although mana is much less of an issue than I thought it would be.

Nontargetting mage aoe spells = arc explosion and cone of cold, and for extra dps, you could bind fire blast, with assist 'x'. While 5 blizzards might be cool, and targetting each individually could prove useful, as you line them up sequentially( in the line of travel of the mobs). It's more hassle than it's worth in most instances, I think.

oWell my toons at lvl 19 (tank is 21), I went for 3 mages, priest and a pally.
My priest spends most of his time doing nothing and only healing on big fights I have not mastered casting different heal spells I just use the big heal which is good when its only my tank taking damage but when they all start getting hit its harder. Need to learn to get better at casting hots.

I can control my mages or my pally well but I have not really mastered both at the same time yet. ATM I have no overlap with my mages and pally comands I control my pally total by mouse and mages by keyboard with a follow + assist pally button.
I've tried Deadmines 2 times the second time I nearly got to the end boss before getting red gear. My pally was only added to the group when I got to level 18 so I'm just getting the hang of playing 3 classes.

Thanks for all your input.