What to do with my mistake

Yea once you get the macros down getting and maintaining shards is way easier.

You dont actually need to land the killing blow to get a shard, so I dont see the problem in using a hotkey on all the accounts to drain life. All the locks would then gain the shard.

I have a 3 lock team, currently running with a shadow priest and a feral druid tank. It's awesome. I'm sure eventually I will need a dedicated healer, but having 3 felguard offtanks along with my bear druid, and the shadow priests regen buffs, I rarely have to heal, often just after a battle, just so i can keep the priest in shadowform.

I can also confirm that when I use 3x drain soul, I get 3 shards. Very handy for when im shard farming. Just dot dot dot and drain soul. Best part about my team is that outside of instances, i put my druid in cat form, so he actually does dps. My prot paladin is way overkill outside of instance elites. I have yet to get my lock team to 70, and have only done ramps, BF, SP, and UB thusfar. No, wait, I think I did part of a couple of the Auchindoun instances.

I'm gonna level up some druids next, get them to 60, maybe level up a team of hunters, just for kicks. But then, I'd seriously have to stop leveling alts. I already have too many teams :)

I say go with what you like. RAF gives you the ability to have a "do over" on at least 1 or 2 toons. If you chain RAF'd, you can insta lvl team 2 from 30.9 to 60.9, and just park em at 60 if you ever change your mind. Much easier to start a team at 60 than at 1. Plus you can throw in a DK to the 5th acct to even that part out :)

Yea the way I have my accounts set up I will end up with a free 60 hunter and lock. Which will end me up with 1 of every class above 60 plus a second shaman. I plan on doing strictly multi-class groups so I'm not worried too much about leveling a second team up. I will take this team to 80 then one by one boost my other 60's to 80. Teams now 44 hoping for 60 by this Sunday.