Tanks, tanks and more tanks!

Reason why I'm thinking of 5 shammies is that I will have 5 at 60 anyway and leveling 5 should take around the same amount of time as leveling 4. Main reason for having 5 is that I already have a warrior and druid at 80, and I plan on transferring one of them to another account. I will then level a DK and paladin on seperate accounts as well.

That way I will be able to run my tank and 4 shammies from any account, but then eventually once they are geared up I will be able to try out my idea of 4 tanks and 1 shammie in the same group for heroic grinding.

I've just finished RAF boosting 3 teams to 60 so I have a few options available to me. First thing is, I now realise that multiboxing with melee seems a lot more troublesome than ranged dps, so my idea of having my warrior and DK as mellee DPS doesn't seem so great now.

I am now thinking that instead of creating 1 team to contain all 4 tanks and a random, I will create 2 teams which will contain 2 tank classes and 3 random ranged dps.

This means the following:
1) I will be using my warrior and deathknights as tanks
2) I will be using my druid and paladin as healers

Based on the feedback I've had, I realise that a paladin is not the best healer for a boxer setup, but I have a plan! My 3 random ranged dps will be elemental shamans. That way I will have 3 healing stream totems for group healing, and if required I could have a button that will cast a chain heal on each shaman.

I'm already sure that most people will approve of my choice of 3 elemental shammie for the 3 dps slots, as they offer so much utility, plus their dps rotation is not too complex, plus having 3 dps of the same class makes it much easier to multibox.

However I need some advice on pairing the tanks to the healers. I would think that the paladin would be the better healer for a single target. Also I believe that a DK takes more spiky damage than a warrior so HOTs would work better on him. Therefore I am thinking of:
1) DK Tank / Pala Healer
2) Warrior Tank / Druid Healer

Any thoughts?

EDIT: One more question, I already have a War/Druid at 80 and a DK at 74 which I will probably solo level to 80, so I will be leveling my pala and 3 shammies as a team from 60. I guess I could use my 74 DK to help boost the other 4, but it seems like a waste to me and I think I should rather make a 5th char for this team, as it won't be much extra effort. I'm guessing Warlock would be a good choice for the synergy or what would you recommend?

The way i'm boosting my alt teams from 60 to 70 is questing with my lvl 80 tank. I get less xp per kill than when i would run them alone due to level difference, but i don't care that. My xp comes almost entirely from questing. With a the lvl 80 i can do quests way faster and it outweighs the lost xp per kill by far.

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Originally Posted by kalrok2

I've just finished RAF boosting 3 teams to 60 so I have a few options available to me. First thing is, I now realise that multiboxing with melee seems a lot more troublesome than ranged dps, so my idea of having my warrior and DK as mellee DPS doesn't seem so great now.

I am now thinking that instead of creating 1 team to contain all 4 tanks and a random, I will create 2 teams which will contain 2 tank classes and 3 random ranged dps.

This means the following:
1) I will be using my warrior and deathknights as tanks
2) I will be using my druid and paladin as healers

Based on the feedback I've had, I realise that a paladin is not the best healer for a boxer setup, but I have a plan! My 3 random ranged dps will be elemental shamans. That way I will have 3 healing stream totems for group healing, and if required I could have a button that will cast a chain heal on each shaman.

I'm already sure that most people will approve of my choice of 3 elemental shammie for the 3 dps slots, as they offer so much utility, plus their dps rotation is not too complex, plus having 3 dps of the same class makes it much easier to multibox.

However I need some advice on pairing the tanks to the healers. I would think that the paladin would be the better healer for a single target. Also I believe that a DK takes more spiky damage than a warrior so HOTs would work better on him. Therefore I am thinking of:
1) DK Tank / Pala Healer
2) Warrior Tank / Druid Healer

Any thoughts?

EDIT: One more question, I already have a War/Druid at 80 and a DK at 74 which I will probably solo level to 80, so I will be leveling my pala and 3 shammies as a team from 60. I guess I could use my 74 DK to help boost the other 4, but it seems like a waste to me and I think I should rather make a 5th char for this team, as it won't be much extra effort. I'm guessing Warlock would be a good choice for the synergy or what would you recommend?

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Don't much care for warrior tanks, don't know quite why either. They do just fine, just something sucks about using them. Can't put my finger on it.

Zenga: Hmm I would have thought just by virtue of the fact that you are using 5 toons, regardless of whether or not one was an 80, you should be able to breeze through all the quests and group quest in any event? Seeing as I will be leveling a paladin as a tank , the 3 elemental shammies and a random dps, I don't think this will be an issue for me.

Multibocks: I think the problem with warrior tanks is that they have to use so many more abilities and use them more often than the other tanks, so they're proabably not the easiest for a multiboxing setup as the other tanks have a simpler rotation and are therefore simpler to multibox. I realise the paladin would be easier to tank, but I'm willing to put up with the warrior tank as I'd rather have all my dps as ranged dps than have to worry about my warrior as mellee DPS. If I find that a warrior tank really sucks I will have to revert to the paladin but I think it'll do.

Still wondering if anyone has thoughts on the tank/healer combos I'm thinking about and whether I should pick the lock as my random dps to tag along to 80.