The running around to aligne everyone is indeed not an option when a mob is chasing you.

You may want to set a special hotkey for "Backwards" on all of your toons. Then, all you need to do is face the alts with you main, press that key, and every character will move away from the mob, ready to shot.

This works pretty well for me.

I found the idea for that reading the Formations & Spread out thread. Not exactly the same problem, but closely related.




P.S. First post here by the way. Great forum. I'll try to find time to describe my setup in another post.