Shammy or mages for instances?

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4x mages - what are you going to bring for your 5th spot? Tank: who's going to heal? Healer: who's going to tank?

Hybrids can't tank and heal at the same time (bears will have to shift to caster and palys can't dodge/parry/block while casting).

[edit] Might help if I read closely lol.

I'll leave this up for general info and to be laughed at. ;p

Definitely 4 mages. 4 shamans can't do heroics or even regular instances well because they lack armor and versitility. Mages can wear shields which give a really nice armor buff, which really helps let them take some hits. Generally shamans will run into trouble because they require some mobility and have spells which mess don't work well with multiboxing such as blink, blizzard, and even nova. Mage totems really help alot. Yet another problem with shamans is that they lack a revive. Mages can just self-rez with an anhk and rez others, but every time you die you'll have to do a gy run with shamans :(