Yeah. Go with a pally if you wanna do 5man stuff.

Another thought. You're controlling 26 guys. You're getting assaulted by lots of aoe hitting 26 guys for yay much damage. Lets say you we're controlling 26 guys with 26 pets. Aoe would hit 50 targets for nothing at all. Safety in numbers! =D
Edit: To clarify. Lets say an aoespell hits 10 guys for 1000 damage. Anything more than 10 targets affected and the damage will scale down. 20 targets might get hit for 500. 50 targets might get hit for 250.

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