I started a Mixed group

[SlayerX]

I use to run a mix myself 1-70. I ahd a holy priest, prot pally, 2 demon locks, and a frost mage. It worked out pretty good, could do isntances and all. I took my wow break ebfore i got to try heroics thou.

I'm thinking of trying a prot pally, frost mage, demon warlock and two shaman (with a hunter to possibly sub in for a shaman)

Now to just mess around with some macros and set up keys/x-keys, thou the more i dlo it lately the more i move away from the x-keys.

[Talamarr]

I love mixed groups and wouldn't do it differently. However, I'm only running three at the moment (prot pally, bm hunter and elem shaman). I love it.

For PvE I've simplified it down to some macros for pre pull (buffing and totems), a spam macro for dps in combat (includes, tanking rotation), a macro or two for healing up the group and a "oh crap" macro (DI the shaman, feign death).

For boss fights I rebind my dps spam key on my elemental shaman to a healing macro that looks like this
/castsequence [target=focus] Chain Heal, Water Shield

Water Shield? Yes, water shield. Since I'm spamming I don't necessarily want to spam chain heals as I might not need that much healing so I add the appropriate number of Water Shield casts (since they cost no mana) to invoke the GCD a few times and space out the chain heals. That way I can just spam away.

[TheBigBB]

I love mixed groups and wouldn't do it differently. However, I'm only running three at the moment (prot pally, bm hunter and elem shaman). I love it.

For PvE I've simplified it down to some macros for pre pull (buffing and totems), a spam macro for dps in combat (includes, tanking rotation), a macro or two for healing up the group and a "oh crap" macro (DI the shaman, feign death).

For boss fights I rebind my dps spam key on my elemental shaman to a healing macro that looks like this
/castsequence [target=focus] Chain Heal, Water Shield

Water Shield? Yes, water shield. Since I'm spamming I don't necessarily want to spam chain heals as I might not need that much healing so I add the appropriate number of Water Shield casts (since they cost no mana) to invoke the GCD a few times and space out the chain heals. That way I can just spam away.

You could just put commas after the Chain Heal to cast nothing every few keypresses. That way you could still cast Chain Heals more quickly by spamming the button faster.

[Talamarr]

You could just put commas after the Chain Heal to cast nothing every few keypresses. That way you could still cast Chain Heals more quickly by spamming the button faster.

yea, I tried that but I've got it bound to my mouse scroll and I'm spinning that bad boy pretty quickly. Commas have nothing on my index finger

[Rin]

Mixed groups are truly powerful; I'm running a group that consists of an unholy Death Knight, a protection warrior, 2 BM Hunters, and a Holy Priest. I haven't ran into anything that the group can't trash. Even some of the earlier fights that I had difficulty with as a team of 4 shaman + paladin really became trivial with the mixed group. One fight that comes to mind is the Nazan fight in Ramparts. When I was around 62'ish with my shaman + paladin team, I would typically lose one or two people once I got the fight down; just learning the fight and dealing with the huge AOE damage was not a trivial task (I probably wiped 9-10 times learning the encounter); I honestly believe that the ramparts was the *hardest* (yes, even harder than Sethekk) instance that I ever delt with as a multiboxer with the shaman + paladin team.

Now, on the flip side of the coin, I did the ramps with my mixed group. On my first attempt I simply walked through the encounter, no deaths, had everyone attacking. On my 2nd attempt at it, I killed Vazruden with my team, and then I let my pets kill Nazan. Needless to say, they walked away with 80% hp each (1 core hound, 1 devilsaur doing the fight) - they needed 0 heals, 0 buffs, etc. It was amazing.

With all of the amazing capabilities that a mixed group brings to the table, it's no wonder why an encounter can be trivialized by adding multiple classes. My 2nd team (the other half of my 10-box setup) is fairing well too; it consists of a Protection paladin, 2 Arcane Mages, 1 Resto Shaman, 1 Balance Druid. Encounters are a little bit tougher with this group (as you can imagine), but the dps is much higher with the 2nd team than the first. It's also nice not having to worry about agro as much as with my first team (1 tank = easy agro control ... 2 "tanks" + pets = easy agro control once you get the macros down for it).

Cheers.

[Talamarr]

2 BM Hunters

My bm hunter, who was 68 when wrath was released and is now modestly geared level 76 is a freaking DPS machine! I can't imagine what two would do.