the stoneclaws will keep agro until the mobs are hit by something else.
4 stoneclaws mean those mobs will be 'busy' 4 times longer. The stoneclaw totems have a nifty stun effect, but still go down after a couple hits.
Having 4 out will basically give you more seconds to focus fire the mobs 1 by 1 in between aoe bursts.

I think you'll be able to aoe much better once you get Chain Lightning, which is level 32 (?) from memory. until then you'll have to use bolts to kills stuff.
Note that chain Lightning is also on a cooldown (6sec) so in any case you'll have to use bolts unless you want to stay idle for 5 secs every time.

the quickest way in instance (before you outlevel them) is to do pack by pack. Don't over pull as mobs take much longer to kill, and hurt more.

I reckon, at your level you can go in Ragefire Chasm (the one is Org) and AoE it well, but you'll get no xp.
In SFK you need to pull separate groups (3-4mobs) one by one.


Also note that as a tauren i always hated SFK, as it's all small corridors and shitty angles. Go to wailing caverns (near crossroads, barrens) if you haven't (might be low level now) or go to blackfathom depths (levell 20-27, ashenvale) which is a good fun instance in large areas
Note that BFD still shows as 10-manable on wowhead. you might want to try 10man to see the instance first, and 5man it when you're confident enough.


I don't think the 5x5 instances at the same time will work for various reasons:
- you only have 1 tank at the moment
- as was stated, soe mobs run away when low on health, and never in the same direction. It will be uncontrollable in 5 separate instances
- there are patrols that walk aroud, and will most likely not be at the same place at the same time
- groups of mobs differ, you could have 3 melees or 3 casters, or a mix of them. You can't place yourself the same way in all instances.
- fear and crowd control effects on your toons will mess with positioning in different ways on different instances.