a few questions for those running 5 different class setups in heroics

[Greythan]

I would think long and hard about a mixed DPS group (melee/ranged) if its your first multi-class team or first team at all.

My setup allows me to generally pre-place my DPS/healer and only worry about moving my tank. I'd hate to momentarily lose DPS from the ret pally if my tank got smacked by a rhino on the last Gundrak boss (for example). Or, having to worry about getting the pally out of the way of a cleave or dark smash.

Three ranged DPS seems much simpler.

[Effex]

building a mixed group atm

DK - tank
Ele sham - DPs and aoe heal when needed.
Mage - DPS
Boomkin - DPS
Holy pali - Main healer

Though Im not 5 boxing strickly as the Gf is running the DK leaving me using the pali as main with rest assisting nuke on tank. also lvling up a priest of my own so i can duel spec pali prot and solo when GF is busy.

havnt had much experiance of heavily mixed groups tbh Ive ran pali+4xsham at 70 for ages and tried a pali priest 3xlock which was ungodly at aoe! this ones more centered around doing harder heroics those i found impossible with CC on shaman at 70

[Talamarr]

My long term master plan is:

Port Pally / Resto Shaman / Mage / Boomkin Druid / Hunter

Group benefits would be:
3 that can heal
3 that can rez
2 that can tank
1 battle rez
Blessings
Intel Buff
Gift of the Wild
Ports
Mage table
Moonkin aura
AoE
No gear would go to waste

The hunter doesn't really add much to the group but I really enjoy having him. I could sub him out for an elemental shaman and get some good benefit out of that or maybe a priest for fort but I'm not real big on shadow priests; just a personal preference. I think Pally / Shaman / Mage / Druid / Priest would just about cover all the major buffs and group benefits.

Maybe I'll make a priest I can keep outside just to buff Fort on my group ha!

[echo]

Woah, thanks for all the helpful comments

but yeah, I must have done something wrong with the feral druid. Maybe I was just tired and wasnt paying attention. I'll go back and recheck her gears and spec, as I thought 17k was rather low also, given that she was in mostly blue feral gear.

And as for the concerns about the ret pally as dps. I'm also a bit concerned about movement intensive fights. only thing I can think of is to create a separate follow macro and bind it only to the pally (so "1" for all follow and assist focus, and maybe something like alt + 1 for only pally follow and assist/attack focus target?) not sure how practical that will be, but as those are the only level 80 characters available to me atm, I will just have to make do until i get my hunters up to 80. :/

But thank you for the advice on respeccing zaelar! I didnt really think about dual specing them to be able to reassign roles per the demands of specific encounters. thank you for that to think about.

Anywho, back to work. But thanks to all for your helpful comments and advice! Have a great day