Viable 5-man Heroic Group?

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THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE RAPID REPLIES SO FAR

This really depends on which AE you are talking about. If you are talking about the fireballs he spits at you while in the air that should be an easy enough thing to move your guys out of via the arrow keys or something.

If you are talking about the AE after he lands and breathes on you, just make sure before attacking with all of your guys, you get your tank to turn him away from everyone and then engage.

I think a big part of my problem is that due to the 4 pets and only doing quests and MOB grinding through now (this is my first instance) I haven't had to get sophisticated at all in my setups. I basically have the tank as my larger window with my off tank next auto-following the tank with the 3 other toons (healer/dpsers) following the off tank (all 4 in small windows). Frankly much of my leveling and such to date has been easy-mode letting the pets do much of the work as I just stop the off-tank from following the tank (so everyone but the tank stops moving) and then I go pull with the tank and his pet dragging the MOBs back into range of the pets. After kicking off all the runes on the tank/offtank I then unload the hunter and keep him auto-firing and switch to the warlock and dot up and auto-fire then rotate around again burning through runes or cool-downs as much as I can while healbotting as needed (mainly HoTs). Having to switch between windows so much is hurting my DPS & overall capability.

I just recently found this site so obviously I have much learning to do as there looks to be some good macros & some sofware tools that would allow me to do things on more than one character at a time... In my current setup an AoE fight is very painful to manage. There is also much to be said for the simplicity of a tank with 4 same-class casters (shaman example) but I am not sure I am up for leveling more characters at this point...