Stealthy is spot on with his assessment. If you don't do well with pally + 4 shaman you will struggle is any combo, most likely. I have several mixed teams at or near 80 and this combo is the easiest. Pay close attention to what totems you are dropping also. Some help more than others and some are great but situational.
"My dogs could roll heroics with how a lot of you play."
- Fursphere 2010
Alot of people start out with Paladin - 4x Shaman because its by far the most simple, the easiest to macro and very powerful with passive buffs/wipe recovery/aoe healing and great burst damage.
Personally I've grown quite bored of it and adding in a Destruction lock really spiced things up. I'm now swapping out a third Shaman for a Mage for food/water in Cataclysm and Portals and just for something different to macro amd play around with.
I'd drop another Shaman for a priest but I cant be bothered levelling it 70-80 and redoing tradeskills so I'll just have one resto and one ele shaman and enjoy the totems that benefit all my casters.
You need to glyph and talent properly. If you want a good paladin spec for heroics check my tanks offspec - the one with seal of command and aoe/mana return glyphs. My primary spec is geared at raiding.
You want to drop at least the following totems:
Wrath of Air (Spell Haste)
Cleansing Totem (Passive Posion/Disease Removal)
Totem of Wrath
Tremor Totem
Nature Resist is great for quite a number of heroics (Gundrak is trivialized by this totem).
Remember you can have an 'AoE Totem Set' and a 'PvE Totem Set' and a 'PvP Totem Set' using the built in totem bars.
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