is this team a mistake?

[Toned]

Sam -Riptide doesn't out heal the world like you keep pushing.

@OP - This group is strong, but my choice would probably be 2 mages + a boom, destro, or ele. Just for the different debuffs/buffs

[gunsun]

First, as said, play what you like. Second, tank, 3 dps and a healer is a good strategy. Only advice I'd offer is some variety in buffs and armor types.

My biggest complaint with the standard pally + 4 shaman team was farming item upgrades. Needing 4 semi-rare drops for the casters was a huge time-sink.

2 mages, druid, and a shaman would let you use any caster drop.

[Toned]

First, as said, play what you like. Second, tank, 3 dps and a healer is a good strategy. Only advice I'd offer is some variety in buffs and armor types.

My biggest complaint with the standard pally + 4 shaman team was farming item upgrades. Needing 4 semi-rare drops for the casters was a huge time-sink.

2 mages, druid, and a shaman would let you use any caster drop.

So true--- I swear all I do is shard melee gear and cloth caster gear.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Same -Riptide doesn't out heal the world like you keep pushing.

Ya true enough in a 5 man box, no doubt you still have to play your healer properly. But seems you will get as much out of restro shaman as you would a priest.

But for me with 7 restro shaman; ya stacking riptide 7 times on my tank should be sufficient for most anything I will encounter.

[Toned]

Ya true enough in a 5 man box, no doubt you still have to play your healer properly. But seems you will get as much out of restro shaman as you would a priest.

But for me with 7 restro shaman; ya stacking riptide 7 times on my tank should be sufficient for most anything I will encounter.

2nd boss in heroic vortex pinnacle I used 4 resto + my pally... It is pretty lolzie having 4 everlivings + 4 riptides ticking on you Drop 4 healing rains and a holy radiance and it's like SPAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[None of the above]

I had 2 teams in WOTLK. The very first team is Paladin + 4 shamies and second (mixed) team is DK+Boomkin+Warlock+Shamy+Priest. The biggest "problems" with the first team were:
- No instant AOE heal
- How much I need to run from the same instances to get geared 4 same class toons

If you want classic setup (tank+healer+3 dps) think about the priest as a healer. It's not too late for re-roll one char until your team has not high level. If you would like to step out of "classic" there are a lot of choices in this thread and around.

Team with 2+ passive healers looks very interesting, I just started 5 disc priest team. Survivability is amazing, cant wait to level them to 85 and run to instance with my DK as a tank.