The "Auto Follow" setting you are talking about in the WoW settings is a setting for the CAMERA MOVEMENT, not how close your toons follow.

There is NO setting that changes the distance from which your toons follow, this is a set distance that is not changeable by the player. The reason some of the videos you see look like they are closer is simply latency. Some times they will look closer, sometimes further.

If they are right on top of each other then they may be mouse driving five toons on FIVE computers with a hardware solution but this only works for SHORT distances as the latency will eventually catch up with you and your toons will be headed in slightly different directions.


Short answer for you is: There is no setting or mod or fix for the distance /follow puts your toons at. Never has been.