I just thought I would share with you the results of my first run at DM.

in a word? Abject Failure. Yes I know that is 2 words but failure on its own didn't quite convey how badly it went!

Memorable moments?

Wipe on first conjuror - yep the very first elite mob wipes my entire party
Lesson learned? Positioning is very important, specially when mobs AoE

Once I got this sorted and reigned in the gung-ho attitude, the trash was much smoother and gave me no problems. Rhahk'Zor on the other hand, his adds repeatedly refused to let my Druid live long enough to keep healing my paladin tank, who went down like he was wearing cloth once the druid fell, only by sacrificing my 2nd and 3rd shaman was able to avoid the long run back to Moonbrook

To be fair though, I was attempting it with all 5 at lvl 17 (Pala dinged 18 during the attempt).

Can anyone give me some hints?

my group makeup is in my sig