What groups would you box first?

[smalltanker]

One of the common things to do is to aim for a plate, mail, leather and cloth to use any drop... a good example would be pally, 2 shaman, 1 druid, and a priest, mage or lock. Locks are kind of light on damage but gives some nice benefits. I know when I was doing a mixed team on a PVE realm I ran fury warrior, paladin, priest, shaman, boomkin. Later I changed it up to drop to do tol barad as all ranged by ditching my warrior for a arcane mage... so the team was Arcane Mage, Shockadin, Elemental Shaman, Shadow Priest and Boomkin. Lots of great buffs, lots of potential healing (only one pure DPS class) and it is hard to be picked out as boxing with the diverse classes and races. My current team of 5 DKs makes me fly to instances by not having a heal class (paladin or druid). When I started leveling my shamans I used a boomkin to queue as a tank spot... once I hit late LK content I just four boxed and pugged a tank.

On a different note for new boxers. To avoid some grief look at picking different names. My shaman (5 elemental/resto (IOC and AV)) never get called out when we do big forty mans with multiple boxers from the Zerg. The DKs and 10 box shaman/hunters get called out but no one ever notices the five resto shaman (Ziegvolk, Mellifer, Hexenbiest (main), Jagerbar, and Blutbad) that look like identical female trolls... much easier to fly under the radar.