Sorry for hijacking your thread, but I thought it might be more effective to use an already existing thread regarding the same topic I wanted to write about then creating another thread.

I would like to know what people think about my setup I am about to level right now and maybe discuss the pros and cons a lil' bit.
As you can already see in my signature, I try running with a Paladin Tank, a Paladin Healer, two Shadow Priests and a Warlock, my former setup featured three Shadow Priests but let me explain the whole thing.

Protection Paladin: not necessary to say anything here, great AOE tank - making up for the missing CC in my setup, I hope
Holy Paladin: the idea behind a paladin healer was, that he would never go OOM because of my shadow priests in the setup (+ the spamable and cheap Flash of Light) so I could, for instance, have better chances with some encounters - of course the paladin comes with the complete lack of AOE heals ... not sure here :/
Shadow Priests (2): good DPS, nice manareg + healthreg (+additional manareg for the two paladins), no AOE, no *real* CC (shackle only works on undead targets)
Warlock: my newest addition in the setup (took one shadow priest out of the group) because I thought a complete lack of AOE would be somehow fatal and the best caster I could take to support my shadow priests of course would be the warlock, Curse of Shadows + destrospec for improved shadow bolt and simplified game play (minus watching the durations of several dots with different durations)

So, in my small world, I think the setup is quite good regarding the great synergy my character / class combinations are creating (/granting each other, maybe a better choice of words?).
At the moment my protpaladin is 57 and the rest is somewhere about 17 and 32 (I was testing the AOE leveling in instances so I couldnt take all my toons with me and stuff ... long story ^^) so I would like to be completely sure about my setup, the pros and cons before I *really* start to play with them.

My target is to play every instance (no PVP) on normal and of course Heroic Mode, since I have no or let's say weak CC (warlock fear) I could imagine, that some instances would be impossible but I really can't say for sure because I never ever played with a protpaladin before and never had one in my groups while I was playing only one character back in the days ...

Any thoughts?


(I hope my english is understandable "enough", I am not a native english speaker but I tried to avoid mistakes of any kind of phrase out everything correctly.. )

Xorn