Comparison of squads for 5 man dungeons

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Both Tank+3 Mages+Healer & Tank+3 Warriors+Healer are very strong. One advantage of Mage based groups is that you can keep the Mages+Healer back and avoid them getting even splash damage from most things on the Tank. You also can see Aggro switching off the Tank better and have a little more grace time as targets turn & move between the Tank and the DPS group. Instance-wise I mainly 5 boxed & 10 boxed and my group was typically more of a Spell-Cleave group as frankly I found it safer & my default class for most roles were Shaman with Chain Lightnings and Chain Heals & Earth Shield and my favorite Tank was a Consecrating Protection Paladin with maximum reflection damage. Since I had 10 accounts but mainly did groups of 5 I usually had both Warlocks & a Mage to provide summons/stones and ports/water before my sessions to the 5 box group I was working on (I had 5 Warlocks at cap that I used with alts to summon places that ports were not convenient to. Between my 10 accounts through BC and WoTLK I had multiple characters per account at cap and had at least 1 character of every class capped (and 3 plus of most classes) so that I could mix and match and definitely found spell-cleave(ish) great so I don't mean to put spell based groups down or dissuade anyone from them. For mass WPVP I actually wish I was 5boxing or 10boxing a spell based group :-)