My voyage to 60 and lessons learned

[Fuzzyboy]

I don't think fiery shield stacks with thorns(?) and warriors are much better tanks than druids.

You are correct about fiery shield and thorns, in the first iteration of my initial post, I had changed the warlock for a mage in my ideal setup, which is probably the explanation for the wording.

Not sure what you mean about warriors being much better tanks though? When we're talking 5-man instances, I don't really see much of an advantage?

Can you just have the imp give the stam and "thorns" buff and otherwise fade?

Yes, I could. I've considered that often, but he does account for a good deal of the DPS of the warlock though :-/