@nodoze And just wow again. I was optimistic to get some good feedback on this forum, but your thoughts are more than I was hoping for. I really appreciate it sir. I'm sold on your suggested Paladin setup. You obviously know the class very well (much better than I do) and the suggested differences than my original plan of just holy gives me a ton of additional flexibility. So to recap here is the current plan with adding mage as final dps.

Group 1
1) Warrior tank 1
2) Warrior tank 2
3) Warlock improved imp
4) Prot pally 11/31/9
5) Hybrid pally 21/13/17

Group 2
1) Warlock
2) Hybrid pally 30/21
3) Resto druid
4) Holy priest
5) Fire mage

Group 3
1) Fire mage
2) Fire mage
3) Fire mage
4) Warlock
5) Holy priest

Group 4
1) Fire mage
2) Fire mage
3) Fire mage
4) Warlock
5) Holy priest

Once again probably a bit light on DPS but my hope is the abundance of fire mages with fire debuffs will somewhat make up for it.

I like the thoughts regarding buffs and just discovered Buff'o'mat a couple of weeks ago. Boy, that was life changing and has made buffing so much more seamless. I just have it hotkeyed on a single key and spam it until buffs are done across all characters.

I'm going to have to improve my current setup a LOT as I know there is just a ton of opportunity for improvement. Right now with the 9 60s I just have repeater regions setup for healing, buff'o'mat for buffing, and GSE for my damage rotation on the followers. I've seen some crazy good setups that have shown me I have a long ways to go and after I get the remaining toons to 60 I'm going to pause and really spend some time on optimizing my configuration before hitting the raid content.

When I give ZG a whirl I'll update here in case anyone wants to know how things worked. Thanks again Nodoze- this was really, really helpful.