Heroic dunegons and 5m setup

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Thanks for feedback.
Although I have only 2 options as char setup.
Either pala + 4x shaman
or
Pala + Priest + 2x mage + lock
Everything beside pala is already 60 and I will level pala once pre patch hits. There is no other option than any of above mentioned teams.
I know, it would be easier with locks for example during leveling as you hit hellfire and thats it, repeat after kills/15s etc. Mages can use blizzard too, but not that well efficient like AE + FS (more effort required). At 70 with SoC and locks gonna be the same as shaman, u need to spam and spam, but probably you will need to switch target as SoC might not blow up before 2nd one will reach target, which for me it would be even more difficult than shamans. That is why I thought 2x mages will be enough to force blow up SoC of single lock so switching targets will not be needed.
But overall, my main focus gonna be heroics, meaning, there is no option to pull many mobs to AoE them down, so any AoE lock / mages will lose value compared to shamans, which can get down grps of 2-4 mobs very quickly.
But I loose utility cause of that compared to priest / mage / lock team.
This is my main concern about choosing proper team.

I hear you and many of your points are valid. Note that you can do one free level 58 boost per account for any race/class (except Draenei and Blood Elves) so you could consider swapping in a strategic option here/there...

After thinking about it more I am now leaning toward doing:

Paladin+2Locks+Mage+Healer

Which is pretty similar to one (or two) of your options: Paladin+Lock+2Mages+Priest (or replace Priest with Shaman)

Considering the ToS change and wanting to avoid anything that looks like broadcast inputs I am still thinking of doing the AoE approach with rotations only needing at most 1 input per Tank+3DPS every 8+ seconds but just swapping in a Mage with Blizzard which should allow my Paladin to easily kite if incoming damage is too great. The Warlocks could switch to 8 second Rain of Fire since the Tank's Consecration and Mage's Blizzard already need refresh every 8 seconds but since my Locks are SoulLinked they don't take that much damage from HellFire so I may stay with Hellfire in most scenarios.

Considering the new ToS and no streamlining nor broadcasting, at 70 I am not planning on changing my play style and generally mixing in Seed of Corruption anymore and instead will be planning on sticking with an all AoE party that generally doesn't need to target any mobs and only needs interaction once every 8seconds or so... It will be slower on small packs but could be faster on larger pulls and having at least 1 Blizzard may make incoming damage really small with kiting...

One thing that kinda bothers me is that without ISboxer the only way I can easily put down AoE is via @Player which means I will be kiting (or tanking and spanking) fairly close to my party which means for some encounters with heavy cleave damage or AoE damage I will likely have to some some "spammy" play options... I guess that can be minimal with just applying lots of dots and then wanding so I don't need to keep going back (or maybe a GSE macro that does multiple shadow bolts if possible). That or I will just have to mouse-over my 4 quadrant windows (Tank+3DPS) and kick off abilities but if I do that I will purposefully go slow enough that it doesn't look like input broadcasting...

On a related note I am not sure which Healer I will use yet. When I was leaning toward Tankadin+3Locks and asked for feedback over 200 respondents recommended Resto Shaman compared to ~130 recommending various Priest specs (75 Holy, 21 Discipline, 33 Shadow)... Now that I am considering swapping 1 Warlock for a Mage I am leaning toward Priest though Shaman does have some pros/cons as well... In case you are interested in that poll and the Reponses you can find them here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwowt...din_3_warlock/