Well, decided to go try heroics for the first time on the weekend. I figured 12k ac and 11k hp's could be enough so jumped into heroic SP for the first time and had the following timeline.

1. Zone into instance with group
1:30. Buff up, spread out, move pal to position
1:45. Avenging shield first pull of Greater Bogstrok + 2 Bogstrok
1:50. Look up at screen and see health at 2k
1:55. Wipe

At this stage I decide I likely don't have enough health for it (looked at logs and saw I was hit for 1704, 1704, 2234 x 2, 1704) so let's go do regular SV.

45 minutes after zoning in I am at Steamrigger (decided to go here rather than the Naga as it should be easier)....3 wipes later I have to leave for date, best attempt getting him to ~70%.

I don't know if it's my group makeup or not but I'm just finding myself questioning why I'm multiboxing atm if I can't do instances (highest I have done is getting to Shaeffer in MT but wiping over and over to him). Running dailies for gold can only go so far, and yes it will be a lot easier to level come WotLK, but really I got into this for running instances and gearing up well and I just can't but have no idea if it's me or my group.

I'm now leveling up 3 more shaman to replace the mages and priest to see if that works any better but I'd really rather be running a traditional group...guess I could always use them to gear pal + usual shaman up to the point they overgear the instances and then run them with the mages + priest again after that but that seems as much a cop-out as anything else.

Just not sure what I could do differently with current group, what I need to work on or get better at or if I should just transfer characters on to one/two accounts and go back to single play.

Sorry for the rant/stream-of-conscious, no idea what point I'm actually asking for advice on....just figured I'd post here in case others have gone through the same stage.