This is an idea I have had for a long time but have never been able to try and haven't really discussed too much with many people before. So I thought I would offer it up and get some feed back.

The barrage pet team.
1 tank
1 healer
3 hunters. Prefurrably with enough into survival to extend the length of the traps.

The concept goes like this. Most mob groups in instances consist of 3 to 5 mobs. The 3 hunters freeze trap 2 to 3 mobs. Then just kill the ones on the tank and then kill off the rest one at a time.

What I think the advantages would be is the hunters ability to freeze trap any mob as far as I know. I have yet to meet a monster I cannot freeze trap on my hunter. And with the extended trap time that you get from Survival you can almost keep the monster frozen over and over again. None stop. This combined with the high dps out put of the hunters combined with 3 added dps from there pets provided the hunters are also BM's. I would think this would be a truly awesome team build.

Advantages over other type teams.
1. The tank is only tanking 1 maybe 2 monsters at a time. Thus saving on his health being taking away.
2. The healers job now becomes alot easier. He only has to heal a tank thats taking ALOT less damage.
3. Hunters freeze trap works on all monsters. And with extended trap time from survival can almost keep the monster frozen forever.
4. Could work in any instance. Even heroics.
5. Your a team of eight. ( 1 tank + 1 healer + 3 hunters + 3 pets= 8 ) Thats ALOT of dps. If the hunters are also BM's.
6. You have 3 off tanks if needed. Mind you growls turned off but if things some how go south ( which happens in almost every run lol) you do have the ability to turn growl back on and have 3 small off tanks to sacrifice in order to give you enough time to run away or maybe to finish off that last monster.

This is a completely untested build. I'm 90% sure it would be a truly incredible team. The key being the hunters ability to crowd control in any instance. I'm not sure but I'm thinking it would also be a viable team for Kara. No way!! You thinking?

Six hunters, Two tanks and two healers. Thats crowd control for 6 monsters in any group. Leaving the tank to fight one monster at a time. The healers to heal most times just one person. You would still need the off tank and thus the off healer no doubt. But again. You would gain the pets dps. Which if your a Beast master means alot of dps from those pets. So in essence you would be going into Kara with a team of 16 counting the pets.

I would really like to try this team build. In some regular instances and then if it works in Heroics. And yes ultimately I would even love to try this in a Kara run. I know the Kara run is most likely a long ways off but still food for thought.

Any feed back is apreciated.

Only thing I can see going wrong with this is timming. The tank must be good enough and fast enough to take the mobs down one at a time(the 3 pets would be a big help in this) and if the huntards are quick enough to retrap. Other wise I think this would be a great team. One question I have is are there mobs immune to freeze traps? I don;t know this but I would think that there are.

All I know is, that in heroic mgt on Yvan, I have had a monster resist my trap. As well as Heroic Ramps. But of course, that may be because I don't have any talent points in survival.

I would be glad to test out this team some time. Yvan needs some more gear anyways

yes. ice/water elementals are immune to all frost or water based skills/attacks