Multi-boxing PVP

[reman]

Hi All

This is my first post here. But I have been reading on this forum for a few weeks now. Really great community. A little background, I've dual-boxed leveled two melees to 70 (warrior + rogue, don't know what I was thinking back then). Like a lot of folks, I came across the Zins on Magtheridon. Taking graveyards, towers, and defending drek all by himself in AV is just way too cool. Due to the hardware constrain, I was only able to dual box instead of multi-box. Keyclone really opened my eyes as I saw what I could accomplish with just software. Started 5 box a few weeks ago, I followed the popular setup for PVE: pally, mages x2, warlock, priest. Been power leveling my toons in SM using my mage (Magic Absorption + Blazing Speed = endless mana & nonestop AOE ). Now that all my toons are at level 40.

So my question is for PVP. How do you veteran multi-boxers handle classes that have to face and cast spells. It is trivial to kill someone when all my toons are facing him and focus firing. Consider a scenario, facing a warrior + priest. The warrior charges in and fear all my toons while the priest stays back healing the warrior. So I nova the warrior, start to run my main towards the priest and hit follow. Hitting "follow" again has a considerable delay. By the time I get to the priest, it is very likely that the priest would run in and fear me again, and the warrior could have done a lot of damage already. I could see classes that have to face and cast would have problems against melees like warrior and rogue because mobility for us is really a issue here. I guess that is why a lot of people are going for the locks, as they can just run and dot everything they see.

Cheers

[Ellay]

Having an answer to get out of fear as soon as possible is the first priority. Easiest way is the pvp trinket with a 2 minute cooldown.

For facing a target what I've done is made it so I can move or turn all my characters at the same time, so if a rogue / warrior is trying to circle strafe me I just turn with him and boom.

[Remote]

Something I did for melee is make a box formation macro. I have one that spreads my toons out into a box and makes them face inward. Confuses rogues and warriors to death.