First Post, Multibox dreams...

[Memn]

Hello all,

This is my first post; I've lurked for a bit and I find the knowledge on this board very valuable.

I multiboxed 3 characters in EQ years ago (Enchanter, Druid, Necro), but gave up MMO's until recently. Xzin's wonderful guide / FAQ inspired me to give multiboxing WoW a try.

I am specing out a 5 box setup now, using Xzin's guide as a blueprint. I'm looking at low end Dell boxes for each machine; do you think that is enough processing power for each node? Specifically, Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ (2Ghz) with 1 GB or Ram and integrated GeForce 6150 GPU. I'm definately going to go for the 3x2 screen grid, hardware key broadcasting and XKeys setup.

As far as parties go, I'm thinking of Tankadin, Holy Priest and 3 Mages. I am mostly interested in playing PvE, but if I get comfortable with the setup I'd like to try PvP as well. I would think the team above would be flexible enough to do most anything I want to do.

Sorry fo the long first post and thanks for the knowledge.
-Memn

[Memn]

Main: Intel P4 3.0 ghz, 2gb RAM, Geforce 6800 GS GPU
2nd: Intel P4 1.7ghz, 640mb RAM, ATI x700 GPU
3rd: Intel P4 1.6ghz, 640mb RAM, Geforce 6200 GPU

Thanks for the reply.

Your spec's validate my processor and ram choices - but I have no idea how to compare the GPU options. I'm leary because it comes with integrated graphics (NVidia or not). I'll try it out and upgrade if it goes badly, GPU's should be easy to add on afterwards.

For anyone wondering, The price for these machines is about $575 with 17" LCD - I've tried buying part by part, but can't beat that price.

[Bollwerk]

As long as you turn the graphics options way down, you should be fine. The integrated 6150 is pretty low end, but should still work.

[kayb]

Depending how far you want to take it, I urge you to consider resto shaman as healer, due to tremor totem alone. A shaman will generally boost your party (spelldamage oriented) much more than a priest as well. Good luck!

[Slats]

Go for at least a 7000 Series Nvidia Card if not a 8000 Series.

I use 8600GT's (note NOT GTS or GTX, the elcheapo card is more than enough) and it rocks along.

I did 2GB of RAM also because its dirt cheap and in the long run you save maybe $100 by only having 1GB in each and I'm talking AUD not US as well. :)

As far as parties go, your team is nice, but be careful, your team is nice at seventy, it might be fairly subpar espeically till about 40.. so dont be upset if its slow. Prot Pally doesn't really start to get even playable till 20, and really its only good 35+.

I personally went with Warlocks who dont have as much up front instant cast dmg, but they have three forms of CC, Seduce, Fear and Banish/Enslave. Most people dont like Seduction, they feel its much flakier than sheep. Personally once you have a good seduce macro it kicks the crap out of Sheep due to the fact your warlock can be stunned/feared or whatever and your Succubi can be on 'stay' well out of the way keeping 3/4 targets seduced.

Your going to probably want two sets of macros if you want to do both - one for PvP and one for PvE - CC works best using Focus Macros and you willl use up all your Focus Targets in PvP by using them as your 'main'. In PvE you would probably use Party1 in all your macros and make this your paladin.

For PvE you might want to try something like Pitbull for your UI frames, personally I found it buggy as hell and annoying to setup. But being able to see all your pets targets and your party members targets is awesome, lets you verify who has what target for pulls and such.

The best advice I can offer you is dont be in a massive rush or your project will suddenly become duanting and massive. Take each step at a time and design everything and think it out beforehand.

1. Setup your machines
2. Setup your WoW Folders on each machine, make it easy to start your clients, login to your clients. Have you interface folders shared and writable so you can update them easy.
3. Think hard about your interface/macros, if possible try use all Ace2 mods so you can use the WoW Ace Updater for updating easy.
4. Setup all your buttons and get started, and dont get too daunted by how slow it is 1-20, after that it gets much quicker.

Take photos of your setup and putting it all together and put it up in the SS forums when your done. And Welcome!