2-Boxing Beginner: Help me get started w/ Warrior/Healer

[bmilcs]

Hello.

Okay. Sign me up guys. After watching all the various videos out there, and reading a good amount about boxing, I have decided to 2-box a tank and healer combination. After playing a rogue to level 70, and not really enjoying it much, I decided I want to create a combination of the two most needed classes out there: the tank (Orc Warrior) and the healer (Undead Priest).

Now, I've read a lot about people doing this, however, using 2 keyboards, and mice. That's the last thing I wanna do. Here is how I want to set it up:

The Set Up
- 1 PC: 3.0 GHZ Pentium 4, 1 GB DDR1 Ram, ~1.6 TB, 256 Radeon 9400 XT (I believe) *I def think I can handle 2 instances of WoW*
- Characters: Orc Warrior (DPS for Leveling/Prot endgame for Tanking)
Undead Priest: DPS/Healing as needed. Does anyone have a better suggestion? I kinda want to make the healer a class that can DPS as well, and heal as needed to make killing a lil faster.
- Keyclone: Gonna buy this soon.

Now, I want to set it up so I play the main warrior, running around and questing. I want to set up the priest to follow, have hotkeys to press so that it'll cast a few dots/spam wand, and then be able to heal as needed. Will this be an easy process and is this possible?

From what I've gathered, this seems very easily done. I was wonderin'.... is there an exact guide of someone doing JUST THIS? Healer/tank 2-boxing? Or do I have to customize it myself? If so, I will definitely contribute my own very straightforward guide on how to do this. SOOO, there's some incentive for you to help me get set up :)

PLEASE LEAVE AS MUCH HELP/FEEDBACK/INSTRUCTIONS AS YOU CAN!
I'd greatly appreciate!! Thanks!!

BMil

[simpletom]

well i just leveled 2 ne one druid and one priest to 22 to give this sort of tank and healer idea a go.

it is possible but not easy, not easy at all.

the thing is if your in an instance was only Deadmines, with a very good pug group 2 rogues and a hunter, its still very easy to make mistakes granted it was my first attempt but wasnt easy or enjoyable there was just way too much on my plate it made it feel like a job rather than fun as i was totally responcible for the groups survival i felt like a tour guide.

heres where your problems are going to be, unless you have a very good group who are acustomed to how your playing there are going to be costly mistakes made, so no normal pug would cope that well with this.
Tanks need to multi target in occasions when CC cant be used this means they could be running about all over the place picking up aggro on different targets, thats great cus thats what tanks do but not so easy if you have a healer on /follow whos spells are inturpted because of the movement.

when i got feral charge this most of the time stoped follow but otherwise i would have to manually click on the prists window to control her and move her so she wasnt on follow.

now the next problem multiple target healing this is what cuased most of my problems and the end result was me stopping right here with a tank healer idea. Its bad enough trying to mash away thru groups holding aggro on 4-5 targets at a time but then haveing them attack other members of the group means all those /target tank /cast heal are out the window. its alot to think about and i would hate to immagine what doing instances in burning crusade would be like when its not just tank and spank like the lowbe instances.

I think you could do somthing like

/target groupmember1
/cast heal
but your probably going to start running out of binds pretty soon even with just my main heals i had all the druid moves i wanted attached to

1,2,3,4,5 keystorkes

the priests were on the number pad for heal, renew, shield, fade etc

unless your a wizard with the keyboard i wouldnt try the healer tank combo its just too much for a biginner, i didnt like it at all too much to think about its ok when its your own 5man if one dies who cares just res him after combat, cant say the same if your not paying the dead persons repair builds and if you do, you will become very unpopular on your server. you have just finnished playing a rogue. which is like raiding with 2or3 buttons (no offence to rogues but it is i have watched a friend play his rogue and he tops the dps with 3 buttons, he cant pvp becuase its alot more buttons he says).

this could be a huge step for you, for any begginer boxer i recomend just getting a couple 10 day trial accounts and play about with it, i tried 5 mages, 4 mages 1 priest, 3 mages, 3warlocks, 1drud 1 priest and im now on 4 warlocks 1 priest (not very orriginal i know but i like it suits my play style seeing how ive had 2 raiding priests to 60 and leveled 3 warlocks to 60 and one went to 70 in my game history, so i knew alot better what to expect), and there will be more combos ill try some day, i like the idea of shaman i think they are awsome in pvp, can heal amazingly and elemental is a very good spec for instanceing and pvp. most of all i want to try 5 shadow priests just to see the carnage in pvp and one day i probably will.

i dont want to discourage you on this at all i think you should give it ago, i wish every wow player would at least try multiboxing.

[bmilcs]

okay i just wanna solo with 2 chars.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?p=15288#15288

check out my new post; its better and will get better responses from it ;P thanks

[simpletom]

charming thats the thanks i get?

[bmilcs]

charming thats the thanks i get?


hahaha i'm so sorry. i know that was totally rude. i'm so distracted right now.. thinkin' about class combos/setting up keyclone/talking to people that i didn't realize what i was doing.

thank you very much for your input :)

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