Two 5 man teams all separate classes...

[dariuss]

So I am on my way to 80...

Seal team 1

XXI - Warrior
Magdaleyna - Mage
Anastasea - Priest
Dariuss - Paladin
Ihilani - Hunter

Currently at 74... this has been a decent team at this point have only done Nexus.

Seal team 2 (Pictured in SL) http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5008/wowscrnshot081008122253pr4.th.jpg ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=RGalleryImageWrapper&itemID=415&type=page&from=user')

Alarius - Paladin
Qwan -Druid
Ariantje - Warlock
Aikaterine - Shaman
Asarias - Hunter

This team has been the most successful for obvious reasons. Anyone who wants to do 5 separate classes this is the make up I would recommend.

Seal team 3

Silens - Death Knight
Daiset - Death Knight
Itsan - Death Knight
Rein - Death Knight
Seduced - Death Knight

I just started this team it should be interesting to see how the macros will work for this setup. More to come...

Yeah i definitely swung for the fence going with 5 separate classes... I am a bit of a high challenge personality type.. (team 2 has winterspring mounts... that one left a mark). I have enjoyed the chance to learn so much about each class and the dynamics they have to compliment each other. Anyways I wanted to share with the community my boxing experience I hope to post more shots as I get more.

[Multibocks]

Cool cant wait to hear more!

[Ellette]

That's awesome! I always wanted to try boxing different classes, but I never had the patience for it. Maybe when I get a new system and I start 5boxing I can try it out :D

I can't wait to hear more of your teams adventures, keep it coming!

[Drakkun]

I am also boxing a team with mixed classes.

DK - Tank
Hunter / Boomkin / Shadowpriest - DPS
Paladin - Healer

[Fef]

Wow ! Impressive.

I cannot even start to imagine playing more than 3 different classes successfully (I have Paladin, Priest, Magex3).

Please tell us more about your set-up. Do you go software, hardware ? Do you use an Xkey/N52 ? Can you give more details about your macros ? I want to know EVERYTHING ! :)

[genocyde]

Awesome man!

I run a PvE team of:
Druid tank
Pally healer
Shadow priest
Hunter
Mage

I chose the hardest setup of the classes I have that I could think of but I was curious. What specs are your guys and what have you noticed is each classes strongest function in a multi-class group so far?

[dariuss]

Woot 77!!

"Please tell us more about your set-up. Do you go software, hardware ? Do you use an Xkey/N52 ? Can you give more details about your macros ? I want to know EVERYTHING ! :) "

Currently I am using the following:

Windows Vista 64
ASUS P5K3 Deluxe
6GB RAM at 1333mhz
280gtx 1GB Video Card
2x74GB Velociraptor in RAID 0
Logitech G15 (Thank God)
Belkin n52te (Thank God)
Gateway 30" HD Monitor

Macros are basically one key to control them all. Each class has an attack macro, trinket macros and healing macros. From there I build using target=party1target simply because my setup doesn't allow me to switch mains. In some cases I will use /castrandom with a list of the most damage/mana efficient spells each class has.

"I chose the hardest setup of the classes I have that I could think of but I was curious. What specs are your guys and what have you noticed is each classes strongest function in a multi-class group so far? "

Team 1
Warrior - protection
Mage -fire
Priest - shadow
Paladin - holy
Hunter - bm

Team 2
Paladin - protection
Druid - balance
Warlock - demonolgy
Shaman - restoration
Hunter - bm



Shamans and priest are your best healers although with the changes to druids it might make them more competitve in this realm. If I had to choose a healer it would be the shaman nothing says loving like healing stream totem, earth shield and chain heal. Warriors are now becoming extremely viable as an AOE tank, I think paladins still make the best 5 boxing tank simply because of the threat that they generate. Pet classes always come in handy especially hunters. Hunters right now seem to blow the doors off everyone of my dps classes.



I hope this helps let me know if you guys have more questions or suggestions.

[wowphreak]

I'm curious as how yeh specced yer warlock and what spell rotation yeh use?

I I have a similar group setup having trouble getting the dps higher on the warlock I think its due to being affliction specced and having a bad spell rotation.

[SlayerX]

Cool setup.

I like the multi class setup too. I use to run:

2 warlocks
1 paladin
1 mage
1 priest.

It worked out ok. I did some early BC instances, quit playing wow them before I could gear them up for other content. Are you finding shaman healer better then a priest?

I'm thinking of removing the cloth types in favor for mail/leather.

[dariuss]

"I'm curious as how yeh specced yer warlock and what spell rotation yeh use?"



During BC I had the warlock specced 0/41/20 which allowed me to use the Succubus as my pet for some decent dps as well as deliver some high end dps with shadow bolts. Multi-boxing is a different beast altogether then single player gameplay. The goal I try to implement is burst damage at the least expense of mana. DoTs for the most part wont give you the damage you need to be effective in a dungeon environment. Depending on gear, spec and how much time you put into your macros I'm sure you can make affliction viable. My rotation did include some DoTs I just focused more on straight damage and crit. Team 2 had an advantage with the moonkin having the crit buff as well as ferocious inspiration. My biggest challenge for that group was gaining enough hit to become viable for raiding. I had taken them to Kara and was actually very successful with 5 other players from my guild however, my hit was not high enough to really maximize my damage on boss fights.



"Are you finding shaman healer better then a priest?"



Shaman healers in my experience are the best. Priest's definitely have their advantages I use my shadow priest in team one as a back up healer for those oh noes moments. Having the paladin as a healer presents challenges for team 1 that I created by design. I wanted more challenge for multi-boxing and I had several people tell me paladins were not viable as healers for multi-boxing which led me to making sure i had a healing paladin in my group just to see if I could do it. With the implementation of beacon of light it has made paladins viable for this situation. Paladins have the highest survivability of any healing class. So my recommendation is if you want ez mode go with the shaman, if you want ez mode with some squishy go with the priest, if you are high challenge go with a paladin but I would recommend making your 5th class a shadow priest or a druid for backup.



Completed Utgarde Keep last night was a cake walk. My macros definitely need some work as does my execution. One thing that has helped me is going through the instances playing one character and identifying the best rotation. Each instance, each fight may call for a different rotation I often switch macros depending on where I am at and what I have to accomplish. An example would be Steam Vaults. My biggest challenge was the last boss with the tanks. My dungeon macro focused on mana efficiency with decent dps. The problem was revealed when I had to kill the tanks. I had to write a completely different macro that focused on high end damage and blowing cooldowns such as heroism to ensure the tank was destroyed fast enough. As soon as the tank was destroyed I went back to the dungeon macro.



Keep the questions coming... I hope some of this has sparked some ideas for all of you.

[Terraelf]

Same for me.

A-Team
Pally/Mage/Lock/Hunter/Priest - All now 80
(Pally Prot, Priest Holy) To make true tank and healing available for group quests.

B-Team
Rogue/Shaman/Druid/Warrior/Death Knight
Warrior is Prot, Druid is Balance, Shaman is Elemental. I have enough off-heals between the druid and the Shaman to handle healing when it's needed, but I've considered respeccing one of them to a healer class. But then w/ the Warrior and the DK, I'll have 2 tanks.

The B Team is still 70 (Well the DK is 58). I've been working on gearing up my A team and will probably drag along 1 member at a time from the B-team while I grind out cloth to leve my tailoring and I may bring some of them into a boxed Nexus run to get them a leg up so they can start questing at 72 or so before I actually start questing.

[Lyonheart]

I have several lvl 70s waiting for my first team to hit 80. I can make any combo of classes. I have 4 of them all except I only have one warlock. ( no DKs yet ) But to tell you the truth. I leveled one of my teams mixed from 60 to 70 and hated it lol. hats off to you for what your doing. All my teams consist of one healer or tank and 4 of the same. ie 4 mages and a priest or 4 shaman and a paly. I like to keep it simple. But grats to you and your awesome teams!

[Terraelf]

As long as you can accept the fact that you won't be playing any class optimally, running multiple classes is not that bad for levelling purposes. Things will change up and become more complicated when I figure out which heroic dungeons I'm going to box daily...

This is what I did w/ the A-team

1 = Assist focus
2 = Send in pets and start melee attack (Paladin)
3 = Instant cast spells (for ganking when there's competition)
4 = Hunter-Steady Shot, Mage-Fireball, Priest-Smite, Warlock-Shadow Bolt
6 = Ground mount
8 = Priest does Greater Healer on focus (changed to paladin when I was truly tanking as opposed to just mass DPS)
9 = Eat food/water
0 = Flying mount
- = Reserved for quest specific items (some quests give you multiple credit if you do them all at the same time, such as converting the sentries on the isle daily)
= = Follow focus

I mainly controlled my lock and had healbot so it was easy enough to mouse over and shift-click or ctrl-click on the appropriate mob to heal.

With that setup, all I really had to do was... get near mob, tab, 1, 2, 4, 4, tab, 1, 2, 4, 4, tab 1, 2, 4, 4.... loot loot loot

So... easy for levelling.. the challenge comes in dungeons where you can't afford playing sub-optimally and need to use more than one spell.

[Parsous]

Shaman healers in my experience are the best. Priest's definitely have their advantages I use my shadow priest in team one as a back up healer for those oh noes moments. Having the paladin as a healer presents challenges for team 1 that I created by design. I wanted more challenge for multi-boxing and I had several people tell me paladins were not viable as healers for multi-boxing which led me to making sure i had a healing paladin in my group just to see if I could do it. With the implementation of beacon of light it has made paladins viable for this situation. Paladins have the highest survivability of any healing class. So my recommendation is if you want ez mode go with the shaman, if you want ez mode with some squishy go with the priest, if you are high challenge go with a paladin but I would recommend making your 5th class a shadow priest or a druid for backup.
My PvE squad has always run with a pally healer, and hasn't had many problems especially with beacon of light being added. I also don't have a backup healer (Currently running 1x war, 1x holy pal, 3x mage)

[dariuss]

"...and hasn't had many problems especially with beacon of light being added."



Absolutely... as I mentioned paladins have become extremely viable as multibox healers with beacon of light. Based on your multiboxing experience and skill level I would either recommend or not recommend a back up healer it just comes down to what you are most comfortable with. I still say shamans make the best group healers for these situations.

[Chabs]

Wow ! Impressive.

I cannot even start to imagine playing more than 3 different classes successfully (I have Paladin, Priest, Magex3).

Please tell us more about your set-up. Do you go software, hardware ? Do you use an Xkey/N52 ? Can you give more details about your macros ? I want to know EVERYTHING ! :)

How is this setup? Im currently thinking about running this setup, I have a 70 alliance paladin, and I am considering leveling 3 mages and a priest, but was wondering how well it would work out? Also, I am used to horde, undead in particular, how do you handle fears with this setup?

[dariuss]

"...how do you handle fears with this setup? "



This is another area where shamans become valuable. On team 1 fear is basically pretty close to a death sentence however in a PVP environment there are ways around it with the addition of Every Man for Himself and trinkets you can pretty much overcome fears. My best solution thus far has been having the shaman use Tremor Totem to counter fears. During PVE there have been few situations where fear has been a problem.