Stopped 5 boxing. Thinking of beginning again!

[Negativ1337]

Hello guys,

I used to play 5 shamans on Jaedenar but i only play one now these days and raid with them. Simple because arena is a failure, i cant do heroics with 5 shamans so i rather play one.

I am thinking of playing a 5 classes team. I really want to go for PvE this time, instead of pvp. I would love to gear up my characters as i also make progress in heroics. I still got one month raf on the accounts im using. So leveling would be quick.

Is it really worth the effort to go multiboxing again? Or should i just stick with one character.

Thanks in advanced,

Totemic

[Stormweasel]

Why not just use your druids to make a bear, tree and 3 x owls?

[Chranny]

Why not just use your druids to make a bear, tree and 3 x owls?Or just 1 bear, 1 resto sham, and 3 ele?

[elsegundo]

or just one bear with four boomkins.

[Yo-Yo Freak]

or 5 bear tanks! XD lol

but ya, you could go with a bear tank, 3xele shaman 1xresto; 1x bear tank, 3x boomkin 1x resto druid; or if 1 account has wotlk you could go with a dk tank and any combination of druid/shamy dps/heals. if none of them do then with 1 month of RAF left you could PL up a pally tank in no time flat. just some food for thought.

~YYF

[shaeman]

As others suggest, swap one of your druids to feral for one of the shaman.

Setup one of the shaman as resto (or not) and you've got your pve team.

Alternatively level up a mixed class group - then if you give up multiboxing you have any number of classes to play on to relieve boredom.

[Negativ1337]

Yeah, BUT

Then when an elemental item/boomkin item drop, i have 4 characters to need on it. With 5 different classes you have:

Healing cloth for priest
Spelldamage leather for druid
Tank shit for paladin
Spelldamage cloth for mage
spelldamage mail for shaman.

And they would all look different.

Plus i also leveled up as 1 prot paladin and 4 elemental shaman so i know how that works out.
-Totemac

[Dominian]

With the patch tomorrow, pvp will actually get ALOT better, what makes arena unbalanced now is the damn retarded 2vs2 crap.

Sure there are some specs that dont work but most classes got a way now and rogue/mage/druid get a well deserved nerf tomorrow.

Im leveling my death knight,rogue,hunter,priest,warlock in one team and its certainly not easy to figure out a high effective dps rotation that doenst make you go oom in seconds. (I would never bring my rogue if it wasnt for the fact that the hunter/priest already were 60 and joined the DK, at 70 i picked up my rogue/lock)

A easy setup should be possible thought.

Like:

Prot Paladin,elemental shaman,boomkin druid,mage,priest.

CC's: Hex,poly,shackle.

Cant say it was hard to balance the gear on my shamans even with different drops since i always gave the upgrades to the weakest shaman.

[TheBigBB]

Yeah, BUT

Then when an elemental item/boomkin item drop, i have 4 characters to need on it. With 5 different classes you have:

Healing cloth for priest
Spelldamage leather for druid
Tank shit for paladin
Spelldamage cloth for mage
spelldamage mail for shaman.

And they would all look different.

Plus i also leveled up as 1 prot paladin and 4 elemental shaman so i know how that works out.
-TotemacPlease tell me you will use this group composition, it's what I believe to be the strongest. You get every major buff and debuff.

[Taliesin]

Please tell me you will use this group composition, it's what I believe to be the strongest. You get every major buff and debuff.

I have that group setup, except swap the boomkin for a lock. It was a very tough choice for me to make. Boomkin has a better buff (lock just buffs stam with the imp), but the lock is better at debuffing the enemy (aka Curse of Elements). The lock is handy for the other utility he has, like soulstone and summoning.

That said, if I had to start all over again, I'd still agonize over the trade-offs before I picked one. :)

[Ken]

Hello guys,

I used to play 5 shamans on Jaedenar but i only play one now these days and raid with them. Simple because arena is a failure, i cant do heroics with 5 shamans so i rather play one.

I am thinking of playing a 5 classes team. I really want to go for PvE this time, instead of pvp. I would love to gear up my characters as i also make progress in heroics. I still got one month raf on the accounts im using. So leveling would be quick.

Is it really worth the effort to go multiboxing again? Or should i just stick with one character.

Thanks in advanced,

Totemic
I had the same thing happening. I first multiboxed 4 shamans, then added a (warrior) tank, then a dedicated (priest) healer. This made WoW life a bit more varied and interesting. At 80, heroics were a big fail. Now I realize that this was because I wasn't experienced with the heroics(1) and it costed a lot of repairs to get this experience and also because my gear sucked(2).

I then started soloing my warrior, priest and sometimes a shaman DPS in the guild and with PUGs. This made me resolve problem 1, because I got to do all the heroics and most of them multiple times. I now know how to resolve most of them and multiboxing should be very doable in quite a few of them.

Gearing was a problem, especially because I had 3 shamans. That meant I'd gear them up 3x slower than the other classes. Yesterday I started multiboxing again. I created 3 new accounts to benefit from RAF and created a new team with 5 different classes. I picked the classes in such a way that there is no gear sharing: a druid tank, shaman dps, mage dps(and portals! :D), hunter dps, paladin healer. Besides the more squishy mage, this setup is very viable for PvE and PvP.
The only 'bad' side of managing 5 classes is that you have to do all class specific quests separately, which means that you have to run around Azeroth A LOT. Anyway, it's been a lot of fun to level this new team :) (I'm at level 12 now)

My former multibox team approach was: "Use the 5 characters' skills as good as possible", which resulted in a HUGE amount of buttons used (with modifiers). The new team goes for fun and simplicity: 2 DPS buttons(regular and AoE), 1 tank button, 1 healing button per character and some crowd-control/buff buttons.

[edit] A friend of mine is also levelling a multiclass team on Burning Blade EU(Horde side), you should join us there in the guild "The Edamned". It's a small guild with mature people and no expectations besides having fun with us whenever you feel like.

[TheBigBB]

Please tell me you will use this group composition, it's what I believe to be the strongest. You get every major buff and debuff.

I have that group setup, except swap the boomkin for a lock. It was a very tough choice for me to make. Boomkin has a better buff (lock just buffs stam with the imp), but the lock is better at debuffing the enemy (aka Curse of Elements). The lock is handy for the other utility he has, like soulstone and summoning.

That said, if I had to start all over again, I'd still agonize over the trade-offs before I picked one. :)I can't go without innervate, it's just such a great crutch to ensure that the healers never go out of mana. I do have a warlock instead of a mage for my second group, though. I don't think COE is a lot better than the moonkin debuff, but the imp health and soulstones and other goodies are just exceptional. Plus, I hear a warlock might get the 5% crit debuff like scorch gets now.