Advice Needed - 2 accounts to 5...

[QuantumX]

Advice Needed - 2 accounts to 5...

OK I'll explain my situation and then pose some questions, experienced multiboxers input would be welcome.

I have two accounts with two level 80's I wish to make 5 accounts to try doing 5 man 80 instances multiboxing, i currently multi box the 2 accounts to two man old stuff and too PvP. I use pawnboxer for my two accounts.

Account Character info... Account A - 80 Warlock / 65 Shammy / 35 Hunter Account B - 80 Priest / 70 Warrior
ATM i use to Warlock as a main with the priest as a slave.

So here are my questions;

1. Will my system handle 5 accounts, i run a Q6600 intel chip with 8gb ram and two NVidia 8800 graphics cards attached to 3 19in screens. Running Vista 64bit. I assume i will have to minimise the graphics setting of the other 4 characters.

2. What characters would you suggest for the other 3, I would like to keep the priest and the warlock in my 5 man team. I was thinking Paladin Tank and then two open slots perhaps a Druid Healer/Off Tank and Hunter or mage for DPS. What would you suggest.

3. How should I use RAF? (A & B are existing Accounts) I was think A to C / C to D / D to E that way I can group them with the Warlock and Boost them in instances to level 40 and then gift 20 levels from D to C and E to D however E will then be left on level 40. What would you all suggest is there a better way to do this.

4. How best would you then level your 60’s to 80’s boosting again through instances or questing or a bit of both. 5. If you were/have done something similar is their something i'm missing that i should be doing?

[QuantumX]

For some reason my post lost its formatting. Sorry for the wall of text i have now fixed it.

[daviddoran]

1. That system looks fine, mine is similar. my motherboard only has a 4x pcie connection for the other video card, so i had to run 2 PCs to run more than 2 monitors without it lagging.

2. My newly reformed heroic team is Prot pally, holy priest, destro lock, arcane mage (dual spec fire) and Ele shaman, who is replacing my second lock. I could see throwing a boomkin in the mix, my problem was gear, i had 4 clothies at one point, all looking for nearly the same stats. I sharded a ton of mail and leather caster gear. Emblems made up for a lot of the difference, but take a while to accumulate.

3. right on the money for that RAF. With an 80 lock, and an 80 priest healing the pet, you could probably boost up to 60, and probably up to 70. You can do 40-55 questing if you want to change it up, and go 55-65 in hellfire, then either try for Slave pens, or hit up Utgarde Keep. Once u get to 71, just farm AV. get some nice honor for your mains in the process. If you want tho, questing with RAF is so fast, i felt like i was cheating. I outleveled zones long before i was out of quests, so I just started doing the simple kill quests, and looked around for the group kill quests, and named miniboss kill quests, then moved on.

4. I kinda answered this in 3. But once u start RAF, think real hard about what classes and how many you want to play with, and get em all to 60 asap. I was late on my druids, and had to do some xfering around, and it ended up costing more had I just pushed through it and not wasted time.

[QuantumX]

Thanks for your comments daviddoran, they are appreciated.

I started my 5 man experience last night, Paladin, Mage and Druid were born, hopefully with my 80 priest and warlock it will be a good group for Heroics.

ATM i'm boosting them through the instances with my warlock to get them to 40. I was thinking perhaps i should do two characters to 40 on all three accounts, that should give me 40 levels per account to gift to the linked account getting a good few extra level 60's to boost to 70 and then start instances proper..

From a computer point of view i found it a little laggy for fps until i lowered the res on the slaves (800x600) and turned off all effects on all 5 accounts then it was pretty smooth except in dalaran.

Anyway seems fun but i suspect the real slow grind will start at 60 ;-<