Post 80s boxing experience

[Drommon]

Fur,

In your experience, can 2 multiboxers boxing 5 toons each that are fresh 80s (quest greens and blues) do any of the 10 mans?

Can you describe briefly what a fresh 80 boxer should do?

I am trying to figure out an organized approach to level 80 boxing from a new 80s standpoint. I believe you have the xp to describe it. Or at least tell us the approach you took.

I would like to run some 10 mans on Sundays or ad hoc but I would like it to be 2 boxers with 5 toons each. Of course this can very to multiple of boxers like 2-2-2-2-2 or 3-3-2-2 or 4-4-2....

I just want to know whats possible so I can organize something.

Drommon

[genocyde]

Your tank will need to meet the minimum requirements to even dream of a raid. Fresh lvl 80 blue/green quest gear??? I doubt it.. It's hard to down some heroic bosses if your tank is in that gear.

Example, I just dinged 80 on my paladin and 4th mage, I walked into NORMAL ToC 5 man with him in all the +defense quest blues I could find with a naxx 10 geared healer and could not down the first boss due to lack of tank gear.

[Drommon]

This is good info. But what I am looking for is more of a how-to for a fresh 80s boxer. So we can't do 10 mans yet. Then what do we do? Do we -

In order -

All NR instances on normal to get some better gear
Then do them in heroic mode to get better gear
Do AV in between for gear

See where I am going?

I have no clue where to start or how to gear up. I mean I could just experiment and find out. But I am asking those in the know from their experience.

Drommon

[Fursphere]

Get your tank(s) defense capped, and you can pull of OS10 (zero drakes), once you get used to the movement.

You can probably do a couple of bosses in Naxx10 with crap gear, as long as you pull off the strategy correctly. I would say the first boss in the first three wings (not patchwerk), and perhaps a few more deeper in.

I would do Naxx10 in this order (skip to the next wing as soon as you hit a wall)

Anub'rekan is easy.
Ferlina is not bad, once you understand the gimmick.
...And the last boss in Spider wing.. Mexxa or whatever, she'll beat the crap outa you until you've got the gear.

Noth is easy.
Heigan can be solo'd, provided you can stay alive that long. learn2dance
Lotheb is easy, but still a gear check (can you survive long enough)

Razuvious is more of a "is the encounter going to glitch out or not" check.
Gothic is easy, just work together.COMMUNICATE! :D
Four Horsemen can be done by 2x boxers, but its a survival gear check.

Patchwerk is a hard gear check. (actually the entire construct wing sucks)
Grobbulus sucks ass, due to excessive movement.
Gluth is going to stop you dead until you out gear it, or learn2kite really really well
Thaddius isn't bad, but is a pure DPS gear check (if you can get here, you can kill him)

But there is still a lot of bosses YOU CAN do, provided you can survive the learning curve. Anyone who tells you different is just a gearscore troll.

[genocyde]

I would suggest you cap out your tank with cheap auction hall goodies or quest items and as soon as your tank hits that magic 535-540 defense mark (or if your a druid just stack the hell out of AGI / STAM cause they are naturally crit immune) run normal ToC5 until you have all the gear from it then start running heroic ToC5 and other heroics / easy 10 mans.

[Ualaa]

Quite a few of the WotLK heroics are easy enough to do, as a freshly dinged 80th.
Unlike Burning Crusade, Wrath heroics are for the most part easy mode.

This level content drops a lot of item level 200 gear.
As well as badges, for (currently item level 226), but the ToC level gear will be badge purchaseable next patch.

I'd run dailies every day, which should make you at least 1000g, more if you run all 25.
I run 15 dailies per toon, 75 per team, and make 1120-1150g in an hour.

That can go a long ways to tanking gear.
And gearing the tank is the single most important aspect of gearing a team.