Thinking about multiboxing five accounts

[valle2000]

I’m currently multiboxing WoW with two accounts and it is working lovely thanks to Hotkeynet. Now I’m however also a bit curious to test playing with a full group, five characters. I guess there are multiboxers here who have five accounts so I would be very interested in hearing your opinions and advice. :)

I’m thinking about making my main a paladin and combine him with casters. Will it be enough to use the paladin as main healer as well; will he be able to hold agro, heal himself and if necessary now and then heal other party members? Or will I in dungeons need a separate healer as well?
I was thinking combining him with four mages, but an alternative could be two mages and two priests. What do you think?

I guess the best solution is to always let your main act as a tank or?

[Ualaa]

First off, if you're adding three accounts, go with RAF.
Probably (calling existing accounts A & B), something like:
A -- C -- D
B -- E
And then boost with the Pally on A.
Running a bunch of A-B-C-D-E sets.
Get a lot of combos, to play with.



The most common set up, is Tank + Healer + 3x DPS.
But you can also go with 3x DPS as the healers.

I'm running:
A) Prot Paladin, 3x Elem. Shaman, 1x Demo Warlock.
B) 5x Feral Druids (could easily respec/dual-spec two for Bear/Tree, in PvE)
C) Disc Priest, Arcane Mage, Dual Feral/Boomkin Druid, Elem.Shaman, Elem. Shaman.
D) 4x Affliction Warlock, 1x Disc Priest.

I also have: 5x Hunters, 5x DK's, 5x Priests...

A very popular combination now is:
1x Frost/Blood DK + 4x Ret. Paladin.



Lots of combos to try.

Boxed... Resto Druids / Disc Priests / Holy Priests, are all quite strong, with Resto Shammies as a strong enough option, and the primary choice if your team is missing Bloodlust/Heroism.

Also... Prot Pallies are the premier tank, but Ferals work well. You can make a DK or Warrior work too, and the DK can add 13% spell power to a caster team, but they're generally inferior tanks when boxed on a team.

With the CTM (Click to Move) and IWT (Interact With Target), melee teams are a strong option. You have to deal with Cleave/Boss AoE, but DPS is not an issue.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

will he be able to hold agro, heal himself and if necessary now and then heal other party members? [/SIZE]
Yes, for questing. When you hit the Outlands/Northrend dungeon bosses, you'll need your tank to be healed by your caster(s).

[valle2000]

The thought of using a group of hunters sounds very interesting since hunter/ranger always have been my favorite classes in all types of rpg games. If a group is made of one healer (druid or priest) and four hunters with BM using bears, will a group like that be able to tank bosses using all four pets as tanks even in high level dungeons?

[lacitpo]

I've seen people do all kinds of crazy feats of strength using different classes. They downed old onyxia with nothing but priests once.

Play what you want to play. I would recommend the holy trinity though (1xTank, 1xHealer, 3xDPS ). You won't be able to use random dungeon finder unless you have a class that can queue as a tank and one that can queue as a healer.

[Boylston]

Pally+4xShamans is popular for a reason.

It's a good PvE team that can be played as Tank+Healer+3xDPS or as Tank+4xDPS if you're comfortable with healing streams and the occasional odd 4xLHW topping off the tank. It's also a good PvP team with the 4xShaman part. Works well in arenas and works well in BGs.

I personally wouldn't recommend a melee team as someone's first 4-5x multiboxing experience.

[OzPhoenix]

Will it be enough to use the paladin as main healer as well; will he be able to hold agro, heal himself and if necessary now and then heal other party members?

Ok - there's a couple of really good reasons why this will fail badly.

When in spellcasting state, that is, casting any non-instant spell, as I understand the mechanics you've lost dodge and parry (and I think block to). That alone would mean your tank is going to get beat to hell while he's trying to heal your other players.

So, nope, need a healer. You can distribute the healer (4 ele shamans or 4 ret pallies etc), but the tank needs to tank and nothing else I reckon.

[Seldum]

You can play whatever classes and races you like. It depends on what you want.

Even 5 huntards will go well for you, or 5 priests. But you won't be able to pvp "well" with 5 huntards, and doing heroics is also a no no (as far as I know).

Personally, I would choose something along the lines of the holy trinity like mentioned prior. If possible use clases which will fare good in both PvE and PvP, this way you wont have to start over if you decide to do one thing or the other.