Guild as multiboxer

[Kalyse]

Do all 5 man multiboxers run their own guild so they get access to banks?

If you are a multi boxer, does this mean that most guilds won't "touch" you, because I would still like to be able to do raids with my main team.

[Kalyse]

I'm going to have at least 6 teams.

[Noids]

I am just in the same guild that I was as a single boxer. I have been in this guild since we started doing MC so everyone knows who I am and doesn't really care if I am playing 1 or 5 toons. Saying that, it is not really a very active guild any more.

I would say on averag, most boxers run their own guild as Gbank access is very handy, but there are quite a few who are still active in larger guilds.

I wouldn't say that other guilds wouldn't touch you as a boxer, but if you are applying, I would expect at least some bias due to that fact. If they are a decent guild, they will be trying to find out what sort of player/person you are rather than focussing too much on your toons though and if they flat out refuse because you are a boxer, it is obviously not the sort of guild you want to be a part of anyway.

As to raiding as a boxer, it depends a little on the people you are raiding with. If they have had good experience with boxers before or are fairly open minded, then they should be fine with you as long as you have your shit together for raids. Same rules (if not stricter) apply to boxers raiding. Make sure your gear is chanted and gemmed to the max, you have an effective spec and come to raids fully flasked and potted up. If you are trying out and learning to raid as a boxer, I wouldn't be surprised if a hard core progressive guild wasn't so interested, because your learning curve will in turn slow down overall raid progression. At this end of an Xpac though, most encounters are pretty sorted so if you are well versed on strats and find a group that is willing to learn with you, then joining a good guild will make the game inifinitely more satisfying in the long run.

Cheers

[Kalyse]

Thanks Noids. Useful post!
i definately don't have my raid strats good. I haven't played since Kara, although I knew it perfectly, the new expansions I haven't touched.
I don't actually know what kind of an impression people will have of me when multiboxing.

I'd like to be able to raid.. only really with my main account though.. (I can't decide which will be my main account though either). How do you decide?
I figure I will have 1 x main, 1x PVP... and then 5 x chaff that I use for dailies and professions?

[ZooljinX]

How you decide who your main is? the one you like the most to play solo with ? :P

For me i have my 3 teams in a alt guild and a "main" in a guild with friends, works good for me atleast..
and a alt guild bank is REALLY nice if you plan on doing any sort of farming or profession lvling..

[Kalyse]

Well my PVP team is going to be 4 Shammy and 1 Pally...

I think thats the best PVP team?..

Then for my main team I will have to see.. what do you guys think? Maybe 5 Druids? The main team I think will be the team that I do everything on for gold farming. I think that makes most sense. Since they will need to be the most pimped to run through heroics on farm quickly.

[Harrypott]

I have my main toons in a raiding guild, and multibox teams in a guild i made for gbank. gbank is so handy when leveling. Will probably create one or two more as I level other teams up.

A lot of people respect the fact you can multi box, it means generally your very aware of your environment, watching lots of things at once etc.

If you want to get in a good guild you will have to get experience, achievements for doing raids via pugs etc generally and show a really good knowledge of your class.

On the other side of things, you don't need to tell them either.

If your planning on leveling your 5+ teams to 60 and also level a toon to 80 after\during that and gear it up and pug raids to get experience and then join a guild.. you may find Cat is out by then. :) Well maybe not that bad, but it all takes time. Boosting to 60 doesn't take huge amounts of time. beyond that it takes a bit.

[Zub]

How you decide who your main is? the one you like the most to play solo with ? :P
you need to try more mixed teams :p

[Kalyse]

I Boosting to 60 doesn't take huge amounts of time. beyond that it takes a bit.

I was expecting 4 days of played time. MAX. I figure that I can do 60-80 in 2 weeks, would you say this is unreasonable?
I'd try and do it over a single weekend in BG though when it is AV.

I hope they don't nerf the XP for AV BG weekends though. Am I being unrealistic.


90 Days of RAF.
6 teams = 15 days per team. That's GOT to be enough to do my teams right?
Then I was thinking of ONLY doing 60+ once I have got all my teams sorted. I don't want to be leveling higher than 60 until I have all my 60s done.

[Coltimar]

We have 5 boxers in our guild but I think almost everyone has either a side guild for a gbank or just a toon with a ton of bank space.

[Grondir]

I have my own guild for alts but I have quite a few toons in the guild I have been in for the last 4 years. When Cata arrives, most of my toons will be joining my 'main' guild to aid guild levelling, with just a few toons I don't really play in alt bank guilds.

I don't really raid much, not seen anything since Naxx really, but that's due to play time restrictions. But come Cata I will be stepping up the raiding quite a bit. I will raid solo until I know the encounters then slowly add more toons as and when required.

My 'main' guild is pretty relaxed about me boxing, they all know me and think i'm a bit mad but there was much exctiement when I brought my pally & 4 shammy's to kill one of the outdoor dragon raid bosses.

All in all, if you find a nice guild that you get on well with, and you're a reasonable player who causes no problems then multiboxing will be accepted, if not then the guild isn't for you!

[F9thRet]

I run on two different servers right now, as a multiboxer, and here is my break down.

2 guild banks with at least one toon on each account with access.

on Gul'dan, Team one in El Diablo Team Two in Knights of the Griffon.

On Sen'Jin , I have one toon, with my team being leveled. Once there, The team will join the Guild.

I started off, not only for the challenge, But for when Raiders where few and far between, I was able fill in up to 6 spots if needed.

Stephen

[Harrypott]

I've spent 9 days /played on my first team I think, and they are sitting at around 77-78. A fair bit of that was idle or learning boxing, messing with various things getting things setup right. I would expect other teams to be a lot faster.

Few things that make it go faster.. or would have
-having 80's on the accounts already so you could...
-BOA's for the + 20 % exp
-Cold weather flying by the BOA
-Boosting (after level 60 if you want to do boosting you may need a 80 tank? instead of a mage) maybe get a bit further than that with the mage?

I decided to get my first team to 80, get some cloth BOA's for the exp so I can use them on the other teams and then boost (with the new 80 pally tank). I have abount a month left on RAF and would like to boost a few teams to 60. If I'm not over it by then I may do more teams. From there my plan is to boost the teams slowly up with rested exp. Level alchemy on a team when they hit 68 (required for the transmutes) and probably JC and start doing the dailys on them since I expect to be able to get them the BOA cold weather flying by then.

BG's are brilliant for leveling... if your winning... if your new to boxing you may find.... combined with not having BOA's etc? I'm not sure. I haven't tried to do many BG's as yet. I gather that a lot of people are getting used to boxers going into BG's so are slowly getting used to it and making it hard for them. I've heard a few people bragging how they owned some newbie boxers trying to BG.

4 days of /played as your expecting to be your max time per team is probably most people's best sorta time frame or what they do after being really experienced.

I don't mean to be all doom and gloom, it's all doable. :) and it just gets easier as you spend more time at it. I'm not sure how much boxing you have done so far.

[moosejaw]

And most important, don't forget to load up the Guild2Guild addon. As long as one of you toons is logged into each guild's chat you won't miss anything, regardless of which toon you have in the 'lead' at the time.

[tripleboxed]

i run my own guild and we rock

[kate]

Each of my toons has all bank slots with Frostweave bags - so far it is puhlenty of space without needing to make my own GBANK. If I need that, I'll make an alt-guild or 3 and have slots there with my next team. Really, though, I'm not much of a packrat - I sell everything as soon as I get it :)

[tripleboxed]

Each of my toons has all bank slots with Frostweave bags - so far it is puhlenty of space without needing to make my own GBANK. If I need that, I'll make an alt-guild or 3 and have slots there with my next team. Really, though, I'm not much of a packrat - I sell everything as soon as I get it :) may i ask what is your team setup?

[kate]

may i ask what is your team setup?

Pretty bog standard protection paladin + 3 elemental shaman + 1 resto shaman.

Paladin has mining and skinning (money, but also extra stamina & crit which can't hurt a tank), all shammies are tailors, with the resto being an enchanter also, to make more cash.

[tripleboxed]

Pretty bog standard protection paladin + 3 elemental shaman + 1 resto shaman.

Paladin has mining and skinning (money, but also extra stamina & crit which can't hurt a tank), all shammies are tailors, with the resto being an enchanter also, to make more cash. nicely done their with using your advantages with professions I will have to do this thanks in advance.