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[sendan]

Hey. I am new to Multiboxing. Tried it for 2 days and am still on 1 main account, 4 trial accounts while I figure stuff out.

I want to 5box. Mainly Random BG's as thats all I really do anyway due to work and stuff not allowing me to go serious into any other part of the game.

I tried 5 boxing shamans but am thinking about trying 5 druids. Can anybody tell me how effect 5 druids are mainly in pvp and if they work well as a multi boxer.

Reason for my decision to leave shaman is I will want to do heroics as well in MoP, easier to level to 60 in raid finder (IMO).

I am a bit lazy and don't fancy having the issues of playing multiple classes as well as I have a gaming version of OCD and will want them to all look the exact same :D

Thank you in advance.


TLDR: Are druids effective as a 5-boxer.

[smalltanker]

Sendan, welcome and Ualaa will come along soon and talk about his druids. I have a team of druids at around level 10-11 that I started this weekend. I haven't PVPed with them yet as I am waiting for some abilities to unlock (travel form, etc...). I am currently running them as balance and I know Ualaa runs his five x 85 druids as feral/OS resto for BGs. For me they play alot like shaman with out totems. A simple cast sequence and the ability to queue up for dungeons is nice (I have a group of 5 paladins at 44 that also PVE). I am hoping Ualaa will come along and share his set up. As my melee was not super sucessful.

I have bumped into five boxed druids at level 85 and they are brutal at that level. So yes very viable team as melee, casters or healers. Additionally, they have the capability to use stealth to achieve BG objectives that others can't.

[smalltanker]

Little follow up... today respec'd one of my 5 baby boomers to resto and banged out RFC at level 13-14, too easy with one heal and four boomers. I will be hitting AB tomorrow after getting my first bag or two of RDF (Random Dungeon Finder) loot then it is Curb Stomping Alliance Time in AB. Cap the node alliance scum I dare you... meet Mr. Moonfire + wrath spam to the face... Win!!!

[JohnGabriel]

I boxed a druid team up to about level 50.

The druid tank was very easy for me to box. I didnt get very much dps out of the balance druids, the tank always out dps'd them, but otherwise everything was smooth.

[kate]

I think tanks will pretty much out DPS most DPS specs until sometime into level 70-80, at least that's been my experience single and multi-boxing. On my lowbie solo-tank that I'm playing with a friend I am hands down at least 50% of the overall damage in a team and usually first in actual DPS by a very wide margin.

The only problem I would see with 5x Druids would be a lack of buff diversity. Druids don't really stack well compared to shaman in that regard. But, assuming you can put together a decent rotation for the DPS, a 5 Druid team would be extremely viable. And you could stealth which is nice.

[fpsware]

I just finished leveling 4 x Druids (all balance), hitting 85 a few days ago, though my focus has been on instancing and I have not yet taken them into BGs. I also have a 4 x Shaman team (85 weeks ago).

I'll share what I can with a focus on PVP. My personal preference between these 2 teams is for the Druids. The downside to 4x Druids as I've experienced, having to heal means you loose your shape shifted form and thereby a huge armor bonus, not to mention a precious GCD. As has been previously mentioned buff diversity is a bit lacking. But the upside to this team is multiple HoTs, stealth, travel form.

Going forward into MoP my preferred team will either by Druids or Hunters.

[kate]

Hm, is there a caster-form Druid spec that is remotely viable as a middle spec between healing and DPS?

[smalltanker]

There will be in MOP... with a glyph Boomkin can cast 2-3 heals with out dropping boomkin form. So they will still have armor + crit bonus and can do rejuv + healing touch or what ever in critchickin form. So in 6 weeks everything is better. I currently run 1 resto dedicated healer and four boomers. But at my level there is no boomkin form. I like being able to stealth and open up with 5 x moonfire to drop form before going into a 4 x wrath spam.

[kate]

Interesting, thanks.

I am going to play around with some macros - should be able to come up with something where for my damage spells it only fires if I'm in chicken form but if I'm not converts me. Will mean a lag after a heal before I can get the DPS going again but I don't mind.

[Khatovar]

AFAIK forms trigger stance bars. You should just be able to drop Moonkin Form on the non-stance bar in the appropriate slot. So, if you get dropped out of form to heal, you can hit the same key you use to DPS and it'll put you back in moonkin, which will change the stance bar and you'll be right back to DPSing.

[ebony]

a member in the guild has manged to get boomkins to work at level cap and get good dps numbers out ill get him to post somewhere with his setup

[kate]

Well, the solution I just set up is pretty straight-forward:

All my DPS keys are on non-stance bars already due to my set-up.

On the Boomkin I just set up all my DPS abilities/macros like this:



#showtooltip
/castsequence [nostance:5] Moonkin Form(Shapeshift); Moonfire, Wrath, Wrath, (whatever else)


I use VuhDo + repeater region healing, so when I click on healing it'll stopcasting and automatically drop me from Moonkin form when I throw out a rejuve or whatever. When I spam my DPS keys again, because of that macro above it will automatically throw me back into Moonkin form and then start throwing spells.

Also, I use Macaroon for extending my macros, so the extra size overhead with the shifting info won't cause me any trouble with macro length.

Ebony, I would absolutely love to see your guildie's set-up - I haven't been able to find a critchicken build and rotation that works for me with boxing.

[smalltanker]

@kate: I like that one. I need to and am stealing it. My version is like this:

/castsequence reset=target Moonfire, insect swarm, Wrath, Wrath, Wrath, Wrath, Wrath
/cast starsurge

Basically I get both dots up on my target and then spam Wrath until they drop off so it will reset back to dots. I cast starsurge on CD and if I am PVPing the target change lets me do both dots on the move.