Sovereign
08-08-2007, 02:52 AM
Don't know why but I felt compelled to add a little bit of my history here, so skip down if you're not interested in reading it:
I've been dual-boxing for a little while in WoW. In fact I didn't even know how much of a community there was around it. It never occurred to me to streamline my setup and up the ante. I'd just roll around with my wife's priest and tap heals once in awhile when I needed it. I ended up 'solo'ing' (read: 1 man/2 accounts) all of the 3 man or lower quests throughout outlands.
Recently a guildie posted a link to a post on the WoW forums where someone was whining about getting ganked by a 5 man team in AB. It was hilarious. Of course they all mentioned Xzin in response and a few weeks after reading all that I stumbled here. I immediately rearranged my setup, just by moving my laptop beside my wife's monitor I doubled my playing ability with the two characters. I went from tapping heals, to levelling up two paladins side by side fully melee dps'ing with both.
The more I did that and the more I read here the more I've been tweaking my setup and honing my skills. Needless to say, I'm hooked at this point and can't think of a better way to spend a little bit, compared to -some- hobbies, of cash.
I've already got most of the setup I need. I've got two laptops capable of running WoW, my wife's beast of a machine and another sitting in parts waiting for a case to come back from newegg so I can put it all back together. The final piece of the hardware puzzle will be another WoW capable box and a bigger router.
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Anyway, to the point of my thread. I'm working at planning my 5 man group. I have some thoughts on it but I'm not sure how playable it is and I was hoping maybe some of you had some experience and can give a little advice.
My plan is to do 3 Mage, 1 Warrior, 1 Holy Priest/Paladin
My questions about this are on controllability. Does having the warrior make it too difficult to manage or has anyone done this successfully? Apologies if I failed to see someone with that kind of setup.
For that group I planned to keep the warrior box separate, as a main screen and work mostly on threat generation while I use a separate keyboard to throw in the mage damage and priest heal hotkeys.
Note: Thanks to the author of keyclone, very easy to use and very reliable so far, saves a lot of cash on hardware.
I've been dual-boxing for a little while in WoW. In fact I didn't even know how much of a community there was around it. It never occurred to me to streamline my setup and up the ante. I'd just roll around with my wife's priest and tap heals once in awhile when I needed it. I ended up 'solo'ing' (read: 1 man/2 accounts) all of the 3 man or lower quests throughout outlands.
Recently a guildie posted a link to a post on the WoW forums where someone was whining about getting ganked by a 5 man team in AB. It was hilarious. Of course they all mentioned Xzin in response and a few weeks after reading all that I stumbled here. I immediately rearranged my setup, just by moving my laptop beside my wife's monitor I doubled my playing ability with the two characters. I went from tapping heals, to levelling up two paladins side by side fully melee dps'ing with both.
The more I did that and the more I read here the more I've been tweaking my setup and honing my skills. Needless to say, I'm hooked at this point and can't think of a better way to spend a little bit, compared to -some- hobbies, of cash.
I've already got most of the setup I need. I've got two laptops capable of running WoW, my wife's beast of a machine and another sitting in parts waiting for a case to come back from newegg so I can put it all back together. The final piece of the hardware puzzle will be another WoW capable box and a bigger router.
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Anyway, to the point of my thread. I'm working at planning my 5 man group. I have some thoughts on it but I'm not sure how playable it is and I was hoping maybe some of you had some experience and can give a little advice.
My plan is to do 3 Mage, 1 Warrior, 1 Holy Priest/Paladin
My questions about this are on controllability. Does having the warrior make it too difficult to manage or has anyone done this successfully? Apologies if I failed to see someone with that kind of setup.
For that group I planned to keep the warrior box separate, as a main screen and work mostly on threat generation while I use a separate keyboard to throw in the mage damage and priest heal hotkeys.
Note: Thanks to the author of keyclone, very easy to use and very reliable so far, saves a lot of cash on hardware.