Wondering If multiboxing is even worth it at this point.

[Mmrwowboxer]

With the group looting system, only one toon in my team of 5 gets the loot from downed mobs. This paired with the loot and gather quests is a nightmare.

It makes me wonder if there is even a benefit to Multiboxing, (gold farming wise). Besides being able to kill mobs faster, it seems like it would be simpler and easier to kill and loot one toon, leveling the solo way.

Please tell me I'm missing something, like maybe I will get more all around gold and loot with my toons ungrouped.

Why do you multibox in Vanilla? Is it just for fun? Does the faster kill rate make up for the clunkiness and time lost to looting on one char per mob at a time? Is this even a valid method of farming gold?

Sorry for all the questions, I was up all night leveling my party to lvl 9, and I'm really second guessing my plans at the moment.

[EaTCarbS]

Same reasons that us old folks started? Not needing to waste time finding group. Having the ability to get things done 100% of your playtime?

[MiRai]

Same reasons that us old folks started? Not needing to waste time finding group. Having the ability to get things done 100% of your playtime?
EaTCarbS knows what's up.

For real, though, I multibox for the reasons above, as well as the added challenge of gameplay and theorycrafting/design in ISBoxer, "the game," but, to be fair, this is also why I didn't want to jump into multiboxing Classic immediately. When TBC and/or Wrath roll around again, then it'll likely be a different story.

Personally, if multiboxing for gold is your thing, I think we're going to see only the most dedicated in that area stick around for the long run, because Classic is clunky and everything takes a lot of time to do—this isn't going to change much when TBC and Wrath are re-released either.

Is there a payout at the end, in Classic? Perhaps, but you're going to have to follow the path and finish the journey to find out. #SurvivalOfTheFittest

[Skullmonkey]

benefit to Multiboxing, (gold farming wise). You can clear dungeons and all the loot is yours and not shared with 4 other people. It's more fun to play multiple characters (imho). Most will run dungeons to level with a few quests here and there. If you want to quest, skip the looting type quests (eg: 10 Scorpid tails) and go for the Kill 10 Scorpids type quests, instead.

[nodoze]

5boxing is slower than running 1 single character but way faster than leveling 5 characters solo...

In general I skipped all the looting/gather quests and mainly did kill quests or FedEx type quests or grinded mobs (preferably ones that dropped cloth)... Right now the toon I am running in the foreground is my main aggro character that has first priority on gear and I filled that character's bag slots to give him as large an inventory as possible and for now I set loot on "Free for All". I also made that main lead my skinner as I am skinning way more than gathering or mining...

So far it has been working pretty well with the above approach as I really only loot on one character most of the time. I suspect once I start running dungeons and start receiving Bind on Pickup (BoP) gear I may need to change to Master Looter or something so I can make sure the right characters get the right BoP items...

In general I like the challenge of multiboxing and being able to gear my characters in at least pre-raid BiS at my own speed and preferences.

I do also hope that it ends up being very profitable to funnel gold into my main(s).

[Twl231]

Here's the reasons why I multibox:

1. It makes the game much more complex. Much more of a puzzle. How do I effectively heal? What spells do I group? How do I manage CC?

2. Leveling is slow, but gearing is not because you can run dungeons whenever you want and funnel gear to one character.

3. LFGs in Vanilla is soooo time consuming. Just wait. Your healer DC'd? Hearth to IF or Org and start spamming for a healer....wait 30 mins to get one and then find out they are awful. Don't have a lock in the party? Better get on a boat then fly then hoof it.

4. Every profession.....it's nice while leveling that I don't have to choose. I can make bags, wands, and gather leather, ore, and flowers.

5. If you are looking to be competitive in Raiding, having 5 toons geared is a leg up. I've gotten into guilds based on having every class available to raid. Husband/Wife healer team left? No problem, I've got a priest. Need another tank for Four Horseman? Have three Fury Warriors.

6. When you have a 5 man group you will not compete for spawns/quests when leveling through dungeons. That means limited travel time and no hassle of pvp. And you don't have to wait for group mates.

Yes, it is painfully slow at the beginning....but build a 5 man group and level through dungeons. I have a feeling it will speed up tremendously from there.

[Ellay]

This is classic in a nutshell. It was the spinoff of Everquest ideas which had worse and more punishing modules that were time consuming. Coming from EQ to WoW was a breath of fresh air and these nuances now were actually huge improvements from back then.

I hope you find it enjoyable though if you never experienced it. WoW classic is an entirely different game than what we have now. Myself I'm limited more than ever on time and Retail is sufficient.
If you have time on your hands Classic can swallow it all up and ask for more.

[Moorea]

I do hope folks who are mboxing for near RMT reasons (only farming for goal of getting gold for tokens or worse in bfa) stay out of classic tbh

[JohnGabriel]

I decided to only play Classic solo, and stick with Retail for my multiboxing. Besides being less polished, classic just feels like retail without herilooms.

But man the hype is real. Theres 25 new threads and probably 75 posts a day lately, 74 of those being about classic.

[Shockish]

I can tell you right now, I ran 5 mages and I'm 13 atm with them and it was so far a disaster. Absolute disaster.

Competition for loot and mobs combined with needing x5 more and so many looting quests vs killing.

I'm praying I can go into some dungeons and try to CC kill with them otherwise idk, might have to bring up a healer/tank.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

With the group looting system, only one toon in my team of 5 gets the loot from downed mobs. This paired with the loot and gather quests is a nightmare.

It makes me wonder if there is even a benefit to Multiboxing, (gold farming wise). Besides being able to kill mobs faster, it seems like it would be simpler and easier to kill and loot one toon, leveling the solo way.
Welcome to classic. Enjoy your stay!
Playing solo to farm gold is always an option. I must ask, though: why are you gold farming in Classic? Retail is SOOOOO much easier to farm gold in. I'm not sure anybody that's been paying attention is going to play classic to farm gold (except for the gold farmers spamming us last night). They/we all knew it was much harder than retail in terms of the lack of super-EZ-mode skills and macros and addons and weak mobs and infinite mana and not having to deal with standing still while casting and no hunter deadzone and etc. Yes. This is how things were intended to be by design. They already have plans to nerf things that add retail-like LFG tools and some other convenience addons.

The good news is your sub pays for both classic and retail, so you can do either one at any time. EZPZ!

[Generalbrock]

Like you, I tried 5 and it did not go well. Today I've been running a priest and paladin and it's going amazing. They're tough enough to take down anything, can heal someone in trouble from 0 to full in one cast and they make questing much faster. I might try three tomorrow and see how it goes, but dual boxing has been a lot of fun.

[flou]

I can tell you right now, I ran 5 mages and I'm 13 atm with them and it was so far a disaster. Absolute disaster.

Competition for loot and mobs combined with needing x5 more and so many looting quests vs killing.

I'm praying I can go into some dungeons and try to CC kill with them otherwise idk, might have to bring up a healer/tank.

get both a tank and a healer, or do not even try to level through dungeons!

[Kojiiko]

Welcome to classic. Enjoy your stay!
Playing solo to farm gold is always an option. I must ask, though: why are you gold farming in Classic? Retail is SOOOOO much easier to farm gold in. I'm not sure anybody that's been paying attention is going to play classic to farm gold (except for the gold farmers spamming us last night). They/we all knew it was much harder than retail in terms of the lack of super-EZ-mode skills and macros and addons and weak mobs and infinite mana and not having to deal with standing still while casting and no hunter deadzone and etc. Yes. This is how things were intended to be by design. They already have plans to nerf things that add retail-like LFG tools and some other convenience addons.

The good news is your sub pays for both classic and retail, so you can do either one at any time. EZPZ!

Needing gold is classic is a must, omg cant afford to pay for bags or train spells coz i have no god dam gold grrr such a apain

With 5 mages, u have not really any defence, no heals if they resist spells, (which Im seeing alot)

Get a tank and a healer, if u wanna do dungeons or a class with pets?

[Mmrwowboxer]

I was kinda expecting some tips and help, instead of the rubbing it in and the I told you so's. Thank you for all that answered my questions though.

I want to gold farm to be able to get my mount, my enchant, potions n flasks at max level and be done with worrying about it. As someone who discovered gold farming late in retail, being broke sucks. I also have 5 active WoW accounts open, so I might as well use them.

I figured with multiboxing I can level all the toons I need at endgame, and get gold at the same time. As I said in all my post's, I've never played vanilla. I didn't know that you get the same amount of loot as either a single character or 20 of them. With all the hype going on here I figured I wasn't alone in my plans.

It's pretty fun, apart from the loot problem like I mentioned before, but thats my fault for not knowing how to get around gather and low drop rate quests.

I'm boxing my main, a paladin, with 1 priest and 3 mages. Things die very fast, it's fun, but I'm having trouble finding a use for my priest. I just spam spite on him, but I know at higher levels and in dungeons I'm going to have to learn to use him to heal. Now I do all my healing on my paladin, which is supposed to be the tank.

I use HotkeyNet, because paying for Isboxer is not an option. I need to figure out if I can use some kind of mouse over macro healing for my priest when I'm driving from my paladin. Whether or not that's possible in Hotkeynet, I don't know.

[Syclone]

Tonight I was able to reach lvl 19 with my 5 man. It consists of 1 prot warrior, 3 fury warriors, and a resto shaman. I had a rather difficult WC run, but eventually did it. I am now debating on dropping multi boxing entirely. I do not think multiboxing fits as well for classic. One of the main reasons for coming back to classic is for social interaction that retail lacks. Multi-boxing (especially 5 man) puts you right back in position of playing a MMO but solo. I have also found it stressful/draining to constantly do dungeons where I need to be at 200% focus due to controlling all 5 characters.

The class I want as my main, shaman, has been reduced into a simple follow heal bot. I have been playing a lot and lvl 19 is all I can accomplish yet friends are 30+. I am starting to think that I have made a huge mistake thinking that multiboxing would be fun, worth it, and challenging. It certainly has been challenging. It hasn't really been fun at all, moreso stressful, and thus I am questioning if its worth it. I am concerned that I am cheapening my classic experience by multi-boxing.

Anyways, I will sleep on it tonight, but I really don't like the feeling I get that classic doesn't feel like classic due to boxing.

[Andreauk]

Needing gold is classic is a must, omg cant afford to pay for bags or train spells coz i have no god dam gold grrr such a apain

With 5 mages, u have not really any defence, no heals if they resist spells, (which Im seeing alot)

Get a tank and a healer, if u wanna do dungeons or a class with pets?

I think a 5 Lock team for free mount is a good farm team just to make gold.. I am doing this to make stuff/send money for my solo character.

[WOWBOX40]

If f.ex 1 wow token costs 200k gold in retail, will it also be possible to buy 1 wow token via "gold earned in classic", lets say f.ex 2000g ?

[Moorea]

If f.ex 1 wow token costs 200k gold in retail, will it also be possible to buy 1 wow token via "gold earned in classic", lets say f.ex 2000g ?
no.