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Has anyone any good experiences dual boxing in PvE instances?
I'm looking at a 2 char setup, and I was wondering how that went down in groups when they figure out it's just one person.
What class's have you been able to do this with - anything successful apart from two dps?
I would imagine that you could main heal and ranged dps as a duo in an instance. If they are 'pugs' will help to have a competent puller/tank so that your life will be easier. Nothing worse than a misspull and your goin nuts on heals.
I 2-boxed my mage and feral druid all the time in instances. I MT with the druid and CC/dps with the mage. Focus macros make the CC part easy, and spamming frostbolt doesn't take much attention so I can focus on tanking.
I've successfully done nearly every non-heroic 5-man and I've successfully tried heroic Mana Tombs, Sethekk Halls, and Mechanar. I've also done full Karazhan clears 2-boxing (tanking both red and blue beams on Netherspite was a challenge, especially with the void zones.) We had a warrior MT Prince so I could go kitty, and I ended up #2 and #3 dps on him :).
I two boxed my priest/mage quite a bit just set the mage focus to the tank and all my dps macros worked just fine. and I was able to heal and dps with out any issues. was quite fun and the group's I worked with never even knew it was 1 player they kept asking if so and so was afk(since it followed me) im like nope thats me playing.
I've 3-boxed prot paladin, warlock, and restro druid with two others in instances. Only up to ZF though. I think I've ran with any combination of two of them as well. Other than some confusion didn't really run into any problems, although there was a mage that insisted on using sheep when I had no problem tanking and aoeing whole pulls.
I almost totally voicecmdr my ToL druid, its so easy to blurt out the heals its not a problem. one to five for one spell, uno, dos, tres, cuatro, and cinco for another spell. Null, eins, zwei, drei, vier for another. All pretargeting a party member.
Looting I find annoying, but oh well.
I usually downrank lifetaps and canibalize to give myself time to loot with the other character.
I have cleared shattered halls and steamvault with me playing a pally tank, healing priest and two warlocks and someone else taking the last dps slot. I am a bit lazy about doing instances by myself, usually I end up going someone for someone's specific need or add chars to a group if we are missing someone.
I leveled a war/priest from 1-40 before deciding to go up to a 5 box/1 PC setup.
It is not difficult to play a healer/tank, in fact I could heal the entire group and pull with the priest while tanking with the war. Controlling the environment is the best part of that duo.
Before the Xpac, I was the MT in Scholo with my warrior and the only healer in the group with my priest. The great thing about it was that there was no "heal lag" - it usually takes a second to see the damage that a tank just took - but seeing it from the tank's point of view I always knew what badness was about to happen. With the priest's group heal spells this is actually not too bad.
The issue is on multi-tank pulls. Warriors are so bad with AoE threat, and they take so much micro, that I wouldn't really recommend it in more "modern" instances.