Darn you guys...

...you've ALMOST turned me into a 5-boxer, what with all the stories and strategies and stuff you post. I'm currently a tri-boxer. Bought 3 vanilla CD keys last night (damnit at missing the $5 black friday special direct from blizz). Haven't used them yet, although I only need 5 accounts I had to get one extra so I can have RAF going on all the toons to be boosted.

The plan, as it stands, would net me two initial 5-man teams:
A) 1 existing 61 prot warrior, plus four new elemental shammies
B) 1 new feral druid, 1 existing 60 resto druid, 1 existing 60 mage and 2 new mages
C) then eventually when I get all accounts upgraded, a 5-man DK team just for s***s and giggles


The plan sounds good, it spreads the cost over time.

Initial cost was just 3x vanilla wow. Plan to get two sets of four toons boosted to 60 within the 40 free days. Then 2x TBC and 1x transfer from account6, presto first 5-man is ready to hit outland. Then 1 more transfer from account6, 2nd 5-man is ready to hit outland. By the time both of those groups are 70, WotLK will hopefully be much cheaper, upgrade 2 accounts and have two 5-mans ready to hit northrend.

Plus I've still gotta finish leveling my tri-box team (as per my sig...should ding 76 tonight)


Think the warrior + 4 shammy, 2x druid 3x mage groups will work out well? It's just a matter of using some unused toons I have already, plus not ending up with too many holy priests, for example. I can see one of each healer type but not multiples of each healer type...

If there are any vanilla wow's not purchased, the battlechest with vanilla + burning crusade is a better buy.

Welcome to 5-boxing )

I found (through a somewhat brief search) the best price for me in Cdn$ was from offgamers.com. Buying the battlechest from them woulda saved me $0.09 per TBC upgrade...so to spread the costs over time I just bought 3 vanilla wow's now and will buy 2 TBC's when I need them.