Howdy, y'all!

Figured I would say "Hi!" and express a great appreciation for the community in general here (in spite of being a rather small one). Some very helpful and creative folks here. /salute

I've been doing 4-boxing for a few years now (with a buddy in RL filling in slot 5). Mostly, I do 4 of the same class as managing multiple strings of hotkeys is tedious to setup and can be annoying to work around vagaries in keyboard layout preferences.

My basic setup is ghetto PCs (laptop, P4-1.8, P4-2.2 and P4-3.2) using wireless keyboard for the mass keypress events and Duplicity for mouse control of individual boxes for looting, etc. Inexpensive and works like a charm.

Currently doing 4 shadow priests (DPS=heals=WIN!) at almost 69 and liking things. Only real issue is not being able to solo instances just due to being too squishy to deal with bosses and elite zergs. Just did roll out of nagrand at 68.6, so I'll have plenty of leftover questing for the shadoweave/spellstrike materials costs. ;)

Some movies of the priests in action: http://hosted.filefront.com/Ughmahedhurtz/2037428

There are some vids of my 4-man 70 midget mages on there as well. Rather interesting to be able to speed-farm strat/scholo with those guys.

Also giving some serious thought to getting my 5th PC and doing a shaman group on Magtheridon when my friends aren't on. Seeing the movies of 5-boxing heroics has me doing some serious thinking. :P

My only regret is having done 4-box in DAoC before I had the capability to broadcast keystrokes (back when Team Wizzy was still playing his first team). Oh, the things I could have done... /wistfulsigh

Anyway, much love to the mods and guys contributing info and ideas here.

Cheers and happy boxing!
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Very nice. I'm just doing two shadowpriests with a limited budget and I hope to get to 70 soon, at this stage I do instances (for boosts and farming basically) as I do grinding - two dots on everything with a reasonable amount of health (at the moment around 2k equals dead from a pair of SW:P), shield, psychic scream until they die.

How many bosses and pulls are of fear immunes out there in the outlands? I've heard of warlocks soloing most of Hellfire Ramparts so it should not be that bad.

Not really sure how many fear-immune mobs are out here. The tougher bosses are immune, as is fairly common, but to be honest, I don't normally even try to fear single pulls. 4 VE+SW:P+VT+DP+MB+Flay usually means I don't have to bother with fearing. Now, multiple elite pulls of normal mobs my level aren't bad as they can usually be feared unless undead. I do have trouble with pack pulls as I have zilch for AoE. :evil: