After 5 hours.....experience so far

I finally got it all setup, got Keyclone, bought 4 more WOW and TBC accounts and game cards and created characters.

4 hours invested in buying it all.
5 hours play time invested.
4 Shamen that are now level 6

...Priceless? Not yet



But I am still keen to give it another couple days. . .

Feeling so far:

1. There is a learning curve to control and setup.
2. PC needs more RAM, but video card and CPU is more than enough
3. Leveling is bloodly slow on collection quests and in general in noob area
4. need to find a better way of looting than to constantly switch windows and control other characters especially for collection quests
5. Formation macro is useful and required to ensure all chars are with you and you did not leave someone behind :oops:
6. Already in noob area up to level 6, I have been accused of macroing, botting, been laughed at, challenged to duels, and more so. I love that part of it. :twisted:

OK now to start another day leveling and seeing if it gets faster and easier.

Thanks everyone for the support, help on macros and patience. I am sure I will have more questions once I get a few good spells and totems.

Nvm ur specs werent hard to find :

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I have a Duo Core E6750 (running at 2.9GHZ) Water Cooled PC.

It has a Water Coold CPU, GPU, etc.

The Grafik card is 8800GTX and I have 2 gb mem on Vista 64.

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According to the guides you would be right about the ram, lucky, cause its cheap now :D

1-20 is crap. Best multibox starting area is by far Blood Elf.

You will learn to skip collection quests later, for now its fair essential.

Have a 7- pwr you threw instances. Start at like lvl 15

1-30 is pretty crap, run out of quests on the alliance constantly running all over the place doing every single quest possibile.

http://www.wow-pro.com/ has a great resource for powerlevelling either by grinding mobs or quests or a mix. both alliance and horde sides, i used them to level a while ago, there great guides if u follow them from an early stage.

It'll take a little while to get your macro's settled the first time around and the first 20 levels can be a little slow. Regarding looting, set looting to free for all and turn on the Auto Loot option in the menu selection so you can quickly loot with your leader only and then distribute to your other characters when your leader bags are full.

As a guess, I would say levelling 20-30% slower and slower still if you build all professions at the same time. Just do gathering professions and don't do the others until much later when you have the gold to power level them all.

I had a good bit of a learning curve when I first started, both because Ive never multiboxed like this before and I have never leveled a shaman for myself (played a 70 a few times on PTR but meh) and it was painful to start, lots of wipes and deaths due to stupid mistakes or something I didnt think about. But after hitting 20 it has been SICK. Just tearing through instances like they were nothing and gear (and shards lol) coming out my eyeballs. Even though it may go slower I personally think it is easier to instance grind to level. The reason being is the gear is much better than quest gear making your characters stronger and thus the content becomes easier but you still get good exp for it. In fact Ive been outleveling instances before I can even get all the gear I want from it lol, thankfuly that will change as time goes on (especially in the outlands)


side note.. whoever designed the call of water quest line for shamans deserves to be bludgeoned to death by brady game guides...

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Originally Posted by marvein

side note.. whoever designed the call of water quest line for shamans deserves to be bludgeoned to death by brady game guides...

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I second that >.<

Personally I leveled my 5 toons by hand up to 15, and im pretty sure it saved me time. Once I hit 15 I raped rfc a few times and was soon 17 and went to WC for a few levels. With my pala tank and 4 shammys (1 of them is resto) Ive pretty much been able to clear each instance at its reccomended start level.

call of water totem quest is not nearly as stupid as druid water form questline, now that is moronic. at least you get ghost wolf at 20 makeing things easyer.

Call of Water may be ridiculous, but Call of Air is trivially easy to make up for it.

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Originally Posted by simpletom

call of water totem quest is not nearly as stupid as druid water form questline, now that is moronic. at least you get ghost wolf at 20 makeing things easyer.

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the aquatic form was indeed stupid but it was not utterly painful. atleast the aquatic quest was easy and quick. the call of water quest was very much the opposite...

ratchet.. to brine, to brine, to TM, to brine, to ashenvale, to brine, to sepulchur, to brine, to ratchet.


not to mention my entire 5pack getting flamestriked by an gnome ganking iun TM lol.

However, it was worth it, you would not beleive how OP 5 healing stream totems are, it trivialized almost every encounter I was working on. (WC/SFK) it got to the point where I would just pull groups of 4-6 elites and just melee them down, almost never having to heal lol. Rather than having to pull as few as possible.

Currently working on BFD now. likely wont stay here very long before I move to RFK

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Originally Posted by Clone

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Originally Posted by marvein

side note.. whoever designed the call of water quest line for shamans deserves to be bludgeoned to death by brady game guides...

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I second that >.<

Personally I leveled my 5 toons by hand up to 15, and im pretty sure it saved me time. Once I hit 15 I raped rfc a few times and was soon 17 and went to WC for a few levels. With my pala tank and 4 shammys (1 of them is resto) Ive pretty much been able to clear each instance at its reccomended start level.

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Hi Clone,


Did you have trouble holding aggro with your pally tank at lv 15 in rfc with 4 shammy nuking stuff down? I have the same setup as you 1 pally / 4 shammy and all chars are now lv 11. Just a few more till I can hit RFC. :twisted:

You think the horde Water quest is bad try Draenei's...you have to run to the most remote corner of the draenei island(and I literally mean run, it's nowhere effing near the fp, and UNDER EFFING WATER SURROUNDED BY MURLOCS to boot, before you get waterbreathing) then go to a slightly higher lvl area in ashenvale, both of which are in different zoneservers altogether so you get to ride an effing boat a few times and ugh god I Hated it with a capital H lol

Anyways back to the topic...yeah, lvling sucks early on cuz the new exp patch only applies from lv20 quests onwards, and most classes don't bloom in their power till 20ish; after that though you'll be plowing through stuff left and right :p Hang in there if ya can, the start's always slow.

And yeah, collection quests suck; only do the ones with decent drop rates, avoid the low-rate ones(Headless Southshore Murlocs anyone? or the Hoofless Zhevras in barrens); there'll never be a way to loot easier beyond setting to FFA and letting the main loot and trade extra loot away to alts later, too close to botting otherwise

I felt exactly the same way till I hit lvl 14 and got earth shock 3 and was one shotting everything with out stopping... it's been up hill since then

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Originally Posted by Bravo

I felt exactly the same way till I hit lvl 14 and got earth shock 3 and was one shotting everything with out stopping... it's been up hill since then

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Ya my sort of pivotal moments so far was
new lightning bolt at 14
new lightning bolt at 18?
healing stream totem at 20 (even though the quest made me want to club a baby seal)
ghost wolf at 20
lesser hjealing wave, forgot which level i got it though
mana spring totem at 26
next greatest moments will be reincarnation at 30 and chain lightning, oh god yes chain lightning at 32.