Moving up to 5, advice

Don't know why but I felt compelled to add a little bit of my history here, so skip down if you're not interested in reading it:

I've been dual-boxing for a little while in WoW. In fact I didn't even know how much of a community there was around it. It never occurred to me to streamline my setup and up the ante. I'd just roll around with my wife's priest and tap heals once in awhile when I needed it. I ended up 'solo'ing' (read: 1 man/2 accounts) all of the 3 man or lower quests throughout outlands.

Recently a guildie posted a link to a post on the WoW forums where someone was whining about getting ganked by a 5 man team in AB. It was hilarious. Of course they all mentioned Xzin in response and a few weeks after reading all that I stumbled here. I immediately rearranged my setup, just by moving my laptop beside my wife's monitor I doubled my playing ability with the two characters. I went from tapping heals, to levelling up two paladins side by side fully melee dps'ing with both.

The more I did that and the more I read here the more I've been tweaking my setup and honing my skills. Needless to say, I'm hooked at this point and can't think of a better way to spend a little bit, compared to -some- hobbies, of cash.

I've already got most of the setup I need. I've got two laptops capable of running WoW, my wife's beast of a machine and another sitting in parts waiting for a case to come back from newegg so I can put it all back together. The final piece of the hardware puzzle will be another WoW capable box and a bigger router.

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Anyway, to the point of my thread. I'm working at planning my 5 man group. I have some thoughts on it but I'm not sure how playable it is and I was hoping maybe some of you had some experience and can give a little advice.

My plan is to do 3 Mage, 1 Warrior, 1 Holy Priest/Paladin

My questions about this are on controllability. Does having the warrior make it too difficult to manage or has anyone done this successfully? Apologies if I failed to see someone with that kind of setup.

For that group I planned to keep the warrior box separate, as a main screen and work mostly on threat generation while I use a separate keyboard to throw in the mage damage and priest heal hotkeys.

Note: Thanks to the author of keyclone, very easy to use and very reliable so far, saves a lot of cash on hardware.

I'd prefer a Paladin (as a Tank) instead of the Warrior. It's easier to tank with a Pala because you don't need that many buttons for that and you can aoe tank so your mages don't get aggro when they aoe

When your Priest is down you can rez him with the Pala.
When it's going to end up in a wipe you can take the priest out of combat.

I love Palas :)


btw.. priest is excellent for groupheals so your mages can aoe.

I think that setup is viable. I don't see it being STRONG in PvP but it is workable..... not sure how well Melee classes are in PvP - I have always avoided them. I think you will face some serious issues with that.. mages are ranged and warrior needs to get in their face.

It really boils down to what you want to do really. PvP is tough and fast paced and all about burst damage. If you feel like you can do that then great :) Try it out and see really.

I run with a pally, priest, warlock and 2 mages. Along with Keyclone. I control the tank, and if he goes down, the warlock becomes the main along with the new tank(pet). It was very tedious to set up, but I'm confident that I can tackle all heroics at 70. I raided extensively before getting into this, and this is a lot more fun for me.

I wonder sometimes what will I do after conquering all the 5 man content. Kara is the only 10 man instance at the moment, I think they are coming out with 1 more someday. Good thing that decision is a while away:)

You're right, I think the warrior would gimp me in pvp, so I wouldn't plan on bringing him in to battlegrounds at all. He'd be prot spec anyway. Mainly I'm looking at this for PvE for running instances myself. And if I feel like pvp, I'll just take 4

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Originally Posted by Mannyman

I run with a pally, priest, warlock and 2 mages. Along with Keyclone. I control the tank, and if he goes down, the warlock becomes the main along with the new tank(pet). It was very tedious to set up, but I'm confident that I can tackle all heroics at 70. I raided extensively before getting into this, and this is a lot more fun for me.

I wonder sometimes what will I do after conquering all the 5 man content. Kara is the only 10 man instance at the moment, I think they are coming out with 1 more someday. Good thing that decision is a while away:)

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by the day you will be done with all TBC content the new addon will come with 80 lvl cap and new instances and BGs ;) Outdoor BG seems to be very hot for multiboxers :)

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Originally Posted by Mannyman

I run with a pally, priest, warlock and 2 mages. Along with Keyclone. I control the tank, and if he goes down, the warlock becomes the main along with the new tank(pet). It was very tedious to set up, but I'm confident that I can tackle all heroics at 70. I raided extensively before getting into this, and this is a lot more fun for me.

I wonder sometimes what will I do after conquering all the 5 man content. Kara is the only 10 man instance at the moment, I think they are coming out with 1 more someday. Good thing that decision is a while away:)

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by the day you will be done with all TBC content the new addon will come with 80 lvl cap and new instances and BGs ;) Outdoor BG seems to be very hot for multiboxers :)

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The outdoor pvp zone should be fantastic fun for multiboxers :D

well with multiboxers constantly owning that BG there will be so much whine on forums :o

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well with multiboxers constantly owning that BG there will be so much whine on forums :o

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Good job I bathe in the tears of whiners :P
Currently mages QQ enough on 'lock forums to keep me happy, just wait til I have 4 locks with a priest ganking them /happydance

Thanks for the input, so far, those who stayed on topic.

I have a question, from a strictly pve sense, is it better to do mages or warlocks for the dps classes here? I have a 70 lock but I think mage is the only class I've never even tried.

Mages have more forms of crowd control than warlocks, it's going to come in handy more than increased damage, but then again - what cannot be frozen or polymorphed is often fearable, I've learned that much from watching warlock friends solo elites I had no chance to take down as a hunter, much less kite.

The warlock will get you a soulstone and summons, the mage will get you water and food and portals. Difficult decision but it leans towards mage for pure utility and crowd control in my view of things - that's taking dps into consideration.

im new to boxing but i might suggest 3 mages 2 pallies

that would be safe cause you have 2 tanks if you need it and twice the healing power

But less DPS too :) I have found it better to have things dead and NOT beating on you than try to heal through it more.

Why don't people use bears for tanks? You can easily respec moonkin at 70 for PVP, so your tank becomes a usable PVP character along with ranged dps classes like shamans and mages.

Bear druid, priest, 3x mage for heroics/PVE becomes an easy to use holy priest, 3x mage, moonkin for PVP.

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Originally Posted by Shade

Why don't people use bears for tanks? You can easily respec moonkin at 70 for PVP, so your tank becomes a usable PVP character along with ranged dps classes like shamans and mages.

Bear druid, priest, 3x mage for heroics/PVE becomes an easy to use holy priest, 3x mage, moonkin for PVP.

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why dont? :o

I play bear-druid, 3 mages and shaman healbot :)