First Heroic

[Naysayer]

Well, months ago my wife and I started multiboxing a team. prot pally, holy priest, 2x frost mages, and an elemental shaman. We'd go weeks where we didn't play at all. Then we'd have weeks where we played every night for 4 hours.

Last night we finally hit 80th on our last characters. We did it by running Halls of Lightning. And Loken dropped his defense trinket which put my paladin's defense at 536. At 80th he only had 19k hit points and 20k armor...but we thought what the heck since his defense is 536 we ran Gun Drak Heroic. We wiped 7 times. Tweaking and trying, positioning etc. But we finished it. AND I'M SO DAMN HAPPY I CANT STAND IT. I wanna get home from work to run it again and farm more badges and lewts. And then run heroic nexus cuz it's today's daily. And ...and....and. We're already talking about working up another 5 and 10 boxing naxrammas.

Just wanted to crow about having gotten our first team (we have 2 other teams at 60th) to 80th...and successfully completing our first heroic immediately on hitting 80th. Thanks very much for questions answered, guides posted, suggestions in conversations I've only lurked in. This board is just great. I had no idea it was going to be so satisfying to complete our first heroic. Granted we are a 3 boxer and a 2 boxer teaming up, so it's easier than for you hardcore 5 boxers ...but it's still incredibly challenging and fun.

cool

Why not exchange one of your mages for a warlock to get more caster dps n synergy? What kind of classes are you planning for your second team?

[Queshank]

Day 2 sees the completion of 4 more heroics. We started Gundrak again yesterday afternoon when we got off work and it was a bitch. All the fights we thought we'd figured out the night before...weren't working for us. We wiped once on Moorabi (a boss we one shotted the night before) and 4 times on the Drakkari Colossus (i hate those mojo puddles) before giving up. And then we took a nap.

Then we logged on fresh a few hours later....and managed to finish the colossus. Took us another couple tries and we realized we downed him more due to luck than skill the night before. Then we thought what the heck let's try Utgarde Keep, it's sposed to be easy. Wow was it ever. Our tank got some decent gear upgrades out of our two Gundrak runs, so we pretty much walked thru UK without a single death. I had to doublecheck to make sure it wasn't on normal.

Buoyed by our ease with UK we went on to Drak Tharon...an instance we ran regularly to get to 80th. And waltzed right thru it too! So now we're feeling pretty cocky and we went on to try The Nexus since it was the daily heroic. We were dreading the mage boss that gave us trouble when we first started running it. And she gave us a bit of trouble, but on the 2nd attempt we killed her. Our priest went oom on the final boss (our dps is still pretty gimp) but our tank solo killed her with about 200 hit points to spare... what a rush!

Okay it's 2 in the morning let's goto bed. No wait...let's see what we can do in Violet Hold. Who cares if we wipe, we made a bunch of money off doing the daily heroic. 1st boss woot lucked out...the bird. 2nd boss woot lucked out again...the lava dog. Last boss caught us by surprise and we wiped. We were getting lazy and when she did her first summon we didn't react fast enough. Can't quit now even tho it's 3am! We let everything reset and re ran the whole thing and took her down, again with most of the group wiping but who cares she can't rez herself...we can.

2nd day of heroics and we're already at 25 badges and revered Kirin Tor on the mages/priest. No kids this weekend...they're at the ex' wive's....so 20 more today and 20 more tomorrow cuz we're gonna run these 5 again and again til they're on autopilot before moving on.

I'm so addicted right now. It's like a brand new game.

[Harem]

I love hearing that excitement in your post!

I had to doublecheck to make sure it wasn't on normal.

lol - I remember doing this a few times.



My second team just hit 80 and I'm feeling the drag. Its prolly just me but I feel like the way they have gear setup is just giving me the blahs. I'm thinking I'll take a break for awhile and try to capture that excitement again after another patch.

Can't wait for cataclysm.

[Queshank]

I love hearing that excitement in your post!




lol - I remember doing this a few times.



My second team just hit 80 and I'm feeling the drag. Its prolly just me but I feel like the way they have gear setup is just giving me the blahs. I'm thinking I'll take a break for awhile and try to capture that excitement again after another patch.

Can't wait for cataclysm.

I could see that happening easily on a 2nd group. We started our 2nd group of dps. We included a druid simply because we're tired of seeing all the leather drops. We've now run entire heroics and gotten nothing but leather drops. We have an 80 paladin tank and 80 priest on hold (our prior mains before we started 5 boxing) to group up as a paladin/priest/warlock/druid/shaman team.

Then we might move team 2 to new accounts and try 10 boxing naxxramas.... and hopefully that'll recapture the excitement of accomplishing something new for us.

[Queshank]

cool

Why not exchange one of your mages for a warlock to get more caster dps n synergy? What kind of classes are you planning for your second team?

We have 2 warlocks at 60th waiting in the wings. Just gotta get the time to level em up.

In fact, we have a whole guild/stable that we leveled up during RAF to allow us to mix and match. We formed a guild on Runetotem called <The Coven> that has 23 characters between 60th and 80th that are just our's. Our 2nd group will probably be components of our first group mixed with shamans, warlocks, whatever. As neither of us knows a darn thing about playing warlocks, we'll probably duo our two warlocks by questing to 80th. So it'll take a looooong time...cuz we're busy with Team 1 Then the debate is if we each 5 box and try 10 manning, do we RAF and level up a fresh crop, or transfer 5 to the new accounts..../shrug. Ah well it'll be a bit away from now we'll deal with it then.

Any multiboxers on Runetotem wanna team up for Naxxrammas??