Hi everybody,
I just want to share my experiences on my first weekend of 5 boxing.
Friday night I had all the hardware setup, the fridge was filled and I had cancelled every appointment for the weekend. I was planning on using 5 undead toons since I think they are cute and I have never played horde past level 40something. I decided on 1 priest, 2 locks and 2 mages. To be honest I know mages and priests very well but I have never bothered to try a lock so I was not sure what was coming.

Here is what I found out:
* Any quest outside of instances is very easy, collect X of Y quests are really boring and take quite some time
* inside instances the big bosses are usually not the problem because you tend to have a controlled fight (send pet, heal, nuke etc.); the problems occur if you have multiple elite mobs that are either tanked or sheeped (having two sheeps helped)
* You need a good setup of macros and (even more important) you need to get familiar with them to be able to use them and not panic if the s hits the v. That needs quite a bit of training, I think I wiped 20 times in rfc before I could run it without deaths at an acceptable speed.
* Soulstone really helps
* WC really sucks if you don't know your way around.
* leveling up takes roughly 25% more time that doing it with one toon (up to level 21 that is)
* You get very mixed reactions from other players
* You get enough material to have all toons max their tailoring skills
* It is really fun!

I was suprised about the warlock class. The pets are really useful and they never seem to go oom. In fact I am seriously considering restarting with 4 locks and a priest. Losing the Int buff will hurt but water is not that big a deal (I still have about 3k gold available from the alliance toon on the server I play).
A second plus is that I have less abilities to care about. That may seem unlogical but in the fights versus non elites it doesn't matter - any spell from all toos kills the mob, but in elite fights I had to care about so many things that I hardly have the time to do anything but the macroed castsequence.

The only thing that keeps me from rerolling 4 locks is the sheeps as I believe they will be really useful when the instances get harder. Anyone willing to share their experiences on this topic?

Gotta get back to work,
Bunny