Since they introduced RAF, I am deciding to take the plunge and do some quad boxing. My system is a beefy laptop that can support 4 WoW fairly well running the clones from an external HDD and the main from the Laptop HDD. I wanna go with 4 mages for my initial rush, then i have a 38 paladin that I wanna level up also, I wanna take 3 shaman as clones with him if possible b/c i already have a 70 shaman and this would let me quad shaman and mages once all are 70.

These are my questions:

How would the best way to set this up be? Vet + Friend x 2 or Vet + 3 friends?

Would the shaman get the triple XP bonus from a 38 paladin killing murlocs in Dustwallow Marshe?

The mobs are not trivial so how would they need to be linked?

Also with the shaman, my 70 is a tauren, should I make his clones Orcs or Tauren also? Obviously having 4x War Stomps seems nice but might not be so multibox friendly as the nuking potential of 3x Blood Rage + 1 War Stomp.