Is naming characters similarly really the best idea?

[Vyndree]

It does seem like if people at decent rankings are losing battles over targetting confusion, then the state of the competition in the arena is pretty sad.

Shock and awe is a decent tactic. I doubt many teams have seen a multiboxer in arenas.

That being said, naming conventions won't fool good PvP teams. They'll have assist macros set up. Naming conventions help the "learning curve", though, since casual players who don't arena often probably won't have the mods/macros.

Preparation vs lack of Preparation. *shrug*

Even in a competitive arena, there has to be the 1100's teams to balance out the 2k teams. And you're not going to be 2k right off the bat. Everyone has to do the weekly gear farm.

[hotsuma]

i kept getting nubs saying reported etc so when i re rolled the 2 i gave them different names , most dont notice im 2x boxing now

[Jaese]

I like my names.

When the clones are all bunched up and look like one character, the names combine to Jâêse.

I am easily amused.

[moji]

My experience now with running similar names, is don't. Make 'em different. And another thing, make them in alphabetical order. With my current setup, when they're put in a party, where they're loading in the 4 pip screens on the right had side, don't correspond to the order of the unit frames on the left. Might be a way to fix this with pitbull, but I'm not sure atm. I could change the login order of the screens to put them alphabetically, but I dont want to mess up the rest of my toons. Using PiP and leaderless targeting, I get confused as to who the lead toon is sometimes, not that it matters much, but still, I'm confusing myself for very little gain long term.

My second team, warlocks and shadow/discholy priests, I'm naming after alcohol. <Dotting under the Influence> Someone else here gave me that idea but off the top of my head I can't remember who.

[merujo]

when i started boxing, i gave my toons different names, having in mind Pink Floyd, the band i love.
So one was Pink, other was Floyd. I decided to tribox and the other was Pompeii (the italian city, destroyed by the vulcano where Pink did a movie, a series of videoclips).

when i decided to 5box, i followed the strategy of similar naming, just changing the `´¨^ above the i. i thought it was better to confuse.
now i know that, ur opponent will always know wich is ur main, so it pretty much has more to do with being funny and joke with noobs. depending on the font that ppl use for wow, some cant really see the difference on the nick, and automatically say im hacking lol.

I think anything will do. similar naming. alphabetical naming. random naming.
but the best choice for me, and i would do now if i could, would be as Vyndree sugested. but instead of a letter in the end, i would put it in the beggining, like Xzin.
being able to identify the char better, is a plus. for trades its nice. i do my trades based on party position of my addons, i can barely see the difference on my nicks

[Freddman]

Im thinking of renaming my characters, my first team was named Reek, Acklay,Nexu and Zuxu ( all from the Star Wars universe :P ) and my new team is simply Ryloth with different "`" "´" "¨" over the O, and in the begining i had a hard time trading, sense i always ended up trading to the wrong character, and like someone said in this thread, the names in the partylist doesn't match the order i have my slave windows aligned on my screen and sometimes i tend to heal the wrong characters (have a macro to target heal each individualy, F1,F2 etc) sense i couldn't quite make out if it was a ` or a ¨ over the O :P

[Korruptor]

I have been giving thought to rolling a group with a leader having a unique name and the four minions with similar names.

Little RP' in there.

[Vyndree]

would be as Vyndree sugested. but instead of a letter in the end, i would put it in the beggining, like Xzin.

The reason I put "letter at the end" is because you can /tar A or /tar B, but you can't /tar BlahA or /tar BlahB as easily. ;)

[Gurk]

I made a first timer mistake with my team. I got to 15 before I realized it and had to delete and reroll.

Assari
Assarii

"/target assari" Would target the nearest one of the 2, even though the 2nd one has 2 "i"s.

[Eteocles]

A patch or two ago they added a command called /targetexact which would fix your problem, Gurk ;p