Complete newcomer in Multi boxing and new hardware set up bought today what can i expect?

[Glamour]

Hello dear multi boxing community,

I m freshly new to mutli boxing and i ordered my new computer despite, i have a long experience in mmo (ultima online in 97, daoc and now wow), i decided to get involved in mutli boxing since RAF was out and upcoming expansion wotlk.

So i bought a new computer today here is my set up :

core 2 duo E8500 (2*3.16 Ghz) 6mb L2 1333 Mhz EMT64T BOX

500 GB Maxtor 7200 TRS

4* 1024 mb DDR2 transcend

Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT 512 DDR3 Twintech

Asus P5Q Socket 775 Intel p45

22 inches monitor 1680*1050



My Hopes:



Well im looking to multi boxing 3 account on this set up prolly most of the time 2 accounts, do you think i ll be fine any advices are more than welcome, can i expect more than 3 accounts running with this set up?



Which software should i get ?

Since i ll playing only on a single one computer with a single one monitor which softwares i should aim ?



I tried to get much information i can in advance i apologize if some of my questions seem noobish or redudand with other new users, cheers again for all your help.

[jrdn]

it should be able to handle 3 or probably more at once, but the only real way to be sure is to test it out.

[gigauae]

Which software should i get ?

Since i ll playing only on a single one computer with a single one monitor which softwares i should aim ?

i suggest going for keyclone, as its simple to setup and a very user friendly hustle free
and as far as your PC can handle i think with slight tweaking u can load 4 clients, 3 would be fine though
gl and welcome to the family

[Glamour]

cheers for your early replies guys, well didnt manage to test it out yet since i ll get my new computer tomorrow

Just another small question sounds noobish again maybe: im planning to run rogue-druid- 3rd class didnt decide yet really ( resto shammy (druid would be probably feral), a dps caster or another healer ?) purpose of this small group is leveling in ease and maybe doing some gold farming.

It comes to another sub question if do use 1 healer among my 3 accounts, i read i ve to use a multiplex, most videos i ve seen about multi boxing ppl are using same classes ie: 5 shammies, 5 mages and so on, is it so hard to set up properly different classes to act as core is there any kind of multiplex you recommend.



cheers again i ll promise to learn fast about multi boxing

[gigauae]

imo maybe other ppl can manage it ez, but chosing a 2 mele dps is kinda difficult for me to manage, especially if one of them is a rogue where i belive some hits requires to be from behind, since am kinda slacker 1 mele dps is fine, others ranged dps and have the mele as a master, while others assist,if u gonna pick a healer it doesnt matter really coz u can treat healers as casters where u do not need to be in special position.
as for the second Question, am not really sure but i chosed 5 shamans because its ezier to manage and they look kewl , u can do as just fine with anything u chose as long as u can manage the other toons

[Fizzler]

If you want ease than keyclone is for you when it comes to sending keystrokes and setting up windows.

Mix classes are much more difficult to manage. If they are similar than its not such a big deal.. or as much of one. So a warlock and mage would be easier to manage than say a Rogue and a Priest.

i think having melee toons as your first MBox experiance will be tough but surely anything is doable. The hard part about melee is getting everyone to face the right direction during a shifting battle. When you first engage or run up on a mob you have to time when you stop just right and due to latency the clones might not stop where you want or need them to.

[Glamour]

Ok i understand your point guys about too many melee will hurt about positionnal and stuff, i would really love to get druid and rogue leveled since the class i know the most (just sold my dual glaives rogue).



what about doing one rogue-going boomkin instead of feral druid-one resto shammy ?

Note that i dont plan to go in any instances during leveling process just questing and since im eager to try different set up i might try later a "more friendly to use" set up

[gigauae]

thats doable, all u need is good management
but i think resto druid elem shaman is better afaik ele shaman can dish out more dps than boomkin at early lvls in addition i dont think u will need a deep resto class, since as u said u not going to instances or anything, so u can bookin and ele as well

[Glamour]

Notice in other threads that ppl advice to maybe spec the whole group as dps since most mobs are dying fast:

so it would look like : one combat rogue (main), one boomkin druid, one ele shammy

imo:

pros : 3 dps, only one melee to manage, 2 rez, can heal if things are goind bad.

cons: no tank (dont think it hurt for questing), maybe hard to set up keys for 1st multi boxing.

[Glamour]

thats doable, all u need is good management
but i think resto druid elem shaman is better afaik ele shaman can dish out more dps than boomkin at early lvls in addition i dont think u will need a deep resto class, since as u said u not going to instances or anything, so u can bookin and ele as well

Gigauae we got same though at same time :>

glad to see how kind you are to helping da noob here :>