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The fact remains that 5 characters being played by 1 person has much better coordination than 5 individuals especially in places like AV where you are facing PuGs with no coordination most of the time. I think it is mostly a problem with shaman, other classes don't stack that well.
The razor-sharp coordination that a multiboxer has, works best when he is facing one or two targets which he is able to spot at a distance. If he's caught off-guard and at close range, the disadvantages become much more glaring. I agree that the main issue is that shaman totems interfere with both fear/charm and ranged spell casts, and stacking them can create an imbalance in a PvP situation. I am thinking that at some point, Blizzard will look into totem stacking and find ways to bring it in line for PvP. I think they're being careful with it because shaman are a relatively rarely-played class outside of multiboxing, in part because of PvP issues. Nerfing totems to curb multiboxing could hurt the class a lot for "single boxers."
In any event, some time back when I was playing arenas with guildmates, we ran into a team of five shaman. It was not being multiboxed, and we beat them pretty handily the first time we saw them. Then one or two matches later we ran into them again and they wiped the floor with us by... you guessed it, stacking totems. They hadn't done that the first time, but they learned fast. I never saw that team again, but I don't arena much so I don't know if they were just a novelty. But they learned to stack totems pretty fast, that was for sure.
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