I recently purchased the hardware to dual box 5 more characters. So I should, in theory, be able to 10 box - dual boxing two 5 boxes.

I plan on starting up 5 new accounts and moving my existing warlocks over.

I plan on going 1 Priest 4 Mages + 1 Priest 4 Warlocks.

4 Pets, 6 Instant Cast AoE Fears, 10x AoEs, 6x Dots, Somewhere around 25k instant damage (PoM Pyros, Deathcoils, etc) - Cross AoE Heals - Water, Portals, SOULSTONES, Summons, 4x Sheeps, etc etc etc.

This setup is not for the faint of heart. It required an 8 port KVM, 10 keyboards, 10 wired mice, 10 wireless mice receivers, 7 vetra multicasters, 12 y-mice, 5 x-keys and of course 10 computers and the monitor arrays to view it all.

Which means I need to plan all sorts of things that most people never think of- power consumption, heat dissipation, even bandwidth use.

This is not really the 40 man project I was thinking about before but hey.... maybe 15 is the next step Probably not though

But I enjoy this hobby and I have updated everything for BC.... so this should be.... interesting.

I suppose I have to be to spend $150 a month in subscription fees and the $400 just for the expansion. It's.... a bit extreme but hey.... this is for fun.

Anyway, the point of all this is not "omg look at my setup" but to solicit suggestions for things that I might have missed or not thought about. I have the ability to select any individual machine, command a single team or all 10 at the same time - instantly. I expect this to be "no more" difficult than multiboxing with the Zins but ramped up a notch or two. I obviously can only do 5v5 arena matches but world PvP should be..... interesting. Some (not many) 10 man dungeons are available.... and there is always AV.

One thought I had was to use the same X-Keys pro to control the Zins and Control the Warlocks but use a foot pedal as a kind of alt or control key.

A sort of hybrid chording system if you will - press nothing and the mages are active. Press button 1 and the warlocks are active.... so I can instantly swap between them - perhaps even set it such that both are connected and both cast.... not too difficult to setup really and the warlocks and mages share a great many spell "types" (AoE, Instant Cast, "Fireball", etc)

Any thoughts or suggestions on what odd or strange things have changed in the game since around January? While I have thought a great deal about this, I know I have not thought of everything. What things might I be missing with this setup? Any suggestions or comments?