ok i started 5 boxing to to take advantage of the RAF (refer a friend) program blizzard started, dam does it work well.

AT the end game i wanted a pally tank, a shaman healer, a druid healer, a druid tank or dps and a warlock dps, so....

i run, pally tank, shaman healer (rearly needs to heal), warlock, 2x druids (balance spec for 5 boxing)

i have run successfully every dungeon in the game without problems, see screen shot at lvl 50, my toons are all now lvl 68.5 and i am also running the outland dungeons, at least as effectively as a PUG. I have occationally died, and have had some trouble with bosses that continuesly AOE the squishes, like the dragon in the rampants, he places a fire under your tank and the squishies, creating a real problem with trying to keep everyone out of the different fires, first boss in zangermash has a simular problem with the mushrooms and circle of poison. the solution to this i am using is, i tank with there back to my squishies and "do not pass" the key "S" for those boss fights, that way they follow me as i move my tank arround walking backwards, maintaining my tanks block/dodge and dps.

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In all i am really enjoying this 5 boxing arrangement, i have saved sooo much time and i dont have to wait to organize a PUG.

leveling has been done amazingly fast as the played time is effectively divided by 5 to see how much time was spent on each toon. with the RAF program i effectively leveled 7 toon to lvl 57 in 17 hour played time each. (including gifted levels). which i know could be done faster if i didn't need to do the class quests, they are a waste of time as the gear will be replaced in now time and you are only getting xp for one toon. this is also the first time i have leveled toons on my own, my brother helped me level my first toon, i just followed him around. thank god for quest helper .

total additional cost to get started is $240 {$300-$60 free game time on main account}. (4X $40- wow BC edition packs {buy from store,not trail upgrade from blizzards web site},4X $30- 60 day time cards {this gives your main account 4 months free with ARF reward}, 1x $20 for lifetime purchase of keyclone. total math is ($160+$120+$20=$300)-$60=$240.

with my played time to date to lvl 68.5 being 9 days, 2hours, 39 minutes, 39 seconds. this mean i have saved that x4 in time= 37 days of real time, i would trade $240 for 37 real days of life back any time. I have now spent a total of 44 hours per toon to this level.

but for me leveling is not the part of the game i like, for me the game starts at end game points, right now it is lvl 70. soon to be level 80.

A note on game play, when it comes to playing different class toons people worry about fiting 5 keyboard into 1. this is not a real problem, because wow is designed to be played of just a few keys, no matter what you class is...., so i play all my 5 toon of just 4 main keys i use repetitively (yes this includes my tanks heals and dps), and 2 more keys i hit about 25% of the time. any other keys i would be lucky to hit 1% of game play time as in the game play of wow they represent noise, ignore them. you use the 4 main spells/abilities of your talent tree wether you are the healer , tank or dps, it doesn't matter just insert the spell for that character into that key slot on you tool bar. I use /assit macro's , even if you tank dies just keep attacking and hit tab to reselect target, if you tank dies there usually wont be much left of the enemy.

so with the above system whether i play one toon or 5 toons i am always hitting the same key combination. rather repeatitive i know, but that is the way the game is built, KISS.

Well i hope this provides some insight and help, its time for me to get back to playing.

my first toon is aussiehyena.