PvE Progress

[Aethon]

I'll add my bit in here:

Team:

Druid (boomkin at 40), 4 Shaman (elemental)

RFC: Easy as pie, I did it when I was 15

WC: I waited until I had healing totem for this, 21 I think it was.

SM Lib (@ 36), Arm (@ 38), Cath (@ 41): All cleared, 1 wipe in Lib, a few deaths on the others but no wipes.

ZF (@ 46): Cleared, 3 total deaths, no wipes, all crypts open. Still didn't get all the troll temper. One more go now that I have the mallet on all my toons.

ST: Debating if I want to run this for my lvl 50 quests. I really hate it normally, so I might just skip it and get to 60 for Outlands.

[godnf8]

5 Elemental Shamans

DeadMines 16-19 (Started at 16, was 19 by finish)
Stockade 28
Gnomergan 29-30
ZF 46-47
Ramparts 61
Blood Furnance 61
Underbog 62
Slave Pens 62
Mana Tombs 64
Auchenai Crypts 64 (Ran past Shirrak the Dead Watcher and reincarnated in hall to finish it up) He's too hard for my group setup with his stacking casting speed debuff)
Sethekk Halls 67

[CumpsD]

I'll try to keep my list updated as well.

5 Elemental Shamans
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RFC @ lvl 16, 17, 18 (did 2 runs myself and 1 run to take a guildie's alt along)
WC @ lvl 19 (failed because of lack of leaderless setup and a bad transitioning when he died, gonna try again after configuring up my leaderless setup)

[Anemo]

I finally got around to attempting an instance after questing to 33.

Team: Prot Pally/Holy Pally/Mage/Mage/Mage

SM: GY - 33
SM: Lib - 35
SM: Arm - 37
SM: Cath - 39

Went rather well considering my epic fail equipment (mages still wearing pre ghostland robes)

Of course I get the Ravager first Armory run when I seriously stealthed to Herod over 30 times with my Ally druid and summoned my Ret pally without it dropping.

[wizofid]

Team is currently 63. Prot Pally + 4 Eelemental shaman

Dungeons:

• Scarlet Monestary cleared at 37
• Sunken Temple cleared at 50
• Blackrock Depths cleared at 54
• Lower black rock spire (LBRS) at 56
• Ramparts at 61
• Blood Furnace at 62

[sojolly]

Started late on the dungeons .. was having fun questing. My team is Prot Pal + 4 Ele Shammies. Listing unbuffed SP on Shammies as i progress.

BC Dungeons Cleared List

1. Ramparts 59-63 N:10/24/08 @68 SP353
2. Blood Furnace 60-64 N:10/25/08 @68 SP361
3. Slave Pens 61-65 N:10/25/08 @68 SP361
4. Underbog 63-65 N:10/29/08 @69 SP380
5. Manatombs 64-67 N:11/3/08 @70 SP386
6. Farming Voids in the Scourge Event --> Flying mounts for all
7. Farming Totem of the Void completed 1/4
8. Auchenai Crypts 65-68
9. Durnholde Keep 66-70
10. Sethekk Halls 67-70
11. Steamvault 68-70
12. Dark Portal 68-70
13. Shattered Halls 70
14. Shadow Labyrinth 70
15. Mechanar 70
16. Botanica 70
17. Arcatraz 70

Sojolly (Hunter) -- US Silvermoon Alliance
Sojólly (Paladin) -- US Silvermoon Alliance

[aussiehyena]

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.

[Lightsout]

Started RAF Sept 27, 2008 with first non-trial attempt at multiboxing. 5 ele-shams now: (lvl 63, 62,62,62,62).

RFC lvl 15

WC lvl 20

SM GY 27

SM L 30

SM A 35

SM C 38

quests until ZF attempt at 47 and ST attempt at 51 (both non-clears)

quests until OL and repeated attempts at Ramps and BF (non-clear atm)

/played time is 7days so can actually be stated as 1.4days each

Hope to become regular participant here.

[kaiyo]

Protection Pally + 4 Elemental Shamans

No BG gear, started grinding faction at 63+ so equipped with mostly faction blues when starting the easier heroics.

I've uploaded some clips just to share. nothing professional though. I try to add to it weekly: www.youtube.com/5boxhk

Normal Cleared: Magister's Terrace Normal, Shadow Labs, Caverns Of Time, Old Hillsbrad Foothills

Heroic Cleared: Underbog, Steamvaults, Slavepens, Mech, Botanica, Shattered Halls, HellFire Ramparts, Blood Furnace, First 3 bosses of MgT, Setthek Halls, Mana Tombs

I tried to get 4/5 of dungeon set for the pally asap in order to cut down righteous defense to 8 seconds. Made a HUGE difference in the ability to ping-pong the bosses back and forth while DPSing them down (no need to build aggro, which in turn wastes mana from shammies to heal)

Hope this helps those weekend warriors strictly going the PVE route.

[Nightcrow]