Going to give WoW a try again - stay hardware or go software?

[Nisch]

Ok, so the wife and I are burned out on DAOC..........hated the nerfs in AoC, and Warhammer is just plain boring. We fired up a couple 10-day trials last night and we've decided to give this a try again. I played at release and stopped after getting my rogue to 45'ish originally. I since multiboxed DAOC, full hardware. My setup is this:



What I'm pondering is setting up my system for 5-boing WoW and wondering if I should stick with my hardware setup or go software. I since changed my monitors and have (3) 22" monitors on the bottom row with (3) 17" along the top row. If I went hardware, I'd go back to my setup as pictured above. Otherwise, I'd go software, and would do center screen as my main, and 2 WOW's per screen on the outer monitors.

GIven my hardware setup, should I stay that way?

(6) PC's
(6) Monitors
(5) daisy-chained keyboards/xkeys/footpedal (including 1 G15 USB for main PC use only, HH Lite for broadcast)
8-port Vetra PS2 broadcaster
4-port Vetra USB broadcaster
2-port PS2 KVM used for single or multiple keyboard use.
Octopus used for screen/mouse sharing, WOL, and remote shutdown.


What are you guys' thoughts??

Also, where's a good place to pick up a combo package for 6 WOW's (1 for the wife, 5 for me) I tried Best Buy, but they limit you to 3 at a time.

Thanks,

Dan

[dpaladin]

I dont know about the hardware/software side - but as for purchasing the game. You should be looking at RAF setups. You daisy chain your recruit a friend bonus and everybody is making 3x experience on kills and quests - it gets you through the first 60 levels in record time.

Then you just upgrade those accounts.

[Fuzzyboy]

Hardware > software - other than the electricity bill I can't think of a good reason to prefer software over hardware.

As for the bestbuy-issue - why not bring your wife and get 3 each?

[Fuzzyboy]

Oh yeah, and like basket says, make sure you chain your accounts to enable RAF you can do that after buying them though, but you need to do it before activating them.

[suprafro]

You definitely want to look at RAF before activating any new wow accounts

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/RAF

[Nisch]

Interesting. I was wondering what everyone was talking about with "RAF", but now it makes more sense.

One question though........should I start the chain from my old account or the new 10-day trial?

Ok, two questions, do I need a 70 to do this?

Also, do I need to send to 5 individual email accounts? Meaning, do I have to have 5 email accounts setup to receive the emails??

Thanks again,

Dan

[Marious]

Or you can always download the 10 day trial and do a digital upgrade online no need to go out and waste gas on going to store buy it all online from Brlizzard WoW website.

And from what I hear hardware is the way to go if you can afford it, and since you already have the set up why not continue with it you obviously know what your doing with your set up why change it? Unless you are worried about the electric bill.

[ChaoticMonk]

Intersting. I was wondering what everyone was talking about with "RAF", but now it makes more sense.

One question though........should I start the chain from my old account or the new 10-day trial?

Ok, two questions, do I need a 70 to do this?

Also, do I need to send to 5 individual email accounts? Meaning, do I have to have 5 email accounts setup to receive the emails??

Thanks again,

Dan

Its upto you wether you want to use your old account to refer some new accounts or use your new account to refer more new accounts. Using you old account would save you some money as you dont have to buy a new copy of wow for that one, just for the new ones.

The only use of having a 70 with this is he can boost you thro instances much quicker but questing 3x XP is still insanely fast.

You do not need 5 individual emails...you can use the same one over and over.

[Nisch]

Nice,

I'll just create 5 new 10-days and do that, 4 for me, 1 for the wife. And then I just will upgrade them digitally. Thanks for the information! :thumbup:

[Pringle]

Kinda off-topic here, but is that a R/C heli attached to your wall? If people wanna give us boxers grief for speding money, they should try flying helicopters. Now there's a money pit! Alot of fun though!