If your going to box.... at least 5 box, right? or...wrong?

[Taybox]

I have been researching boxing for about a week now, and im very wishy washy on what i want to do.

I would absolutely love to go straight to 5 boxing, which i think i could manage fairly easy. I am just having trouble talking myself into spending $55 x 5 on WOTLK and $30 x 3 BC. + $70 a month for the accounts.

besides that, i dont know if my one desktop computer can run 5 wow accounts at one time. it is a decent machine, awesome graphics card, but only 2 gig of RAM.

The reason i want to 5 box so bad is so i can do heroics in WOTLK whenever i want and not have to spend 2 hours spamming LF healer/tank. I want to go to dungeons whenever i want, have fun in 5v5 arena/PVP.

If i lower down to 3 boxing, sure i can still 3v3 in arena and have fun in PVP. but i wont be able to run dungeons on my own, which ultimately, is what i want to be able to do. i cant decide!!! :cursing:

[Kaynin]

Adding 2 more gigs of ram would be worth it tbh.

As for how many boxing? I personally prefer 4-boxing over 5-boxing. I've quite some friends I enjoy rolling with. I had five originally but the fifth just get left behind, and more behind, eventually I just stopped logging him in.

dual-core cpu, 4gb ddr2, 512mb video. That's pretty much what you should get however for 4-5 boxing. Know though that going three first and five later would make it annoying to level up two all over again.

That said, it's not impossible to box five with 2gb ram, just don't expect much from pvp and such and expect some lag here and there, also run everything minimal, maxfpsbk low, etc.

[Taybox]

Adding 2 more gigs of ram would be worth it tbh.

As for how many boxing? I personally prefer 4-boxing over 5-boxing. I've quite some friends I enjoy rolling with. I had five originally but the fifth just get left behind, and more behind, eventually I just stopped logging him in.

dual-core cpu, 4gb ddr2, 512mb video. That's pretty much what you should get however for 4-5 boxing. Know though that going three first and five later would make it annoying to level up two all over again.

That said, it's not impossible to box five with 2gb ram, just don't expect much from pvp and such and expect some lag here and there, also run everything minimal, maxfpsbk low, etc.

i agree. i could probably roll with 4 considering i do have a few RL friends that play, plus guildies.

If i were to roll 4, should i go with 3 dps 1 healer, or 4 dps then just grab a tank (dont know if that would work)

[Kaynin]

If you go shamans, 4x elemental is best imo. A lot of nukage and plenty of healing. I roll four dps.

If you go four dps that however don't have the ability to heal. Bad idea I think. :P Like if you go hunters, go 3 hunters + 1 resto shaman, etc.

But hmm, if you're set on shamans, screw the healer pos, you don't need it, trust me. :P I can do all heroics easily without a healing spec'd shammy. I don't put one on healing either. My healing is either all four doing chain heal or all four doing lesser healing wave (Bang, 8k healing uncrit!). I don't use anything else for healing. One button is all I need for it.

[Taybox]

If you go shamans, 4x elemental is best imo. A lot of nukage and plenty of healing. I roll four dps.

If you go four dps that however don't have the ability to heal. Bad idea I think. :P Like if you go hunters, go 3 hunters + 1 resto shaman, etc.

But hmm, if you're set on shamans, screw the healer pos, you don't need it, trust me. :P I can do all heroics easily without a healing spec'd shammy. I don't put one on healing either. My healing is either all four doing chain heal or all four doing lesser healing wave (Bang, 8k healing uncrit!). I don't use anything else for healing. One button is all I need for it.

so all you do is find a tank and your ready to roll. if tank needs healing, chain heal, and all 4 shammies chain heal? lol thats brilliant. 4 boxing will be better for me, and cheaper lol.

i want 2 or 3 different groups thoguht.

4 x ele shammy
4 x mage
1x mage 1x lock 1x priest 1x hunter

im guessing its going to take a while to RAF this lol.

[Schwarz]

First go make yourself some trial accounts and see what your computer will handle. I would try goign to a major city (if your horde make some orcs and goto ORG) this will kind of let you know how things will go in the outlands. So this will tell you what your computer is capable of.

I tried 5 toons on a macbook laptop. It was super fun super laggy but really really fun. This let me know well if I want to do this then I need a major upgrade on hardware.

[Kaynin]

If you go shamans, 4x elemental is best imo. A lot of nukage and plenty of healing. I roll four dps.

If you go four dps that however don't have the ability to heal. Bad idea I think. :P Like if you go hunters, go 3 hunters + 1 resto shaman, etc.

But hmm, if you're set on shamans, screw the healer pos, you don't need it, trust me. :P I can do all heroics easily without a healing spec'd shammy. I don't put one on healing either. My healing is either all four doing chain heal or all four doing lesser healing wave (Bang, 8k healing uncrit!). I don't use anything else for healing. One button is all I need for it.

so all you do is find a tank and your ready to roll. if tank needs healing, chain heal, and all 4 shammies chain heal? lol thats brilliant. 4 boxing will be better for me, and cheaper lol.

i want 2 or 3 different groups thoguht.

4 x ele shammy
4 x mage
1x mage 1x lock 1x priest 1x hunter

im guessing its going to take a while to RAF this lol.

I can also do quite some heroics with a dps as a fifth and even some with a healer. I've four manned ramps and sethekk heroic only so far, and a few first bosses in other heroics. Ele shammies are quite powerful. It's still waiting to see how it is in wotlk, but tbh, we got so much healing capability and totems, I expect it to work good. :P

4x mages would be limited in some fights, specifically fights you cant nuke through in 30 seconds. Some encounters will need healing. 1x mage, lock, priest and hunter is a seriously fun combo for pve, but dont expect much in battlegrounds and pvp however. :P

[Taybox]

If you go shamans, 4x elemental is best imo. A lot of nukage and plenty of healing. I roll four dps.

If you go four dps that however don't have the ability to heal. Bad idea I think. :P Like if you go hunters, go 3 hunters + 1 resto shaman, etc.

But hmm, if you're set on shamans, screw the healer pos, you don't need it, trust me. :P I can do all heroics easily without a healing spec'd shammy. I don't put one on healing either. My healing is either all four doing chain heal or all four doing lesser healing wave (Bang, 8k healing uncrit!). I don't use anything else for healing. One button is all I need for it.

so all you do is find a tank and your ready to roll. if tank needs healing, chain heal, and all 4 shammies chain heal? lol thats brilliant. 4 boxing will be better for me, and cheaper lol.

i want 2 or 3 different groups thoguht.

4 x ele shammy
4 x mage
1x mage 1x lock 1x priest 1x hunter

im guessing its going to take a while to RAF this lol.

I can also do quite some heroics with a dps as a fifth and even some with a healer. I've four manned ramps and sethekk heroic only so far, and a few first bosses in other heroics. Ele shammies are quite powerful. It's still waiting to see how it is in wotlk, but tbh, we got so much healing capability and totems, I expect it to work good. :P

4x mages would be limited in some fights, specifically fights you cant nuke through in 30 seconds. Some encounters will need healing. 1x mage, lock, priest and hunter is a seriously fun combo for pve, but dont expect much in battlegrounds and pvp however. :P

youve answered alot of my questions haha.thanks

If my computer is able to handle 5 WoWs here will be my setup i believe.

Team 1 : 5 x Elemental Shammy (PVE Heroics / PVP 5v5 Arena)
Team 2 : Warrior / Lock/ Priest / Hunter / Mage (Strictly PVE Heroics)

If I can only handle 4 WoWs.

Team 1 : 4 x Elemental Shammy (PVE Heroics / PVP 5v5 Arena)
Team 2 : Warrior / Mage / Lock / Hunter (Will only need healer for PVE)

[Hachoo]

Personally my thoughts are exactly that - if you're going to box, at least 5 box. The whole point of doing it to me is to be able to solo instances without waiting on anyone else. I personally chose 5 shamans because they're great at PvP AND PvE, and if you need a slight boost in PvE you can have an extra paladin on your main account and use that for tanking.

[phara]

I was in the same place as you Taybox. I couldn't decide if / to what extent I wanted to box. I started out with 3 accounts doing RAF (2 refered to main account), so I leveled up 2 teams of 3 and got 2 toons granted to 60 out of it.

It was good fun, fast to level ... but I have no use for just 3 accounts besides leveling up. I decided if I was going to box at all it would have to be with 5, because I'm not going to pay for even 1 extra account to just level, farm, and quest with. I want to use them for isntances also (and gear them up).

For me it's just a time issue. I do have friends and guildmates that I run instances and raid with, but there are many times where my friends aren't available, so it's all about being able to progress in the game on a set schedule without waiting for others. As far as the hardware, I had a core 2 duo system that I cannibalized to make a new q6600 system with 4 gigs of ram. I reused my case, video cards, hard drives, sound card and ordered a new cpu, cooler, mobo, psu, and ram for around $500 on newegg. I'm only using a single 7800 GTX and running 5 toons on this system, and it works great (XP horizontal span).