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

[Kaynin]

If you can bring up solo'ing instances for a long period of time, all good. I seriously get bored if there's no one around though, and one person is easy to lfg. :P

[Seldum]

" 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). "



Now that was excactly the info I needed. Gonna buy me 2gb ram and a new monitor and ill be 5 boxing in no time hehe.

[Nomak]

I personally enjoy 2 boxing because I use 2 machines and treat them as separate characters. I have run different instances on both characters at the same time and it has been fun and challenging. You don't HAVE to 5 box to have fun. 2 Boxing gives you the edge you need for quests or mobs that you just can't solo and wish you had someone to heal you. Whatever works for you and provides you with the most fun is what you should choose though.

[elo]

I actually think anywhere from 2-5 boxing has great returns. I 2 boxed for a year before finding this site and had a blast. The only thing I did 'wrong' was that I boxed a prot warrior and holy priest because I was (am) an instance whore and always wanted to be ready to jump into one. I'd just recommend anyone < 4 boxing roll/spec for DPS and ranged makes this a lot easier. With multiple ranged dps you can absolutely mow through quests and jump into any 5 mans easily. But like someone else pointed out, make sure at least one of yours can heal.

[heyaz]

I'd go with 5. I did 4 the first time around and just regretted not having a fifth (especially a tank). I hit 70 and running around dotting people up in AV turned into a gimmick real fast and I realized I couldn't do instances.

Don't let your current hardware limit your choice, you can always upgrade. And don't underestimate it - I started quad boxing on my laptop with 2GB ram and just an nvidia 7900.. ended up being on the road for 3 months and haven't had a chance to get home and get a proper desktop. I'm currently 5 boxing on the same laptop - graphics are low except for max spell effects and the main window gets great fps, only things that really hurt are Shatt, Org, and AV. Everything else is great and I took it all the way to 70.

[Lyonheart]

Just go 5. If you go less, you will STILL need to rely on someone else to fill the group. THE POWER OF FIVE BABY! If you can do 3 or 4, you CAN do 5! If you want to "roll" with friends, just leave someone out. But with the power of five, you will have less limitations!


OH! And make sure you do it RaF style!

[Kaynin]

Yeah, I suppose it differs from person to person.

I can't bring up the patience needed for five, so I just go four. Still have five accounts tho, six even, but whatever. Four is my thing.

And if I wanted to I bet ya I can four man most heroics too. I've only four manned two so far, only because I was bored and wanted something to do though. It's just fun to bring others, imo. I helped various green geared tanks get heroic and badgeloot in no time. xD

[Schwarz]

We could be having a discussion in a couple months that if you are going to box you should be 10 boxing. Time will only tell there are things that you still do in the game with under 5 accounts.

[pengwynman]

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.

isn't wotlk only $40?

[Bigfish]

I started with 2-boxing, then 3, and then 5, and honestly, boxing with a smaller number of characters lets you start working on how you set up your keyboard and macros without spending as much time figuring things out as you would if you jump straight in to 5.