125 Boxing WoW

[Xzin]

Ellay and I were talking and I got to thinking. Would it be possible to 25 x 5 (125 box) WoW? Basically box an entire raid, times 5?

I wish to reiterate that I have absolutely no desire to do this. The question is more theorycraft.

However...

With enough addons, time, money and patience... I maintain it to be possible.

Why would you want to do this? I can't speak to that. But what do you think? Use auto rez macros, select the most automated classes, etc.

[valkry]

What's the point? AV limit is 40, PVE raids are 25, old school PVE raids are 40. I could understand 5x5 for a full raid, but why 5x25? World pvp? Maybe, in a city the guards and lag would be huge so much that the numbers would be more of a hindrance if anything.

And of course it is possible...how is it not possible? They would all have to stay outside though.

[Xzin]

You could basically do 1) Wintergrasp and 2) Town Raids.

That's about it.

Oh and look pretty in Org/IF.

I didn't say it would be practical :)

[valkry]

I want someone to do 32x mages and 8x priests, and join up to an AV. Would be so epic just to see that aoe romp-a-stomp it's way down to the end boss lol. Just anihilate any enemy it comes across.

I think there was a premade AV made up of just mages and priests that did this. Wish I could find it lol.

[mmcookies]

hey i thought mods weren't allowed to bait...

well i guess that was some other forum.

[Mono]

4) Have Sam Deathwalker roll 126 toons just to say he's better than you.

I was gonna say that :S

[Zaelar]

At this point I think the limit is entirely upon how much time and money someone is willing to put into it. However many the servers can handle may be the most limiting factor. Leveling so many characters before the level cap is raised every 2 years may also be another limiter although technically you'd still be boxing that many, just you're not doing end-game content.

[Ellay]

This is crazy dumb

[Malekyth]

I think the point is, to say you did it. Perfectly valid, considering some of our reasons for boxing, i.e. all of the ones that don't go, "I'm sick of people, please save me from having to group with anyone and share these luscious Plainstrider Beaks." That's mine, by the way.

I think the biggest possible "ugh" would be ... UGH, leveling that many toons for such a limited use as 1) killing x town over and over when the other guilds aren't killing it; and 2) Orgrimmar Dance-pocalypse. Certainly possible, at least until someone tries it and blacks out the east coast for six weeks, but probably not quite profitable enough to bother.

[algol]

From a computer resources standpoint, sure - you can run two clients in parallel on separate machines, therefore you can run an arbitrarily large number provided you have the budget for it. Electricity and cooling (of the room) will become significant considerations. Also probably hearing protection if you plan to actually be in the room with the computers. Likewise, you may get to the point that it overwhelms most residential internet services - but this is also something you can throw money at.

There are two limiting factors that you can do very little about - the capacity of the world server, and the player's ability to control and focus attention on many elements simultaneously. You can one-shot most players with a great deal fewer avatars, and you can't get this many into any instance, so the only real thing to do with it is try and one-shot racial bosses & outdoor bosses. Which I believe scale according to the number of attackers rather than being finite, since non-multiboxing players have tried the zerg method to downing them often enough. So...it's technically possible up to whatever the limit of the world server is (which changes given upgrades over time, population, and the current patch), and you can control it if you don't mind having no more finesse than a 5-man multiboxing setup...but there's nothing to DO with it.