Firstly, thank you everyone for the wealth of information on this site and forum and of course the program itself. For the ease Keycloner ads to multiboxing, a $20 fee is very reasonable IMO.

Here's what I did to get a taste of things.

My goal is for a 5v5 arena teams and of course the fun of nuking enemy combatants while leveling. I don't forsee PVE being in their future as my guild already typically has people sitting out our raids as it is; the only PVE my hunter saw was from PUGs that I ran myself.

I used only my two accounts and left the wife's alone (all though same last name, same address, same IP, ect I doubt it would be an issue for "sharing accounts").

I used my two accounts to send out a total of three RAF invites to create 3 trial accounts. I play alliance and you can't make a shaman on a classic trial account, but this is easy enough by buying TBC, especially with the "battlechest"s on sale for $20 this friday.

So to get a taste I made 4 mages and 1 priest (all human, for the every man for himself (aka human WOTF). Using Xzin as an example I lead with the priest and casting "smite" with her causes the mage firing squad to all cast fireballs.

I was able to get the hang of things and got the characters to level 8 - One interesting thing - the characters do not gain experience eveninly, despite being all created, leveled and RAF togather - infact one mage is a full level behind the priest, I haven't yet figured out what's the reason behind that.

Issues so far:

The xp issue mentioned above.

Blizzard apparently limits the number of accounts you can create in a period of time. I'm assuming this is to combat gold farmers. I had to have my friend enter information for the last account to create it so it's likely IP related. The magic number seems to be 3 accounts at one time, anything more and you'll get an error upon creation.

While the machine doesn't seem to have a problem running 5 instances (it glitches slightly but overall runs around 40 FPS; three instances is perfect) I am having the problem of the characters running off in their own direction while on /follow. To work around this I have been spamming my /follow key every second or so but if there's a better solution please fill me in! I did read it started with patch 3.0.2 but I haven't found anything beyond that yet.

Trial accounts can't accept trades / gold (which makes buying spells a little rough since I was looting on with the priest before I figured that out).

Assuming there is still a Circut City opened in Colorado Springs I'll pick up 1-3 copies for $60 on Black Friday. I'm still deciding if 3 would work better for me, as opposed to a team of 5 (performance, the /follow issue didn't happen with 3 and of course monthly expense)

So I've narrowed my choice to all shamans or the mage + priest set up. The shaman has the advantage of I already have one levled up and geared

Basically, does the ability to do the massive burst DPS, along with AOE enough to offset a 5 shaman team (4 elemental, 1 resto) - that's what I have to decide.