The End

[Kyudo]

I was in major danger of starting to feel like this too, mainly due to over-anticipation of what Wrath would bring in the weeks/months running up to release (I guess I sort of pre-burned myself out).

So instead, after getting frustrated during the 1st week of release, I've chilled out, worked on alt teams, soloed with my pally, started a couple of new guys to twink at 69 (man RAF is overpowered). etc etc.

I'll get to 80 in the end, not really bothered about being 1st anymore, or even above the curve. I'll pick up some welfare epics when they roll along, learn the heroics at my own pace, get my professions up bit by bit.

I'm sort of enjoying this approach atm, but the kid in me still keeps whispering on my shoulder (min-devil style) "oi lazy, you're falling behind", but I do my best to ignore him, it's not a race, and I'm not answerable to anyone.

[moosejaw]

Regarding the OP's burn out. I was burned several months ago and when I came back I starting by playing alts first. It helps to have some "vacation" characters to play if you get fatigued on a boxing crew.

I plan to solo a character or 2 to 80 before I level my first team to 80. I really want to enjoy the expansion before I become a zombie leveler with a boxing crew. I have 10 70's and only 5 of them were leveled together. The others were leveled to 70 solo before leveling increases or RAF.

cheers.

[Frosty]

WoW has always been a grind fest, you can't deny that.

Coming from EQ, WoW is not a "mandatory" grind fest. It can be if you make it that way though.

That being said... It really irks me when people rush to the max level in a game and then complain there is nothing to do.
Go back and smell all the roses you missed in your mad dash to omg-I'm-the-first-uber-guy. I promise..you've missed something...

I, for one, think the phasing is an awesome addition to the game. The DK starting area alone was worth the price of the expansion for me.

And as someone mentioned before, this isn't the first time we've had to deal with follow breaking. The Mage tower in Stormwind was/is a perfect example.

[JonnyB]

I've been feeling somewhat the same. I was all psyched when I got Wrath installed, I did quite a few starting area quests to pick up a handful of gear that actually was an upgrade for my team (I was only about 4-6 weeks at 70 - still in probably a 50/50 mix of blues and greens).

I headed into both Utgarde and the Nexus with my 5 shaman and was losing 1 or 2 toons each pull just on trash. I swamped in my better geared resto shammy I played mostly solo, but that didn't help much. Then I swapped in my prot warrior and was at least able to take a few bosses down and later clear Utgarde. (Haven't gone back to Nexus yet). I've been mostly levelling my priest solo so I don't get left out when we start doing Naxx and the level 80 stuff as a guild. The group that has been working so far has been my Prot Warrior, 2 elemental shaman, shadow priest, and resto shaman.

My prot pally I had been levelling to tank is up to 63 now but I think I'm going to stick with the Warrior for now. The biggest thing for me has been dropping down to 1 or 2 toons to do runs with guildies. The quests just seem to keep getting better as I go through. (Priest almost 77 all my other toons are 71-72). I'm not in such a hurry to hit 80 on all my guys now. I had been intending to give the 10 man content a try but I've dropped down to 5 accounts for now until I have enough 80's.

Maybe I won't multibox as much but i'm definately not disappointed with Wrath overall. I give Blizzard 10 thumbs up.

[crippen]

Boxing is the only thing keeping me in wow atm, I got burned out and hated whole wotlk when leveling my main, got on my boxing team and its more fun.

Get a tank and enjoy doing instances instead of questing, and tbh, I have no idea how you can do quests as a multiboxer. I've only done instancing and if I ever try questing my body feels literaly that it will explode and I cant control it. Even on my main I hated questing, I did some zones and it wasnt very fun at all.

Whenever I see fuzzy's videos I know I will enjoy it when my turn comes.

[welwyn]

post.. makes .. me .. want.. to .. level.. new.. team...

seriously it might just be me but i have 33 level 60's atm. i multibox 4 accounts and 8 teams of level 60 atm and my main at 70. they are all same class setups so 4 x hunters, 4 x priests ect. now i am looking back and thinking if i should mix and match them all and learn something other than FTL and go with a modifier per charachter setup. ( eg normal layout is the tank ctrl + layout is healer ect) burnout after 8 teams? not really. if i get bored i go play BF2142 for a while. or supcom. or, dread to think, go outside lol. i know that i have my main i can go and have fun on i can play other things or do other things so i am not pressed to grind all day just to beat others. i enjoy it for what it is as i know i dont have to.

on a side note is there a really good guide for modifier per char setup anywhere using keyclone?

[blbjtb]

Here is my 2 cents (please take it as that)

I just started boxing about 1.5-2 months ago so yes I still have the new car smell. However that being said I got my team to 80 and now I went back and replaced 1 of my guys with a death knight so that I can tank some stuff. Mutliboxing isnt supposed to be easy cake town. I really dont feel that alot of us multibox just for the fact that we can 1-2 shot shit. (I know i dont at least) I box for the challenge. if you dont think its a challenge to box then your kidding yourself.

First of all WotLK is not even a month old yet.
Second Embrace the change and the challenge
Third if your seriously complaining about OH NO follow break. then your just looking for reasons to bitch

I play on possibly one of the worst horde servers known to man (draka) Our player base is a joke and is basically full of freaking retards.
(I get questions every day ranging from... OH man are you hacking? to WOW WHAT MOD IS THAT??? If I install that mod will I have to rename my guys? Does the mod just make shamens for you or can you actually choose what the mod makes? (Ya this tard though that multiboxing was a mod)

With that said I cant tell you how many times Ill fly into a zone Dominate the shit out of it and fly off Multiboxing is still Very powerful and if you doubt that again your kidding yourself. I can understand being burnt out hell it happens to everyone (I just came back from my I really hate wow and im never going to play it again!!!)

But since I started playing wow again I have done NOTHING but Level so ya im a little burnt out but im going to push through it and rejoice that im finally done.

[Dominian]

I dont want to be rude but it looks to me that alot of people never experienced the joy of 40 man dungeons. My guild spent 3 months on Twin Emperors in AQ 40, We cleared half of naxxramas before we got them down. Belive me we were a quite good guild but our luck with them just ran out i guess and bit of the skill,will and overall farming.

I play on one of the best pve servers in the EU (kazzak) and just here the twin emperors killed 7-8 realy good guilds causing them to merge.

You needed 40 focused guys who didnt fuck up badly once in 15 min, and always maxed the dps. If one died to early, we most likley didnt manage to kill him early enough if we didnt have battle res up.

So far i hit 78 with my paladin and 4 shamans, overall i wiped somewere like 60-70 times on my way here while i cleared all instances this far and started out in holy gear and a few epics with my shamans.

However ive tanked,healed and dps all on singel toons so i got the experience i feel i need to box overall OK, cant say im skilled at it but i dont fail either.

Personally i skip the things i dont realy like, the new sieg wepons and force my friends to use them since they understand what i can and can not do.

My changes for WOTLK was to drop a shaman and reroll my holy paladin to prot, dont regret it a day. I can do instances fairly well and dont have to rotate my shamans in the arena.

The best part is that i can bring my friends whenever i want..

My reason for boxing was that the challenge is awsome and you can REALY have a hard 5 man content. I never have to EVER go with a pug wich makes it worth it SOOOO much.

I guess im lucky since i joined a pvp guild were no one likes to tank or got the gear.. Ofc they wanna do naxx like everyone else and they need me to tank the boss in wintergrasp!

The follow thing is annoying but ive always used the Flight paths anyway, i can surf the net or get something to drink while waiting.

[crippen]

Dominian are you horde or alliance on kazzak?

[Catamer]

they keep telling me that the content wasn't designed for or against multiboxers however I have to disagree.
the base engine that everything is (or was) based off of has always included /assist /follow /focus ( focus includes target through ).
To have these items removed from the game required effort by Bliz. You don't remove these major items without effort.
everyone has known that Bliz could easily end multiboxing by removing any combination of the /assist /follow /focus

the loss of follow while changing zones is not really a problem to me but I do have issue with the massive amounts of "mount" quests where the game doesn't work like used to.
The solo boxer will never notice the loss, it's completely transparent to the solo player.
There doesn't seem to be any point to this loss other than to be anti-boxing.

I'm still having fun so far because I just do my best to avoid these quests or get really miffed because the quest now takes 5x as long as it should have.
We shall see when I get to the higher level content how much fun I have.