Update: How the 5x Boomkins are doing

[Piecemaker]

This makes me want to roll 5 boomkins too! Just got my death knight to 80, my pally + 4 shammy team is still only 66, and i'm a little bored with them. I'm not willing to buy more accounts, so no RAF for me.
I'd like to do a lot of instances to level the druids, so how good are they at low level? Are instances like RFC and WC even doable with 5 boomkins? Only advantage i see over 5 shamans at low levels is 5 x root

[Fuzzyboy]

This makes me want to roll 5 boomkins too! Just got my death knight to 80, my pally + 4 shammy team is still only 66, and i'm a little bored with them. I'm not willing to buy more accounts, so no RAF for me.
I'd like to do a lot of instances to level the druids, so how good are they at low level? Are instances like RFC and WC even doable with 5 boomkins? Only advantage i see over 5 shamans at low levels is 5 x root

You can't get moonkin form until level 40. Also, the success of 5 moonkin relies heavily on simultaneous targetting and there's no managable legit way of doing this at the moment and there's no guarantee (or even indication) that the tool he is talking about is real or legit (although I do hope it is).

[BoxerFest]

For what it is worth, Hotkeynet handles the aoe targetting very easily. You can either bind a ctrl mouseclick to transmit mouseclick to your slaves, or you can bind a button to transmit mouseclicks.

[Fuzzyboy]

For what it is worth, Hotkeynet handles the aoe targetting very easily. You can either bind a ctrl mouseclick to transmit mouseclick to your slaves, or you can bind a button to transmit mouseclicks.

I think one of the problems with mouse-cursor broadcasting (as far as I understand) is that it wont place the AE spell in the same area unless all the chars have same view settings and are standing in the same place?

[BoxerFest]

I think one of the problems with mouse-cursor broadcasting (as far as I understand) is that it wont place the AE spell in the same area unless all the chars have same view settings and are standing in the same place?

Well.....it seems to work for targetting Rain of Fire......I broadcast a click in the general area in front of me and it seems to work fine. My settings are probably the same, but the toons are definitely not in the same place.

[Evilseed]

Basically with my 5x druid team (lvl 76 now) this is what I did...

1 - 44 w/RAF took about 6-8 hours or so. I had a team waiting by to assist with SFK/SM runs which is why the low /played time was so low. I didn't even mess with talents as I didn't want to be slowed down. I did kitty form when got it the whole way.

44 - 58 was done doing pure Strathome runs with my trusty pally friend. Great times. I trained boomkin while in Strat and start having amazing fun with hurricanes, though at the time it had a cooldown.

58-70 was done about 20% questing in BC and 80% running mana tombs. Over and over and over. By level 68 I could do mana tombs in just a handful of pulls thanks to AOEing massive groups of elites (my largest was 8 groups in 1 aoe pull.. lol don't ask

70-72 was pure questing. Very fast I might add (thanks to http://wtbblue.com).

72-74 I did UK. Easy as pie thanks to a ton of roots and trees.

74+ I am starting to grind out instances. I'm not sure which one is the best but I'm learning it. I can say without a doubt that every instance so far with 5x boomkins is easily AOEable and can be run extraordinarily fast. I simply hot heal my guys up, switch to boomkin, run around and aggro, then AOE often 2-3 pulls at once which are the same level as my druids. Sometimes 1 druid will die, but I'm getting the hang of it. The key is to grab the mobs all together in the first 3 seconds and start AOEing on the 5th second. This maintains a ginormous amount of HOT heals while doing hurricains. It takes 2 hurricains to kill an infinite amount of elites, which all can be done in the timespan of the HOT heals for the most part.

I've seen a few posts debating the mouse targeting. I've spent the past 3 months creating something I'm going to release to the multiboxing public. It is extreeemly easy to use, requires no scripting of any sort, 100% pure GUI, easy as cake to use. There isn't scripting because the program is very dumb in its operations. Some people have made queries if tools like this are against the TOS. Well, at one point, it was in the gray if tools like Keyclone was. The facts are the Keyclone has a lot more intelligence than my program, and my program is built around the whole concept of "1 switch throws 5 switches" that I saw a Blizzard employee stat was okay. Obviously I cannot guarentee anything, however, my tool is created specifically to be as easy on the rules of the game as possible.

Anyway, I'm proud to say it is damn near done. I'm just working on a couple tweaks. I'm even tempted to post a screenshot of it in action Bear with me a little while longer and it'll be up and ready.

PS - For those who PM'd me, give me about a week and I'll get you a beta copy before the others have it. I'm just working out a few bugs as I've recently decided to port it from .NET to standard C++ WPL and have a tiny few bugs to work out.

[blast3r]

Reading your story makes me remember how happy I am that i rolled a team of Druids with RAF. They are level 62 now. I was thinking of jumping on my level 65 hunters to get them to NR but reading this makes me miss my druids. Maybe they will be next in line! Before I do this I need to get my main shaman team on epic flyers and am about 25.5K Gold short.

BTW, I also have a team of Rogues at level 60. I was thinking about 10 boxing down the road and was thinking how much fun 5 rogues and 5 boomkins could be. Looking foward to that as well!

[blast3r]

For what it is worth, Hotkeynet handles the aoe targetting very easily. You can either bind a ctrl mouseclick to transmit mouseclick to your slaves, or you can bind a button to transmit mouseclicks.

I think one of the problems with mouse-cursor broadcasting (as far as I understand) is that it wont place the AE spell in the same area unless all the chars have same view settings and are standing in the same place?

I never used mouse-cursor broadcasting but what i did was bound a castsequence macro for dropping trees following up with hurricane. Works pretty good. Once your trees start dropping they aggro everything and give you time to finish switching to the other windows to finish the sequence.

[pengwynman]

my 5x boomkin are 77 atm :]

here's the main:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...erfist&n=Allai

leveling has been a blast, but I'm kind of burned out on it right now-- I've leveled straight from 1-77 without stopping at 70 (i went to northrend at 68 ) so i'm trying to mix it up with other games (like Left 4 Dead, check it out!)

mostly i like popping all my trees + starfall. it works great against large groups of alliance!

[suprafro]

Sounds like an awesome team for sure, later on when you get some free time post up a few video clips, I bet alot of folks here would enjoy them (I definitely would) the AOE crazyness that you use to kill multiple trash packs in instances sounds OP! Also some PVP trees involving gankage via 15x trees would also be most welcome :thumbsup: