Update: How the 5x Boomkins are doing

[Bena]

nice! just started rolling some new teams (5xpallies) and an all druid team with raf.. sounds like it's going to be good.

[Fuzzyboy]

Let us know how you progress - I might try 5 druids and see how it works out once I'm done farming badges :-D

[Sajuuk]

I've always wanted to do 5 druids,but I've lost a lot of interest in the game for right now.

Maybe when I come back and do my alliance reroll. I think I'm going to wait a few more months so I can take a longer break/take advantage of scroll of resurrection.

[Stealthy]

How are you instantly dropping all the trees? Im guessing you are going to each instance and doing it, possibly with 2 monitors? Id like to know exactly how you do it if you dont mind.

I have a tool I wrote which does it perfectly. Its fully legit just like how keyclone is and is very sensitive to concerns about multiboxing. I'm going to be releasing it to the public very soon. Basically I'm doing a lot of stress testing as it is. This tool of mine is an ABSOLUTE GODSEND. I can cast for example 5x hurricanes anywhere instantly all in the same spot for massive pwnage. Plus popping 15 trees instantly is magical onto itself. I'm going to be PMing some people soon to test things out if you're interested.

I would be very interested to see this. I'd levelled up a druid team with my RAF time (currently at 61) and was planning to make them my secondary team in WotLK. Having to manually target the Treants and Hurricane was a PITA, so if you've found a way to fix this, that's great news. Fear is definitely still a multibox druids achilles heel, I think you've been lucky in that you havent gone up against players that haven't known how to exploit this - a warrior charging in and using Intimidating Shout will be hard to counter.

In terms of PvP (especially for Arenas) I still think shams have the edge - apart from Tremors for fear, grouding totems are still the best form of spell mitigation for boxers period. Also Thunderstorm is an AOE knockback for 20 yards whereas typhoon is frontal only for 5. But for world PvP, and large scale BG's like AV, I can see where 5 x Druids would shine.

By the way, can you link your armory - I'd like to check out your spec...

Cheers,
S.

[Tasty]

Having to manually target the Treants and Hurricane was a PITA, so if you've found a way to fix this, that's great news.

Couldn't agree more, I can't imagine what it would be like using blizzard or flamestrike at the same time

[5fingersofdoom]

I can attest to 5 Moonkins AoE.
I used to do this with 5x70 merc gladiator gemmed hunters and use volley,which I thought was awesome,I then tried it with my crap geared 60 Drood team,the difference was night and day.
I completely believe the results EvilSeed is getting,after all what use are totems against that kind of opening damage.
The way i'm seeing BG fights change with the inclusion of DK and DGrip,most fights i'm encountering favour more mobility which seems to suit the way Boomkins fit into teams.
As i've posted before Strarfall and especially Moonfire have no line back to caster,in heavy melee and if you have rolled Nelf this is a total headache for Horde with much camera spinning madness.
Gl with the lvling ES be very interested to see your results in 80 resil gear.

[Fizzler]

I leveled 5 druids to 60 but did not like the idea of AOE targetting with trees etc. I had more fun with 3 Mages, Lock, SP combo. Now mind you I am not sure they would do well in instances but for AOE dang they were fun. The Lock could hellfire with no worries as Holy Nova was replenishing life as fast as it would burn away.

My thoughts with the druid were Stealth instance runs it will be some time before I get back to level that group though.

[Fuzzyboy]

Be careful. Anything that even positions the mouse for you is heavily into grey areas, if not already into the forbidden territory of automation. It sounds like you're describing something which does that. There are several already that do - we just don't use them widely because we like keeping our accounts.

I have a very open and active dialog with Blizzard through some other angles that I have with the company. No worries here. My program revolves around the same concept that "Pull 1 lever and 5 levels are then pulled" example that Blizzard is giving for the AOK in multiboxing software.

I really hope this is doable, but to be honest, I have a hard time imagining how it could be done in a legit way.

Even if all chars are standing directly on top of eachother, you have to have the same view, not to mention it's actually difficult having them stand on eachother in the first place. So I imagine your concept revolves around somehow setting viewmode to the same on all chars and broadcasting the relative location of the mouse on the client window. Of course, this is already possible, but I really don't see how something more accurate can be done without client interaction, so I'm very curious if you've actually pulled it off :-) Don't get me wrong, I really hope you have and if you do, you could make a decent buck off it, I'm just a bit skeptical. Especially about the open and active dialogue with Blizzard.

[GKar]

How are you instantly dropping all the trees? Im guessing you are going to each instance and doing it, possibly with 2 monitors? Id like to know exactly how you do it if you dont mind.

I have a tool I wrote which does it perfectly. Its fully legit just like how keyclone is and is very sensitive to concerns about multiboxing. I'm going to be releasing it to the public very soon. Basically I'm doing a lot of stress testing as it is. This tool of mine is an ABSOLUTE GODSEND. I can cast for example 5x hurricanes anywhere instantly all in the same spot for massive pwnage. Plus popping 15 trees instantly is magical onto itself. I'm going to be PMing some people soon to test things out if you're interested.

I'm very interested in your tool. It would be a huge DPS increase for my hunter team if I could volley effectively.

[Kromtor]

if druids had a way to deal with fear i'd still be playing my 5 druids. i agree one of the best parts was dotting everything, insect swarm is a godly spell 5x. in higher end pvp you're going to have fear problems but everybody's got some weakness so who cares. i can't believe you got 60 in 22 hours yet are still only 75 =)