Too many teams??

[Sam DeathWalker]

You really need to run 5 instead of 4 .... buy another computer or whatever it takes that bit of extra exp you lose is going to add up in the long run.

Well you know umm I was going to make some alts as well on the grounds that today shammy might be OP (well ... lol) but tommorow who knows what class will be OP, also really want a mage for transport and rouge for lock boxes but "at the end of the day" I just gonna roll with 25 shammy and 1 pal ... be it good or bad.

[Hachoo]

I still don't get why people do this... Getting a bunch of teams up to 60 in 3 months, meanwhile some of us have gotten 1-2 teams to 80 in the same amount of time, now we're doing fun end game stuff, running instances, perfecting our team, and those who chose to make a bunch of teams are just hitting outland and wondering which team to level.

It then goes full circle and that same person starts leveling a team to 70, then realizes they want to use a different team and starts leveling that team to 70. Then at 70 the same thing happens going to 80. By the time you guys get to 80 the NEXT expansion will be out and we'll all be leveling to 90

Just sayin'...

some of us have "level-itis" or "alt-itis" where we get one team to max level and can't help but start another. I know my paladin, 4 shaman team is starting to lose its luster right now, lol.

Well yeah, I have the same thing, but only with single boxing. I just want to experience every class. So, when I started multiboxing I RAFed where all my accounts were slaves from my main, which made it possible to get an instant-60 of every class on my main account (I already had a couple 70s on my main account as well). Now if I ever have the desire to play a different class I just try a new level 60+ on my main account.

Starting a whole new "team" because I want to try something new would be the biggest waste of time ever. On a fresh team it takes almost 8 hours in the first 30 levels just to set all my macros up properly (I like having a full set of advanced/complex macros that do everything the exact way I want). If I were just going to abandon the team later I'd hate the fact that I spent so much time on everything, and yeah I'm totally sick of 1-60 now.

My other team (current is a DK + 4 shamans) is a priest + 4 warlocks. When I hit 70 on my shamans I decided I was "bored" of the shamans and I'd heard good things about 5x dots, so I did the priest/warlock. I was having a blast, made it all the way to 65 before realizing I couldn't do any instances hardly, and other than battlegrounds at 70 it was a dead end and really the gimmick of dotting everything wore off fairly quick. Thats when I picked my shamans back up again and realized why I started them in the first place (they can pretty much do anything) - thats when I decided I didn't care that I still had RAF and I just took my shamans and played nothing but them. Hopefully I can keep the alt-itis under control long enough to deck them out in 80 epics and experience most of the WotLK PvE content so I don't waste too much time playing the same repetitive 1-60(70) grind over again

[suicidesspyder]

lol im doing the same thing with my raf ending on dec 30 for 4 accounts. Thank god my main account has some 70's so i know what 4 to lvl. I got my shammy team and dk team over 60 druid team close next will be lock and hunter quad teams which will be done next weekend. If this all works out i might still be able to roll a quad mage and quad sp team but your right i dont ever want to worry about a newbie team ever again. Ill have all teams but pally and warrior and im not to worried about those two.

[Shaden]

I still don't get why people do this... Getting a bunch of teams up to 60 in 3 months, meanwhile some of us have gotten 1-2 teams to 80 in the same amount of time, now we're doing fun end game stuff, running instances, perfecting our team, and those who chose to make a bunch of teams are just hitting outland and wondering which team to level.

It then goes full circle and that same person starts leveling a team to 70, then realizes they want to use a different team and starts leveling that team to 70. Then at 70 the same thing happens going to 80. By the time you guys get to 80 the NEXT expansion will be out and we'll all be leveling to 90

Just sayin'...

some of us have "level-itis" or "alt-itis" where we get one team to max level and can't help but start another. I know my paladin, 4 shaman team is starting to lose its luster right now, lol.

That.

I just wanted to use RAF to make as many team combinations as I could that were interesting to me (tried to start a quad female dwarf hunter team but just couldn't get into it) so in the event I became bored with one team in the mid-60s/70s, I could just switch to another that was already waiting for me at level 60, rather than start them from scratch without 3X experience.

I may end up adding a fifth account some time in the future but I haven't really felt the need. Maybe that'll change once I start doing Outland instances but I'm hoping if I get a 2-3 levels over each instance when I run it, it may still be doable with four.

[suicidesspyder]

Fun end game stuff heh. Been there done that i dont think northrend is all that good i like the thrill of leveling. When you hit the level cap and do the same thing over n over n over again you cant tell me you dont get bored. I love the idea also having many teams at 60. This means like stated above if you get bored with one team you can get on another team. For me its the thrill of trying to run multiple classes at one time and trying to perfect more then just one class. I mean whats the fun you get one team to 80 and learn it but a raid whats more then what you have. At least having multiple groups multiple specs you will always have what a raid needs. Like for instance i got to lvl 70 with shamans and was like wow now im bored. So i rolled dk's love playing them but ran outta rested so i said new team. Plus doing more teams means i can blow thru instances in outlands with full rested bars and lvl more teams and have more to do then just raid and do dailies. I mean yea i love raiding in all but after bc i got burnt on it. Getting on and as soon as you get on hey can you heal for this or that cause your one of the guilds best healers BLAH. Spend 3-4 hrs in a raid and get nothing for a drop got annoying after awhile.

[Marious]

Hehe you got the same thing I normally got, its like get on your healer we need you at one point I got really tired of it and just let my guild leader know that if he could not fill up the healing spot I do it but if he could go ahead and do it. I wanted to be able to get my DPS guys in there, my hunter and my shaman did not get a whole lot of raid time cause they always wanted my healer. Biggest reason I did multiple teams was because I wanted to try them all out since I was a novice Multiboxer and the expansion had not come out yet, my RAF ended like a week after the expansion came out so I did as many teams as I could which ended up being 3 with almost all my main account char's spots having a 60 in there as alts. But the Pally+Shaman team I find to be a very fun team, but I also seem to like adding my druid and mage into the mix so trying to get them up to 70 so that I can have both a Pally+Shaman team and a Pally+Mix team.

[singpraise]

Shaden - I fell your pain. Went through almost the same thing last month. I had 4 level 70's and a 66 that I was grinding through BC end game content and a whole tribe of bank/crafter alts spread on two accounts - I was probably more of a farmer & builder than a raider (got boring day after day) - and I am 90% PVE. Then learned about RAF and found this site... And my laptop happened to be hefty enough to run 4 WoWs at once (for BC & Azeroth) - my whole gaming life changed. http://www.wemultibox.com/blogs/singpraise (I am a lousy blogger - bleh)

The way I solved my crisis (24+ level 60s & my old 70's & WotLK releasing & completely burned out on leveling in Azeroth) was to figure out what was fun & focus on that.

First I made a hybrid group of my 70's & the 66 and used them to plod through Northrend (they are 74 & 73 now). My laptop just barely cuts it in WotLK - so the first two weeks were hell and all the dang BT & HF collection quests drove me nuts.

When plodding wasn't fun I grabbed some hunters (I found them the most fun leveling - and 3.0.2 was THE BM hunter patch). I also found that having a mixed group wasn't so bad - so I mixed and matched my teams. Currently have 3x hunters & 1 shammy at level 64/65 and another "mixed hybrid" team (Lock, Mage, Shammy & the 4th hunter with a Gorriladin tank - my utility players - high level tailor & inscriptions & mage for portals & lock for summons) at 63/62.

Switch among them based on rested xp available & fun factor...

Do I miss not having an 80 or 4 80's and running heroics? Yeah a bit - but I will get there eventually. (It helps that I started WoW right after BC came out - so I was always hearing about guildies doing firsts - when I was dragging Sing through Stocks for the first time - so I can hang in there and realize it wills till be fun when I make it in a month or two) ( And I will get a new monster gaming machine eventually & maybe try 5 boxing.)

Bottom line: do your own thing & focus on the fun... Enjoy.

[HPB]

I still don't get why people do this... Getting a bunch of teams up to 60 in 3 months, meanwhile some of us have gotten 1-2 teams to 80 in the same amount of time, now we're doing fun end game stuff, running instances, perfecting our team, and those who chose to make a bunch of teams are just hitting outland and wondering which team to level.

It then goes full circle and that same person starts leveling a team to 70, then realizes they want to use a different team and starts leveling that team to 70. Then at 70 the same thing happens going to 80. By the time you guys get to 80 the NEXT expansion will be out and we'll all be leveling to 90

Just sayin'...

Never having to start from level 1 again? I have a few teams, but a guild mate of mine leveled up: 5xPaladin, 5xHunter, 5xLock, 5xDruid, 5xShamen. My RAF ended 2 days before the XPAC and his was 2-3 days after. So we didn't lose any time getting to Northrend by having more teams. Also, it's very rewarding if you're a goal-oriented person to challenge yourself to get all the teams you are hoping for in the given time frame (3 months).

[5fingersofdoom]

Best thing I decided to do was to just mothball every other team I did,until I get the urge to play that class and concentrate on just 1x5 team to 80,I figure after doing endgame i'll get my appetite back for OL/AZE world game play and need a break from Northrend.
1st team I would always do would be one capable of hitting Heroics,whatever format that is for you.
Just so I could rotate in a fresh character for badges gold and whatnot.
Shaman Pally/DK would be my choice.
Hope that helps.

[Hachoo]

I still don't get why people do this... Getting a bunch of teams up to 60 in 3 months, meanwhile some of us have gotten 1-2 teams to 80 in the same amount of time, now we're doing fun end game stuff, running instances, perfecting our team, and those who chose to make a bunch of teams are just hitting outland and wondering which team to level.

It then goes full circle and that same person starts leveling a team to 70, then realizes they want to use a different team and starts leveling that team to 70. Then at 70 the same thing happens going to 80. By the time you guys get to 80 the NEXT expansion will be out and we'll all be leveling to 90

Just sayin'...

Never having to start from level 1 again? I have a few teams, but a guild mate of mine leveled up: 5xPaladin, 5xHunter, 5xLock, 5xDruid, 5xShamen. My RAF ended 2 days before the XPAC and his was 2-3 days after. So we didn't lose any time getting to Northrend by having more teams. Also, it's very rewarding if you're a goal-oriented person to challenge yourself to get all the teams you are hoping for in the given time frame (3 months).

Why would I ever start from level 1 again? My main account has one of every single class between 60 and 80. My other 4 accounts will never need anything other than shaman as they will always (I don't care what anyone says - always) be viable as DPS or healing, so for PvE and PvP I will never need anything other than those 4 on my alt accounts.

And yes I do love the leveling process itself, but as a SINGLE character. Leveling with 5 is FAR more tedious and boring than leveling a single character. Instances, PvP, etc, is where the multiboxing fun is, and you get almost none of that from 1-60. Plus once you have 9 or 10 teams to 60 then what? Now you level them to 70, then 80, without any RAF bonus. By the time you get to 80 now you're so sick of the game you never want to play it again and you spent hundreds of hours just doing the same 84 hours of content over and over and over again

Edit: And yes, I understand this will not change anyone's mind here, just sayin...