To 2 box or 3 box, that is the question!

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I would say that myself if
a.) you had a quad-core system and the other gear to make 5x really workable
b.) you really wanted to excel at PvE instances

The cool part here is that someday, if the price ever does drop (say when DIII comes out ...'cept then I'll be playing that *shrug*) I made sure my MOB could support quad core, but I am not rushing out to buy one now still. Secondly I do want to play around with pve, mainly the old school instances for fun. If I ever need to I can break down and go raiding with a guild with whatever # of my 3 they will allow or just use a single character. Playing this for fun still and raids are fun. Its the times I am not playing with others directly that I would like to be boxing. And pvp would be hella fun IMO. Thanks for the info it has helped me decide to stick with tri-boxing. If money were no real issue I def would try 5boxing though, I def see your point but it is not feasable for me.

Yes, this can work. I actually do this from time to time as some of my best friends in the game are a healer and a tank. However, I still think that the number of times you're going to be able to magically find a healer and a tank is pretty slim, given the shortage of people playing these roles on almost every server.

If you had a regular group of people that you played with that were dedicated to healing and tanking, it's a great idea. Personally, if someone was hellbent on doing PvE with a tri-box situation, I'd recommend a Healer/Tank/DPS combo, personally, probably all druids...

This is what I like to hear, I know I won't be doing instances at MY lv but I always loved running lower lv instances with my main mage back in the day for fun and also to see how much I could pull at once. This I am looking forward to as well, next my search will go into searching the forums for good 3 man teams, though it won't be very hard till I try to get the pure classes all in one group(tank,dps,healer), talk about macro intensive XD

I will probably run 2 hunters +something to 60 and then grant something like a pally and priest the lvs to get from 30-59 etc.
Over all I was psyched to just be dual boxin this past week, getting the hang of it etc. Now I am hyped even more due to certain mage pvp videos and your testemony of runing lower instances with relative ease. I still ahve single player friends that I want to play with so it will work out if I have just 3 I think. Thank you all for the insite. Hopefully this can help other people who are tossing up the question of 2 vs 3 boxing around as well. I'll post back later today once I get it all set up. for Now its off to town to find another battle chest XD.