Thanks for all the comments and tips. I decided to start out with the trinity. I normally play hybrid classes, so I’m not really used to playing either of the three. I’m also trying out a pally/mage/priest. The healing seems redundant, but it’s nice to have two characters that can rez.

Xzin, I guess you are right. I have a pretty good machine – a Core 2 Duo with 2 gig of memory. It was working fine running three WOWs in Elwynn Forest and Stormwind, but when I got to Ironforge I’d get disconnects. No real latency problems, but the secondary characters would drop. It always happened when I was moving from place to place. The accounts following the lead would disconnect from the server. Never happened to a character when I was playing it directly, always on “follow.” The latency meter never indicated a problem. Anybody know what was going on there?

In any case, I played for about eight hours and I’m hooked on it now. Got to figure out how to set up two machines.