Ya I could never understand the advantage of symlinking. I run wow from the same folder on all 5 instances of my guys per computer.

I seriously doubt there is a performace advantage symlinking vs. running from a single wow folder. Both would be better then running from say 5 seperate wow folders.

All are right about the global settings/character settings being a mess but I have worked around that by complicated automated changeing names inside of the files in the wtf folder.

But that lets me change macros on all 25 shaman at one time, I would guess with serperate wtf folders per characer you have to change macros in game serperatly for each character.