Howdy all

[jak3676]

Just tought I'd say hi. I stumbled into this forum over the weekend. Great stuff. There's a lot of WoW advice scattered all over the place, but this is the only real place with dual/multi-boxing help.

On Friday I had my slave pretty much just on auto-follow and he was completely worthless in combat. Over the weekend the more reading and tweaking I did, the better it got. I now have keyclone set up and I'm happily blasting away with some pretty obediant followers. I'm still macro'ing every command, so I have lots of room to work on the whole targetless/focus sort of thing. I also need to grab some addons to help with questing ans so forth. But the improvement over such a short time is impressive.

I will say for all the other newbies out there - start with the wiki. I kept going through thread after thread, some of which were years old. The wiki is really the best place to start. But if you're still trying to figure out what /target <main>; /assist; /cast <something> actually does - you're in for a lot of work. This isn't like rolling a new char or seeing what changed in the recent expansion. This really takes approaching the game from a different view point. All the stickies and wiki's are great - but it's a mountain of reading and a lot of trial and error.

Before I get too far into this I still need to figure out what I want to do. What started as a simple "I want to play a new char - I may as well make 2 and have one follow the other" has quickly progressed into something much bigger. I don't want to jump in too quick only to realize that isn't what I really want to do. But it is really fun, interesting and challenging.

You won't find any help or advice below, but here's my thoughts as I'm going through this for the 1st time. I'm mostly chatting about it over on my guild web page, but figured I'd come over and say Hi, and thanks for the all the help so far. I'm sure I'll be back soon when I get really stumped.

http://www.natural-order-guild.com/?q=node/1477

http://www.natural-order-guild.com/?q=node/1491

http://www.natural-order-guild.com/?q=node/1482

[BigSmitty]

Welcome from a fellow Farstriderian (?). I'm running a couple of teams, Alliance Side, but I want to make a Horde team soon, as my second team is nearing the magic level 60 mark. I've heard of Natural Order, really upright Horde guild, nothing but good things to say about 'em from an Alliance perspective.

A word of warning. I, too, started out with just a single alt on /follow, now look where it got me....

[keyclone]

Howdy Jak!

glad to hear things are coming along great. don't forget to post some pics as your crew grows up (along with a little story... makes for really cool lunch time reading while @ work)

if you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note any time.

good luck and welcome to the addiction,

Rob

edit:
oh yea... you might want to check out a better macro setup then the basic /follow and /assist
[Keyclone] step-by-step wow macro setup (level 2.0)

[Vmpwraith]

Yeah this is a great forum. The wiki is a great resource but mostly I've found that with multi boxing there are any number of ways to do something, so trial and error and working the many methods to your game style are viatly important. Part of the fun with multiboxing is in the settup

It wont happen overnight, but it will happen , then you'll be addicted to boxing.

[jak3676]

Thanks for the welcome all.

I'm still kinda stumbling through my set-up I guess. It's not so much a matter of figureing out how to do it as trying to figure out what I want to do. The more I read here, the more I want run to the store and buy 4 more accounts. But then I go back to raiding with my guild and my main and I wonder why I was even thinking about multi-boxing in the first place.

I'm kinda back where I started. I originally stumbled upon this site when searching for some hints/tips/macro's on how to play one char and have a 2nd char in /follow. I was interested in this because I wanted to start an alt and figured I'd see if I could do 2 at a time. Pretty much everyone in my guild runs several alts (all at 80) except me. I've always appreciated their versitility and thought it would be nice to have the same capability.

I guess the root of the question is do you multi-box to support your main or do you run your main to support your MB team? I realize that plenty of you probably do both, but I may be a bit more limited on time, so I feel that I have to make a choice to focus on one or the other (at least for now). So my goal is to level some alts up as quick as possible - and multiboxing with refer a friend, looks to be a great way to do that. I have little/no experience with other char's ourside of my mage, so I'm having to learn that as I go too. I've also decided that I'm only going to keep 2 accounts when this is all said and done - but I may run a 3rd or 4th account for a little while to help level.

I figure my focus for my first few alts should be a Druid and a Paly. With dual-spec comming soon I want some chars that can play all 3 rolls (Tank, Heal, DPS). My 2nd priority is to get a shaman and priest leveled up. That would give me all 4 healer classes and each one can DPS as well. I also get 2 tanks. Beyond that I'd like to get some of the other classes too - but I can't do everything at once so I'll wait on my Warrior, Warlock, Rogue and Hunter.

So now I'm trying to figure out what's the fastest and cheapest way to do this. One one hand I can buy 4 new accounts, rolls one of each of 4 toons I want to keep then boost them all with my 80 mage. I probably couldn't effectively control 5 classes at once, but with my mage nuking everything in sight I can probably boost them well into their 60's before I can't just solo with my mage and keep the others behind for healing support. Mage tanking FTW!!! But that would cost me 4 accounts and in the end I'd have to pay to transfer 3 chars to get back down to only keeping 2 accounts. I'm also really pushing the limits of what my hardware can support. It handled 3 accounts pretty well - I'm still trying to get 4 accounts to run at once and having some problems. I'm not sure 5 at a time will be playable.

The cheap option is definitly to only pay for 2 accounts and then just level them in tandem. I effectivly loose my ability boost, and only doing 2 at a time would be much slower. Obviously this would be much easier to control and actually play my new alts as I level them. And I won't smoke my hardware playing only 2 at a time either.

The option I'm leaning toward is picking up 2 (or maybe 3 if I can get playable FPS out of my current hardware) accounts and then transfering 1 (or maybe 2) chars back to my main account when I'm done. I'm wondering how tough it would be to run instances with 3 (maybe 4) chars. Thoughts? This would still let me level all 4 classes at the same time, so I'm not having to make multiple leveling runs.

As kinda a seperate thought with 3 or 4 accounts, I could run a more "normal' multi-box setup and try groups like: Paly, 3x Priests or Druid, 3x Shaman. If I just pick of these and level them to 60, I could then gift my other 2 toons to the accounts I'm keeping. So that means only 1 run to 60 to get 4 seperate chars's to 60 and I don't have to pay to transfer any toons, although I would have buy 3 more copies of vanilla WoW.

Hmm - still thinking of the possibilities I guess.



@BigSmitty - if you ever decide to come to the dark side and roll a horde - give me a yell. Natural Order is a great guild. I don't see to many other guilds that can keep it casual and fun, but still see some end game raid content. Glad to see some fellow Farstriders out there - there's not a lot of us. (Fair warning, the /trade chat on the Horde side is terrible - our entire guild is actually thinking about relocating to a different server. Not that I think it will really go anywhere as no one is going pay $100 to move 5 toons, and people wouldn't want to just move a single char.)