Is this really allowed?

[Ualaa]

If I was starting wow from scratch, on a new server not knowing anyone...

Definitely go the recruit a friend route. You'll level so much faster.

You'll be strapped for in-game gold along the way, so have skinning on one of your support toons.
(You can make a two line macro 1) /targetlastenemy 2) /use skinning(apprentice)
Go with both mining and herbalism on your main/most active toon.
That way, you're at least gathering all the way up. Take the time to level these skills, they're decent money makers.
One member on your team should be an enchanter for disenchants down the road.
Any skill beyond skinning, mining and herbalism will cost you to level them, but can make you something down the road.
*edit* Pick the most important skills leveling up. Give each shaman an up to date Lightning Bolt, Lesser healing wave, maybe skip a lot of spells depending on gold. For the paladin, take anything that is good for tanking.

I'd go with... Paladin tank and 4x shaman's. Pally is the active toon most of the time.
Shaman's are spec'd elemental for dps. For the most part, their dps is something like this:
1) assist the paladin -and- 2) cast offensive spell.
You can use a focus based assist method, but a party leader will leave you focus for other things.

Down the road (or with dual-specs), you might want to spec one of the shaman's resto for heroics.
No need for resto leveling up. Elemental can heal just fine.
Basically use your assist method, target whoever needs a heal and cast the heal.
Four healing stream totems is a lot of heals.

Shammies will have a totem stomping macro, which is a key with a castsequence on it.
Each shaman has Fire, Water, Air and Earth (initially just Earth I believe, but you add others as you level).
So pressing the key will be, /castsequence reset=5 Fire Totem, Air Totem, Earth Totem, Water Totem.
Just look at your available totems and try to have as many useful totems down at once.
A lot of them stack, the ones that don't have one of each useful type at once.

Also have access to dropping totems outside of the sequence is helpful.
For example, I can drop 4x Healing Stream, Mana Spring, Searing, Magma, Grounding, Poison/Disease Cleansing (two of each), or Tremor Totems on a click.
Decide what is useful to you and go with it.
It's not like you cannot fairly easily adapt to it.

Read what works for others and try anything you'd like.
You'll find a system that works for you and maybe contribute a bit down the road to others.
This is a phenominal community.

[wowphreak]

Allot of yer time is gonna be spent tweaking macros getting yer group working well together.
It aint easy unless you already have a good feel for the classes yer gonna be playing you will wipe quite q few times in instances.

Look into FTL setup I think that's about the most flexible setup yeh can get.

Yeh cant go wrong sticking to the tank/dps/healer group
There's allot of plus and minus with going a "mixed group" vs tank X4 same other classes.

[Moorea]

never showering, or eating or getting laid

Speak for yourself newbie, I did all three this morning at the same time; I am a multi-boxer after all.

Hmm you ate in the shower ?

[wolpak]

never showering, or eating or getting laid

Speak for yourself newbie, I did all three this morning at the same time; I am a multi-boxer after all.

Hmm you ate in the shower ?

He didn't say WHAT he ate.

Also, would tailoring make more sense for the Shamans as it has much better caster stats than leatherworking?

[Kaynin]

never showering, or eating or getting laid

Speak for yourself newbie, I did all three this morning at the same time; I am a multi-boxer after all.

Too much info. :P

[wowphreak]

I would pick up tailoring/enchanting on one char because yeh end up with tons of junk items yeh can de and yeh end up with tons of cloth.

[Vmpwraith]

If you get the gathering professions mining, herbalisim and skinning I would definiatly put mining and herb on the main it's so much easier and skinning on an alt. I have missed leveling herb because its on an alt and I always run past the herbs and forget about it.

also a mixed group can be great but someone on the front page had a great idea start at level one with the team. It will be slower to level but the practice you get with the team will be huge and save a very frustrating time trying to master a group.

check out http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...etting_Started
and http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...lly_Kill_Stuff

They were a great help to get set up but remeber you maynot have all the spells abilities at low level so a little tayloring will be required.

[Yetiman]

Wow (no pun intended) - what an overwhelming response.

Well after creating a new RAF account, transferring mu 39 priest to it with the 10% shoulders I grouped him up with my priest and boosted them with my main - got to 60 after about 8 hours if that, was brilliant. So I gave my points to my paladin and have decided to level the below combination

Paladin and Priest, the priest is shadow and the paladin is retri. I purchased Keyclone today and managed to set it up (after 2 hours I finally did it, I was over complicating things!)

I have got some good macros set up I think, have a whole series of buff and healing macros - which knocks the SP out of shadow form but then I can press another button and put him in. Set up a castsequence macro in its most basic form and just listed all the dots for the priest.

So its not to hard all I find my self doing it attacking on the pala mashing the dot button and mind blast button while tanking it. Seems easy!

Taking me a while to move and attack stuff as I am still getting used to setting focus

But thanks all

[Ualaa]

For your priest, try this macro:

/cast [nostance:1] Shadowform


If you are not in stance 1 (Shadowform), it casts Shadowform.
This is beneficial because you can mash the button to activate stances/forms, without having multiple presses pull you out of your form.
For two toons, it has a small use.
Once you say a druid with Moonkin Form and a priest with Shadowform, and one will drop out of their form to do a heal, but the other is set to continue to DPS....
Having all your alternate form toons on one keypress, with mashable macro's is nice.
Just press your keybind for alternate forms, which in this case will put the priest into Shadowform if she is not there, but won't take her out of it.






The Addon Jamba, in the addon's/macro's forum is extremely useful.
You can strobe follow even, so once combat ends the priest auto follows on its own.
Or have a key, where any of the followers/slaves, auto follows the master toon on the keypress.
The master doesn't even have to be in your group.
Jamba is extremely nice for flightpaths, questing, auto accepting escorts on slaves, follow etc.
Highly recommended.

[Yetiman]

For your priest, try this macro:

/cast [nostance:1] Shadowform


If you are not in stance 1 (Shadowform), it casts Shadowform.
This is beneficial because you can mash the button to activate stances/forms, without having multiple presses pull you out of your form.
For two toons, it has a small use.
Once you say a druid with Moonkin Form and a priest with Shadowform, and one will drop out of their form to do a heal, but the other is set to continue to DPS....
Having all your alternate form toons on one keypress, with mashable macro's is nice.
Just press your keybind for alternate forms, which in this case will put the priest into Shadowform if she is not there, but won't take her out of it.






The Addon Jamba, in the addon's/macro's forum is extremely useful.
You can strobe follow even, so once combat ends the priest auto follows on its own.
Or have a key, where any of the followers/slaves, auto follows the master toon on the keypress.
The master doesn't even have to be in your group.
Jamba is extremely nice for flightpaths, questing, auto accepting escorts on slaves, follow etc.
Highly recommended.

Thanks mate, that could be interesting - I will eventually try a 5 man team and think something like this could be very useful, so thank you