5 boxing in Kara

[Coltimar]

Can someone either update their info about 5 boxing Kara, or perhaps make a new thread? I am one of a few in no hurry to hit 80 (I just hit 71 doing Bot last night) and I'm interested to see what is needed to have success with 5 and what my team's expectations should be.

[Schwarz]

Wait what? kara has been 5 boxed by several people with 1 tank and 4 dps. I have gone in there with 10 dps and cleared attune/moross/opera (big bad wolf/wizard of oz/and romulo and juliet)/curator/shade/ilhoof.

This thread was started over a year ago.

[zanthor]

Wow.... necro ftw.

[Coltimar]

I've read all of those out dated posts, when they were posted. Read MY question. No one in those threads posted anything since 3.0 and no one posted their gear or setups.

Umm, use the search feature?

Kara has been 5 boxed (I personally did it 5 (me) + 5 (guildies).

Kara has been 10 boxed by a single person.

Kara has been done by a good number of boxers with multiple team configurations (4, 3, 2... 6.. whatever).

From there, Zul'Aman has been 5 boxed I think too (with a much higher difficulty than Kara)

[Schwarz]

did you read this

So, I just 5 boxed kara =D

[Coltimar]

I just did another search on 'kara' 'karazhan' and '5 man kara' and all you get is your post about you and your buddy, Fur, and another older post about someone running kara and ZA with guildies. Let me be more specific.

Is anyone STILL 5 boxing Kara, post WotLK? Are you using 1 pally 4 shaman or a mixed team? Do you use focus leadership or free-ball? I have a real hard time judging who effective I should be able to be in certain instances because one post says "I hit 70 15 seconds before midnight, installed wotlk and cleared UK with 300 SP and a tank with 8k hp" another post says "my full S2 noob team and Kara gear pally wiped like Charmin in UK". I'm looking for some information go gauge

1) is my gear to bad to be doing what I am trying
2) do my skills need work
3) do I just need due dilligence

Nothing, in the massive number of pages I searched, addresses this. This post sort of does, but it's outdated, so I /cast Resurrection on it.

[Coltimar]

So, I just 5 boxed kara =D[/url]

Yes. That is the post that started it. I am wondering how far I should expect to get without BT gear.

[Schwarz]

I don't mean to come off as a dick but I say just go try it. You should be able to get down attune/morroes/maybe maiden. With wotlk out it might be kind of a waste to do it. Level to 80 then come back and see it if you just want to experience the content. I guarantee at that point you will be able to blow through it.

[Coltimar]

This is sort of a culmination post. A few of us who hit 70 late are struggling in WotLK instances. And I intend to level slowly to 80 and enjoy it anyhoo, so no biggie. I also still want to do some of the older stuff, even some of the really old stuff, that I enjoy doing 'normally'. I could be a dick and say 'use the search function' and you could see that I have tried Kara (7 Man Kara post), but I'm a bit nicer than to just copy/paste that stucco line in every post :/ Also, we all know how unreliable the search feature is at times. I down Attumen and Moroes ok, but I'm having trouble with Maiden and beyond.

Please don't say 'take a friend' because I don't have any. Everybody ditched me when I started multiboxing :/ I would like to collect a section of data on the middle 80%, not the top 5%, of the community to see if anyone is still bothering wtih Kara and ZA and what their story is. Basically my shaman are at 575-600 SP 15% crit 6k hp and my pally tank is around 14k hp, 490 def 22% dodge (ish) 13-14% block and parry.

[Kulzor]

I'm in a tiny guild of mostly real life friends. One guy (a warrior tank) who lives for pugging instances (he's done multiple in wrath so far, I've seen him in the first three, but not sure how many runs he's done). Apart from him, my multibox team is the only group actively running instances much right now. (I've run about 16-17 wrath instance runs, but won't both with TBC without a reason at this point.)

I've considered running Kara with the guild, but the question becomes...why? Kara gear is replaced very quickly by Wrath quest rewards. Apart from doing it to do it, that is. Or perhaps getting tanking gear - I've found one thing (a necklace I think) that is a tank item apart from blacksmithing created gear.

Same with ZA - I've debated pushing my guild to go run it (we never have, though I've been in a few times in the past), and I doubt we'd find much of anything worth getting.