10-boxing questions

[Pocalypse]

I currently have a 5-box team at 80. Pally tank, 3 ele shammies and 1 resto shammy. I've cleared all heroics except for Oculus, which I expect to do once I sit down and write the macros for it.

I'm now thinking, what next?
I'm getting bored with heroics, and I've only been 80 for 2 weeks.
I know my group should be geared enough now for raiding, but I'm not in a guild, and don't want to find one and have to convince them to accept a multiboxer.

On my accounts, I have (single boxed) a 50 hunter, 58 DK, 68 druid, 71 priest, 72 mage. Sounds like a good team to level up, try my hand at a mixed group, and maybe 10 box eventually? (I would have liked a warlock instead of the druid, but I'm not about to start one from scratch).

I do have a few questions, as follows:

Has anyone successfully 10-boxed some of the raids in WotlK?
I've seen mention of some people maybe taking down a few naxx bosses, but wasn't sure if that was all one person, or if it was 2-3 people boxing.

Could I realistically expect to run 10 instances on one computer?

I have a pretty beefy system, runs 5 accounts perfectly, even in dalaran or WG (though for some reason I can't explain, not in howling fjord).

i7 940 2.93 ghz
12gb ddr3 ram
2x gtx280
OCZ 60gb SSD for data dir
2x 27" monitors

Does anyone out there run 10 instances of one computer?

[Memn]

I think there are a few couple people 10 boxing Naxx (Bobgnarly). I know many of us have 2-5 boxed in Nax.... (See the threads on Heigan, Grobbulus and Thaddius for the particular ppl)

As far as running them all on one machine.... Your machine looks pretty beefy, but I think you' could use more ram.... You could probably squeek by with what you have, but the perrformance wont be what your used to now.

[Enndo]

Your machine could probly handle it, I would try it, if it works but not to well try overclocking your cpu, there are 10 million forums on OC'n that chip.

[Coltimar]

I run a quad core 2.5
8gb of ram
ATI 3850 video card

I run 8 clients with ease. I have a second machine that I use for raid boxing. I have not done 80 10 mans because my 2nd team is only around 62-63.

[Enndo]

8 clients on 8 gigs? Not bad, whats your power supply rated and are you running fios or cable?

[Bigfish]

I don't know anyone who runs 10 clients on one computer.

As far as what CAN be cleared, I've personally cleared Spider and Plague wings of Naxx, as well as Razuvious (by myself, 10-boxing, hardware). Its not that anything in there is particularly difficult, its just very much like boxing the Occulus: Macro Intensive with little room for error. Not really worth the trouble in my opinion.

[Hairball]

Macro Intensive with little room for error. Not really worth the trouble in my opinion.

I have to agree here. I can currently 5-boxing Naxx (2.66 wings down) and I don't think for a second I could pull off it all by myself. There is so much coordination and movement to be done.

Still trying to figure out how to pull off Grobbulus....

[Catamer]

I hear you on the "done it all".
I've pretty much done all of the heroics except Oculas too.
There is an extreamly limited amount of gear you can get with heroic badges, unlike BC where you could really get decked out.

I took one of my toons and joined a raiding guild. and it didn't take long to have that toon completely decked out there too.
I wish I could take the rest of my team raiding, at least on a 10x raid or two.

[Hairball]

There an extreamly limited amount of gear you can get with heroic badges, unlike BC where you could really get decked out.

A lot of the BC badge gear was patched in. BC's release didn't have that much gear available...

[Mercurio]

See my sig for what I've downed solo in Naxx.

My experience is that it is a very long process of trial and error to down each boss the first time. Some macro writing, tweaking of strategies, etc. Pretty painful really. However, once I figure out the formula things get pretty easy.

For example, my experience on Patch:
Week 1: 3 wipes on trash, 7 wipes on boss before killing him with only 3 toons left standing
Week 2: 1 wipe on trash, 2 wipes on boss before killing him with only 5 toons left standing
Week 3: no wipes, 1 death
Week 4: no wipes, no deaths, plenty of mana at the end

So I kind of agree with Bigfish and kind of don't. He has more experience than I do in Naxx, but downing at least four bosses per week now is pretty fun and I'm off to go see if I can start the painful trial and error for the Spider quarter now before things reset.

The other thing to consider is: that's really the only way you can improve your gear past heroics, unless you do the really painful thing and PUG Naxx. Sure, the epic drops off the last bosses in heroics are the same item level, but there is a pretty small selection of those epics compared to what is in Naxx. I'm having fun with it and think it is worth it overall.