10-boxing questions

[Pocalypse]

Cool, I'm glad to know it's possible. Pretty much what I expected, macro and detail intensive, but I enjoy that.

I was expecting a much bigger challenge from heroics. Maybe it's just my fuzzy memory, but I could swear the BC heroics (which I single-boxed) were a lot harder. I'm looking for more of a challenge.

I'll start leveling my guys later this week, and do some heroics with them before I start on naxx.

Should be fun .

[wendalf]

IMO, most things are harder heroic wise when you start taking into account the 4 other personalities/playstyles/egos.

[cmeche]

I would go all elemental and give pvp a try. PvP is crazy to get down packed....but even a 4-boxed noob can bring the pain, I would know. The ability to wipe someone out in 3 sec make me all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Bigfish]

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.

Truth be told, I'm a bit burned out at the moment, so my opinion reflects that.

[Sam DeathWalker]

I Run 6 clients (full screen though) on a machine way worse then your with 30fps front and 20fps back, in old world, with low resolution (1280 X 960) and few effects.

I dont really see why your machine will not run 10 as the I7 can really move data all over.

[puppychow]

imo its not worth it to 10 box raids. Patch 3.1 gives more gear for various things (PVP, wintergrasp, easier arena gear, argent coliseum) and a lot of BOEs will let you fully get epic'd out in every slot without raiding much/at all.

Even if you raid, the items will be minor to sidegrades for the most part from naxx10, except from kelthuzad, who would be a bitch to 10 box. Patch 3.1 is out today, basically you will spend the next 3-4 months learning & raiding naxx while everyone else is raiding ulduar.

It'll take a while to level 5 more to 80, of course if you really want to try to solo raids then you should go for it, it definitely will be challenging and interesting for a few weeks. But imo its like running heroic oculus daily, yes, you could get good at it eventually, but would you really enjoy it?

Like it or not the star of patch 3.1 is ulduar, which is a huge and very challenging raid instance (not multibox friendly at all). imo its better just to have one of your chars join a decent raiding guild, raid it for a while (until you are bored), then cancel subs until patch 3.2. I think they will do some more 5-man stuff in patch 3.2, which will make it interesting for a while again. Patch 3.3 I would imagine to be another raid patch, probably Arthas & Icecrown.

[Hairball]

Like it or not the star of patch 3.1 is ulduar, which is a huge and very challenging raid instance (not multibox friendly at all). imo its better just to have one of your chars join a decent raiding guild, raid it for a while (until you are bored), then cancel subs until patch 3.2. I think they will do some more 5-man stuff in patch 3.2, which will make it interesting for a while again. Patch 3.3 I would imagine to be another raid patch, probably Arthas & Icecrown.

I'm not sure I agree completely with this.

Yes, this thread is about 10-boxing. But it very possible to 5-Box all/part of the current raids. Get a good group of people together (hardest part IMO), then back fill raids as attendance suffers.

And on a side-note, I would love to 10-box some PvP every once and awhile.

[Pocalypse]

I'm mainly looking for more content to do right now. I used to raid in TBC a lot, did all up to and including Illidan before the nerfs, but I really don't want to go back to that. I now have a full time job that often requires me staying late, and I always hated the whole "raid is at 7, must be home and well fed by then and ready to sit still for 4 hours".

I'm now on a different server, and the only people in my guild are my alts and a few RL friends that don't play much.

I'm not really looking for gear upgrades, I want to try the challenge. I've never stepped foot in naxx (60 or 80), and want to try it out.

That and I never liked questing on more than 1 guy at once, I haven't done any dailies since reaching 80, I get money from selling frozen orbs, dream shards and BoE blues.

Having said that, I'll probably take a week or so now to see what 3.1 has to offer, and rethink all this.

Thanks for the input.

[Mercurio]

Just a short update on my Naxx experiences:

Yesterday I gathered up the will to wipe a bunch trying out new bosses in the spider wing in Naxx. After I cleared the trash PinotNoir (a regular poster on these boards) messaged me and asked if he could bring in a healer since he'd never seen Naxx. After cautioning him about the high probability of wiping repeatedly as I learned a new boss for the next few hours trying Anub'Rekhan down, he joined anyway.

Turns out we downed Anub down on the first try! Didn't lose a single toon and I don't think anyone's health even dropped below 50%. Of course, I had planned much longer for Anub, knowing he'd be tough, and Pinot playing a healer in blues and crafted epics helped, but given my poor early experiences trying new bosses I was ecstatic. I'm certain I could have 10-boxed it instead of 9-boxed it.

We then went on to Faerlina and one-shotted her as well.

Maexxna wiped us a couple times, then a couple more guildies joined us and we took her down, then we took down Instructor Razuvious for good measure.

Overall, a very encouraging night with some great gear upgrades for us and a lot of fun.

I would definitely encourage you to continue working towards 10-boxing ^^

[Pocalypse]

That sounds awesome, I definitely want to get there now.

Thanks for all the opinions and stories.