Quote Originally Posted by 'Crucial',index.php?page=Thread&postID=202251#post 202251
Good points, I guess the next question is what do you do after you've cleared all the heroics and geared up nicely but the multiboxing community is not large enough on your realm to try anything bigger?
That is the question I'm tossing around right now. Two months into 80, i've purchased all Emblem of Heroism gear available and aside from a couple items that just won't drop for me, I've pulled everything I need out of all heroics. I'm working on the Glory of the Hero meta now for kicks inbetween Naxx and Ulduar runs.

As far as gearing up in heroics as a full team vs. running solo: (pal + sham)

Freshly dinged at 80 I was able to do Heroic culling of Stratholme then jumped in and did Gundrak and Utgarde Keep. After a few days of hammering on those and getting them down to reasonable runs I had snagged a couple decent drops for the team as well as enough emblems to snag the first emblem gear. From there I was able to steadily add new instances every couple days IIRC. I did blow a chunk of cash on my tank to get him up to Defense cap, and had 4 Titansteel guardians crafted for the sham (which 3/4 are still using).

I chose to run the whole team through heroics as a unit so I could get emblem gear at the same pace; and since emblems were my focus rather then heroic drops it made the most sense to me to run them all at once. Once I had purchased everything I needed with emblems I started running 4 + 1 guildy if anyone needed a particular instance.

It hasn't become clear to me yet whether or not I will continue to bring multiple toons to raids - Naxx is pretty easy to bring 4 or 5 in (either 10s or 25s) but Ulduar is kicking my butt. At this stage, I will likely be shutting down 3 slave accounts and just keeping my tank and main shaman (the accounts also have my priest/mage duo).

Raid gear is shiny and sexy, but the thought of running multiple toons through PuG raids to gear them up independently sounds painful to me. If I am not playing all of them at once in a raid, I will likely not be in a situation where having that extra iLevel on the groups' gear will make that much of a difference - fully kitted out in Heroic level gear makes herocis pretty much a walk in the park (aside from certain encounter mechanics that are unrelated to gear).