I havent posted in a long time as I have been "a long ways off" from my goal of building a 5boxing team. Just thought I would give an update in the hopes that some might respond with a few 1 liners concerning the current status of 5boxing WoW.

So my plans all along were to level up my Paladin for the purpose of boosting, and eventually using him as a tank for PVE and a "target" for PvP. Also at the time I decided I wanted to go 5box I did not have the hardware. So in the mean time I figured I could work on my paly. What better than to have a fully epiced paly booster with all the right toys (Figurine of the Colossus, etc.). This was awhile back (pre-wotlk).

Well I fell in love, with a German girl and my priorities changed (of course, IRL first). I have sinced relocated to Germany and am now living and working in Berlin. Berlin is awesome by the way, really kickass city.

Where I am at now is, I have recently started playing again and my paly is now 80 with some decent prot gear (pre-naxx still, hoping to get naxx gear but raiding on a west coast US server from Germany is...not ideal to say the least).

I have two new dilemas:

1. Hardware in Germany is 1.5x as expensive. I am thinking I might as well wait until I am in the US again to build my super-PC.
2. My Paly who ive spent many hours on, and love very much, is on a US account. I could transfer him from the west coast server he is on now to an east coast one and this should improve ping somewhat, but it is still not ideal. Anyone else multi-boxing on US servers from EU?
3. My internet connection is worthless. At its current performance multi-boxing would be retarded as I am getting random disconnects quite often. It makes MTing heroics difficult and, I imagine the down time and setup for logging in 5 toons over and over each time I get dropped from the game would be too frustrating. I could probably improve this by switching ISPs to a better provider.

Here is what I can see that has changed in the last 8 months or so since I was last looking into multi-boxing:

1. I was scared when I read a post of someone saying boosting/RAF is no longer working, but as I read further it seems some were doing it wrong. THANK GOD. My whole plan of building up my Paly was to boost. My joints are already fucked enough, Id wrather avoid the extra clicking, and effort of questing and instead boost with a decked out prot paly. Plus it at least (seems) like more fun I love smashing instances in 1-2 pulls.

2. I believe it was Sunken Temple, with the boss who spawned unlimited skeletons has been nerfed. You no longer recieve exp for the skeleton kills, correct? (bummer).

3. They gave AOE Pallys NO NEW TOYS in WOTLK? NO equivalent of Figurine of the Colossus(as annoying as it was camping this, must have run 30 times, it was fun when i finally got it. Pre-wotlk it was a 2 minute cooldown LOH/invuln for AOE pallys. Ive tested it at 80 and it still works to some extent, just need alot more mobs on you to be really effective.)? No new reflective shields (lichen guard)? /sadpanda

There has been ALOT of changes with WOTLK. I have not been reading much here or about multi-boxing so I am way in the dark. Forgive me if I am repeating or being noobsauce.

I still have this goal, and will get there some day! 4 shammy 1 paly. SOOO much fun!? Plus I am somewhat of an RPer and I have a very fun plan for my team, I'm so excited to unveil it to you all! hah.