My new team...Well Perhaps. Need advise =)

[blbjtb]

Im thinking of 5 boxing DKS here are my reasons.

5xblood healing should not be an issue. Looking @ a 40-50% heal every 30 sec seems pretty awesome.

I was going to box pallys but i really Dont want to go from 1-80
55-80 doesnt seem as aweful

I already have 1 lvl 80 maxxed out epic DK meaning i dont have to worry about one extra char

I do have a few questions and im sure i could find them using the search button but im super sick right now and its talking all my energy to type this.
so in advance thanks for appeasing me.

Whats the best way to do melees?
My level 80 should i make him player 5 so that my noobs can pick up the quests?
how viable is this? I did a few searchs based on DKs but it didnt turn up any results and im not really sure why.
Is it as funny as i think it is to have 5 dancing rune blades and 5 ghouls?
I know not being able to rez is going to be a huge pain in the ass and the lack of an actual healer might make me suffer. right? or will the 50% heal every 30 sec be just fine?
What kind of a pain in the ass is it going to be to level these guys?

Guys im bored to tears ive been playing the hell out of my 360 (vesperia)/ps3 (chronicls) and im starting to get bored with those.

[Allokra]

I tried it with a Blood Spec...I got to Ramparts - first trash pull my main survived with 3% health. I read some good reviews on them but I realized that was from before one of the recent nerfs with stacking auras. Anyway - I may have messed something up - maybe the talent specs - who knows but I figured if this happens on trash with no ability to rezz - it would be painful. I added a druid to the team and so far it is a lot of fun.

[chaosultimamage]

yeah, you'll regret not having a dedicated healer with a setup like that. i mean, you already have an 80 DK on one account, so make that a druid or something. You'll obviously have to level it to 58 or so to keep up with the DKs, so might as well 5-box a bunch of new toons while you're at it.

[blbjtb]

Blah. Im super against making a new guy to level. I honestly dont have it in me. sigh back to not knowing what im going to do...Fantastic... Anyone have any success stories? something to nudge me along in the right direction.

[EaTCarbS]

I thought they nerfed the blood aura so it doesn't stack?

[blbjtb]

Really wasnt expecting it to stack.. So this wasnt something i was really planning on.

[Negativ1337]

Just quit multiboxing or go for shamans.

DKs suck

[EaTCarbS]

roll 5 rogues instead :P

[Ualaa]

If you have any interest in heroics or raids, you'll want a dedicated healer.

5x DK's can be a very strong world pvp or battleground team.
Even still a healer of some sort can be a big boost.

I'd not consider leveling 1-55 or 1-80 without RAF ever again.

The DK's start at 55, which is nice, and will be 57/58 with 30g by the time they leave their starting area.

Any other toon, I'd go with RAF again.

RAF link a new account to your existing account.
If you're not playing Blood Elves/Draenei, it doesn't even need to be a battlechest, just classic wow.
Paying for a month on the RAF account, credits you with a month on the existing account.
So you're out the cost of the game, but gain RAF leveling.

Pick two toons which will compliment future compositions.
One will obviously be the healer for the DK's.
Decide on the class you'd like for that.
Pally will want caster plate, while DK's want melee plate.
Shammy has totems which can enhance the DK's.
Druids have a lot of HoT's which can be cast on the move.
Anyway, pick two toons.

One will be on the existing account.
One will be on the RAF account.
I'd not use the account with the 80 DK as the parent account.
This way, you have an 80 to boost you through instances.

With RAF and an 80 to boost you, it will be under a week delay for the healer to join the DK's.
As a bonus, you'll have a second toon, on one of the DK's accounts, to aid another team.
If you like, level say a Pally (DK account) and a Druid (RAF account) for two potential healers in the future.
Or whatever classes you'd like to go with.

Then just account transfer from RAF to one of the accounts you're keeping.

[falsfire3401]

What Ualaa said, exactly.

Having just non-RAF dual-boxed to 60 my twins (took 5.5 days played /WRIST), I don't ever want to non-RAF level 1-55 or 1-80 again.

I plan to branch out to triple-boxing once I'm done boosting my horde toons, and will start by tri-boxing three toons on my "alternate universe" alliance realm. For that I need a temporary, throwaway 4th account so I can have all three toons RAF-linked for 1-60. I have no L80 booster on that realm, so have to level the old-fashioned way. Unfortunately the great tourguide plugin linked on this site for RAF leveling alliance includes the draenai island, which one of my accounts (the throwaway one) will not have access to! So I have to trailblaze on my own thru RAF questing, at least until level 23 where the guide returns to old azeroth.

Which brings me to ask an off-topic question. I will be rolling a human and two night elves for the trio. In terms of number of collection vs kill quests, which 1-10 and 10-20 racial zones are the best? The night elf ones or the human ones? (ie teldrassil+darkshore vs elwynn+westfall), or should I even head for Dun Morogh+Loch Modan?

Just in terms of class trainers I'm probably restricted to either the human or dwarf/gnome start areas, since my team will be mage+hunter+hunter. There are hunter trainers in stormwind and ironforge, but no mage trainers in darnassus IIRC. I'll just have to head back to Teldrassil to do the hunter pet quest at L10 on each hunter...