DPS while multiboxing

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Answer is, it depends.

With shammies, being able to basically spam like 2 abilities with a FS/LB thrown in from time to time makes it stupidly easy to do decent DPS in a multiboxing scenario. Throw in classes like druids/mages who have procs to watch for and have to change rotations to maximize DPS and your potential goes down dramatically. Then you have classes with a bunch of abilities on cooldowns that require fairly complex prioritization and do not lend themselves well to condensed macro rotations, and it just gets worse.

Don't get me wrong. The worst of the multiboxer guys that do heroics (like me) are still way better than your average dumb-ass PuG member in blues trying to do heroics. 5 people at 75% capability is still far better than 3-4 guys at 90% and 1-2 guys at OMGRETARD.

[Coltimar]

I have found that with my mixed group I have to approach each one individually and with the understanding that while doing dps with that toon I am just going to be spamming one button. On some toons, my hunter for instance, I use /click in a macro that triggers three other cast sequence macros. Pretty complex? Yes. Totally stolen from guys on this site. Yes. But it works very well. The concurrent /castsequence macros work well for my druid as well. As for my priest and warlock I have a single castsequence that works really well for them, atm. When that group hits 80 and I start adding haste and other stuff it may get trickier but at 70 I do really well.

As Ughmahedhurtz said, shaman are pretty easy. With my team 1 (pally x4 shaman) I can do every instance I have tried. Just be creative and read as much as you can about how others are doing what you are trying to do and don't be afraid to mix and match.