Does multiboxing in Battlegrounds require less skill?

[Ogloo]

to be completely honest, i find Bgs harder than arenas ;0, in arneas well its setup to kill eachother, Bgs i get rogues tagging behind me going down each of my 4 guys sapping 1 by one so i cant move or do anything... or other crap
sooo.. i dunno just me, i guess because its been so long since ive done Bgs

[Stealthy]

IMO BG's seem easier becuase its usually a case of 5 prefectly co-ordinated toons taking on groups of people who have never played together before (they don't play to their strengths or coordinate thier attacks), and given the cross-server nature of BG's, will most likely not play together again. Pre-mades are the exception to this of course.

I find WG to be a bit better...since you get more 'regular' players, even guild groups that occasionally participate. The overall co-ordination level seems to be quite a bit higher, and makes for more challenging games. I've had my team neatly picked apart in WG multple times by groups of toons playing well together (most recently by a group of warlocks and mages - the locks took turns of AoE stunning me, mages would nova or blizzard me ) - it keeps you on your toes.
The other benefit of doing WG is that if you play enough, you get to know the other regular players and they will usually be more inclined to help you (e.g. raid leader putting all your toons in the same group, or someone pocket healing you for the battle)

Cheers,
S.

[shaeman]

I think the problem is that I was too narrow in my definition of what I considered to be skills.
I was focused on all the stuff I have to do solo and viewing my shaman group through those eyes.
I ended up thinking like a non-multiboxer.

Removing those blinkers, I can see that it's more a case of completely different skillsets.

With multiboxing, you are looking at the big picture, rather than focusing on one toon. You have to monitor the health of all your players, their position. I'm not just dpsing I'm looking at healing the group, other players around me.

And of course - even though I'm not sure it's a skill as such, it's the ability of being able to affect the course of the battleground. Sure you might not win it, but you have enough of a group to go off and target key tactical points.

[Ualaa]

I would have to say it takes a different amount/variety of skill.

As a boxer, we blow people up, but that's because it is frequently 5 vs 1.
Even in arena, when it is two players against five players, we have synchronous attacks.
Which is a massive advantage over even 5 different players.
But it is also a massive disadvantage in the number of different actions we can do at once.

Our skill is more with setting up macros and keybinds to coordinate the team, even when people are playing as individuals against us.
We have a lot of firepower and resiliency compared to a single boxer, but five players can do five things at once, we have to coordinate our team with one set of hands.
In general, a large portion of the player base does battlegrounds as a means to get gear; and a lot of players both our allies and our enemies are undergeared -- we run BG's for gear too.

It is easier to kill 1 person as a 5-box team, then to kill 1 person as a 1-box solo player.
But in a battleground its not 1 vs 5 all the time, but sometimes it is.
In AV, 5 players in one place and moving as a group is a drop in the bucket.
In WSG, 5 players in one place is half of the team, and potentially a disadvantage.

[yaki]

We are the zerg rush of strategic attacks, overwhelming the unprepared but easily opposed by a wiser enemy.

[KvdM]

We are the zerg rush of strategic attacks, overwhelming the unprepared but easily opposed by a wiser enemy.

Exactly. A good player will turn a multiboxer fight from a one vs five fight into five separate one vs one fights. Luckily not many players know how to do this.

[Budkin]

I have never been killed buy one guy even when i 4 box.

[asonimie]

Exactly. A good player will turn a multiboxer fight from a one vs five fight into five separate one vs one fights. Luckily not many players know how to do this.

lol ok.... Or the boxer sucks ass.

[Multibocks]

I have never been killed buy one guy even when i 4 box.

I did once, but it as a higher level hunter abusing LoS that slowly picked off all my guys. I couldnt keep him in LoS long enough to due enough damage to kill him (this was pre-insta LvB). Now I know better than to approach a hunter that has a tactical advantage of the higher ground without insta-death ready.

[yaki]

Exactly. A good player will turn a multiboxer fight from a one vs five fight into five separate one vs one fights. Luckily not many players know how to do this.

That...doesn't happen so much.