new to 10 boxing

[TheBigBB]

Hmm, sounds interesting on both accounts. I guess I can't truly know how I want my group composition to be until I do a few raid instances.

I have 2 very nice comps so the plan was to have 2 seperate keyboards and mice and run 5 accounts on each machine. My goal right now is to hit 80 after that I will do some older raids to try and figure out what works best for my current setup. I'm sure I will have 100 questions after my first raid.

For the PvP side of things, I didn't realize you could buy pvp gear with badges. I have never had a toon at 80. I was under the assumption from some of my research that it's always better to have the least amount of classes in pvp. Having all one class, I figured, was the best route to go. So using, say for instance, 3 Shamans and 2 locks would work as well?

The PVP gear you get with badges isn't the top tier, but it's still decent. The advantage to all one class is that it's easier to micromanage, the reason you might use your two locks would be because you might spread yourself too thin if you try to level and gear up a 10 box raid team and 2 extras at the same time, but it's up to you. I'm sure you can make things work that way. I would think that you would want to have a hardware link between the two computers to send signals from keyboard 1 to both machines as well, although having the second mouse and keyboard to make each team do somethig different can be extremely useful, too, and is a great idea!

[Meshuggenah]

First time posting here and I wanted to get some feedback from some of the veterans out there...

The most obvious flaw in your setup.. you need two tanks to raid? Frost DK's strength is managing their cooldowns well. If you're seriously going to attempt to 10box real content, your best bet is a feral druid and a prot warrior for minimal micromanagement.

I've considered not saying anything, because I don't want to burst your bubble.. but the only stuff you'll be able to 10box is stuff that's so out of date it could probably be 5boxed anyway. With the exception of the free epic runs (VoA/Onyxia), raids are about movement and managing special abilities. There is no way that you can physically handle an entire raid by yourself. If it were even remotely possible, I'd be all over it. It's just not.

The people 10boxing at the moment are either PvPing, boxing old content or are still in the process of gearing and haven't hit the wall yet. That being said, if all you want to do is have some fun with 10 chars and see what you CAN do, I could see it being a blast.

[Smoooth]

Out of the 8 raid bosses I've killed 10 boxing the only thing I've used more than one tank on is the drake in OS where you have to use the portal.

I agree on how WoW raids are all don't stand in xxxx. It's fine boxing them until you add another mechanic to the fight that keeps you from stacking. It's pretty impossible keeping 10 people out of the constantly moving fire and still tanking/killing bosses and adds.

[TheBigBB]

The most obvious flaw in your setup.. you need two tanks to raid? Frost DK's strength is managing their cooldowns well. If you're seriously going to attempt to 10box real content, your best bet is a feral druid and a prot warrior for minimal micromanagement.

I've considered not saying anything, because I don't want to burst your bubble.. but the only stuff you'll be able to 10box is stuff that's so out of date it could probably be 5boxed anyway. With the exception of the free epic runs (VoA/Onyxia), raids are about movement and managing special abilities. There is no way that you can physically handle an entire raid by yourself. If it were even remotely possible, I'd be all over it. It's just not.

The people 10boxing at the moment are either PvPing, boxing old content or are still in the process of gearing and haven't hit the wall yet. That being said, if all you want to do is have some fun with 10 chars and see what you CAN do, I could see it being a blast.

Yeah, I think 10 boxers need to focus on content that is from older expansions or from the beginning of the current one. I definitely think a 10 boxer could do Naxx 10 at level with the current emblem gear, though. I'm probably going to try it someday, but I took 8 months off so I was behind on my gear. It's going to be fun to try to one man level 70 25-man raids at 85. I won't try it at 80.

[Fursphere]

Yeah, I think 10 boxers need to focus on content that is from older expansions or from the beginning of the current one. I definitely think a 10 boxer could do Naxx 10 at level with the current emblem gear, though. I'm probably going to try it someday, but I took 8 months off so I was behind on my gear. It's going to be fun to try to one man level 70 25-man raids at 85. I won't try it at 80.

Naxx10 has been done by a 10 boxer. There were videos of it MONTHS ago. It was in "proper gear' too i think. He didn't over gear it.

[RCmag13]

The most obvious flaw in your setup.. you need two tanks to raid? Frost DK's strength is managing their cooldowns well. If you're seriously going to attempt to 10box real content, your best bet is a feral druid and a prot warrior for minimal micromanagement.

I've considered not saying anything, because I don't want to burst your bubble.. but the only stuff you'll be able to 10box is stuff that's so out of date it could probably be 5boxed anyway. With the exception of the free epic runs (VoA/Onyxia), raids are about movement and managing special abilities. There is no way that you can physically handle an entire raid by yourself. If it were even remotely possible, I'd be all over it. It's just not.

The people 10boxing at the moment are either PvPing, boxing old content or are still in the process of gearing and haven't hit the wall yet. That being said, if all you want to do is have some fun with 10 chars and see what you CAN do, I could see it being a blast.

It's not a matter of bursting my bubble, it's a matter of being honest with me because I seriously don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have posted about it. running 10 man instances may be absolutely impossible. With that said, it's not going to stop me from trying, My entire goal from the beginning was to 5 box and run my own group through instances and hopefully heroics which I think is feasible and maybe play around with some old 10 man raids which might be kinda fun and successful to a certain extent. I started with one toon, went to 5 toons than toyed around with the idea of doing 10. I'll keep you guys posted on my progress or frustration, whichever it happens to be!

[Bot]

Naxx10 has been done by a 10 boxer.

naxx10

its not every fight but theres a lot of them.

[TheBigBB]

Naxx10 has been done by a 10 boxer. There were videos of it MONTHS ago. It was in "proper gear' too i think. He didn't over gear it.

Yeah that's what I'm saying. With the current emblem gear it's not a stretch to think that someone who's starting off could jump into Naxx10. However, you'd have to be very experienced to do it in heroic blues ilvl 200 epics only. I'm not sure where you see that he wasn't overgeared. It's pretty difficult not to overgear that place at least a little bit. It's a great accomplishment either way. The strategy is the most important thing.

[RCmag13]

according to his youtube account, this same guy also 10 boxxed Ulduar, this gives me hope!

[RCmag13]

As suggested I attempted Karazhan. After going through the entire raid, I realized that I am going to need to make another healer so I have 3 in fights. I did not have any problem OTing with my DK and MTing with my pally while DPSing. I definetly have to focus on every encounter but it is doable.

I am most likely going to change my group composition as it doesn't seem as tremor totem affects the entire raid, just particular groups. I did manage to get a few upgrades while running through the instance, I'll have to try it again at a later time.