Origins of the Shammy+Pally Fad/Phase/Craze/Insanity(?)

[Boylston]

I am wondering when someone is going to step up and tell the truth. Let's stop dancing around what we know is the real reason.

4xShaman,1xPally rise in popularity can be directly tied to Vyndree's belly chain pictures appearing on the web, not any video(s).

See, I was right...

This story will become even more heartbreaking for the net perves out there when it's revealed that "Vyndree" is actually a 40-year-old man still living in his parents' basement.

Oh yeah, and 4xChain Lightning is killer sexy!

[kalih]

Dec 10 - Class selection FAQ released

Most common setups:
Tank/Priest/Some-Mix-of-Locks-and/or-Mages
Tank/Priestx4 (holy-nuke or shadow)

Paladin is the most common tank. Shaman subbing in for priest is also fairly common.

Shaman, sadly, do not make the "most common" cut in either 4/5x shaman, or shaman + tank.

As a slight correction to your original post, this isn't quite true. The section you quoted is under the supersection about PvE.

Under PvP shaman groups are listed:

Most common setups:
Priest/Lockx4
Priest/Magex4
Shamanx5

Still reading the rest of this thread...

[Vyndree]

My 'pologies, Kalih. I must've missed that. However, notice that, at the very least, 4x shaman 1x tank is not mentioned in either pve or pvp.

Furthermore, I haven't seen any 5x shaman pvp videos besides the one that was taken by a player in an AV match that happened to be grouped with Xbox (and arguably, at the time, AV was a PvE encounter). 4x shaman + another person playing healer seems to be the big PvP build.

[kalih]

I agree. At the time I wrote it I was relatively unaware of any paladin/shaman groups. There seems to be several now popping up so it's certainly worth adding for new people to see.

All that being said, I long ago reserved my names for my now level 8 group of druid/shamanx4.. I expect that to be all the rage soon enough.

[Slats]

Actually Wilbur might be onto the new trend. We will see.

[marvein]

*fixed*

[junx]

I hadn't really noticed the jump in popularity for the shamadin teams as much as I have noticed a huge jump in the multi-boxing community as a whole.

I've had a minimum of three accounts since launch and have been multiboxing in one form or another since the dark days of AHK and having keyboards all over my desk.

To me the major difference is Keyclone.

I had three accounts when I first downloaded it but never played more than two or three toons at a time because it took so long to set everything up. Then Keyclone posted here(and got hell from a lot of the forum members for charging 10 bucks lawl) and things just took off. I think I had been lurking here within a few weeks of the site going live but registered for Keyclone. And the day after getting Keyclone I was racing to the store to get more copies of wow and start really 5 boxing.

I think it is the same for a lot of other people as well. Most multi-boxers were doing two or three toon teams. Five boxing didn't become as easy until Keyclone came along.

Shaman's and paladins don't really shine unless you are doing the full group of five.

Not to dismiss Ellay and Vyndree's accomplishments, or excellent videos, I just think it was one of those "things whose time has come" type deals like the telephone once the groundwork was there.

I still play my mages/priest and druid/hunter occasionally and my druid/druid quite a bit. Being Alliance without overpowered WotF, the four times tremor totem was the key for me. I have been picked apart by good locks and shadow priests on my other teams. Adding a paladin lets me be an instance rat and avoid all the attention that comes with multi-boxing while I level.

[Phate]

Excellent post, the timeline is great for us late-comers.

For me it just came down to viable classes I hadn't played yet. I have a 70 warlock, 70 mage, 70 hunter, 67 warrior, and I didn't want to mess with a multi class combination for my first run at it, so assuming I want a res, and to not hate my life, it's down to shaman, or priest, and the last two toons I'd leveled were clothies, so Shaman sounded like a winner. Plus pewpew Chain Lighting + NS Lightning Bolt + Earth Shock x 3 is going to be fun.

[Xzin]

Five boxing didn't become as easy until Keyclone came along.

And cheap dual/quad cores / 7 or 8 series video cards / cheap ram.

Tremor totem really makes boxing easier too.

[Slats]

After all our picture posting in the last 3 pages - I think the suggestion of multiboxers all copying to PTR next time along and just going crazy sounds like a fucking awesome idea.

The Mag Ventrillo could host it, or I am happy to spawn another TS Server on my box and we can get some stuff happening.

If we all got one of those 'all join AV at the same time mods' I'd love to fraps a full multiboxed AV/WSG/EOTS/AB.

Whose up for it?

I think you can even do this on cancelled accounts, as long as there old enough, so even Mr Boredom/MS Paint Guru could play.

Dont think we'll see them in 2.4 PTR (new raid/dungeon content usually means no pre-mades) but mmmm this sounds fun.