Tri-DPSING in raids (hardcore raiding mindset)

[zanthor]

I was actually worried about the future of my 3x mages once they hit 80. Is Naxx really that unfriendly to multiboxers? How about Ulduar? I've never even seen Ulduar and I've only ran Naxx as a single boxer about a year ago and don't really recall any fights that seemed particularly movement intensive except for Thaddius and Heigan the Unclean. Could anyone with experience DPS multiboxing give me some opinions on the feasibility of 3x ranged dps in raids?

As of 3.3 why would you even try to raid Naxx or Ulduar? Simply bang out heroics for 2 weeks and you can gear 5 toons to be ready for ICC25.

That said, I've boxed Naxx in it's entirety, Thaddius is aproblem, but everything else is pretty straight forward. We actually got safety dance .

[Fursphere]

Simply bang out heroics for 2 weeks and you can gear 5 toons to be ready for ICC25

*cough*

I did it in a weekend.

[Fuzzyboy]

Starting off with a bang on this one. Once again, you're dead wrong. Niley is pulling 10k dps with his Shaman (pre-ICC release).

That's in heroics on a lvl 82 boss with heroism right and cooldowns right? There' s big difference between pulling 10k dps on a 300 second fight on a lvl 83 raid boss and on a 15-sec fight on a lvl 82 heroic boss :-)

[Firmpete]

I did Saurfang with 3 dps once when we had some players dc.
Other than Saurfang the possibilities are rather limited. Not impossible, impossible is nothing. And even a stationary fight as Saurfang requires you do be very carefull with the bloodbeasts. (Because being hit by them gives saurfang his stacks)

But as the topic has hardcore mindset in the title: On a single player I do more dps manually than macroed, and having to move 3 players to move out of stuff makes 3 players not doing dps.

Eventually with enough gear in the raid fights will get easier and easier, thus making boxing them more viable. But at this moment in time (progress in my guild, my situation) it's just not viable.

Now currently I do run Togc with 4 dps or 1 healer and 3 dps. But that's farm raids and even then only to fill empty raidspots.

[Niley]

That's in heroics on a lvl 82 boss with heroism right and cooldowns right? There' s big difference between pulling 10k dps on a 300 second fight on a lvl 83 raid boss and on a 15-sec fight on a lvl 82 heroic boss :-)

not quite, it was on a boss dummy, em popped first after em ran out i used heroism. No fire elementals, single target.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...2409232049.jpg
This is from few months ago.


On my shaman in raid setting i can pull over 10k dps(solo of course)
heres a log:
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/11441787#damageout
close to 11k....but not quite there yet.

[Fuzzyboy]

not quite, it was on a boss dummy, em popped first after em ran out i used heroism. No fire elementals, single target.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...2409232049.jpg
This is from few months ago.

So most of the fight with either lust or EM on a short duration fight (although admittedly longer than initially assumed) :-)... You can easily pump up numbers by controlling the context - ie. lock/dk/druid debuff + lust + arcane mage spamming arcane blast. Sure, he would be out of mana fairly quickly, but you'd see very high numbers.

I don't think competitive progression (as in "hardcore") is really an option while multiboxing, but then again perhaps dual-boxing with a class that has an easy rotation might work. Either way I think the thing to keep in mind is that in terms of raiding, boxing doesn't really have any advantages (as opposed to for example coordinated burst in pvp), so the only reason to really do it would be if a raid was short on dps'ers - which these days is a fairly unlikely scenario :P

[Tiburon502]

The orbs in Nileys screen by his bars is the left HP and right mana, and if so yours or the targets? Was wondering because it says 53k on left.

[Niley]

The orbs in Nileys screen by his bars is the left HP and right mana, and if so yours or the targets? Was wondering because it says 53k on left.

that was my paladins hp, its around 55.4k now.

[Zaelar]

On my shaman in raid setting i can pull over 10k dps(solo of course)
heres a log:
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/11441787#damageout
close to 11k....but not quite there yet.

You didn't switch to blood beasts(except for chain lightning bounces) and you got hit 12 times. Either you're bad or this was a farm kill and you didn't care and were just trying to inflate the damage meter. Considering you got hit 12 times without attacking the adds this begs the question, is the log bugged?

[Niley]

You didn't switch to blood beasts(except for chain lightning bounces) and you got hit 12 times. Either you're bad or this was a farm kill and you didn't care and were just trying to inflate the damage meter. Considering you got hit 12 times without attacking the adds this begs the question, is the log bugged?

Its not bugged, ele shaman = melee range(magma totem), not switching to adds, i let alts deal with that. We farm icc25 with 3 groups every week, its all farm on normal...
On hm i will have to unglyph TS and switch to adds obviously, here it doesn't matter at all, at the time this log was posted it was highest ele dps for that fight.