Hey guys

I've got 2 80s, a Druid and a Warrior, and after playing WOW for 2 years I've realised I enjoy tanking the most. However I've gotten sick of raiding as it's just too much drama and admin and starts feeling like work after a while. Both my chars are kitted out with gear from heroics and Nax 10 man for all specs and I don’t really feel like doing badges for emblems for slight upgrades.

To keep me playing WOW I’ve decided to level another tank, a DK currently at 64. However I’m now thinking I want to go the whole hog and level a paladin as well so I have a tank of each class once the expansion comes out and then I can decide on which tank(s) I want to focus on in the expansion.


After reading these forums for a while now I'm seriously considering creating a multiboxing team to level with my paladin. Reason being I’ve heard RAF is really good for levelling 1-60 and then from 60-80 I can just run dungeons by myself as I think this is the best way to grind XP, especially as there are no travel times now. Once the team gets to 80 I can then just do heroics with my Pala and DK to farm gold and emblems until they’re kitted out.



After reading the forums I have come up with the following options:
  • Option 1 : Create 4 shammies to level with my paladin to level 60 with RAF. Alternate my DK / pala with the 4 shammies to get them from 60-80. At 80 use the 4 shammies to grind gear for all my tanks at level 80.
    • Pro 1 : Easiest way to manage a 5 box team
    • Con 1: Will have to use each tank separately, so will take longer to gear them all out.
    • Con 2: After thinking about it, if I do this might as well just keep all my tanks on 1 account and then grind PUG heroics like normal so no point multiboxing a team just to kit out my 4 tanks
    • Con 3 : When the expansion hits I would have to level all 4 tanks
  • Option 2 : Use my paladin as a tank (seems like it's the easiest one for multi boxing based on what I’ve read), use my warrior for dps (fury I guess?) and DK as dps (no clue on DKs which spec is best for multiboxing dps?) , use my druid as healer / dps (whichever is easiest for multiboxing), create a 5th character as dps / healer (depending what my druid and whatever class is easiest to complement this team for multiboxing)
    • Pro 1 : Quickest way to gear up all my tanks as they’re all in the same group.
    • Pro 2 : When the expansion comes, I can level up all 4 chars I want with 1 group myself
    • Con 1 : Harder to 5 box due to different classes
QUESTION 1: Is option 2 a viable setup for multiboxing and if so what is the best group composition?




Next question I have is about hardware. The specs of my laptop are:
  • Dell XPS 1640
  • Intel Duo CPU T9400 2.53GHz
  • ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
  • 4 GB Ram
  • 128 GM SSD harddrive
  • Windows 7 64 bit
I’ve experimented by creating 4 trial accounts and setting the graphics low and it seemed to cope pretty well so I’m thinking it should cope with 5. However that was in a starter zone and I’m wondering if heroics would be a different story?




If required I could use my old Desktop:
  • Intel 4 3.2 Ghz
  • 2 GB RAM
  • ATI Radeon X850 256 Megs Rams
  • Windows XP
Just for info I will be upgrading my desktop within the next year or 2 and that will definitely be able to handle 5 boxing.


Question 2 : Would my laptop be able to handle 5 WOW copies at low detail at once or would I have to split up the WOW copies across the 2 computers?

That's about it for now, look forward to your feedback!