1) I noticed that the vast majority of multiboxers in WoW are running 4-5 shamans. I've never played a shaman. What's special about them that makes them such a good multiboxing class?

2) I wanted to be a little different and do my own thing - learn on my own terms - so I decided to make my first 5-box team a Paladin and 4 Priests (3 Shadow, 1 Holy.) I'm wondering now if that was such a good idea. Not only do they lack CC in ~90% of instances, but their DoT damage may be too slow to be effective. I'm afraid I'll have mana issues with my healer and find myself swapping out the shadow priests for something else (which I don't want to have to deal with my first time through). Thoughts? Advice?

3) I considered a 5 mage or 5 warlock group to learn on, but I was afraid I'd just end up playing one mage/lock x5. That kinda seems like cheating - even though I know it's not. But I'm in this for the challenge. I want to do something different from just playing a single toon (or a duo, as I've done before). But I also want to learn to do it right, and I fully expect to suck at first. Is a 5 mage (for example) combo viable in instances? I know 5 mages can unleash hell on a mob, and 5 warlocks have 5 pets. But I wonder if the lack of real tanking and healing would make this a bad way to learn to multibox. (?)

4) I saw that there are guilds for multiboxers. I'm more of a social player despite my desire to multibox. Is there a server this community considers their realm? Are new multiboxers considered in these guilds (perhaps after they level up enough to learn the ropes?) I want to multibox, but I hate to play alone. IMO friends are what make MMOs fun. Unfortunately for me, I get bored easily and always want to try new things. Which is what led me here in the first place.


Yeah.