Can I do 5 Different Classes effectively?

[Malgor]

Right now I have:

80 Protection Paladin with a 5k gear score.
80 Arcane Mage with a 5k gear score.
80 Survival Hunter with a 4.7k gear score.

I 3 box these just for daily quests x25 to triple the money made from dailies, but that's where it stops.

My goal was to do the 4 shaman with my paladin to 5 box my own heroics with the random dungeon finder. However sadly I got bored with that and left my shaman all at about level 50. I did level 1 to 60 with a warrior, but that's where they sit.

I have leveled four other toons/classes to 72 now, but not sure if I should keep taking them up to 80. They are a Death Knight, Priest, Druid and Rogue.

So I was thinking about going Paladin (tank), Priest (heals), Mage (Ranged DPS), Hunter (Ranged DPS), and Druid (Boomkin). My challenge will be trying to get them all do do their special abilities when they come up.

Is anyone else using a mixed group? What success have you had doing a mixed group? Should I ditch one of the toons in this make up and level up a shaman? Or 4?

My friend in EQ2 swears by ISboxer where he 6 boxes 6 different toons in his groups. So I was thinking about going that route.

Any suggestions? Or helpful ideas?

Thanks,

Malgor

[Velassra]

Yes, easily w/ practice. Gonna have to read abit to get started.

[Deevext]

One major thing that you should keep in mind is - Everquest 2 allows you to have macros that cast more spells in each macro where-about wow will only allow you to cast one (not regarding click) - this means less stress cross class. Also, Everquest 2 has by FAR less proc's per class than World of Warcraft does. I honestly can only think of perhaps 1 or 2 proc's in Everquest.

Any ranged class is dps spammable with the right macros, but only with pratice can you get that single player skill-level as firing of things when they are ready or you get a proc. And at the moment Blizzard dosn't allow you to get notifications about when something procs - that was removed a bit back.

However, I did just read someone had a work-around it in one of the other threats.

[Malgor]

Okay I've read quite a bit on here, most people use the 1 Tank, 1 Healer and 3x something else so it's easy to spam the DPS.

I was thinking with this set up I could get the best world of buffs (Paladin, Mage, Druid, Priest) as well as try and get fairly high DPS. Some instances are simple and some require a lot of work, which I know makes it more of a challenge.

I'll keep reading - I'm a ways off from getting those last few toons to 80 and will get plenty of practice running normal runs to get them a bit geared up.

Thanks for the quick responses.

[Mosg2]

With concurrently running /click macros you can run 5x different classes easily and get near-optimal DPS out of them.

[Malgor]

I have Keyclone / Jamba.

Do more people use Keyclone or do they use ISBoxer?

[Deevext]

keyclone vs. Jamba is like sparking up a PC vs. MAC thread.

I think that Keyclone will be the far easiest to setup and run if you want something that will do the job quickly and with little questions asked. But from what I have been hearing and reading latly it seems to me that ISBoxer offers far more in-depth abilities to the user for high-end boxing.

Whilst on this topic - does anyone know if it is possible in keyclone to make the window in focus the leader and follow- and focus- on that window? I know this is possible with the correct coding in ISBoxer, but anyone have a work-around for Keyclone?

[thefunk]

You mean keyclone vs isboxer.

And the answer is yes to the second question. Basically set your window swapping keys to also include a change focus macro so the toons point and follow the new focus. This take a small amount of time to set up.

Ask ualaa for isboxer tips and advice, personally I love it bit depends on what you want. Keyclone is great and does the job. Just not as fancy as innerspace but simpler.

[Mosg2]

I swapped from Keyclone to ISBoxer about 7 months ago and I haven't looked back. Yes, it takes 5x longer to learn all the details but quick-setup is similar.

[thefunk]

To op. I'm running pally shammy Druid mage lock and it's a lot of fun. Struggling to get strong output from Druid and lock, so I now have a tree and working on lock dps. Be prepared to spend a lot of time learning the class as you can't use the same spells. (ironically lock was my second raid toon solo before I boxed, can't get the clicker right yet).

To deev. Thought I'd explain my last keyclone setup. Basically f1 to f5 were window swapping keys in keyclone. I created 5 Wow macros per toon which had eg /focus toon1 for f1, /focus toon2 for f2 and so on. Then made some reachable key like shift f the follow key and had /follow focus as a macro. All spells start with /assist focus. Hope this helps.