Multiboxing Priests

[Owltoid]

Edit: I've renamed this thread and hope to use it as a collection of thoughts for the holy/disc multiboxing priest teams. I will link new videos of the team here, and hope to have most discussion be collected in this thread instead of multiple threads. Of course any direct questions about the team should be created in a new thread, but I will try to link to those as needed.

Video threads:
At level 75: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=31085
At level 69: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=30952


Original post:

I was sooo excited. Holy/disc priests were going to own for multiboxing:

Through talents, the following was going to be possible:

Reduced cooldown on holy nova
+50% chance to crit with holy nova
50% chance to get a mana free instant smite on any spell crit
Smites smart heal nearby friendly units
Every smite stacks archangel, release 5 stacks to get 15% mana back
Divine aegis that continues stacking with every holy nova crit received for more protection

That combo was going to be huge. Since multiboxers are always grouped together, the 50% crit to holy nova gives you instant smite almost every time. Holy nova, smite, holy nova, smite, holy nova, smite, release stacks if you need mana.

Assuming only a 50% crit chance with holy nova, and hitting all your party members, each priest would have a 76% chance to proc an instant smite (if there are enemies that got caught in the AoE then the chance increases).

I've already been running 4 priests in PvP and they have been dominating (60-69 bracket). I understand things would be much different at 80 with geared opponents, but that 50% buff was going to be huge.

I've been using my priest as melee, and likely leading with a DK (currently only using the 4 priests, may move to 5). If targets are far, snipe them with holy fire and smite spam. Once they get close, the AoE tears them up. Using IWT and CLM you're always facing for instant smites.

If they AoE your team, the caster gets hurt worse (45% reflection on shields for each priest).

I hope this team doesn't go away... I've been having more fun with these toons that I ever did with my moonkins, DK+pallys, and shamans. They're incredible.