Cataclysm will be harder to play for multiboxers

[wonz]

Sometimes i read on the forums "cataclysm will be very nice for multiboxers", but infact i believe the opposite will be true.

5mans get a lot of movement trashs and bosses. They even add talents to allow classes to move while dealing damage. You will find a lot more group independend movement requirements in cata i believe.

I dont even think about creating a 10 account raid yet, i dont even think 5 man boxing will be as funny as it was in wotlk.

To keep it short:

- much more movement required in cataclysm
- more complicated tanking and healing mechanics

and i would believe they are going to redo /castsequence and other macro commands.

[Khatovar]

Is this something you know because you're in beta or is this just more sky is falling BS? Because we already have a thread on this subject.

If we have talents that allow DPS and healing to function on the move, that means...we'll be able to move without screwing up DPS and healing. Sounds like a win to me.

Every time something changes things get "more complicated" for about 2 weeks while people figure it out.

People said there's no way we could box in Burning Crusade because of things like CC. I didn't even bother with CC and still managed to successfully box everything.

People said we couldn't box in Wrath because of vehicles...TotC was my favorite instance.

People swore it was the end of boxing with the changes to castrandom, that the heavy use of proc-based spells and targetted AOE were specifically targetted at killing boxers and that melee boxing would never happen. I can attest that all that did was make me spend a few hours reworking a few things. Usually for the better.

/em trades in the umbrella for hip waders.

[angeldeelite]

I think you need to stop speculating on the negative stuff and get your head sorted, as Khatovar said having the ability to heal/dps while moving is a GOOD thing how on earth could you ever think it would be bad?
Moving has always in some part been needed in WoW and it always will be, sure in Cata it may be a lot more but so what? Wares the fun in just tank an spankin everything? There is no fun there unless all you care about is an easy ride and free eppixx...
When cata comes out I'm going to buy it and give it a month maybe 2 then I'll decide if its still a playable game along with the rest of the cata boxers.
There are sooo many cool new things happening in cata and just because you may have to work a little harder and do some major macro/keybind changes is no reason to worry, I just hope people hurry up and figure things out so they can post them on here for me to use LOL
And its not a huge deal if they get rid of cast sequence macro's I leveled in dungeons to 80 with only:
/assist angeldeelite
/follow angeldeelite
So as long as there still in the game I think I'll be OK ;p

[Selz]

One thing is pve, another thing is PVP

Im currently playing on Beta level 82 and i got 40k health and 40k mana, but my damange itself has not incresed that much, and they even announced that damage as it is now in the beta is to much.

They are going to make health extreamly high compared to damage and healing, it is not gonna work the same way as it did before where a single healer can top off any class almost instantly.

I think we will face a problem with people having 120-150k health but only do like 20k crits, I dont think 1shotting with lavaburst is gonna be possible on any classes, I sort of can confirm it is gonna be harder for us. but we all felt the same when lich king came out

All i can say is burst is not gonna work as it does now, in a 5v5 arena u wont be able to burst a target down in a global at all
on the other hand they wont global us either, and healing will be on same level as DPS so once again i think its gonna be a new playstyle for us.

But I do believe its gonna be possible

[Shodokan]

One thing is pve, another thing is PVP

Im currently playing on Beta level 82 and i got 40k health and 40k mana, but my damange itself has not incresed that much, and they even announced that damage as it is now in the beta is to much.

They are going to make health extreamly high compared to damage and healing, it is not gonna work the same way as it did before where a single healer can top off any class almost instantly.

I think we will face a problem with people having 120-150k health but only do like 20k crits, I dont think 1shotting with lavaburst is gonna be possible on any classes, I sort of can confirm it is gonna be harder for us. but we all felt the same when lich king came out

All i can say is burst is not gonna work as it does now, in a 5v5 arena u wont be able to burst a target down in a global at all
on the other hand they wont global us either, and healing will be on same level as DPS so once again i think its gonna be a new playstyle for us.

But I do believe its gonna be possible

The damage is still quite a bit. I'm sorry but if we are critting for 10k with lavaburst... it's still not going to be much to kill them. Maybe not a single lavaburst but we have to also realize... we sitll do 5x more damage than any single toon, and more than double what two do... It's not going to change much, it will just take more than 1 gcd to kill someone.

[Selz]

The damage is still quite a bit. I'm sorry but if we are critting for 10k with lavaburst... it's still not going to be much to kill them. Maybe not a single lavaburst but we have to also realize... we sitll do 5x more damage than any single toon, and more than double what two do... It's not going to change much, it will just take more than 1 gcd to kill someone.

It is going to chance alot, but its not negative, sure we are gonna do more damage than others. I was counting with 4 shamans thougth, not 5. But it will force us into another playstyle for sure. Exactly what that is going to be i dont know yet .

[Maleick]

I am looking forward to the challenge

[Lax]

Yeah I'm not sure the sky is falling just yet. I will probably try 2-boxing (my account and my wife's) some of the new content while it's in beta and while that's certainly not 5-boxing, I'm hoping I'll find out enough about what's different to prepare for 5 boxing it. I highly doubt it will be impossible to do.

Like others are saying, looking at the existing content you'd think a lot of it would be pretty difficult to multibox, and yet people are 10-boxing a lot of the current 10-man content and there isn't any 5-man content that can't be done.

I look forward to the challenge as well. That's half the fun!

[Gurblash]

This is exactly what was said when WotLK was released. QQ Sky is NOT falling, multiboxers will adapt and will still pwn faces.

[EaTCarbS]

WoW has always required movement. Heck, even some heroics now require movement. Hell, If you can't move your characters, you're doing it wrong.