Cataclysm will be harder to play for multiboxers

[daviddoran]

Lets be honest, some of the heroics ended up being such a joke, that they weren't all that fun. I stopped farming heroics cause i got bored, not cause they were hard. I welcome the challenge. And if boxing gets "harder" in cataclysm, maybe we will get less hate (yeah right) from the haters, due to it not being a simple way to faceroll stuff, but an actual challenge, requiring skill. Kinda like how if you saw someone with a handgun hit a dozen perfect shots, and someone with an assault rifle hitting the same number of shots, but firing 10x as many bullets, you would have more respect for the first guy, for having skill, and not as much respect for the other guy cause he just steamrolled it. (forgive the analogy, but recently I've been watching that show "Top Shot" hehe)

[Tonuss]

I can see one area where multiboxers can get a big benefit. I have my own personal guild for my characters, and at the moment about four RL friends are also in the guild. I expect that the guild will remain very small, as we do not intend to become a raid guild and I only intend to allow RL friends to join. With the new "guild perks" system, a small and very casual guild like mine will take a long time to get the various perks. But since I can also level five characters at a time, it'll be a lot faster than it would be otherwise.

If the perk system goes in as it is right now, there are quite a few nice passive bonuses you can get, such as more experience from kills, more +rep, extra coin from looted mobs sent to the bank, extra honor gain, etc. Being able to climb that ladder 5x as fast could be very useful in the short run.

[jinkobi]

I can see one area where multiboxers can get a big benefit. I have my own personal guild for my characters, and at the moment about four RL friends are also in the guild. I expect that the guild will remain very small, as we do not intend to become a raid guild and I only intend to allow RL friends to join. With the new "guild perks" system, a small and very casual guild like mine will take a long time to get the various perks. But since I can also level five characters at a time, it'll be a lot faster than it would be otherwise.

If the perk system goes in as it is right now, there are quite a few nice passive bonuses you can get, such as more experience from kills, more +rep, extra coin from looted mobs sent to the bank, extra honor gain, etc. Being able to climb that ladder 5x as fast could be very useful in the short run.

Couldn't agree more looking at those perks! One I am REALLY excited about is summon your whole party/raid. That would make life wonderful.

I'm in a very odd situation and not sure what to do. It helps to have friends and I got invited/accepted to the top guild on our server as a friend. When I say top guild I mean it- they have all the server firsts etc...What this means is I am in the guild as a friend and not required to raid or really expected to. I have some serious health problems so raiding has been out of the question for me for a while now. Hard to sit for long periods without causing me pain and I'd hate to let others down having to bail on a raid.

Here's the rub- I have my own guild for my team and alts. They will be investing in my team/alt guild while I am investing in the other guild. Not sure what to do.

I'd like to stay in that nice guild to be with people and some of the top players. Of course they'll get perks way quicker than I'd get multiboxing. I could put an alt in the other guild but then it'd defeat the whole purpose of getting to know people since he'd never be online much.

[Slats]

I will keep my main in the Guild with my RL friends etc and other 'real' players. I will keep my bank/boxing guild for all my multibox characters. My main will probably see most of the perks first but in the end the box guild will see them all too just a bit slower.

I wouldn't drop out of the guild to go hermit it up in your 'own' guild. No point.

[OzPhoenix]

I've been hunting around, but will small guilds (5 to 10 "members") be able to reap these rewards?

[Maxion]

A guild with any number of people should be able to to unlock all of the perks eventually, it'll just take longer with less stuff being done.

[Khatovar]

http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&guilds

To balance small and big guilds, only the top 20 "contributors" in each guild will attribute their experiences to the guild level every day.

I've seen 10 and 20 as the magic number from various rumormills, but either way it's nice for us. It means everything we do will count and we could even do better than massive guilds full of newbs who mostly just dick around until someone can be convinced to PL them.

[Maxion]

Ooh awesome.

[OzPhoenix]

Looks good.

[MiRai]

http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&guilds



I've seen 10 and 20 as the magic number from various rumormills, but either way it's nice for us. It means everything we do will count and we could even do better than massive guilds full of newbs who mostly just dick around until someone can be convinced to PL them.

Thank you for quoting that. I was looking for that yesterday trying to calm some people down bitching about big guilds versus small guilds and how small guilds are going to get the shaft.