ISBoxer is better for everything, but it costs money.
Shamans can tank/heal/DPS in heroics, but only once you seriously outgear the instance. It's suggested you have a tank. If you are to purely focus on PvP and don't want to touch PvE, then play 5 shamans all you want.
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except for the stress it puts on your system and the call back function it hasOriginally Posted by Owltoid
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Swapped from 2x boxing to 5x in the last few weeks. Started with keyclone and one pc, found it a bit slow so moved to two computers. My setup was really really basic for dual boxing and the most complicated thing I would do was tanking a heroic with my ranged dps following and dps'ing etc... so i found I had to learn a lot more to 5 box, healing, dps'ing and tanking all at the same time. This learning lead me to want to do more and to do it easier, to this end I swapped to ISboxer last weekend and loving it! It is so damn powerful. Still learning and tweaking things and reading forum posts to learn what other cool things I can do with it.
5x boxing and learning everything that goes with it can be very daunting, I learn a bit, implement it... do a bit more levelling.. repeat.. otherwise you end up spending hours and hours and get frustrated at not levelling.
My biggest advice would be... get isoboxer, get jamba, get interact with target setup... and learn how to use them all.. Oh and make sure you understand Recruit A friend and refer from the right accounts.. there are heaps of posts on the forums about it. I referred the other 4 accounts from my main... not a good idea. But oh well. I should have read up on it.
I don't pvp, but I gather leveling via that method may still be viable and you like that so would be worth thinking about.
I had planned to level via randoms\instances, but found even though i knew the instances, there were specific things to learn for each one from a multiboxing point of view, debuffs, aoe etc etc etc. a wipe means 5 minutes + wasted... and an instance you grow out of so quickly. So i ended up just questing and found it much quicker. The downside is you end up very undergeared from your toons levels since your not getting drops from randoms. When you hit 60 do all the quests in the first part of BC to gear up your toons.
My team is now 61 or so, took me 3 days of play time to get there, a lot of this was spent learning to box and setting things up though. I'm running a Pally tank, 2x priests, 2x druids. I'm running this team simply because I wanted these classes at 80. All these classes can heal, so to start out I just had two macro's setup for each toon, heal tank or heal self. I've expanded this now to using Grid and mouse repeater stuff.
Already started a second team of 5x shaman to make use of RAF before it runs out.
Really enjoying 5x boxing. Hoping to be able to run random heroics on my main team and maybe find another 5x boxer on Dath'Remar to do some raids down the track.
If you use trial accounts to start out with, be aware you can't give them gold\bags. They can't get mail or trade etc etc etc. I ended up upgrading my accounts damn quick once I learnt this.
I used BOA gear on my tank, this mean he was getting 20%? more exp but also meant he was always semi geared. After he got to a few levels over the others I simply stopped handing in some quests in on him so the others could catch up.
Last edited by Harrypott : 08-12-2010 at 11:30 PM
I used to think that 5 shammys had to outgear everything, however, I've leveled a new set of shammys on alliance side. I did my first full clear of drak'tharon with a GS of 2800. I'm up to 3200 now, and just finished UT Keep. This was surprisingly easier than I remember on my original team where I did have to outgear everything. I first attempted Azol'Nerub with around 2600 GS and couldn't down the second boss. I was surprised I even got the first one down. I haven't attempting anything else yet as I've been on very limited playing time, but it's definitely been fun so far.
The big disadvantage of running 5 shammys is that you can't use the dungeon finder tool.
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