Advice for a beginner?

[marvein]

5-boxing really makes the game fun again. Everything feels new The pally, priest, mage, warlock, hunter combo is challenging but really powerful in PvE.

Hi All, FNG here, /wave

I have been reading stickies and trying to read through all the posts, but I still am scratching my head about how you can play 5 different classes at the same time. I can wrap my head around 5 of the same class, because once you set up all the bars and use the keyclone to pass the strokes to the different clients, but I can't concieve 5 different classes, 5 different bars/spells.

I have a 70 Tanking Druid up to Gruuls atm, and a 70 S.Priest decked out in full Epic PVP gear, I can play them both singularly very well, however , I am having a hard time trying to immagine just playing both of them at the same time, much less FIVE! Please tell me how you guys make this possible, I'm not grasping that concept. Unfortunate for me, I learn best by seeing something working as opposed to just reading about it, but I will try to "get it"

TIA
Mac

it certainly takes more work than 4-5x of the same class which is why it is not a recommended first attempt. Also, playing 4-5x melee classes is downright futile, even Xzin said it was bad lol. But the idea behind multiclassing is picking ones that have good synergy together. Most often your group will consist of a tank (paladin is the most popular) which you will actively play as your main followed by most often casters/ranged dps/CC like mages/priests/shamans/warlocks/hunters. This is also the time where having additional sources for keybindings, like x-keys, G15 keyboard, various game pads etc come in handy for when you want more granualar control. Otherwise you pretty much just do a generic setup where 1 key is bound to the most common spell on all characters. like say you press 4, and your mage does flame shock, priest does SWain, lock does corruption, hunter does arcane shot. Things like that work well because in the end there is very few things that require micromanagement even when playing different classes. So other than manually targeting for CC its fairly normal and plus you get the advantages of party buffs from other classes (AI, Fort, TSA, etc) and the utlity of each class. And of course when you get to 70 and want to take a break you have 5 different classes you can play solo for fun



*edit* I forget his name but he has several videos in the video section of heroics. he runs I beleive 1 warrior, 1 priest, 1 lock and 2 mages, his goal is to do every TBC instance on normal/heroic. He is doing an awsome job with it.