Why do you play 5s/5v5?

[Fat Tire]

I am guessing that most 5v5 players pvp because they enjoy doing pve as well and playing 5 characters seems to make the most sense.

Are there any 4/5 boxers out there that just pvp?

[Kruschpakx4]

Are there any 4/5 boxers out there that just pvp?

I'm boxing my 4 shamans since 3+years now and sometimes I need a break of pvp and do some pve achievement shit like farming the heroic achievements. I think I was one of the first quad shaman boxer in cataclysm who got a heroic clear (pally tank played by my brother) because I'm not afraid of wiping 6+ hours at the same encounter to get a boss kill, but its much more harder if you play the tank too.

Anyway while an arena season I'm doing rarely pve but ... sometimes people suck so hard at pvp that I have to do pve

[valkry]

I am guessing that most 5v5 players pvp because they enjoy doing pve as well and playing 5 characters seems to make the most sense.

Are there any 4/5 boxers out there that just pvp?

Yea mate, all I do is pvp with my 4 shammies. And old school raids when I'm bored. I'm not all into the cutting edge strats for the new heroics lol.

BUT, I'm a special pvper, I only like BGs and world pvp. I only do 5v5 for my weekly min wins for the gear. It used to be just the 10 matches which I would just lose on purpose more often than not. But now I have to win 5 games, which is kinda hard atm due to me being in crap gear, and there being only 1-2 other teams queuing up and way outgearing me.

I wish we could get more conquest points from just random BGs for the best pvp gear. But I find out I have to do rated BGs, so now I have to find a group which will let a boxer in, gg. Maybe once my guild gets some more members.

More than anything, I'm after 4x battlemaster on my shammies. It's a long term goal as my playtime is a few days every 3 weeks, but I'm slowly getting there, done AV, AB, eots and most of sota so far :P

[Littleburst]

I am guessing that most 5v5 players pvp because they enjoy doing pve as well and playing 5 characters seems to make the most sense.

Are there any 4/5 boxers out there that just pvp?

The reason i play 4 and will always play 4 in pvp is that 4 + healer is so much stronger then 5. Only the fact that you can split up, tell you healer to defend and zerg another base or whatnot.

A few months before cata was released i was kinda done with my shams. I wasn't bothered to gear them up for PVE, so I only did HC's pretty much. When this happened I made a new pve team on my old server, having lots of fun there, mainly playing toons single. Leveled them as a team to 84, then i farmed Vortex Pinnacle for the Volatile airs but that was pretty much it. Solo playing ftw with the cata movement bosses.

[Fat Tire]

I appreciate all the responses.

[Littleburst]

delete.

[ghonosyph]

multiboxing is fun. Seeing 5 toons co-ordinated is just as much fun as 2 or 3 imo. You can do well in ANY bracket provided you play well... the draw/+ of multiboxing more ie 5 is that more coordination = better results... at least that's been MY personal experience. I've done the 2 and 3's thing before... you just don't have enough of a BOOM to murder someone properly in today's pvp world.

I'm more of a pve person myself and have loved the fact that i could farm dungeons for rep/items/pride that i did glory of the hero completely solo in wotlk. I also solo raided and 3-5 raided with my toons in wotlk to some success. The ability to control most of the group, as well as do competitive dmg was enthralling, and NOT having to deal with the TERRIBLE pug /lfg system scrubs that seemed so rampant and still do to this day was a HUGE bonus on the pve side.

PvP + PvE = 5 toons. Pve because bad pugs are bad, pvp because .... well why the hell not you DO have 5 accounts right? lol use them or its a waste of cash imo

PvP strictly = I could see myself NOT re-upgrading all my 5 accounts and going with 2 or 3, however pve is a means to an end for pvp. You can gear up one way and then use that way to help gear up another... more = more options imo. Ie your pvp toons can be all engineer /jc (or whatever is best for pvp profession wise) and another team can be for gathering and crafting.


TLDR: less could be good, but most of us find the draw in 5 toons because we like all aspects of the game in that regard. There's no doubt you can be successful playing less, but most players enjoy just playing more than 2 toons...

tell me, do you like mac and cheese? lol if yes.... WHY do you like mac and cheese? - because its delicious... simple question simple answer ! haha

[Fat Tire]

I did not know this was true. If I knew, 3s would be my game too. Fat, were you playing all 3 ? or just 2 with a player controlled healer.

I think most people did not know this (3 box, 2 box) would work well. If you can show us something, we'd switched. You'd be surprised how much a video can inspire people, hint hint *.

I have only talked about it for the past year in my posts off and on. I box 2s and I box the same in 3s with a healer friend. I use a variety of tunneling classes, no casters. Playing all 3 in 3s is just too much for me and I found my boxing niche it looks like within the community only playing only 2.

I frapsed when I played on sunday night, but I still need to edit out the faceroll games and keep the quality opponents and find some music.

multiboxing is fun. Seeing 5 toons co-ordinated is just as much fun as 2 or 3 imo. You can do well in ANY bracket provided you play well... the draw/+ of multiboxing more ie 5 is that more coordination = better results... at least that's been MY personal experience. I've done the 2 and 3's thing before... you just don't have enough of a BOOM to murder someone properly in today's pvp world.

I'm more of a pve person myself and have loved the fact that i could farm dungeons for rep/items/pride that i did glory of the hero completely solo in wotlk. I also solo raided and 3-5 raided with my toons in wotlk to some success. The ability to control most of the group, as well as do competitive dmg was enthralling, and NOT having to deal with the TERRIBLE pug /lfg system scrubs that seemed so rampant and still do to this day was a HUGE bonus on the pve side.

PvP + PvE = 5 toons. Pve because bad pugs are bad, pvp because .... well why the hell not you DO have 5 accounts right? lol use them or its a waste of cash imo

PvP strictly = I could see myself NOT re-upgrading all my 5 accounts and going with 2 or 3, however pve is a means to an end for pvp. You can gear up one way and then use that way to help gear up another... more = more options imo. Ie your pvp toons can be all engineer /jc (or whatever is best for pvp profession wise) and another team can be for gathering and crafting.


TLDR: less could be good, but most of us find the draw in 5 toons because we like all aspects of the game in that regard. There's no doubt you can be successful playing less, but most players enjoy just playing more than 2 toons...

Thanks ghonosyph, nice post minus the cheesy part.

[ghonosyph]

it must be said... I LIKE CHEESE!!! MMMM CHEESE... lol im from wisconsin.... can you tell? but you did get my point with the whole mac and cheese thing right? lol

[Fat Tire]

it must be said... I LIKE CHEESE!!! MMMM CHEESE... lol im from wisconsin.... can you tell? but you did get my point with the whole mac and cheese thing right? lol

Nope. I think that is a fail analogy but I appreciate the flavor. If I may take a spoon to your mac and cheese analogy. Most people like eating mac and cheese, but some need to use a larger spoon to eat their bowl of mac. However, any spoon achieves the same result if you are only hungry for mac and cheese. The mac and cheese itself doesnt care what kind of spoon is used to eat it, but to the person it apparently matters as that is the only way they can eat their mac.

Also this makes sense in my head, however I will understand if no one else gets it.