[Vanguard] Questions on starting again - class, race, group size, starting areas etc.

[heffner]

You guys still playing? I am slowly trudging along. Working on improving my macros along the way. I find the Disciple is probably the most complicated class and hardest to macro. In hindsight I probably should have picked something else, but we'll see.

The past couple of weeks my main toon has had terrible hitching. Every time I pull a mob it hitches, while my other five are just fine. Not really sure what's going on. Running three F2P accounts is OK so far, but I do think it's going to hamper me somewhat. It's annoying doing all those quests and not being able to use any of the gear. I might subscribe to a fourth, but haven't decided.

I finished all the URT and HL quests. Finished Trengal Keep and now at L31 I am starting to work on Wardship armor. Sometimes I feel like I am leveling too fast and missing out on a lot of content.

[pox67]

I was still playing up until a couple of nights ago. I have 3 monitors and I use them in Nvidia Surround mode, some games I play in 3 x landscape and some games 3 x portrait.
Vanguard was the three screens in landscape and SWToR I play in portrait. I just switched back to play some SWToR and Borderlands 2 big screen style.
I'll come back to Vanguard in a bit.

I got to 18 on my 4 some. Things were going quite well and it was lots of fun. I wasn't having too many troubles macroing the Disciple but don't have all the skills you do yet.

[Alge]

I'm still playing and enjoying myself. My first team are now almost 51 and working on RI/ToT/Magi Hold. I started a third team (WAR, BMG, BRD, PSI, RNG, DRU) who are now 16. I've been having a lot of fun soloing a ranger lately too. My guild is called Fara Undir Jordhina. I'm normally on the tank.

[heffner]

The 3 monitor setup must be sweet =). Although I have 3 monitors they are all different brands/sizes and on three separate computers

WRT the Disc, it's not difficult to macro really....it's difficult to do it well and maximize as much potential as you can. At least for me it has been. I wish the macro system was more like WoW's. That made things much easier to accomplish.

I've looked for you a few times Alge, but I don't think two individuals could be any further apart geographically (I live in Ontario, Canada) so I am not sure if I will ever catch you on. Although, back in my younger days my regular EQ group included people from Hawaii and Singapore since I played early into the morning.

[pox67]

Three monitors is great. I previously tried multiboxing with 2 different size monitors and it didn't work as well. I really need a stand though so I can easily flip between portrait and landscape modes.

[Lokked]

Hello!

I attempted to Multibox, using IS/ISBoxer with 6 instances and ran into 2 problems:
Artifacting - Solved by turning all instances VSync ON, but this isn't ideal.
UI Flickering - Not resolved.

I'm thinking UI elements are due to either not enough processing power or not enough graphics power.
I am running:
Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07 GHz (8 cores, hyperthreaded)
12GB Ram
Win7 64-bit
nVidia GeForce GTX 570 (might be the problem)

In ISBoxer, I have 1 instance at 1600x900 on main monitor (ingame res also 1600-900), and 5 spaced out on second monitor at 533x300 (1600x900 divided by 3) and the ingame res for those is 1600x900.

Can I get away with just upgrading either the Vid Card or CPU? Or do I need a new computer

Thank you!

[Alge]

I'm running 6 clients stacked @ 1920x1200. i7 2600K @ 3.4 GHz, 16GB RAM, Win 7 64, Radeon 6990.

I run my main at 30FPS and slaves at 15FPS and get lower frame rates at times. Main is on High Quality, slaves are on the minimum for everything. Make sure shadows and volumetric clouds are off for everyone.

Under Settings, Performance make sure Hardware Occlusion is Off and the next 4 are On.

If you suspect a bottleneck (either CPU or GPU) here is how to find out.

[Candorel]

Under Settings, Performance make sure Hardware Occlusion is Off and the next 4 are On.

Does that mean Vsync, triple buffering, character occlusion and use provided shaders should all be on for the slaves? Also, what are you particle slider settings at?

[Alge]

Does that mean Vsync, triple buffering, character occlusion and use provided shaders should all be on for the slaves?

Yes, though some sets I have vsync on and some I have it off - haven't noticed any difference.

Also, what are you particle slider settings at?

100, 50, 50 ,50, 50
I should probably turn those down on the slaves.

[Candorel]

Alge, thanks for the info. Also, from your experience, do you find a bear shaman or a disciple makes a better healer in boxed groups?

Edit: Also, how often do you find yourself using evac while boxing, does it come in handy that much?