is five boxing pointless atm?

[Fat Tire]

I guess I am just confused.

I have been successful playing just 3 overall and ebony has said that he has seen more success with just 3 in randoms as of late. All I am getting, no way! you need atleast 4-5 in random bgs. Its random bgs ffs, half the population bots them.

Again I am only stating that anyone can achieve everything a 4-5 man can do with only 3, including in both pvp and pve. You can still do challenge modes, just grab two other people. If a person warrants the extra 30$ a month to do challenge modes by themselves then that is their prerogative. No one will convince me that 4-5 is better than 3. I played 4-5 all thru bc/wrath.

[heyaz]

I'm not sure how it would go now and I have no desire to enter the battlegrounds until the whole automatic suspension issue is addressed.

Fixed. No one is getting banned, just 3 hour (or sometimes longer) suspensions. And it's not so constant that you should be avoiding something, if you enjoy it. I've done dozens and dozens of BGs, queueing 5 at a time and have a grand total of two 3-hour suspensions at about 3 or 4am which are just expired when I get up. I'm still working on resolution of the tickets but overall it's not preventing me from doing BGs. Not doing anything wrong.

[heyaz]

I guess I am just confused.

I have been successful playing just 3 overall and ebony has said that he has seen more success with just 3 in randoms. All I am getting, no way! you need atleast 4-5 in random bgs. Its random bgs ffs, half the population bots them.

Then play three. I was just wondering what comp you were doing, as you were bursting people down with only 3 dps... with defensive CD's and healers around?

[Fat Tire]

What class are you running where you can burst down a player with 3 just as easily as 4-5? And what about when they use defensive CC's or have a healer?

I play alot of classes in different combos, its in my profile. If you are referring to randoms then I would say it doesnt matter, randoms are an objective oriented game minus AV/ioc it seems. For example, I would take a fresh lvl 90 in green that guards the node opposed to a fully geared 10x r1 glad who fights on the road.

Then play three

Thanks I have been playing just 3 for over a year now.

[ebony]

Then play three. I was just wondering what comp you were doing, as you were bursting people down with only 3 dps... with defensive CD's and healers around?

am playing 3 hunters and can take on 5 players (goes down to gear) most off my burst was wasted with five as it seems they was already dead. yes with healers it gets a bit worse if the other side has them but that is down to luck i been on the side when i have my own healer pug as there was 4 in a AB! ofc we won.


seems there less bots in randoms then there was! but i still played five and lost more then i do with 3. just seem to get locked down at a GY's with hunters anyway. more of the point was i don't wont to play class x i wont to play a class that works better with 3 then it did with 5.

a hc with 4 blood dk's and a healer takes me (not got great gear) but going off ptr with the gear takes a good 30-45mins. and i get 80 vp. a 3 man dungon takes me 10-20mins a lot easyer and am all dps now if they was five man i probs would say 5 boxing.

[Ellay]

When I first started dual-boxing, it was 2 mages. Just.. 2. and I was a badass. The forums on my server were flooded - screaming for the injustice I was giving them. I added another PC and now had 3, still maintained that oomph. Xzin was also around in this era playing 5 and was a badass tearing it up.

Eventually I went to 4 and made Shamans and.. that's were most of my history is at. I now play 5 and it's awesome for me but the moral of the story is when you are playing more than 1, you're a badass. No single player has the same meta game knowledge you do. You're inherently a... yep you guessed it. Badass.

Also face because that's how I roll.

[Shodokan]

The only reason for me to have 5 accounts is the extra professions right now.

I don't even play the game >_> just make gold.

Healing yourself in bgs is nice, but 4 is better for arenas because you can maximize everything. I had more fun dual-boxing to 2400+ than i ever did in 5's.

[Multibocks]

I run 10 for some not so obvious reasons.

[Lyonheart]

I have played at least two accounts since EQ, and when i started, there was no auto follow, they added that not long after. I learned then the advantages of having your own healer and later, your own group. But boxing EQ with a full group was very easy.. i did it via alt tabbing and could do any group content. I did the same thing in DAoC, but I could never 5 box WoW at first, its too fast paced to alt tab. Ellays making boxing shaman popular got my attention and learning about multiboxing software made it EASY to box WoW. I can never have less than 5 accounts for WoW. I could see playing 3 at a time, but i feel incomplete with less than a full group.

[Cyphoner]

I'm running 5 aswell but have been considering reducing it to three for the same reasons as the op, aswell as the scenarios..

One thing i'm sort of curious about though, how many from same guild is required for the guild to earn gold from a dungeon on a weekly basis? If 3 is enough that's it for me, then i'll go with three!