New to multiboxing - 1x warrior, 3x hunters 1x pala.

[rfarris]

I am in the middle of something like this so I can share my experiences. My first team was a pally tank and a druid healer. (just 2 toons) It was dirt easy from 1 to 80. I drove the tank, and used VideoFX to copy the healer's VuhDo buttons onto the tanks screen so that I could heal from the tank screen. I rarely did any healing and as it turned out I rarely tanked, either. I started by doing range attacks from the healer and by the time the mob got near enough for the tank to start to consecrate, the mob died.

On my second team I decided to have a warrior tank, a priest healer and a demo warlock. Here's where the trouble started. First, I drove from the healer which I think was a good idea. Driving from the tank would have restricted my field of vision. I did my pulls by "charging" the tank into the mob. Of course the Charge would break follow on the tank. The biggest problem was that a demo lock is essentially a melee toon once they get metamorphsis. I found it difficult to play both ranged and melee toons at the same time. I suggest that you avoid that on your first (new) team. At level 60 I finally realized that in order to get any dps at all out of my lock I needed to re-spec him into destro. Since then he's been doing decent dps. The most pleasant surprise was that my disc priest does massive damage and once she got Atonement, a large portion of all damage (via smite and penance) is passively copied to the other team members as heals or shields. I haven't pushed a VuhDo button - other than to cleanse off dots/poison/etc - in 30 or 40 levels. Disc Priests are great.

My next team will have a pally tank - they are really easy to play and they don't run off and break follow. They have super good AoE taunts and can taunt even if they're not facing the mob. I'll still drive the healer I think. I wouldn't make another warlock because of the complication of the pet and the slow ramp up time. Penance (on my priest) starts immediately and by the time my warlock is just getting started, the priest and/or warrior has usually killed the boss. So I would consider a priest again, but I may just have a pally tank and 4 shamans - 1 resto and 3 ele's.

Now that I've made groups with different classes I can see how it would definitely be easier for them to all be the same class.

If I could just figure out how to get the "Ground AoE" thing working... I need it for Rain of Fire and I'll need it for my Ele's. I think it's covered in one of the videos. Complete with a demonstration. If I could just remember which one...

[Refyxz]

Oh, I've seen and heard a lot of good stuffs about 5 ele shamans, but I feel like I wanna mix it up a little. Disc priest seems like a good idea. Priest is actually the only class I've not tried yet, ever. So I dont have any good knowledge about them. I thought disc was a healing spec? or they still deal good healing and DPS the same time? Well, It's a few days left before I will get the accounts (I'm away on work atm, getting free-from-work for a couple of months) so I think I will reach a decision before that. But keep coming with suggestions!