5 box or 10 box?

[Queshank]

My wife and I have run a 5 boxing team together for years. I'll tank and run 2 dps and she'll heal and run 1 offheal/dps. It's always worked pretty well. For awhile we each 5 boxed paladins for the heck of it. Karazhan with a 10 man swarmadin was pretty fun.

This sale on WoW is lasting a long time. And with RAF going to 85 now we are considering returning and starting a new team to level up. As a joke I said "Hey WoW is so cheap we should each 5 box so we can run 10 mans". Now my wife is considering it and it's less of a joke.

Is it worth it? Can progress be made with with 2 5 boxers running 10 mans? Or should we stick to our 3 and 2 standard?

Thanks for any tips.

[Lyonheart]

I envy you! I would say yes. 10 man raid content will be hard.. that depends on both your level of dedication, your skill at micro managing etc.. But two 5 boxers has so many other benefits. aside for 10 man content. Bottom line is, if you both are already boxing..more is always better, and 5 each is perfect right? Its why a single boxer almost always starts out "duel-boxing" and ends up at least boxing a full group later on, its the "power of more".

[RSM72]

I'd say go for it. If both of you got the dedication to 5-box you'd get only benefits from two 5-toon teams.

[Paradoxel]

Go for it, sounds like a fun project.

[Kicksome]

When you think about it as 2 people, each 5 boxing, I think you'd like it a lot. Then you could level the 2nd group together, should be fun.

I think doing a raid with all 10 would be extremely tough. I'm sure it can be done, but it would be a lot of work to get a fight down. You're better off bringing 2-3 of each to a LFR.

Also, the timeless isles is a lot of fun, you could have 2x 5 man groups and go kill all the elites and get gear when you're 90.

[Queshank]

Well we've decided to start with a 5 box team and if we're still gung ho when we get them to 70th we will just buy 5 more accounts before the sale ends and level a 2nd team to 70th then do raids from there. We're 43rd atm but haven't really gotten to put in some good leveling time due to having to actually interact with other humans over the blasted holidays! So hopefully we'll hit 70th before the sale ends.

[Damons]

I plan on buying another 5 accounts before the sale ends, mainly because I've been dicking around for the past month. And who knows, my wife asks me to play all the time too

[Queshank]

Okay we hit 52nd last night. Going into the weekend we're confident we'll be 70th by Saturday ... so we're both in agreement still. We're going to level a 2nd team and try doing 10 man content from 70th on. I'd almost forgotten how ridiculously fun it is to level teams with RAF.

I am running a Pally tank with 2 warlock dps, while she is using 2 disc priests for quick leveling. At 90th I can swap out the paladin tank for a Monk, Druid, Paladin, Warrior or DK tank. And she can swap out the healing priest in her setup with a Priest, Paladin, Monk, Druid, Shaman healer as each of those characters are on our "main" accounts. So at least one of each main healer/tank type is available to us no matter what we play for leveling the "team". We like leveling alts I guess

What should our second team be? Any suggestions?

We will run Karazhan at 70th and then each level a 5 man team to 80th so we get comfortable with our team setup before taking on 80th lvl 10 mans. Might as well get the achievements for our guild while we're at it If you were building a 10 man raid team and had 2 warlocks and a shadowpriest as set dps, with all else being adjustable what would you make the rest of the team be?

I'm having trouble focusing at work on a Friday and am instead trying to plan the logistics of a 2nd team with good synergy and playability

[Queshank]

Here's where I think we'll wind up.

Group 1 (played by my wife)

Tank: Paladin or Monk probably Pally for boxing simplicity
Healer: Holy Priest (will be primary raid healer)
DPS 1: Discipline Priest (will be part dps part heals as our 3rd healer unless we need 3 healers or more dps)
DPS 2&3: Frost Mages (I believe they will be easiest to macro)

Team 2 (played by me)

Tank: Blood DK offspec DPS DK when only 1 tank needed
Healer: Holy Paladin (for main tank heals)
DPS 1: Boomkin that can offspec resto
DPS 2&3: Warlocks haven't decided affliction or destruction yet

This gives us all buffs and debuffs when I am spec'd DPS on my tank, and all but the melee buffs/debuffs which are of lesser importance dps wise when I'm offtanking or maintanking as Blood. Her priest is normal ToT geared already, as is my Holy Paladin. So we should be able to drag our team through the lower tier MoP stuff with only 2 healers and the one autopilot hybrid dps/heals disc priest. I think my 5 man team will be the more difficult to control so I'm hoping I can get a handle on warlock/boomkin dps. If the DK proves too complex I can run a Prot Paladin that is 90th and in mixed normal ToT/lfr ToT prot gear and that would give us a leg up on lower tier MoP raids as well.

Here is our eventual raid composition with 2 tanks:

http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/?c=...00000000000000

And here with 1 tank:

http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/?c=...00000000000000

Any suggestions from those who have 10 boxed some raids would be much appreciated. I think we're going to challenge ourselves to progress as far as 2 people can while boxing. Worst case we'll force our 14 yr old son to maintank a few bosses so we can focus more on heals and movement But for the most part we'll try just the 2 of us.

[Queshank]

Bah cancelled message.