Starting out multi-boxing with 5 accounts. Need team comp help

[saintlyn]

Hey guys,

I'm joining the ranks of multiboxers! Starting out with 5 toons. To begin I think they should all be of the same class (for simplicity).

Any advice here? I can't pick between:

5 x paladins. Run them either as 5 x prot or 1 prot, 1 holy, 3 ret.

5 x druids. Probably Boom x 5.

5 x ele shamans.

My main focus would be on dungeons and epic farming on raid trash.

Thanks!

Pumped to get started! W00T!

[luxlunae]

I'd say make one of each team and play them to level 15, preferences are very personal and you'll develop strong opinions very quickly. Offhand I'd prefer the druids because the paladins are melee (harder to learn out of the gate) and the shaman cant tank if you decide you want to try to do real instances later on.

[luxlunae]

Also, you might feel comfortable after you've put in the time to get all three sets to 15 to mix and match and do a mixed group.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I have 5x Prot at 100. They level like mad, have a +run-speed passive and AoE pull like nobody's business. Lots of fun leveling and instancing.

Also have 5x druids at 100. I played them as kitties during WotLK, which was fun. I leveled them to 90 and then 100 as balance, and they did very well and leveled fast, too. Very versatile class, if not quite as forgiving as the prot paladins.

Also have 5x hunters at 100. Don't underestimate them for farming, leveling, and instances. They are currently my favorite group, high DPS, very forgiving, come with their own pocket tanks, speed boosts, self-healing, switchable ammo types, etc. etc. Highly recommended; would buy again. A+++. The only drawback is that you don't have resurrection in this group; Goblin Jumper Cables work sometimes, and you do have the Guild Perk resurrect if you don't die too much.

Also have a 100 caster group with 1x arcane mage, 1x disc priest and 3x demonology warlocks (which I should probably switch to affliction). They were fun as well, but not as versatile or forgiving as any of the above groups. Good AoE, though. This group is nice in that you have portals and summons in the group.

Really comes down to what you'd like to play. Play a class(es) that's fun for you and multiboxing them will only be more fun.

Incidentally, what software/hardware are you using to multibox? If ISBoxer, setting up mixed-class teams is a little bit time-consuming at first but once you get it configured, it's really slick at managing things so you don't have to get crazy with macros and multiple keys.

Good luck!

[Andreauk]

I have 5x Prot at 100. They level like mad, have a +run-speed passive and AoE pull like nobody's business. Lots of fun leveling and instancing.

Just wanted to ask.. what method do you use for keeping the paladins together? On my hunters I use an assist key and another bound to interact with target - but that's only for looting bodies for quest items...was wondering if I'd be best off with Jamba strobe for a melee group? Oh and what stats do you gear for with your prots - tank or dps stats?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Just wanted to ask.. what method do you use for keeping the paladins together? On my hunters I use an assist key and another bound to interact with target - but that's only for looting bodies for quest items...was wondering if I'd be best off with Jamba strobe for a melee group? Oh and what stats do you gear for with your prots - tank or dps stats?

I do not use strobe follow ever, nor is IWT in my combat rotation; separate assist+IWT key and my "move forward" key is linked to /follow on the slaves. I found they did the runaway thing far too often with IWT in the rotation.

As for gearing, I went mostly tanky gear. They got much more benefit from tank stats than DPS stats (bonus armor vs str, etc.). With 5 of them, it was more important that they be survivable than speedy as the only thing that ever gave me trouble was heroics. I did one of those and decided I was sorely undergeared. I think they were at about 635ish when I got bored and took a break.

The great thing about tanky setup (Holy Prism, Holy Shield, Sacred Shield talents) is that you group heal well and are hard to kill, and trash packs just melt. The bad thing about tanky setup is that you have a hard "breakover" point where your survivability isn't high enough for you to kill the target(s) before you run out of health. It's somewhat of a sliding scale; in lower-level content, you want to favor DPS because you can blow things up fast and farm like mad. In heroics and up, depending on gear, you prefer tanky setups because the DPS setup gets killed before you can finish the kill. Tricky stuff, and definitely has some fights that are stupid easy and some that seem impossible until you overgear them. It's definitely nowhere near how awesome it was in WotLK, where I was farming heroics and actually completing the Glory of the Hero achievements on current content.

[Andreauk]

I do not use strobe follow ever, nor is IWT in my combat rotation; separate assist+IWT key and my "move forward" key is linked to /follow on the slaves. I found they did the runaway thing far too often with IWT in the rotation.

As for gearing, I went mostly tanky gear. They got much more benefit from tank stats than DPS stats (bonus armor vs str, etc.). With 5 of them, it was more important that they be survivable than speedy as the only thing that ever gave me trouble was heroics. I did one of those and decided I was sorely undergeared. I think they were at about 635ish when I got bored and took a break.

The great thing about tanky setup (Holy Prism, Holy Shield, Sacred Shield talents) is that you group heal well and are hard to kill, and trash packs just melt. The bad thing about tanky setup is that you have a hard "breakover" point where your survivability isn't high enough for you to kill the target(s) before you run out of health. It's somewhat of a sliding scale; in lower-level content, you want to favor DPS because you can blow things up fast and farm like mad. In heroics and up, depending on gear, you prefer tanky setups because the DPS setup gets killed before you can finish the kill. Tricky stuff, and definitely has some fights that are stupid easy and some that seem impossible until you overgear them. It's definitely nowhere near how awesome it was in WotLK, where I was farming heroics and actually completing the Glory of the Hero achievements on current content.

My x5 hunter team I just hit 47 - I rolled them yesterday.. I logged into the new palas and it just seemed a bit too much hassle for me.

I used to swear by having a healer with hunters but things are just dying so fast it's crazy. Just hope they stay this good later on at max level with a bit of gear. If they turn out good this will end up being my one and only team, that way I can have time for a solo alt or two when I need a break.

[Bittersweet]

The only drawback is that you don't have resurrection in this group; Goblin Jumper Cables work sometimes, and you do have the Guild Perk resurrect if you don't die too much.

I believe there are two pets that can give a rez--quilen requiring BM spec and cranes for non-BM specs.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I believe there are two pets that can give a rez--quilen requiring BM spec and cranes for non-BM specs.

Forgot about the Quilen thing. Thanks for the correction.

[Andreauk]

I have 5x Prot at 100. They level like mad, have a +run-speed passive and AoE pull like nobody's business. Lots of fun leveling and instancing.

Are you still playing your prots? I rolled 5 today to try something new..