Just saying hi..I'm new here. Few questions...

[Khazrael]

While most people preach to screw collection quests, consider them instead. If the droprate is so bad after 40kills you get ONE drop for ONE char, screw it. If it takes maybe 10 at worst, 2-4 usually, to get 1 quest item drop, go ahead and do it; not only is it good quest exp + quest reward, it's time spent grinding without technically being grinding, as you have a goal and specific targets. The key is not to consider it pure grinding, because it's not

I agree with this for the most part, and in fact do collection quests with my 5 man team. I was simply pointing out however that compared to other quests, it is going to be more time consuming. He seemed interested in trying to get through levels as quick as possible, and collection quests probably aren't the way to go. Some of them certainly aren't that bad, but still slower then doing any other quest where everyone in the group gets credit for the one thing.

The only time I'd advocate doing that is if you don't have any instances to do and are a bit underleveled due to skipping quests, once again under the assumption that time is the primary factor you're after.

[Eteocles]

Just FYI I wasn't directing that in reply to you Khaz or anyone, just in general :p I've cleared almost every zone of any quest, most if not all collection quests included(I even did the infamous Southshore Murloc Heads one...apparently they drop much better when they die alot faster >D) I could do as I lvl'd my boomkins and never ran into issues and always had plenty of cash and gear to work with lol

[Vyndree]

1) if more people start 5xBoxing and dominating arenas

Hehe.

Look at these forums, and let's try to count the number of 2k+ rated shammy groups, since shammy groups are so "popular".


*crickets*


Yep, that would be just Ellay. I wouldn't be worried about this. If you're willing to put in the effort and have the skill to back it up, go for it. You'll still be a pretty unique flower.

[zanthor]

You'll still be a pretty unique flower.

Screw unique, I just want phat pvp epix!!

Of course if I quit raiding I'd be able to level my shammies...

[Ramesses]

So after reading more on this great site, and all about the multitude of different setups I have a few more questions.

1. If i will be 5 boxing, do you reccommend I look at building 2 seperate PCs and perhaps run 2 on one machine and 3 on the other? Or should I be ok with one big beefy quad-core PC to handle all 5?

2. If I do go with a multi-pc setup, can you configure keyclone to send the keystrokes across to my other PC? Is this tough to do, and is there more of a lag time going over the network or is it negligible as I would imagine?

3. How would a 70 priest do as a 5th member of the group to help "boost" or PL the 4 lowbies up? I saw the video on boosting in SM cath with a prot paly, definately looks like thats not something a clothy could do. Should I look to level up a paly to help with this process?

Thanks!

[Ramesses]

Heh one more...

Do you 5 boxers login all 5 characters at once, 2 at once? or only one at a time? Do you have some kind of script setup for this or is it a huge pain to log all 5 chars in?

[Maxion]

More PCs means you can have higher details or whatnot on, doesn't matter that much to me/I'm not sure of all the differences/advantages. I run all 5-6 on one comp myself.
At the cost of the one-time fee of $20 for each macine, you can have keyclone on them all and they will connect and run just as smooth as if it was on one computer (I'm pretty sure its just as smooth, at least if the two/more PCs are identical in hardware).
PLing 4 lowbie with a high lvl char is very very fast if you run instances, mages and pallies are especially good at this due to the aoe, though I have great success on my lock just putting siphon life on everything. With knowledge of your class I'm sure you can find a dot or whatnot that will work for you (if you are undead the one that heals you would be great I'd imagine, if its an instant cast at least, I dont have any high enough UD priests to know myself atm), but generally, any class can boost to at least a decent degree.
Logging them all in is very easy, since with keyclone (or whatever you use to broadcast the keys) you can have it type in your password in all the windows at the same time, and set it up to have your user names entered when the game starts.

[Ramesses]

More PCs means you can have higher details or whatnot on, doesn't matter that much to me/I'm not sure of all the differences/advantages. I run all 5-6 on one comp myself.
At the cost of the one-time fee of $20 for each macine, you can have keyclone on them all and they will connect and run just as smooth as if it was on one computer (I'm pretty sure its just as smooth, at least if the two/more PCs are identical in hardware).
PLing 4 lowbie with a high lvl char is very very fast if you run instances, mages and pallies are especially good at this due to the aoe, though I have great success on my lock just putting siphon life on everything. With knowledge of your class I'm sure you can find a dot or whatnot that will work for you (if you are undead the one that heals you would be great I'd imagine, if its an instant cast at least, I dont have any high enough UD priests to know myself atm), but generally, any class can boost to at least a decent degree.
Logging them all in is very easy, since with keyclone (or whatever you use to broadcast the keys) you can have it type in your password in all the windows at the same time, and set it up to have your user names entered when the game starts.

Awesome info, thanks alot!