Few newb questions

[Wubsie]

How do you guys manage to run different classes? are you only using like 3 of the main skills on each character?

Well, there are a few ways of creating "rotations" for your characters. As most people use ISBoxer nowadays, the answer you're looking for is more than likely the ISBoxer Pro Configuration. I've gone ahead and linked the fantastic video instruction series Mirai did on the subject. It's an awesome system and not as hard to use as it might initially seem. As soon as it clicks, you'll love it.

I would point out that if you are running only 1 spec, the pro system is probably not needed. For mixed groups, it's essential, unless you use something else, like Gnomesequencer, to handle rotations.

Also do you guys buy the battlechest+ current expansion for each account or is there a trick to lessen the initial costs? I dont mind buying 4x more accounts, just dont want to spend the 70$ per acc (base game + legion) if it isnt neccesary. Lastly is there decent gold to be made while multiboxing or is it just for the joy and challenge of running multiple accounts.

I believe it might be slightly cheaper (only be a few dollars/euros per account) to upgrade straight from a trial account to Legion and skip buying the battle chest first. I could be mistaken though, so do check before buying.

Multiboxing can be good for gold, yes. For example Draenor was incredible for us. I must have made about 8 million gold on my 10-box this expansion without having to try too much. It's early to say how things will be in Legion though. Usually someone figures out a way for us to make gold, but it's in no way guaranteed.

We do have some safe fallback methods like the Cata raid farms, which got nerfed but are still OK if you have nothing else, and just simply multi-gathering with the new system. We'll see how material prices react to the changes in the system though...