Tips and tricks for multi-boxer leveling

[Lyrel90]

I don't see any advantage to boxing a single class team in vanilla though. You miss out on a bunch of buffs and utility for no real gain. You also end up with one class leveled which limits your raiding options. A balanced group with a healer or two plus some ranged DPS increases your chances of being a viable addition to any 40man.

Definitly true. But tbh i would have just made this team for fun anyway. Something like 5 warlocks. 10 dot's on an enemy with 2 globals sounded like a fun thing to do.

But maybe i will level a mixed setup first and switch to a single class setup later for fun stuff. Maybe some WPvP or something.

Would have to look into it more tho. not that experienced yet with multiboxing. I started in Legion and tried different things. I ended up doing mostly single class setups for farming and stuff like that.

[Apatheist]

Definitly true. But tbh i would have just made this team for fun anyway. Something like 5 warlocks. 10 dot's on an enemy with 2 globals sounded like a fun thing to do..

If you like that style of play then one priest, 4 warlocks is actually a solid group for both PvP and PvE.

Managing a priest with your 4 warlocks takes only a little more effort and the addition of a healer makes your team significantly stronger.

The only issue they've removed the focus frame from classic. I've always relied on focus for managing pet targets and we're not sure yet if there will be a way to create similar functionality via addons.

[stubbadub3000]

Would have to look into it more tho. not that experienced yet with multiboxing. I started in Legion and tried different things. I ended up doing mostly single class setups for farming and stuff like that.

I too just single class box now. But watching beta gameplay of classic, the gameplay seems a lot slower then modern wow and managing multiple classes could be easier because of this.

Macros like /castsequence working in classic make multiple classes easy too and you just make one-button rotation macros

[Apatheist]

just make one-button rotation macros

Kind of a moot point since most classes have one button rotations in classic anyway. Mage rotation is literally just spamming frostbolt. Warlock rotation is literally just spamming shadowbolt.

I should just level my raid toon (mage) to begin with.

Mage is probably the fastest leveling class in the game if you know how to AE grind efficiently. It's pretty hard to beat.

Boxing will definitely slow down your leveling speed either way. Most of us that box regularly don't do it because it's faster, we just enjoy it.

[Syclone]

Warlock rotation is literally just spamming shadowbolt.

Don't you typically try to work in a Corruption per target then include the Warlock's shadowbolt with the same button that activates Mage's frostbolt? I am new to this and have been toying with tank/healer/2 mage/1 warlock

I am not sure if leveling the tank/healer on their own then doing the warlock/mages would be faster or not then just having them get together as a 5man at the first dungeon.

[Apatheist]

Don't you typically try to work in a Corruption per target then include the Warlock's shadowbolt with the same button that activates Mage's frostbolt? I am new to this and have been toying with tank/healer/2 mage/1 warlock

I am not sure if leveling the tank/healer on their own then doing the warlock/mages would be faster or not then just having them get together as a 5man at the first dungeon.

Nope. At 60 in a PvE environment you apply your assigned curse and then spam shadowbolt. That's it. You generally won't be allowed to apply any of your other DoT's due to the limited debuff slots.

Until you get a decent amount of spell/shadow damage gear it's actually not even worth casting shadowbolt. Your wand will usually be higher single target DPS.

Leveling two sets will definitely be slower than grinding dungeons as a 5man. Particularly as you get up into the 50's where you actually want to keep some of the gear you get because it's BiS for your preraid set. Far more efficient to farm this stuff as you level rather than grinding to 60, then going back to do Maraudon, BRD, etc.

[stubbadub3000]

Boxing will definitely slow down your leveling speed either way. Most of us that box regularly don't do it because it's faster, we just enjoy it.

Oh of course, I'm talking more of questing in the initial rush of players, when it is impossible to even get a mob kill let alone classic quest loot drop percentages.