Stress test findings so far

[nodoze]

... No issues with ISBoxer so far, and most of my other addons (MonkeyQuest and Questie are highly recommended if you're going the quest route) have been working fine; I can post a list if anyone's interested.

I figure it's gonna be on like Donkey Kong once I get 5x pets...

Even just 1 pet puts a single Hunter as the fastest leveler so yeah 5 Pets will really put things on Steroids for you.

Speaking of Pets I am planning on having 3 in my party and they are called Warriors :-) . In my 2 Paladin\3Warrior party I plan drive from one healer and may just be a "melee mob" with the 2 paladins meleeing also with seals/judgments to regen mana and health for the party. I plan to try to setup both Healer's UIs identically so that I am fully redundant and can switch to the 2nd Healer if the first one goes down. If I substitute a Druid for a Warrior that will give me a combat rez and I may move to a more traditional Tank+3DPS+Healer party instead of a non-traditional 3DPS+2Healer party.

I for one am definitely interested in a list of recommended add-ons including quest helpers and what not. I especially want the best healing add-on that works well with ISboxer that I can VFX in ISboxer to easily control the background Healer from the foreground Healer.

[Hksix]

Just got to level 10 on my dual box in 3.5 hours (joanas / grinding with skipping the bottleneck quests). Yesterday my 5 box got to level 7 in 3.5 hours (mostly exploration/fedex quests). Looks like there won't be time for me to test out instances

[Grundel]

I especially want the best healing add-on that works well with ISboxer that I can VFX in ISboxer to easily control the background Healer from the foreground Healer.

Vuhdo will have a setup for classic I set up the current version with vfx with 2 bars that I can click heal from 2 dif healers on any of the 5 it works great.https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/vuhdo

eDIT i got it all set up in the demo and it works so good. even though i run from one toon 90% of the time i still have the option to heal from any toon with either healer its awesome

[Lewsifur]

For the best healing, just use the pro heal system and ebony. You can sort ebony party by name, and then make as many vertical clickbars as you need

Even line em up side for class specific things. I had 5 with my druids, so ten abilites with left and right click with. I mods. Easy shifting and ni vfx required as you can heal from any class using just the class bar you create.

[MiRai]

For the best healing, just use the pro heal system and ebony. You can sort ebony party by name, and then make as many vertical clickbars as you need

For anyone else reading this, the full name of the add-on is Ebony's Multiboxing Assistant, or EMA, for short.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

https://legacy-wow.com/classic-addons/

I use:

C:\games\WoW\_classic_\Interface\AddOns>ls
!OmniCC                    MonkeyQuest
Clique                     MonkeyQuestLog
Coordinates                OneBag3
EMA-Classic                Postal
ISBoxer                    QuestieDev-QuestieClassic
MonkeyBuddy                Sounds4Chat
MonkeyLibrary              _Corpse


C:\games\WoW\_classic_\Interface\AddOns>

MonkeyQuest, Questie, and EMA are the most helpful by far. Of the ones I have installed (that are not throwing errors), OneBag3 doesn't seem to work, nor does _Corpse or !OmniCC. I think they did at one point but I haven't really needed them as those first three are the ones I use all the time.

[edit2] Progress update:

Made it to level 15 last night with about ~14 hours /played. I'll say that 5x hunters are golden for anything up to about +7 mobs one at a time and +4/+5 up to three at once. It's tougher without a healer/rezbot but doable. Thinking I may end up subbing in a healer just for those times when I can't control aggro as well. Shame I can't roll a paladin to go with my orcs.

As a second opinion on the questing vs dungeons thing, the bad news about questing is that you don't move as fast due to things like 50 scorpid tails, 20 zhevra hooves, 75 kolkar bracers, etc. takes a long time to gather. The good news is that when you're done, you'll have plenty of money for skills and even the occasional weapon purchase to stay competitive. And when you're done, you will still benefit from the rep gains through questing. I ran through most of RFC and really didn't have much trouble with 5x hunters even when I pulled a pack of three and got jumped by another pair. Had to spend more time feeding pets but worked really well. I'm fairly happy with their performance. Not great when things get into melee range but having the pets soak up all the damage means I don't have to spend money on repairs or mana, just arrows and pet food.

[MiRai]

The "legacy" link posted above deals with add-ons for version 1.12, which do not work on Classic (1.13).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The "legacy" link posted above deals with add-ons for version 1.12, which do not work on Classic (1.13).

Fair enough, though at the time I pulled these, none of the popular sites had any that resulted in a stable client in the beta. The above (with noted caveats) actually work in the classic stress test and beta.

[Moorea]

things I learned:

- don't auto repair, it's way too costly - turn it off in ema-classic (can we change the default to be off ?)
- don't auto sell grey, many are upgrades, better than whites etc
- bag space is huge pain; got my tailor leveled to where she could make bags, that was better, but cloth was scarce too
- collection quests are terrible- I would love love love a curated list of quests to do
- fedex list works; is there one for horde side ?
- follow doesn't work in BG (can't follow that unit) even if you queue as group

[MiRai]

Fair enough, though at the time I pulled these, none of the popular sites had any that resulted in a stable client in the beta. The above (with noted caveats) actually work in the classic stress test and beta.

I'm assuming you meant to use the following link instead?

https://legacy-wow.com/classic-addons/

Your original link points to the Vanilla add-ons, and I doubt that there are any Vanilla 1.12.1 add-ons that work on the modern WoW API, which is why there is a massive movement to port everything over to Classic (even most BFA add-ons need to be slightly adjusted to work on Classic).

things I learned:
- collection quests are terrible

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