messy af windowed boxing team

[Teslah]

Hi Simpletom,

I filmed a quick video, although sloppy of Heroic Slave Pens using 3 Hunters a Priest and the Pally tank.

Slave Pens Heroic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYFd2aeIhk Pally, 3 Hunters, Priest.



Since the announcement, I have not used any software or hardware assistance. Only a couple of mods and manually do everything (as you can see in the video) one screen and one action at a time. I leveled every team in instances, except for the bis quests for gear. Playing this way with no software reminds me of before ISBoxer became popular and doing heroics like this back in 2008.

I did this fast, as I have a meeting to get to. As you can, I made some big mistakes. I left the mote collecting goggles on the pally and hunter, as well as a riding crop, so his dps is not as good as it should be. I also forgot to get the 110 nature buff at the end from the guy in the cage. I let him out, just forgot to get it! Shows you can do it without it, however it is easier with it.

For the second boss that you asked about, I did not use drums in case you do not have a leather worker.

Some easy simple tips.

1. Heal yourself along with your healer to get the debuff off.
2. Make a Divine Shield macro to quickly activate and turn it off. That will wipe the debuff too.
3. If you haven't done it. Change the mouse over activation setting in the registry. You can get it to activate a window almost instantly from the default 1/2 second. Makes rolling over them much easier.

The team has a couple pieces of badge gear. The rest is BIS blues. Hunters have 4 piece Beast Lord, trinket from Arctraz, Kurenai rep quiver, neck from Botanica and they all have the Wrathtide Bow from Steam Vaults Heroic.
Wait until you try the second boss in Steam Vaults with no software to strafe everyone. Manually moving each character out of her storm is a nightmare. Other two bosses are fairly easy.

Anyway, keep trying. Hunters are great in SP because they can ignore the Defender shields, you have 3 stuns for the soothsayers and enchanters and do some pretty decent dps.

I can burst above 1K on the Hunters. With drums and heroism, a little higher of course. Shaman group does consistent 1.6K to 2K, Mages are about 1.2K to 1.4K dps. Hunters are the lowest. They are fun though and get the job done. Still working on a decent macro for them to max their dps and get closer to the other teams.

I also don't have all my macros setup yet. I hate clicking spells, had to here since I don't have eveyrthing created yet. I'm trying to not use anything that might seem like streamlining.

I have all heroics down at this point and am running different teams. Starting to do Kara, which isn’t too bad so far!
Have fun and let me know if you need help with any other instances.

Everything is of course much harder than before. That said, it is really fun when you get Heroics down with different teams. Also, knowing the multibox population is near zero on most servers is pretty cool too. You are doing something unique that not many people are doing anymore.

Good luck and have fun.

[simpletom]

Hi Simpletom,

I filmed a quick video, although sloppy of Heroic Slave Pens using 3 Hunters a Priest and the Pally tank.

Slave Pens Heroic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYFd2aeIhk Pally, 3 Hunters, Priest.

Cheers Teslah for taking the time to put this together, very nice and effective set up. I've watched the video a couple times now and it has given me the reassurance I needed to continue with this team. The idea of getting heroics down felt like a pipe dream.

One restricting factor that I really wish I didn't have was Macs lack the ability to do that hover focus window thing that you do. Sadly I have to manually click each window. I like your screen set up, its something I hadn't really thought about might be hindering my team ability but I quite often lose track of my paladins health because that window is buried under others.

Have taken a great deal away from watching you video, most importantly it confirms that it is possible if I am persistent with this. Boxing a team is a huge time sink somewhere in the area of 12+ hours per level at this point. I'm not in a rush but its just another factor to the burnout.

Thanks again, if you can share any of your other runs I would be really interested in seeing them, likewise for comparison I'm sure others would be intrigued to your other team set ups.

[Teslah]

I tried a few different window setups and this worked best for me. Long term it's easier on the wrist to move left to right for dps, versus up and down. I wish it all magically fit on the screen nice (I know I can change resolutions), however, like everything, you get used to it pretty quickly. Now that I've been doing it for a few months, it is of course harder, but not as bad as I thought it would be.

Even though their boxed dps is lower than the other teams, there are some Heroics that are way easier with Hunters. Defintley keep them.

Arctraz final boss is much more doable with hunters, as he seems to focus more on the pets with his mind control and fear. Make sure to use snake traps too, they count as pets for him to attack. On a good run, the team is barely touched as he focuses all the pain on the pets.

Auchenai Crypts second boss, Shirrak The Deadwatcher is just about impossible now with casters becuase of the stacking debuff that slows casting speed. The hunter team made this much easier. I couldn't do it with all casters. I ended up skipping him with the caster group by running past and reincarnating with the Shaman.

Shadow Labs is another one. Second boss was easier with Hunters. One trick is to lay Freezing Traps at the start. Then when he mind controls everyone they trap people for a few valuable seconds. When playing mages for this boss, their burst dps kills everyone or gets them all very low on health when he mind controls. Shamans aren't much better.

One last thought on Hunters. Since we are doing everything manually one screen at a time now, the auto shot of Hunters helps get bosses and trash down. With mages and Shamans, you need to constnalty be pressing their attack macros. There are times where I am focused on healing and staying alive and the caster teams are not getting attacks off, where the Hunters would still be attacking, at least with auto shot.

I'll start recording a little more and posting here. Good luck, keep posting progress. It's fun to know there are a few of us left.

Any chance you could get a Windows machine? They are pretty cheap now and you can run 5 clients easily on a decently priced machine.