DOGS OF WAR: A Melee Multi-boxing experiement

[Tdog]

So I just finished Uldaman at 42. Man, did they nerf the crap out of Archaedas or what? Very easy run. No deaths, hell only had to drink once. I'll see if I can get it down to manageable size video. :P

A vid would be uber uber leet! I would love to show off my warriors sometime but that would require me figure out how the hell to do it and to get the software to do it :S

I have however gotten a few more PMs and responses then I was expecting and perhaps more people are interested in melee multiboxing then I was thinking. I'll probably add in a few tips and tricks as I figure them out and would love to have anyone who figures out new tricks or perhaps ways to improve my old ones to feel free to post them up.

Although I am past the level 35 mark which was my orginal intention for this experiment and have determinded that melee multi-boxing to be quite instance viable and the experiment concluded, I've been having so much fun with it that I've decided to ge to 70, and gear up for Heroics, and see how well I can handle some of the more melee unfriendly zones and boss encounters.

[Tdog]

[quote='d0z3rr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=61430# post61430]Thanks for the writeup Tdog, lots of good info. You have inspired me to try a 2x Warrior, 2x rogue, 1xshaman group!

Can you also explain your keyboard/bindings layout? Do you use any peripherals?

People always go over their macros, and it seems like they have alot of macros, I'm just wondering where they're finding the space on the keyboard to fit them without it being a cluster. I myself use 1,2,3,4,5, wsadqe for movement, r,f,c,x,z,v,t. And all those are taken pretty much right away. So most of my macros I wind up clicking.[/quote] [font='Times New Roman, Times, Georgia, serif']At the moment I haven't gone into great thoughts about my keybinds and keyboard layout due to the fact that I rewrite macros kinda frequently to try out new ideas, see how they work and adjust from there. For the most part I'm just using 1-6 and F1-F6 for the time being. Eventually when I really start to get comfortable with my macros and really like what I'm using I'll focus a bit more on my key board layout. 1-6 is just fine for me but F1-F6 gets to be too far of a reach at times. I perfer it if my left middle finger never has to leave the w,2 keys while in combat and I'll most likely use the r,f,c,x,z,v,t keys as well in place of the function keys.

Also you only get 21 macro spaces so you do have to get a bit creative at times. I try to macro as many abilities as I can into my spam button as I can to help take away some of the micromanagement, for example...

Warrior Alt Button 2
[/font]#showtooltip Bloodthirst
/assist party1
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/cast blood rage
/cast beserker rage
/cast 13
/cast 14
/cast blood fury
/cast [target=party1target] Bloodthirst
/startattack
/follow party1

Shaman Alt Button 2
#showtooltip Attack
/assist party1
/startattack
/follow party1
/stopmacro [nomodifier:shift]
/castsequence reset=15 windfury totem, strength of earth totem, healing stream totem

This basically allows me to spam button 2 to assist my main, pop buff abilites/trinkets, cast Bloodthirst, start auto attack, constantly renew /follow incase I need to reposition my alts, and finally shift+2 start my totem sequence while allowing me to continue casting bloodthirst. This allows me to constantly renew my buffs w/o thinking about it, throwing up totems, keeping my alts in constant tow, all while keeping my dps up and allowing me more time to think about other stuff. It also saves on alot of button space.


Now as for beserker rage and blood fury being in the macro that's just for now due to the fact that blood fury casted at the wrong time can wreck you and berserker rage is a warrior's fear immunity. Thus far it hasn't been a problem and it allows me to push the dps just a bit more Once I need to I'll take em out.



Edit: I have no clue what is up with the font hopefully it's not too distracting. Either way it's late and I need to go to bed

[Sovereign]

My first idea to multi-box was rogues. I was going to make 3 rogues and level them. Then I attempted to play them and realized why I hadn't seen anything like it done yet.

I obviously upgraded to 5 toons and went with something more traditional, but I wonder if I couldn't make some party with rogues work. This project has inspired me, I think.

I can't stop thinking about what 3 or 4 (5?) ambushes would do to an elite.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

My first idea to multi-box was rogues. I was going to make 3 rogues and level them. Then I attempted to play them and realized why I hadn't seen anything like it done yet.

I obviously upgraded to 5 toons and went with something more traditional, but I wonder if I couldn't make some party with rogues work. This project has inspired me, I think.

I can't stop thinking about what 3 or 4 (5?) ambushes would do to an elite.

The first one is always easy. It's his 3-5 friends that are the problem.

[Tdog]

Just incase anyone was wondering I had to start over with 3 of my accounts as they were in my old roommates name. Long story short when I first bought the game my roommate was the one who installed the first account and w/o thinking about it he put it in his name which I didn't learn about till much later on. So to avoid possibly being banned I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet now and go legit.

Atm my new warriors and shaman are level 20. 3 of the warriors are tauren this time and so is the shaman. Reason being is because while bloodfury was nice, used at the wrong time meant me usually losing a toon or two. Warstomp has actually proven thus far to be much much more useful then I was first thinking it would be. I basically can run in and lock down an entire pull for 8+ seconds every couple of mins. In which time I can usually take down 1-2 mobs not to mention not having to heal durning that time nor do casters get any spells off durning that time. Really helps when it's needed which isn't often, but that also means when I do need it it's up.

I'm going to be revising this thread a bit once I get back up to the 40's as well as adding in tips and tricks I learn along the way to 70 and Heroics.

[Bena]

question.. is your main a war or the sham? Also what's your specs? Right now I'm doing wars fury and shamy enhance but thinking of going resto. The shamy keeps pulling agro and dying Thinking of using a war as main and shamy follow.

[-silencer-]

So I just finished Uldaman at 42. Man, did they nerf the crap out of Archaedas or what? Very easy run. No deaths, hell only had to drink once. I'll see if I can get it down to manageable size video. :P

You know.. I always thought he was harder than now, when I ran my Pally/4xShaman team through him at lvl 40. The last time I took him down with a comparable group was probably a few months after the release of WoW.

[Tdog]

[quote='Bena',index.php?page=Thread&postID=79273#po st79273]question.. is your main a war or the sham? Also what's your specs? Right now I'm doing wars fury and shamy enhance but thinking of going resto. The shamy keeps pulling agro and dying Thinking of using a war as main and shamy follow.[/quote]I've actually taken a bit of a break from this team as I'm trying to level up a couple of utility teams in an attempt to get ready for WOTLK. However I had a orc warrior be my main and my followers be Tauren. I also had my shaman as resto as I was mostly doing instances with this group and the 4 fury warriors + WF totem was more than enough dps. The reason for my followers being tauren is because [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=69310#post69310']Tauren have a 9 yard melee range[/url] while every other race has a 5 yard melee range.

Edit: Not that you can't sucessfully do an all melee team w/o Tauren followers but it makes it a ton easier.

[Bena]

cool.. thx for the info.

[Jafula]

Bump; because this thread has a lot of [s]good melee boxing strategies[/s] lots of pretty pictures and some folks might be interested.