After some practice....

[Destro]

a few more questions have came up

1. QUESTS! how do you do collection quests? right now i just switch to my other account and let the other follow

2. MACROS! is there a was to only have a macro work if you have a spell on you? (if you are feared it cast WoTF but if not it dose nothing)

3. LEVELING!- grinding or question? which is better? i think questing but just wondering

4. CLASSES! Dual Hunters or Duel Mages, i have had allot of fun on both and cant decide the combo
i have past experience with hunters but not as much with mages

[Xzin]

1. You don't.
2. Not really after 2.0 - there may be some limited support.
3. Both are about as fast - questing if you have done it before and have an optimized order. Grinding if you want to just knock it out as fast as you can in one place and not be bothered.
4. Whatever you like the most. Hunters are harder to box due to melee / dead zone issues but it is certainly possible to dual box them.

[Lance]

Sounds like you are dual boxing in which case I would do collection quests they aren't too bad with only 2 chars. Or are you talking about how to loot quest items on your second char?
As for grinding/questing I personally would always choose questing purely because it is more interesting.

[zanthor]

a few more questions have came up

1. QUESTS! how do you do collection quests? right now i just switch to my other account and let the other follow

2. MACROS! is there a was to only have a macro work if you have a spell on you? (if you are feared it cast WoTF but if not it dose nothing)

3. LEVELING!- grinding or question? which is better? i think questing but just wondering

4. CLASSES! Dual Hunters or Duel Mages, i have had allot of fun on both and cant decide the combo
i have past experience with hunters but not as much with mages

1 - I have all three screens visible, looting is a matter of moving the mouse over to the other screen, the killgrind xp is great anyhow.

2 - Nope.

3 - Yes. I do both.

4 - I love my mage/mage/pally trio, the pally is mostly overkill unless REALLY pushing the AE bubble.

[Destro]

thanks

i only use one screen.. hopping to get a second soon so ill just hold off on the collection quests

also for spells like blizzard were you chose were it goes how do you do that?

[Tealuin]

As for collection quests I think I might have a way to make it work for instances, but I'm still a week or two away from getting my 5 box setup completed and working to try it.

My thinking is since if you do multiple instance runs to level that collection quests in there would work given you do one char with the quest at a time. With FFA loot and synced wireless mice it'd be pretty simple to just loot twice, as only the char on the quest would get to loot the second time.

This might only work with multiple box setups only. For those who use software to have multiple open windows (like WoW Maximizer), even if the mouse isn't syced per client it still might be feasible to just slide mouse to correct char, loot, hit hotkey to reform follow formation without really slowing progress.

Though it's really only beneficial if the quest is shareable, just share it before the last item is gained on the char with the quest active. Then turn in the quests all at once.

Doing it this way may just provide a reasonable XP boost, as opposed to trying to do 5 chars on the quest at the same time out in the world killing non-elites where the XP gain is definitely hindered.

[Lost Ninja]

Method I found in the past for collection quests (though I don't now) is to bind a button on my Nostromo to right click. Position the mouse on subsidary screens so that its in the middle of the screen, drag the alts over the corpse (if you stand the main just beyond the corpse the alts will be in clicking range) and hit the bound key to loot.

It isn't much good if you have stacked corpses, but if the stacks are beasts you can have a skinner skin them the same way. Also works somewhat with practice on ore and herbs. Oh loot needs to be on FFA obviously

I stopped when I ran out of keys on my Nostromo, I suspect now I'm thinking about it again I'll see if I can work something out again.

[MrLonghair]

1. Doable when dualboxing, and worth it since you're not going to be able to grind elites as fast as triple to five boxing groups.

3. Quest. Since there's only two characters when dualboxing, you split the experience points. Grinding is horribly slow, since there's only two of you of course. It's what made me lose interest at level 42.

4. Hunters have extreme DPS and two pets that can tank and be healed, two traps for CC and DPS and all that stuff. Mages have free water and food, hunters have zero downtime. Mages have portals and teleports, Hunters have nothing. Mages have better burst damage and can AE grind, hunters don't. Since exp earnings mean a lot - go with mages.

[Tealuin]

It isn't much good if you have stacked corpses

Not much of an issue on the PTR with 2.2. Did some testing stacking mob corpses like cordwood. :wink:

[Stealthy]

a few more questions have came up

1. QUESTS! how do you do collection quests? right now i just switch to my other account and let the other follow

3. LEVELING!- grinding or question? which is better? i think questing but just wondering

4. CLASSES! Dual Hunters or Duel Mages, i have had allot of fun on both and cant decide the combo
i have past experience with hunters but not as much with mages

1. As others have said if you are running 2 monitors, collection quests are defintely do-able. The real question is if you want to spend time doing it. The kill / grind is good, but you the item has a low drop rate you can find you blast through all the mobs and have to wait around for respawns. Probably not so much a problem for dual-boxing, but defintely is for 5-boxing.

3. The more toons you box, the better (non-collection) questing becomes, since XP for quest turnins is constant, but xp for grinding is divided by the number of toons plus a small amout for group bonus. The trade off is that the more toons you have, the faster you can blast through mobs - so grindng for loot rather than xp is a better propostion.

4. Mages definitely - hunter have two issues for multiboxers...dead zone and no AOE/non directional spells.