a few questions from a newbie

[Lucci]

Well, Hello im new to Multiboxing ( in my case starting with Dualboxing )
First off sorry for my bad english.

Using: Octopus with 1 PC and 2 Accounts

Im trying to start 2xboxing with my 70warrior(fury) and my 70shaman(ele or enh), which spec would be the best for my shaman to start? My maingoal is it to play both of them with the addon while leveling to 80.
I startet testing with lowlevel chars, but i had some problems with both combinations..

melee/caster: caster had to stop moving while the melee needs to run to the target.
melee/melee: positioning of my 2nd melee was troubling me.

are there any tips you could lend me?

Another question is, if you multibox with different classes how are you using your actionbars with them? In a Warrior/Shaman combi i cant see any way of using the same bar/hotkey with different skills.


I hope its readable, if not just delete it. Thanks anyway.

Lucci

[Ken]

melee/caster: caster had to stop moving while the melee needs to run to the target.

Make a spread-out button for the casters and press it shortly when they have to stop following. Press it longer if you really need to spread out.

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melee/melee: positioning of my 2nd melee was troubling me.

Aside from the fact that melee is multiboxing-unfriendly, I solve it by:
- attacking a mob with main
- running backwards with my main until the mob is inbetween my followers and my targetted mob
This means that the chain "you -> mob <- followers" makes 90 to 180 degree corner.

Another question is, if you multibox with different classes how are you using your actionbars with them? In a Warrior/Shaman combi i cant see any way of using the same bar/hotkey with different skills.

Find out which skills of different classes you can combine and put underneath the same key. For example: priests and warlocks have different area-of-attack casts and the can be under the same keypress. The same goes for class-specific buffs(e.g. armor of warlocks and 20x damage reduction for priest).
Warriors are very different compared to shamans so I can imagine there isn't much overlap. In this case you will have to use more different keybinds and/or use key modifiers to put more actions underneath 1 key.

[edit2]

If you don't have enough space for keybinds, you could make macros that combine skills, so you could have a button that does a normal attack when pressed normally while pressing shift together with that button would do a charge-attack.
This is done with modifiers in macros.

[Lucci]

Wow, thanks for the fast answer.

For the spread button is it enough to bind a second keybinding for a movement for the caster char, right?

Aside from the fact that melee is multiboxing-unfriendly, I solve it by:
- attacking a mob with main
- running backwards with my main until the mob is inbetween my followers and my targetted mob
This means that the chain "you -> mob <- followers" makes 90 to 180 degree corner.

Okay, sounds possible but alot harder than a caster/melee combination. I think i gonna try my furywarrior with a castertype. I could switch my ele shaman with an affli warlock or balance druid, does someone havy any experience with any of those combi's?

Thanks,
Lucci

[Ken]

Wow, thanks for the fast answer. :)

For the spread button is it enough to bind a second keybinding for a movement for the caster char, right?

Yep, that does the trick.

Okay, sounds possible but alot harder than a caster/melee combination. I think i gonna try my furywarrior with a castertype. I could switch my ele shaman with an affli warlock or balance druid, does someone havy any experience with any of those combi's?

I would go for a shaman/druid/priest to go with your fury warrior, because you can spec/gear them all as dps or healer. Healing when things get difficult will make you last a lot longer. Even if it's a shadow priest, you could always switch away from shadow form in the case of trouble and start healing.

Consider:
- Shamans: They have totems to reduce damage taken and increase melee damage. They have wipe recovery(reincarnation), can heal and can DPS.
- Priests: Do nasty damage. Shadow priest heals your warrior for the damage he does. Has some nice buffs for both team members.
- Druid: Nice stat buff, good healing, good caster DPS, combat res. (I have no experience with this class, so can't say more)

Personally I would keep the elemental shaman if I were you. Make sure you have a macro that drops down the totem set that you use, it fastens things up :)