[Wow] WoW instanity - multiboxing x 36

[Donovan Drane]

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Matt Hauswirth <hauswirm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I play a Pally (ret) and Shammy (resto).  Like Donny said, playing 2
> different classes with 2 different roles can be tough and they do run at
> about 70-80% of their max efficency.  With that said, I play my Pally with
> normal clicks and my shammy is exclusively using keycloned macros and extra
> mouse buttons.  For example, all the shamans heals are on my mouse, scroll
> wheel left and right and the sensitivity buttons, while his buffs, totems
> and nukes are on the keyboard, all near the aswd keys so my primative brain
> can find them.  Like Donny said though, you need to keep an eye on both
> toon's health/mana so one doesnt end up dead.  With all that said, questing
> with the 2 of them is like clubbing baby seals, there is very little they
> can't do, in fact doing 3 man group elite quests hasnt been issue even
> thought the elite mob is 2 or 3 lvls above my guys.
>
> If you have the means, I highly recommend picking it up... its so choice.
> (i'll give you 2 gold if you can tell me what movie that comes from)
>
> Cya!
> Matt
>
> --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Donovan Drane <dondon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Donovan Drane <dondon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wow] WoW instanity - multiboxing x 36
> To: "Kurt Thorn" <kurt.thorn at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Will Serber" <wserber at gmail.com>, "Alison Farmer"
> <afarmer at cfa.harvard.edu>, "Noobs" <wow at lists.false-profit.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 1:30 PM
>
> the complexity depends on the style of set up you use, but there is
> certainly some patience required to get it working.  once its up
> though, playing multiple toons of the same class is not terribly
> harder than playing one, though you obviously need to pay attention to
> more things at once.  ranged dps are the easiest, and i'd pretty much
> recommend against trying multiple melee guys at once.  its doable (tho
> suboptimal) for pve, but you will get ruined in pvp.
>
> playing multiple classes at once is much harder, especially if they
> are different roles.  i did get pretty good at running instances and
> bgs with my hunter and shammy healer, but i'd say they were both
> operating at about 75-80% efficiency.  then again, the synergy of
> having dps and healing at once usually meant that i'd stay alive a lot
> longer, so overall utility was certainly higher than either alone.
> tho my druids have this hybridization as well, since i usually keep
> only one in boomkin so the others can triple HoT and do heal rotations
> when necessary.  will is playing multiple holy dps priests, so he has
> a similar hybrid set up.  and unlike shammy boxers, we have a lot of
> instant HoTs that allow us to off heal without losing much dps time.
>
> my plan for 70-80 is to level up all my toons as two groups of four.
> my hunter and shammy are now grouped with a lvl 60 lock and warrior
> who i'd like to get to 70 by the expansion if possible.  tho that
> group is way harder to play, due to all the non overlapping abilities,
> it has the potential to be able to tackle bosses a lot more
> efficiently due to having a dedicated tank and healer.  with the
> drooz, i often use my boomkin as a 'tank' while questing since he has
> +400% armor.
>
> anyhow, the main forum site for the mboxing community is
> www.dual-boxing.com.  plenty of info up there and on its affiliated
> wiki to get someone started.    and this girl is something of a
> champion for mboxing and makes video tutorials and such (
> www.v-boxing.net).  its worth checking out her powerlevelling demos
> and the ten man raids she and her boyfriend do (each 5boxing), for the
> sheer spectacle of the feats if nothing else.
>
>
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Thorn <kurt.thorn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> If you have a good link that describes multibox setups, I'd be curious
> to
>> see it.  I don't think I'd ever set it up but I'd like to
> understand a
>> little more about how they work and how you control all those toons at the
>> same time.  I can see using macros to have all your toons doing exactly
> the
>> same thing but is it easy to go beyond that?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Donovan Drane <dondon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> bradster is getting dissed/commended everywhere for the insanity of
>>> prepared's set up.  i don't even think bradster plays WoW
> anymore, he
>>> just posted prepared's set up to his blog and the link went viral.
>>> anyways, even if you are rich enough that 36 accts don't hurt your
>>> bankroll, what's the point in having so many toons that you
> can't play
>>> with your friends?  ok, raiding stormwind by yourself would be pretty
>>> fun, but that would be easier with an all druid team.
>>>
>>> if anyone is curious how to mBox-- matt, will, and i are running two,
>>> three, and four toons a piece now respectively, so feel free to send
>>> us questions.  using the recruit-a-friend triple xp deal, i was able
>>> to get four druids to 69 in under four weeks.  having a blast in bgs
>>> now for a bit before the expansion drops.
>>>
>>> hoping our squads will make it much easier for our guild to get
>>> together 25 man raids in northrend.
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Kurt Thorn
> <kurt.thorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Maybe some of you have seen this but apparently there is someone
> out
>>> > there
>>> > who multiboxes 36 shamans at once in WoW.
>>> >
>>> > Links here:
> http://www.metafilter.com/75690/Maybe-a-little-too-prepared
>>> >