For me, this will be different...

[Smithnweson]

I plan to Quad Box an all Tauren team:

Protection Paladin
Imnoturpal

Shadow Priest
Imnoturprist

Elemental Shaman
Imnotursham

Restoration Druid
Imnoturdruid

I would prefer to 5 box, but with the upgrades to warcraft, my laptop is struggling with 4 as it is. I've played all these classes solo to 80, however, I have yet to play prot with the new paladin set up. This will be the first time that I've tried boxing with multiple classes (more than 2). I'm curious if there is a specific cast layout that I should use.

Any tips/experienced thoughts would be helpful. Teams are RAF'd to get through those early levels. I plan to use the Dungeon Finder post lvl 20. I want to be able to get my head around their abilities as a unit prior to entering a dungeon setting. I know trial and error is helpful, but I dont want to go in blind.

I have a mage for porting when necessary so I shouldn't have any traveling issues with my team.

Thanks ahead of time.

PS: Starting this team on Blackrock horde, however I may end up transferring off the server if it becomes a hassle to log in with these increasing queues.

[Tim]

Hey buddy, hop on Skype!! I've got a project

But really, I actually really like 4 boxing, simply because when you do the random dungeons with another person, it ends up being a lot of fun, adds a sort of social aspect to multiboxing, and showing other people how multiboxing works in itself is probably one of the most fun things, at least lately.

[Ualaa]

The queue will suck, for the next two to three weeks on any high population server. But as always, it will dwindle away and won't be an issue by early January.

Pretty much go with castsequences for your DPS. If your pally uses three buttons, put the castsequence on all three keys. You can probably one button spam fairly well; the optimal DPS seems to be alternating two buttons, one for abilities that don't get stuck (ie, a castsequence) and another for proc type effects which could lock up a castsequence. Then spam 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, etc.

I'd take a look at the Repeater Region healing; once you try it, nothing else is remotely close. The HKN script will overlay with Pwnboxer quite well. Go with Grid and an alphabetical sort on all screens, with the clicks passed to the Druid. You'll want Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Regrowth, Healing Touch, Nourish and Wild Growth; six clicks (I'd use Alt + Left, Alt + Right, Ctrl + Left, Ctrl + Right, Shift + Left, Shift + Right) is much easier then six dockable clickmaps per toon, plus gets you the option to add any random class for dungeon finder without needing to change macros.

I would also consider running the Druid as Boomkin, and the Shaman as Resto. The passive healing from Earth Shield and Healing Stream totem is significant, plus glyphing the totem is a lot of resistances. Mana Tide and Innervate, is a large mana boost twice. Boomkin are easy to macro with the Cata changes, a fixed rotation will take you all the way from Lunar to Solar procs with straight one button spam.

Possibly dual-spec the Priest to Discipline. Smite spam is not optimal, but it will heal for as much damage as it deals, and that adds PW: Shield and Pain Suppression to your repetoire, with around 3/4th's the DPS of a Shadow Priest.

Shammy gets you Hex (Humanoid/Animal), Priest gets you Shackle (Undead), and the Druid can root melee classes of Cyclone almost anything. Not a bad set of CC's, across four toons assuming you even need that many in Cata heroics.

For loot, you have 1x Plate, 1x Mail, 1x Leather and 1x Cloth, a good balance. I would include Enchanting on the team, purely for the disenchant option once you reach a point where drops are not upgrades.

[Smithnweson]

I don't like Grid (nor any type of healing addon), never heard of a repeater region thing/ hkn script which I don't want to use scripts, and I like the thot of boomkin druid/resto sham and I guess disc priest could work, just thot shadow would help with harder dot ticks and mindflay.

I plan to have Enchanting on my paladin too.

tyvm Ualaa!

[Ualaa]

If you go Disc on the Priest, I'd do it as dual-spec. Basically Shadow will be higher DPS, and I believe that gets you Replenishment as well. But if you need it, you get some passive healing in the form of Smite at the cost of 25% or so of a Shadow Priests DPS. And the utility of PW: Shield, Pain Suppression, Holy Nova, etc.

You could easily go dual-spec on both the Druid and Shammy. For WotLK, I would have recommended Resto-Druid and Elem-Shaman, but with the changes to the classes I think the reverse will be superior for a boxer.

A bunch of dual-spec toons would be neat.
- Boomkin or Resto Druid...
- Elemental or Resto Shaman...
- Shadow or Disc Priest...

For trash, you might be fine with Boomkin, Elemental and Discipline (which is a full healer spec, if you need heals in an emergency, but can be played for Smite DPS).



A repeater region is a pre-configured area of the screen, which when your mouse enters automatically sends your clicks to the exact same area on another window.

If you were to use Grid + Grid Custom Layouts + Clique, Healbot (on it's own) or Vuhdo (on it's own), you could set an alphabetical sort so the frame order is the same on every screen.

Configure it to pass the clicks to your healer toon.

Then from the main, you can heal anyone in the party via mouse clicks.

HKN is a scripting language, designed for multiboxing games. It is free; if you're curious: HotkeyNet: Home

The Repeater Region thing is here: Mouse Broadcasting with HKN

[Smithnweson]

ty for the clarification, while I am sure its more efficient, I am not confortable with adding all these new addons, especially since my laptop is already being burdened with the new wow graphics as is.