I’m going to attempt to clear dungeons with 5 accounts, without using any third party software. Just addons and macros. Most likely I’ll do this in 5 shrunk windowed wow screens open at the same time, rapidly swapping.
Disclaimer: This is only for soloing Non-Heroic dungeons and ZG with level 70’s. It is not for pvp and likely not for material/gold farming. If anyone did jump me in pvp I’d likely just roll over and die. The fastest or most efficient doesn’t matter. I care about the group with the highest success rate.
Anyways I’m trying to decide on the best comp to tackle this with. I’m almost certain I want a paladin tank and shaman healer for aoe threat and bloodlust. I’m less certain about the 3 dps but they will probably be ranged. Possibly it’s best to go with 3 BM hunters. Simple. Or maybe a caster group with mage, boomy, Ele would be very effective. The idea is that I can use CDs and bloodlust to push through any points that will be a struggle I’m haphazardly juggling 5 accounts at once. Some mechanics will punish this.
What do you guys think? This will be my first time trying to multibox anything but I think I’m up to the challenge. I played during the original TBC but my knowledge from back then is sketchy.
Do you mean 3 ele sham dps or 4 ele dps that toss the tank offheals? I considered ele stacking as an option but it doesn’t have great dps CDs. Of course you can chain blood lusts which is nice but not always easy to leverage to it’s fullest in a 5 man setting.
It really doesn’t get better than chaining bloodlust for dps cd. Great aoe and heals also. From what I remember, all the multi boxers in tbc were ele shamans. Great heals, cd’s, buffs and dmg.
They were also mostly doing wpvp I imagine. Oneshotting players is cool but not really what I’m concerned with. Thier aoe is only chain lighting and magma totem afaik but they chain lightning often enough that it does a decent amount of aoe.
There is only one reason I wouldn’t do Elemental Shamans. That’s because Blizz has already nerfed them towards the end of The Burning Crusade in 2008 and they’re not coming back. I don’t believe they will be as strong as they were at the beginning of The Burning Crusade.
I’d imagine if you just lay down Consecrate and AoE everything down you will be alright. The second combo posted is probably better (2x Consecrate, Imp Blizzard, SoC). And you can bubble the lock/mage when they pull threat.
4x prot pallies just seemed super brainless/easy to me…you might struggle with bosses with 4x prot pallies—thats the only real issue I foresee.
Will this even be possible? NPC Mechanics are different compared to Classic. I could see it possible with the use of software but now that its restricted by TOS… Tabbing between windows just seems harder
The first time I saw a multiboxer my self back in TBC was in arena and just getting instant 5x chain killing two of our people, the amount of burst and high armor they have is just silly when stacked like that.
I won’t be tabbing. Ad I said I’ll have all 5 screens open at once. So I can swap which one I control just by moving my mouse around. It’s definately possible without software, but of course it will be harder.
I’ve ran AV 5 man ele sham teams in classic with all t2.5 and zg off pieces.
5 chain lightnings is insta-death lighting artillery. Throw in 5 earth bind, grounding totems and high armor, there is literally no counterplay aside afk’ing out.
Geared ele shamans are very strong in their own, and they are one of the few classes they actually get exponentially stronger the more you have. 5 grounding totems on CD spam effectively makes the entire group immune to spells.
hell yeah brother, channel your inner 400 apm korean boy
It’s fast becoming a dead art I tell ya
Without software tools, I’d say the key thing is to be able to hotkey each window. Swapping to tank and healer would be akin to harassing with a control group of mutalisks in the back while running lings through the front to soak for lurkers following close behind. DPS can be a little worse, prolly heavy on autoattack dps since even brainless shadowbolt spam on 3 locks would require a swap then a cast every 2.5 seconds. Still completely doable though… 3 swaps 3 casts every 2.5 seconds is 96 APM required, tank/healer swap, targeting, casts prolly ~200 apm required. That’s like a grandmaster starcraft player level; difficult, but doable.
I mean it does not have to be perfect for normal dungeons. An action every 4 seconds or so is fine if you can’t keep up. Thats 15 apm per character so about 75 apm overall, which is very easy. At 3 seconds an action that jumps to 100 am which is also very easy when all you are doing is hitting a few specific key binds.
Swapping targets is easy because you can just macro your attacks to attach the tanks target. The best dps options are probably hunter and mage. Ranged dps that have long cast times and rely on a lot of auto attack (hunter)
No need to make this out as more complicated than it is.
