PvP and MultiBoxing..

I'd seen a few of these levelling up a month or more ago now.

4-5 Man shaman teams, all in sync, grinding quest mobs at a crazy rate. Thought eh, looks hella quick, guess it makes some sense to do it that way if you've cash to blow.

Saw one of these same teams in AV today.. Annihilating a lot of people before much could be done about it.

I don't doubt a few skilled players could pull this apart, done right. This guy was definitely doing the multiboxing 'right' however. 16 totems in the mix (tremors, groundings, everything to make it harder to screw his crew over).

Targetting was 'tarded with so many up, fearing was all but useless with all those tremor totems down, etc. I decided to loook around the interwebs to see how common the practise is, and aye, reasonably common. With a large swath of what i'd consider mentally challenged people stating how awed they were at their 'leet skills'. One pre-bc boxer's blog stated that you should expect to spend no less than $5000 to get 'set up' to multibox. And lots of comments about how awesome he considered himself, too.

To me, it seems A) A tremendous waste of cash. B) Skilless, im sure its tedious/time consuming to get it all set up, work out the best way to get them coordinated/work out the bugs, but once it's in order, you cant consider someone spamming 4x the damage at a target "skilled". Or perhaps you can....

Yes, if i really wanted to I could foot the cash and do this. No, I wont. Imho, if you're not skilled enough to play the game as intended (no they do not ban this behaviour, it requires input so therefore is not against any of the in game rules), why bother playing at all?

Just the pride in these 'achievements' is what gets me dumbfounded. Hay gize im spending a hundred dollars a month to 'solo' a few instances. Awesome, but especially Pre-Bc, people were ACTUALLY soloing instances, you know, with one character. I don't get the mindset, or perhaps I do, "lolz i r pwning teh noobs with mai leet sk1llz' crap to the Nth degree.

Faugh and phooey I say!|||Since I reached level 70 I'm seeing a lot of this in Battlegrounds. Well maybe not 'a lot' but quite a few separate cases of 3-4 near identical characters training along in a line, all performing the same action. It's weird and I can't fathom why someone would do it. One guy had 4 orc shamans all identically equipped and all with the same name apart from different accents on letters.

Another had three characters named twentythird, twentyfourth and twentyfifth.

Really, I can't see the appeal.|||I've seen these two, I dunno what the appeal is in BG but I guess they do it because it can be done.|||they do it because they can. so let them use their money on whatever they want. especially when its their game and not yours. this goes for everything else in the game. if a person does BGs mainly, then sure. $15 a month just to BG. if its fun for them, who cares of they never do end game raiding. if a person wants to level up alts to 70 and never do BGs or raids, let them. i dont see how their gaming effects/affects me in any way.

i see a lot more of the two-team parties lately. either two characters of the same level or one 70 and another lower leveled following. it seems that its a legit way of "boosting" a character to level up. its especially prevailent now that RAF (refer-a-friend) bonuses gives you not only 3x exp, but also gives you the ability to give other characters free levels. im sure, if its not for this, subscriptions would drop a bit before Wotlk.|||It's my game too. And yours. And the guy above youses.

Aye, their choice, etc. Just irks me seeing all the 'omg dude youre so amazing doing this l33t sk1llz0r 0l0l0l0l' press these tools get. Skilless ****s really don't deserve super hi5s for their lack of skill.|||lol. i never see a multi-boxer and think leet skill! sorry i missed that point.

but yea, its just the novelty of it that probably gets people worked up (whether positively or negatively) about it.

in all honesty, i thought it was really cool when i saw it. lately though, i see so many and i just think of them as just normal players. heck i do it too. its fun figuring out how two classes can work together. but i would keep it at that, just two classes. nothing more. and for a whole month of it? $19.95.|||Tbh it made me want to develop some good anti-multi strats.

I'm a bit stumped how though, if the multiboxer doesnt suck.

say 4-5 shammies.

Each has a totem stomp macro, each drops tremor at a different time on the 'stomp'.

So you have 4-5 groundings, 4-5 tremors, etc. And totem of wrath? the crit stacks (really does).

So a fear bomb essentially wont work. He/She should get a tremor every second, so instant howl will have limited effect (assuming you get that close). All have self heal bound as well (saw this one using it). So no mez will make life hard.

Im sure 4-5 coordinated players would have little trouble mowing through it, but to the unprepared hordes you get in AV, the coordinated damage is generally too much. The guy was a bit daft tbh, with that much firepower i would have happily recapped everything the horde took with no probs. But eh.|||yea its pretty hard if the guy knows what he's doing. espcially if he's also doing arenas. lol

why dont you make a team? lol|||Aye I really can't see a better single class combo than shammies tbh. Mez protection, good damage, healing, wrapped into one (or 5 ;) package(s).|||the force grip thing that death knights will have could maybe draw one out