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Nice choices - the classes/races I will be making are most likely as follows:

Undead Rogue
Undead Mage
Undead Priest

I'll be running 2 accounts at the same time, and the main classes of the two accounts will be:

Night Elf Hunter
Human Paladin

I think the two classes will work well together. A Dwarf Paladin might be a little more practical than a Human, but I've never been a big fan of Dwarves.

Some might prefer a Warrior, Priest combo, but I think the duo I picked will have better DPS. I could be wrong though, we'll know in time.

Edited for spelling.

Edited, Sat Oct 2 18:07:03 2004 by KerikDaven

Multi-boxing is the term, I believe.

You'd be surprised how many people do that.

If you can pull it off, great way to get exp without partying. Take your two characters out, the warrior does all the work, the healer keeps the warrior going.

shaman
warrior
rogue
maybe warlock

dont care about races 1 will be UD tho for my guild

Yes Creamed, just as you described. I have 2 complete computer systems side-by-side which I use for this.

As Seoman said, multi-boxing is a good enough description. In Everquest we called it 2-boxing. In EQ though I would also 3-box. Still only 2 computers, but 3 accounts. Two of the accounts were in windowed mode on the better of the two systems, thanks to EQWindows, and the third account was on the other computer.

Ever when 3-boxing though I was really just focused on 2 of the accounts. The third account was more for buffs.

In one of my guilds we had a person that 5-boxed on 2 computers. I wouldn't even want to try that one, 2 accounts are hard enough. Needless to say he had relatively frequent disconnects. :P

My purpose in WoW for doing this was that in the Stress Test, I saw that in the later teen levels, the quests became very difficult to solo unless you were a little higher level than the quest. Having had just one extra person made a HUGE impact in the ability to complete a quest you couldn't have done alone without waiting for a few levels.

Hunter or Paladin. Shamans look cool, but I don't want to be on the horde side. :)

Night Elf Hunter
Gnome Warlock
and maybe a undead rogue

A little tip for 2-boxing....

If you can make macros, DO. Nothing meant for cheating, but things that make you pick your other duo-partner and then assist, or other functions that cut-down on you needing to pay too much attention to the keyboard.

I haven't seen anything during the Stress Test that showed that we could make macros, so it's very likely I'll be making my own with my Gravis Gamepad. I'll also be assigning movement keys to the D-Pad. A gamepad can be a lot easier to deal with than another keyboard.

As far as splitting experience is concerned though.... I think of it this way: 1) I'm working on TWO characters at the same time so that's kind of time efficient. 2) They will get some form of grouping bonus for experience so that make it even more efficient. 3) I'll be able to kill critters faster, and/or kill tougher critters which will make for better experience over time.

While you are correct that it isn't as easy as playing a single character, I do feel you can be more effective than a single character could be. Can it be done as well as TWO people playing a character each? That depends on the skill of the 2-boxer. 95% of the time I'd say the 2-boxer is at a little disadvantage.

One big tip I would give to anyone playing more than one account is this:

One of the two characters should be a class that doesn't have to run around and follow the creature to do its damage. That character will be on your secondary computer and usually rely on using /assist for targeting. It's too hard to have 2 accounts each having to chase a critter. For me, this character will be the Hunter. The Hunter does their damage at a distance and usually doesn't need to run around much during a fight. For this role spellcasters are also good to use.

To OP:
Night Elf/Human Priest
NE Hunter
Tauren Shaman

Not sure of the order.


Kerik:
I think you're going to have a lot more trouble two-boxing in WoW, and find it a lot less fruitful than in EQ. Probably more trouble than it's worth if your goal is just to exp. The only real benefit imho is if you're trying to farm. The person that got me my account ended up with one of the other guild members quitting and giving the account info back to him, so he was two-boxing using that account, and the only thing it really did for us was let us complete quests above our level with the aid of his main. That just dug a deeper and deeper hole with what quests we could do though, because we were getting virtually no kill exp. My experience has been, when partnering with someone of the same level, I'd much rather have a real breathing person. You might be able to pull it off with a paladin considering they do next to nothing anyway, but they won't be much contribution to DPS.

However, you can macro. The capabilities in the game are extremely limited, but if you type /macro, you can basically create a five-line set of commands to follow. The unfortunate thing is there is no pause command, and the game tries to perform them effectively all at once, so you cannot make any macros that are sequences of activities. You could however make a macro to /tar OtherChar; /assist; /cast Holy Strike(rank 4); /attack

Just out of curiousity Chah, why are you choosing based on popularity of faction?

You could just let your pet tank. It's probably a better tank than the paladin under most situations. This is assuming that they never implement anything further with pets to give them special abilities or differentiate between pet types, which of course they will, but the only things you're really getting from a paladin imho is two heals and an aura. If you want to get slightly more involved, and anyone that uses a Gravis to set up macros probably would, I suppose seal of salvation can help keep aggro off your hunter, but not being a two-boxer myself, I'm not really sure how much more help that can be to you.

And quite honestly, I don't want to see people two-boxing. Blizzard has managed to keep the action pace high enough that most players are not going to keep up with controlling two-characters. I realize there were some people that could three- and four-box, and those people might be able to multi in WoW, but I always felt like it was defying the game to do something like that. (Just MHO.)

Ah, makes sense.

I fall in #3.

Just never thought that someone would ever choose to play a race/job because of popularity. That's always seemed... silly.. to me.

I can see people playing a popular area to get a feel for the game, having alot of people around would make it easier to get into the game quicker, but then switch to the real race/class you want.

There's one huge downside to joining the Horde on the PvP server. 1. You get 400 less quests, This is a fact because someone in game did the math. 2. The zones where you get quests ***** the Horde over because almost all there quests in the 30s are in TM and the Notorious Hillsbrad. Will this probably stop me from playing the Horde no, but does it bother me yes it does. I'm sure many are more sensitive to this issue.