6-Man Group Hows This? - Page 4

Blot Stormblast · 08-30-2009, 04:35 PM

STAY GUARD!!! ALL ZERKERS MUST DIE!!! nah stick guardian if you want to show how good of a player you are. go sk if you want easy mode and yea zerker is kinda in the middle imo. a good guardian shows more skill than a good zerker or sk. would help if ya ditched the conj for a dirge though hehe

alvarez · 08-30-2009, 04:43 PM

zerk, defiler, both bards & both chanters has been quite fun, ymmv.

Awaka · 08-31-2009, 02:33 PM

You can clear all content in except PoF..... So you can take out Guk OS, Guk LS, Ferzhul, OOA, VOEs - everything but a zone thats Green you can't with a 6 box? When PoF is soloable with 1 toon.... Interesting...

Vainamoinen · 08-31-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Awaka

You can clear all content in except PoF..... So you can take out Guk OS, Guk LS, Ferzhul, OOA, VOEs - everything but a zone thats Green you can't with a 6 box? When PoF is soloable with 1 toon.... Interesting...

Which PoF are you talking about? Cause the one they're talking about is the Palace of Ferzhul (not Pillars of Flame), I'm sure.

gandulfy · 09-06-2009, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Awaka

You can clear all content in except PoF..... So you can take out Guk OS, Guk LS, Ferzhul, OOA, VOEs - everything but a zone thats Green you can't with a 6 box? When PoF is soloable with 1 toon.... Interesting...

Um Palace of Ferzhul, the day you can solo that just let me know? K thnx.

Yes, all zones but POF and I can't figure out how to box PoF some claim to do it but its beyond me. The library mob where you have to co-ordinate books and changing mobs etc is just too much. Most of the other zones are fairly easy, RR can be hard at times if you can't get enough DPS, and you have to really concentrate on the drake in NHT because of the teleports (although he can be skipped). And the porting frog in guk lower can be ... interesting. The one thing I can say about boxing is make sure you have alot of patience

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Newb · 09-07-2009, 09:55 AM

Still fairly new to multiboxing.

Currently 4 boxing and wife 2 boxing. A group of 6 total.

Classes:

Shadowknight
Defiler
Templar
Warden
Warlock
Illusionist

Looking at that group pretty much all of you laugh and would say what a joke, right?

Well, to tell you the truth. This group is excellent for multiboxing. Let me explain how its being run.

First of, we do not use any 3rd programs, such as bots, split screens and my 4 characters are being run on my 1 computer, my 1 monitor. Same goes for the wife, she plays her 2 on her one computer and monitor.

The Shadowknight is obviously being used for tanking and he is pretty well geared, he do DPS nicely.

The Warlock is for DPS, I have some in game macros set up for him, basically just switching to him now and then to hit a few macros and bam, DPS goes off.

The Illusionist is for buffs, mana and yeah, alittle bit of DPS.

The Templar is being used as a buff bot most of the time. It happens its being switched to now and then for some quick healing if the mob really hurt. Other than that, it just stands there.

The Defiler is another buff bot, not used for healing. Simply being used for its great HP buffs and wards on difficult fights.

The Warden is the healer of the group. Healing with the Warden is awesome, the tickheals is just great and can keep me alive on pretty much every fight.

This setup can run TSO instances just fine, however - it cannot run all of them and here is a couple of reasons as of why:

1)
Mobs that port your toons around, very hard to get things back together once that happens (unless its just a single toon that gets ported and no adds spawn, a good example would be the Firelord inside Deep Forge).

2)
Mobs that require you to do certain things, for example, burn the books in The Crucible within like 5 seconds.

As long as the mobs dont do either of these 2 things, they die.

Now, a couple posts back I saw a guy mention how he 6 box every zone but Palace of Ferzul.

In all ways I do believe what you are telling me. I am however curious how you handle mobs such as the final named in Guk:Halls of Fallen, all by yourself?

I know for sure that me and my wife cant do that and in no way does that mean that you cant either. But it seem very very tough and I would love to be able to take down nameds with the ability to port you.

I am sure there is several ways to multibox and that we havent discovered all of them, but the nameds who port, is a multiboxer's weakness from my experience.

Any feedback to our funny group setup would also be appreciated. A good question I have been playing with is.. Do we really need that Defiler in the group?

alvarez · 09-07-2009, 10:17 AM

im curious what kind of dps you see with 3 priests in your group, it must take weeks to kill names.

i think you're nuts playing the warden and using the 2 most op priests in game as buffbots. trash the warden and play one of the real priests, hots are lol compared to wards and reactives.

throw a troub in the mix as a buffbot in place of the druid.

opinions, shrug!

gandulfy · 09-07-2009, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Newb

Still fairly new to multiboxing.

Currently 4 boxing and wife 2 boxing. A group of 6 total.

Classes:

Shadowknight
Defiler
Templar
Warden
Warlock
Illusionist

Looking at that group pretty much all of you laugh and would say what a joke, right?

Well, to tell you the truth. This group is excellent for multiboxing. Let me explain how its being run.

First of, we do not use any 3rd programs, such as bots, split screens and my 4 characters are being run on my 1 computer, my 1 monitor. Same goes for the wife, she plays her 2 on her one computer and monitor.

The Shadowknight is obviously being used for tanking and he is pretty well geared, he do DPS nicely.

The Warlock is for DPS, I have some in game macros set up for him, basically just switching to him now and then to hit a few macros and bam, DPS goes off.

The Illusionist is for buffs, mana and yeah, alittle bit of DPS.

The Templar is being used as a buff bot most of the time. It happens its being switched to now and then for some quick healing if the mob really hurt. Other than that, it just stands there.

The Defiler is another buff bot, not used for healing. Simply being used for its great HP buffs and wards on difficult fights.

The Warden is the healer of the group. Healing with the Warden is awesome, the tickheals is just great and can keep me alive on pretty much every fight.

This setup can run TSO instances just fine, however - it cannot run all of them and here is a couple of reasons as of why:

1)
Mobs that port your toons around, very hard to get things back together once that happens (unless its just a single toon that gets ported and no adds spawn, a good example would be the Firelord inside Deep Forge).

2)
Mobs that require you to do certain things, for example, burn the books in The Crucible within like 5 seconds.

As long as the mobs dont do either of these 2 things, they die.

Now, a couple posts back I saw a guy mention how he 6 box every zone but Palace of Ferzul.

In all ways I do believe what you are telling me. I am however curious how you handle mobs such as the final named in Guk:Halls of Fallen, all by yourself?

I know for sure that me and my wife cant do that and in no way does that mean that you cant either. But it seem very very tough and I would love to be able to take down nameds with the ability to port you.

I am sure there is several ways to multibox and that we havent discovered all of them, but the nameds who port, is a multiboxer's weakness from my experience.

Any feedback to our funny group setup would also be appreciated. A good question I have been playing with is.. Do we really need that Defiler in the group?

Few things you have way too many healers personally and your boxing pretty ineffecnetly, at the very least get another monitor. The basics of boxing are that you want to be able to use every toon as easily as possible. One way is to make your game windowed for your 4 toons and to put each toons macro bars in the corner windows. that way right in the center of the screen you have every button for every toon you have. The key here is to learn to do very very well. Also it depends on your gear, some of us spend dkp on our box toons in raids since so much junk drops for alts, which means our alts live easier.

As for ports they are very hard to deal with, although the mob in DF is easier. For DF i usually pull him right to the edge in front of the lava, and heal through those things he throws on the ground. If any of your toons gets ported they will get ported to the middle of the lava and be in the air. Just simply don't jmove them and you are set ;).

I would lose the warden, defiler heals are wards and are way better, get an actual buff bot, like a bard, your dps will go way up. Yes I like druids I box with one

but simple fact is they are an after the fact healer, wards will always heal for more since they are more effecient.

And I should throw in boxing isn't for everyone, until you get a zone down you will die alot. It is a totally different style of game play that takes alot of patience. Sometimes I just have to walk away from the computer. But once you get good at some stuff its super super fun imo.

Newb · 09-08-2009, 01:04 AM

Great things that is worth trying. Thanks to you both.

I was actually thinking of trading the Defiler for a Troubador, as crazy as that may sound.

Also, the DPS is actually not all that bad. It could become a million times better, aint no about it. But the mobs die within a fairly quick amount of time.

The Warlock, Illusionist and Shadowknight is fully raid geared where as the other 3 are more in a mix of fabled/legendary. Mythicals gained of course.

Kayanarka · 09-08-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by gandulfy

The basics of boxing are that you want to be able to use every toon as easily as possible. One way is to make your game windowed for your 4 toons and to put each toons macro bars in the corner windows. that way right in the center of the screen you have every button for every toon you have. The key here is to learn to do very very well.

I was going to ask, how do you all box. I box an SK and Fury, use two computers, play the fury with the keyboard, using three sets of hot bars, alt, ctrl, and numbers. the SK i play mostly with the mouse, using keyboard to move.

I have heard some people use switches programs ect, id like to know how you 4-6 box ect.