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4 elemental shammy + restokin 5's team. note the 3-boxer. ive never died so fast.
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Any info about rating of that arena team? Arena full of treants :D
What was the strategy from their side? Chain lightning + natures swiftnes x5?
Anyway nice to see something like this again. Just like that 5 frostmages team.
What was the strategy from their side? Chain lightning + natures swiftnes x5?
Anyway nice to see something like this again. Just like that 5 frostmages team.
they EM+NS+CL'd our druid instantly. he went from full (10kish) to dead before he could get out of cat form.
this was mostly a "for fun and points" setup in the low 1500's, but ive heard of a 5-boxed elemental shammy team that got pretty far into the 2k's last season. something like 2100 or 2200. they either made glad, or came damn close to it.
this was mostly a "for fun and points" setup in the low 1500's, but ive heard of a 5-boxed elemental shammy team that got pretty far into the 2k's last season. something like 2100 or 2200. they either made glad, or came damn close to it.
And we'll *love* this... why?
Gotta admit it's an intriguing idea. Get a load of pure damage-spec Ele Shamans loaded up on spelldmg gear and get them to all frontload the healer. Can't actually think of a way around it except hiding your healer behind a post, but then they can just instakill someone else... of course that means your DPS can have fun killing famously fragile Elemetnal Shamans, Restokin or no.
Like I've said more often, full DPS teams can actually be pretty good in the arena... Just wtfbbqpwn one or 2 chaps in no time and turn the game into a 5vs3. Even though it works better in 2v2 and 3v3 I suppose it can work in 5v5... This screenshot has just reminded me about how astonishing multiboxing full-DPS teams can be in the arena.
Mozared wrote:
Like I've said more often, full DPS teams can actually be pretty good in the arena... Just wtfbbqpwn one or 2 chaps in no time and turn the game into a 5vs3. Even though it works better in 2v2 and 3v3 I suppose it can work in 5v5... This screenshot has just reminded me about how astonishing multiboxing full-DPS teams can be in the arena.
This only works with frost mages, ele shamans, or PvE destro locks.
Ele shamans are of course the best because of the retarded amounts of damage they put out, plus chain Buttlust.
Overlord Theophany wrote:
Mozared wrote:
Like I've said more often, full DPS teams can actually be pretty good in the arena... Just wtfbbqpwn one or 2 chaps in no time and turn the game into a 5vs3. Even though it works better in 2v2 and 3v3 I suppose it can work in 5v5... This screenshot has just reminded me about how astonishing multiboxing full-DPS teams can be in the arena.
This only works with frost mages, ele shamans, or PvE destro locks.
Ele shamans are of course the best because of the retarded amounts of damage they put out, plus chain Buttlust.
They also have some defense against the main bane of multiboxed teams, namely CC. With four Tremors and four Groundings you can't just run in and AE Fear them all the way you normally can to rape a team like this.
Of course, a Rogue will still annihilate this team more or less on his own. Sap one, Blind one, Stun one and it's time to pick up your rating boost.
RPZip wrote:
Overlord Theophany wrote:
Mozared wrote:
Like I've said more often, full DPS teams can actually be pretty good in the arena... Just wtfbbqpwn one or 2 chaps in no time and turn the game into a 5vs3. Even though it works better in 2v2 and 3v3 I suppose it can work in 5v5... This screenshot has just reminded me about how astonishing multiboxing full-DPS teams can be in the arena.
This only works with frost mages, ele shamans, or PvE destro locks.
Ele shamans are of course the best because of the retarded amounts of damage they put out, plus chain Buttlust.
They also have some defense against the main bane of multiboxed teams, namely CC. With four Tremors and four Groundings you can't just run in and AE Fear them all the way you normally can to rape a team like this.
Of course, a Rogue will still annihilate this team more or less on his own. Sap one, Blind one, Stun one and it's time to pick up your rating boost.
Decent paladin completely ***** the rogue in the butt, sadly. :(
ya elemental multi box elemental shaman is pretty crazy wish i had the cash to pull it off myself.
you can either do EM+NS+CL off back but to be honest i think a simple NS+CL followed by an Earth shock should still be more or less GG to a healer then on your next opening take out another with EM+CL. When your not basicly focusing people down you have the ability to mass purge someone with a single button, and 5 earth shocks at a time is nothing to smirk at, even 5 fire nova totems can really do some damage.
The totems is pretty sick to you have multiple tremmor, grounding, healing stream/poison cleanse and even fire totems in these numbers would be a pain for the other team.
not surprised multi box shaman can do pretty well in arena, btw if you liked that look for the 5 box ele shaman that does heroics on his own its pretty kool.
you can either do EM+NS+CL off back but to be honest i think a simple NS+CL followed by an Earth shock should still be more or less GG to a healer then on your next opening take out another with EM+CL. When your not basicly focusing people down you have the ability to mass purge someone with a single button, and 5 earth shocks at a time is nothing to smirk at, even 5 fire nova totems can really do some damage.
The totems is pretty sick to you have multiple tremmor, grounding, healing stream/poison cleanse and even fire totems in these numbers would be a pain for the other team.
not surprised multi box shaman can do pretty well in arena, btw if you liked that look for the 5 box ele shaman that does heroics on his own its pretty kool.
I don't recall where, but I saw a video of a 4 ele shammy + resto team obliterating other teams with CL focus fire tactics. It was actually pretty amusing. They then ate the priest to death all in ghost wolf form.
Please correct me cos I have feeling that I'm gonna miss something here now:
I just think that eleshaman 5-boxed works even better than frostmage would. I base this simply for FN rotation I would like to use as frostie so that burst would be more efficient.
And all this with very little knowledge about multi-boxing so lets just say that I'm maybe missing something here? Or is it quite easy to use some little different keybindings to get over that prob?
I just think that eleshaman 5-boxed works even better than frostmage would. I base this simply for FN rotation I would like to use as frostie so that burst would be more efficient.
And all this with very little knowledge about multi-boxing so lets just say that I'm maybe missing something here? Or is it quite easy to use some little different keybindings to get over that prob?
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And we'll *love* this... why?
cause its hilarious!
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They then ate the priest to death all in ghost wolf form.
but not nearly as hilarious as that.
Grammatical errors aside, it was still a cool video.
"They then ate the priest while in ghost wolf form?"
The priest was eaten by the ghost wolfs?
The ghost wolfs ate the priest - Win!
"They then ate the priest while in ghost wolf form?"
The priest was eaten by the ghost wolfs?
The ghost wolfs ate the priest - Win!
Aelli got glad quad boxing elemental shamans in 5v5.
Where is the video... I don't see any links... I want video!!
*pouts*
*pouts*
A quick Google search of '5v5 Elemental Shaman' gave me the video you seek. First video.
By the way, I'm confused by the term "Boxing" and "Quad-boxing." Can anyone explain this?
Edit: Forgot the question part of the post :P
Edited, Jul 9th 2008 6:14pm by Serevixx
By the way, I'm confused by the term "Boxing" and "Quad-boxing." Can anyone explain this?
Edit: Forgot the question part of the post :P
Edited, Jul 9th 2008 6:14pm by Serevixx
(Multi)-boxing is when you connect multiple computers. The basic idea is that all computers mimic the action of the 'main' computer on which you are playing. The end result of this is that you are playing WoW on one pc, but 3 (or more or less) PC's are following your exact actions... meaning you are controlling 4 characters at a time. Quad-boxing simply means you're doing it with 4 characters.
Multi-boxing seems to always involve Shamans, I see four-box Shaman teams in AV all the time. You see four Tauren running almost exactly in step with one another, they all pop Elemental Mastery and then chain-nuke... it's really scary to witness. The good news about MB setups is you only need one 'good' computer, the rest are just relays with the graphics set to 800x600 crapness.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
shamans are a natural pick for multi-boxing. you have a set of ranged skills with similar cooldowns on a high armor class with great group buffs. really, it just makes sense.
ive seen shadow priests get multi-boxed before too. similar idea there; one button for SWP, another for vamp touch, one for vamp embrace, mind blast, mind flay, and SWD. DoT a target up, hit it when VE and VT, spam mind flay till they hit 50% or so then mind blast+SWD for the finisher. bit more finesse required because of the channeling nature of mind flay, but capable of very crazy burst damage.
ive seen shadow priests get multi-boxed before too. similar idea there; one button for SWP, another for vamp touch, one for vamp embrace, mind blast, mind flay, and SWD. DoT a target up, hit it when VE and VT, spam mind flay till they hit 50% or so then mind blast+SWD for the finisher. bit more finesse required because of the channeling nature of mind flay, but capable of very crazy burst damage.
Multi box shaman just works out better because of the ability to burst enemies down with speed, show me Elemental mastery with chain lightning followed by an earth shock and you will probably have 2 enemies dead in 1.5 seconds. The amount of totems also shields you from tabbers and will probably overwhelm the average pvper to not bother with destroying them. Making totem of wrath stack means shaman will have tons of crit and hit in pve and pvp. It also makes it even better that Healing stream and Chain heal makes it easy maintaining all the shamans health.
The other nice benefit is elemental shaman can multi box heroics, all the totem buffs, bloodlust/heroism every pull, and elementals for boss fights. This means repping up for epics early on is easy and badge gear is also easy to get.
The other nice benefit is elemental shaman can multi box heroics, all the totem buffs, bloodlust/heroism every pull, and elementals for boss fights. This means repping up for epics early on is easy and badge gear is also easy to get.
Sinstralis wrote:
Multi-boxing seems to always involve Shamans, I see four-box Shaman teams in AV all the time. You see four Tauren running almost exactly in step with one another, they all pop Elemental Mastery and then chain-nuke... it's really scary to witness. The good news about MB setups is you only need one 'good' computer, the rest are just relays with the graphics set to 800x600 crapness.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
Mutli-boxing is cheating? Since when? Last I heard it's perfectly legit; none of the moves are automated, they're just all synched together. A player is at the computer in each case. It seems totally allowed.
Aye, indeed. I can't back it up anymore but the final words I heard about it on the blizz forums were that it's legal.
LockeColeMA wrote:
Sinstralis wrote:
Multi-boxing seems to always involve Shamans, I see four-box Shaman teams in AV all the time. You see four Tauren running almost exactly in step with one another, they all pop Elemental Mastery and then chain-nuke... it's really scary to witness. The good news about MB setups is you only need one 'good' computer, the rest are just relays with the graphics set to 800x600 crapness.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
Bad news of course, it's cheating and it's pretty much wrecking battlegrounds as more and more people figure it out. Seeing those four Tauren literally steamroller an entire melee furball through pure focus-fire on the healers might be funny as a Horde player, but I doubt the Alliance are laughing.
Mutli-boxing is cheating? Since when? Last I heard it's perfectly legit; none of the moves are automated, they're just all synched together. A player is at the computer in each case. It seems totally allowed.
Oh, it's totally legal. As noted, the player is in direct control of the multiboxed characters (usually by making one keyboard control all the characters, along with assist macros and the such). There is no automated control, everything is done via direct player input.
It's certainly creative, and expensive for that matter, but it's perfectly legal. It's no more illegal than having two accounts and using a high-level toon to follow and protect a lower-leveled one.
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Oh, it's totally legal.
Only because Blizzard are a little more corporate these days. They dont like gold selling because they dont profit from it, it actually reduces the overall time (WoW being a time-metered game, ultimately) that players must invest to gain their gear.
Blizzard recognise that a bunch of kids multiboxing with four accounts or whatever is good for business: Subscription Fee x Unfair Advantage = Tall Dollar
I think you'd be hard pressed to track down any Blizzard creative developer who thinks it is anything other than a ridiculous abuse of the wording of the EULA, and doesnt consider it cheating to use it in PvP. PvE I dont think anyone cares (but who'd do that anyway?), but is anyone seriously trying to contest that this is 'creative game mechanics' and not simple rank bastardry? I admit that it is creative and a nice little bit of coding, but then so was the Nimda worm. I'll even say it's funny, and I am tempted to give it a go myself purely out of interest, but it IS cheating and it ISNT morally defensible play, and I'd be genuinely surprised to find anyone who really thinks it's 100% fine.
It ranks alongside standing on terrain defects to nuke players five levels below you in Neutral towns, right in front of the bugged guards. You're not breaking any rules per se, but you are being a complete and utter d!ck.
Sinstralis wrote:
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Oh, it's totally legal.
Only because Blizzard are a little more corporate these days. They dont like gold selling because they dont profit from it, it actually reduces the overall time (WoW being a time-metered game, ultimately) that players must invest to gain their gear.
Blizzard recognise that a bunch of kids multiboxing with four accounts or whatever is good for business: Subscription Fee x Unfair Advantage = Tall Dollar
I think you'd be hard pressed to track down any Blizzard creative developer who thinks it is anything other than a ridiculous abuse of the wording of the EULA, and doesnt consider it cheating to use it in PvP. PvE I dont think anyone cares (but who'd do that anyway?), but is anyone seriously trying to contest that this is 'creative game mechanics' and not simple rank bastardry? I admit that it is creative and a nice little bit of coding, but then so was the Nimda worm. I'll even say it's funny, and I am tempted to give it a go myself purely out of interest, but it IS cheating and it ISNT morally defensible play, and I'd be genuinely surprised to find anyone who really thinks it's 100% fine.
It ranks alongside standing on terrain defects to nuke players five levels below you in Neutral towns, right in front of the bugged guards. You're not breaking any rules per se, but you are being a complete and utter d!ck.
Sins, you rule. Once again you show why you're the best poster on this forum. I totally agree, it may not technically be cheating but it is still about as lame as ganking a lowbie or running a farmer bot to take advantage of certain game mechanics.
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