[WoW] Multiboxing Guide

[Chronic1337]

Hello everyone,

I've been leeching here for over a year and i want to share my multiboxing information with you guys.

First of all this is my first guide here ever. I am an retired multiboxer ( 2100 rating 5v5, Done all heroics, even raided with 5 toons at the same time, and much more).

This is how the guide looks like:
1. How to start
2. Multiboxing programs
3. Team setups
4. Leveling and guides
5. Level 60-70
6. Level 70-80.

How to start:

If you want to start multiboxing you should first think of multiple factors:
1. How many toons
2. How much do you want to spend on multiboxing
3. Is your computer powerful enough, or does it need some upgrades?
4. Do you got enough spare time?

Point 1.
For 2 characters everyone's computer is probably fine.
For 3 characters this can be tricky. I recommend at least 2GB RAM.
For 4 characters i recommend 4GB ram. With 2GB it won't be great to play with.
For 5 characters i recommend 4GB-8GB ram. Its possible with 4GB but when i was playing 5 toons at once, I used around 75% of my 8GB RAM in Orgrimmar or Alterac Valley.
More information over your computer on point 3.

Point 2.
If your going for 2 toons, you will lose:
30 Euro's for the Battlechest (Normal+TBC WoW) when you're already using your main account and asuming you already play WoW. And 30 euro's for WotLK. Also after your first free month play time, you have to buy either a month of playtime for 15 euro's with your creditcard, or buy a gamecard for 27 euro's. If your main account has no play time either you can double these costs.

For 3 and 4 and 5 accounts, its just adding + 75 euro's per account.

Point 3.
If you're going to multibox with 5 characters. You will need at least for succes:
8800 GTS Nvidia Videocard
a Quadcore, i use Q6600 Intel Quadcore
At least 4GB RAM.
Motherboard doesn't matter that much.
Its an option to buy a second screen. I use 2x Samsung Syncmaster 204b. This way i can put my main WoW fullscreen, and on my second screen 4 WoW windows of 800x600 each. The max resolution for these are 1600x1200 pixels.
Another option too is to buy a keyboard with customizable macro's. I have a Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard, wich has 18 programmable extra keys on the side of the board. This is handy, but don't expect to use all the guys. I only use 6 to 12 keys.

Point 4.
Do you have enough spare time? Multiboxing is timeconsuming, just like playing one character. Leveling 70-80 takes longer then one character. Also its 5 times more expensive then one character, so if you only can play 8 hours per week that wouldn't be a good way to spend your cash. In my opinion

Multiboxing Programs:

I used a program named Keyclone. Its made by one person, and i find Keyclone working the best for me. This is not a promotion, but i have never used other multiboxing programs so i can't tell you how to set it up.

I find the video's of Keyclone handy on the website itself. Here is the link:
Solid ICE Technologies

The costs for Keyclone are $19,99 US dollar. Keyclone is downloadable, but for the respect of the creator i am not going to post a download link for keyclone here.

Team Setups:

Okay so you have upgraded your computer, have 2 or more copy's of world of warcraft, and got a multiboxing program working and running. Now its time to pick your classes:

Dual-Boxing: Two accounts at the same time
From good to bad:
1. Mage+Mage
2. Warrior+Priest
3. Shaman+Shaman
4. Healer/Tank
5. Dual DPS

Triple-Boxing: Three characters at the same time:
From good to bad:
1. Tank/DPS/Healer
2. Priest/Warlock/Warlock
3. Shaman/Shaman/Shaman
4. Priest/Mage/Mage
5. Priest/Hunter/Hunter

Quad-Boxing: Four characters at the same time:
1. Shaman/Shaman/Shaman/Shaman
2. Tank/Healer/DPS/DPS
3. 4 Ranged DPS
4. Tank/3 DPS

Five-Boxing: Five characters at the same time:
1. Paladin/4x Shaman
2. 5x Shaman
3. Priest/4x Warlock
4. Priest/4x Mage
5. Warrior TANK/Priest Healer/Boomkin +5% crit/Mage ranged dps and conjured food and portals/Warlock High dps + pet.

Leveling and guides:

First of all, you need to setup RAF:
There are two methods for this:

Account 1, non-recruited --> Recruits Account 2
Account 2 --> Recruits Account 3
Account 3 --> Recruits Account 4
Account 4 --> Recruits Account 5
Account 5 - Nothing

That is the expensive way. With this all your accounts can grant levels.

Cheap method looks like this:

Account 1 --> Recruits Account 3
Account 1 --> Recruits Account 4
Account 2 --> Recruits Account 5

This way Account 1 and 2 can be granted a free level 60.

Now for ingame leveling:

With RAF its easy to quest. 1-60 has the experience needed to level up per level reduced, hard and long quest made short and easy. Also an really REALLY helpful guide is thisone:
Horde and Alliance Multi Boxing RAF 1-60 Leveling Guide - New Multi-Boxers & Support - Dual-Boxing.com Community Forum
Its an ingame guide for both horde AND alliance. It will tell you step by step where to go, in the fastest possible way. No grinding quests are included. Just killing and other easy stuff I have leveled 6 different teams of 5 toons each by using this guide. My 1-60 fastest playtime was 1 day 10 hours.

You can also do some instances, but this is always slower then quests. But they are fun. Here is a link for every instance, and wich levels are needed to enter, and the recommended level: Instances by level - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Leveling 60-70:

For leveling 60 to 70 i used Questhelper. Because the leveling guide for RAF stops on level 60. Here is the download link for this add-on:
QuestHelper - Addons - Curse

Leveling 60 to 70 will be fast and fun. You do a lot of damage with the new gear that you obtain from quests in Outland. Also you get a lot of useful new spells. With 5 characters in Outland you will never need help for ANY quest OR dungeon. The only thing you might need help with is the Arena quest in Nagrand .

Leveling 70-80:

Be ready for the hardest part in multiboxing multiple toons in the journey to level 80.

I dislike Northrend because there are a lot of dungeons and quests that are really hard to multibox. Think about boss-fights that contain a lot of movement, healing intense or tank needed fights. Also multiboxing plus vehicles equals to failure.

The way to level in Northrend is doing kill quests. When you have completed these and think you don't have anymore quests but grindquests left, you should go and check WoWHead or Thottbot if there are any follow-ups after a grind quest, that may contain easy kill quests.

You can't level 70-80 without doing any grindquests. So get ready to collect 50 x a 15% droprate item. It will be hard, but be brave, you will reach 80 if your positive

I hope you like my first guide, if you have any questions feel free to ask them.

I know there is another multiboxing guide on the forums, but i don't like them because some don't contain enough information. Those posts were also my inspiration to make a better one.

Kind regards,

Chronic1337

Links that might be handy:
Curse.com - WoW Addons WAR Addons Gamer Blogs Forums
Main Page - Dual-Boxing.com Community Forum
World of Warcraft universe guide - WoWWiki
Thottbot: World of Warcraft
Wowhead: Makes web browsers happy!

[Evilphtbstrd]

good guide , but there are plenty of these on mmowned , keyclone is the best software i've used tho along with Input Director (google it ) 100% free

[Intu]

Nice contribution but this is a mega over post, so many people made posts like this, nice try tho.

[Allstar .ιllιlı.]

Nice guide.

[Lulzi]

...VERY nice guide, I liked it a lot and will be using it to dual box.

[Dragonshadow]

Keyclone isn't worth it, just use hotkeynet or innerspace multiboxing scripts.
Otherwise nice guide.

[Chronic1337]

Thanks for the positive comments

[boazjuggalo]

Your team setups are crap... this is just friendly criticism.

You don't have druid listed anywhere, from experience (I've been selling 60 accounts for about a month, sold about a dozen so i've MBed a few) Druid is the best class to have more than one of. My last go through I was lvling 3 Druids at same time, hitting a starfire at the same time was 1shotting anything up to 5-6 lvls higher than me.

No clue why you would suggest Tank/Healer/DPS for 3 toons... solo they are not needed and you are 1 or 2 away from doing instances. all this would do is overcomplicate your macros and your key program and also slow you down. Unless your going with 4 or more toons always go with dps.

Currently I'm working on 2 mages (one of my live account and one for my little brother) They are at lvl 36ish and last night when i logged out I was sitting right about 8 or 9 hours /played

[Chronic1337]

Yeah well there aren't many good team setups. And this is more based on multiboxers on a big scale, need 12 year old kids saying: AMG IM GONNA USE MY FRIEND ACCOUNT AND GO DUALBOX LOL WINWIN. Like the kid in this video:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzH2SQ6WznM]YouTube - How to dual box[/ame]

Anyways,
I leveled 5 druids and they were fun, but not really succesful on level 80. Arena wasn't working out, heroic's either. But they are a good class though.

And i have druids included with the 5 characters mixed setup.

Kind regards,

Steven

[boazjuggalo]

If you have any setup that you can dualbox in 5man arena, post video or stop the claims. No matter the setup, 1 person cannot out think 5 independent people. Reaction speed just isn't there. Hate to be one of those "screenshot or it didn't happen" people... but i'm calling bullshit.

[alienzexists]

Love the guide, i need it to duel box me and my brothers account when hes not playing.

[Chronic1337]

I'm glad you liked it

Because its not illigal to post on MMOwned (for World of Warcraft), i will post an arena video of my shamans that i made:

So here is your screenshot or it didnt happend:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axIcBe27wuI]YouTube - Totemic Multiboxing | Arena level 80![/ame]

Kind regards,

Chronic1337

[BaboonX]

I multiboxed two mages, two hunters, and 2 shamans all to 60, I found that after level 60 it wasn't worth it for raf because one is you need to buy the tcb expansion (for just 1 other account it's not a problem, if you have 2-4 other accounts though you well ahve to pay a lot of money), so, if your planning to only multibox with one other account I don't think it's worth it.. The only reason why you would want to get the other accounts to 80 is because of the gold you can make from it, but, if you think you can do all the endgame raids multiboxing your out of luck sense blizzard seems to be adding a lot more vehicles and mobility bosses (like you mentioned) into the game :/.

[Chronic1337]

Yeah that was a big reason that old multiboxers quitted. But arena is still fun, altho more fun on level 70. Also heroics are possible. Also the new zones lag very much, much more then old level 70 content.

So yeah, old times were better but its still quite fun to do.

[Kitsuji]

Thanks for this, I really had no idea on HOW to multibox~