Dropping 5 boxing

Well, my experiments with Inner Space and ISBoxer turned out to be a great ride - It's a excellent piece of software, the mouse broadcasting alone makes it worth the extra cost over keyclone - Specially for questing and mixed teams.
Not saying keyclone is bad, it's a great piece of software and huge value for money.

I now got my mixed team to 80 - But decide I do not have time to leverage having 2x 80 teams - I'm now consolidating the level 80 characters down to two accounts and will most likely stick with that until a bit after the release of the next expansion.

My lack of time and the new LFG tool simply makes it not worth it to run 5 accounts at the moment.

Time to redo the UI and macros!

Not been happy with a couple of things that needs fixing, so since I have today off I'll be trying to address that.

For instance:

• It's horribly difficult to play most of my boxed characters as solo characters.
• My healing setup completely sucks.
• Somewhere I lost my team movement and formation macros, which is completely needed to do the harder heroics.
• My unit frames and various other things make raiding hard because they are so cramped.

Part of this will be evaluating to maybe replace Keyclone with Innerspace + ISBoxer.

Back!

Well, not 100% sure of that yet ;)

A few months back I started focusing more on raiding on my main, and didn't box much - And the ToC content stunk from a raiding perspective, so coupled with a high workload that turned in to a all time low in playing WoW - Canceled the 4 extra accounts and fired up 2 accounts in EVE instead (since it is much more friendly to low play time play).

However, with the release of 3.3 I found my WoW interest revitalized!

Raids are fun, new instance is great - And the LFG tool is amazing. I renewed the 5 accounts to farm a Battered Hilt from the trash in the new heroics (can't yet box the bosses). So far I scored one, realzied it wasn't much of a DPS upgrade for Perrigrin and proceeded to sell it just before they upped the drop-rate, making a nice profit.

Badge farming is now easier than ever, I boxed a few daily random heroics and added Violet Hold and The Nexus to the list of cleared instances with the Grins.

I think I'll be pushing to get the mixed team to 80 (they are now sitting at 70) over the holidays, given how much easier it is to gear now it definitely rekindled my interest.

In other news I completed What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been on my main for the Violet Proto-Drake!

Update

Finally got all the transfers done, so now my mixed 60 team is on the appropriate accounts, ready to start the run to 80. I must say that once you get through the mile long phone wait, Blizzards tech support is excellent.

While waiting on that to go through I farmed enough shards to buy the +10% xp shoulders on all accounts, so the mixed team will have a 10% bonus leveling.

Also, the Grins' got a few upgrades and did some dailys for cash - I'll be splitting my leveling time with some easy heroics and daily quests to get the cash to support the mixed team and to get badges for retribution gear for Perrigrin.

And, on a side note, I am getting quite bored of SFK and SM boosting ;) I need a couple of more characters leveled to get my rogue and druid 2 on the main account to 60 - And then the goal of this RAF session will be filled.

"Gift Teams"

Well, quest leveled 2 teams to 10, also making sure my druid and rogue on the main account is sitting at 99% xp at level 10.
Getting kind of good at picking the right quests, could probably do another stint in less than an hour now.

Started boosting one of the teams in SFK/SM to help with "the gifting", and they are sitting outside SM at 25 now (the other 4 are sitting at 10 outside SFK).

Perrigrin is being busy working on the Midsummer achievement, so not quite the focus on leveling as it was a couple of days ago - This one is a lot of work, but easy.

Most likely I'll stop the boosting madness for a bit once I have "gift team #1" at 31, that should get me enough levels to get the warrior to 99% into 59 - And then I'll move the "mixed team" off to the main accounts and start the leveling.
But I'll be back before RAF runs out to get enough "gifts" to get rogue and druid to 59 to (which unfortunately means getting another 2 teams to 60 (need at least 2 more 60s on the first RAF account to be able to gift up to 59).

SM Getting Slow

Well, at 41 SM is getting real slow, seems like I need 2 and some arm + cath clears for a level, not sure if it's worth going elsewhere (SM/ZF) for the 4 levels I got to 45...

Not much playtime now with midsummer coming up, but at least got the team to 41/42.

I'm Back!

Well, the MMO project is on hold for now (the graphics people that are working with me are to busy with other projects being the main reason). LotRO had me interested for a while, but I dropped of that due to to much work for a period leading to loosing interest.
But, since a couple of weeks Game has been running an offer on buying 2 WoWs for a bit cheaper than normal, and that has had me itching to get back and get a few other characters up to give me the option to run a mixed team, or maybe even 10 box at some point.
So - Now I have 4 shiny WoW boxes to set up RAF with my main account!.

The main plan is to get a Warrior, Priest, Druid, Warlock, Hunter team to 60 that I can then take to 80 (swapping one of the Hunter or Warlock for my mage around 70 something where he is waiting) - With the purpose to build a 80 heroic team with pally tank, mage, boomkin, elemental mage and holy priest.

Once I have that at 60, I might use the remainder of the RAF time to build more teams to 60 - Not 100% yet what I'll do with that.

Three Gods

Started working on a bit of a hobby project as well as playing LoTRO - Watch this space for more information ;)

Taking another break

Canceled payment on 5 of our 6 accounts a couple of days ago, the lack of 5-man content in the next patch killed my motivation to play boxing. Will still keep my main account with Perrigrin active to play a bit with dual-spec and maybe get into some 10/25 mans, but faily low motivation for that to at the moment.

I'm sure I will be back, I still intend to have a Pally, Mage, Boomkin, Elmental shaman and Priest team at some point.

Right now I've renewed one account of Lord of the Rings Online and am happily single boxing that.

Been a while...

Not done much boxing other than some dailys, spent most of the WoW time getting the Fool for Love achievement. 

Started a druid, Druidgrin, that I level slowly with my wifes rogue to eventually replace one of the shamans as a boomkin. Might also replace another of the shammeis with a mage that I got sitting at 70 at the moment - We will see.

Spent a little time creating this document as a personal reference for Lich King raid encounters. I haven't had time to do much raiding (did 2-3 10 mans, including tanking a full Naxx clear, but nothing else). But I'm hoping to extend my regular friend group that does 5-mans into at least doing a few 10-mans, so really wanted to read up on and learn the strategies.

My short term objectives are:

• Level Jewelcrafting on Perrigrin and make the Figurine - Monarch Crab trinket and some Solid Dragon's Eye gems for increased HP.
  
• Get the Essence of Gossamer trinket from Hadronox in Azjol-Nerub Heroic.
  
• Do enough skinning to get the epic mail leatherworking items made for my shamans to get them ready to at least do a few easier heroics.
  
• Gather enough gold to pay for dual spec when it goes live, as well as gather a healing set for Perrigrin.

If I accidently get any spare play time, that will be spent leveling Druidgrin or my DK back on SWC.

Heroic The Uderbog Cleared!

Well, not a big achievement, but wife's hunter needed 2 quests in there and decided to do it on heroic instead - At almost level 80 that was quite easy :P

A Thought Before Bed...

...took tank + 2 dps shaman to do a AN normal just to help a few friends - And found the shamans lagging quite behind a 3 level lower warlock in damage done - Leads me to think I need to look over spell rotations and macros (think I might have to go LB+LB+CL, instead of CL+LB that I do now) as well as spec and gear.

Thread...

...just a quick note to self to keep this thread at Maintakadin around - It's great as a guide for avoidance, which is my next step as Perrigrin now easily breaks 540 defense with a decent amount of hitpoints.

Didn't get much boxing done, but did tank a few heroics.

Gearing Up

Well, should be hitting 80 on the paladin as soon as the servers come up today. Do have quite some crafted gear banked, but will be using this thread, as well as the thread I posted about a month back to figure out how to upgrade.
Then it will be a race to get the shamans to 80 so I can start trying for heroics.

Winter Veil Started!

Achievement hunting time!

Check this link out for a good listing of what achievements to get.

Respec

Respecced Babegrin to restoration today, decided that that should make instances easier - and when questing I don't really loose that much not beeing 4x dps spec - Mobs die so fast anyways.

Will have to work a bit on setting up some keys for this though, but all in all I think it will be an improvement - Besides it's the setup that I have been meaning to target all along - tank, healer + 3 dps.

Nexus Bugging on me...

...been trying 2 times to clear the Nexus, and before I can beat any boss - I completely hang - GMs answer was to port me to UC :P

So, guess no "clear of nexus" heading today, what I saw of the boss fights does indicate that I do get mana problems, so might have to go restoration on one shaman to get mana tide and healing up all the time...

Level 80 Dalies

To much work and travel right now, so not gotten to play much - And it looks like it will stay that until week after next :(

Found this thread on dual-boxing.com today, which nicely guides how to do some dailies at 80 - Need to keep that in mind ;)

Good Post

Found this post at Bitling today, some good thoughts on how to set up the boxing - Might have to implement some of the ideas there as right now my healing and positioning macros need work, and I have no CC things set up.

Tankadin Gear Progression for Lich King

Found this excellent thread on Maintankadin (great site) - I'll be following it to some degree to make sure I pick up the good stuff on Perrigrin.