... but that doesn't prevent me from dropping a few lines.
Not too much has happened:
My shams are lvl 40 right now and I have created a guild called <afk with your sister>. Having a guild bank makes moving stuff from and to my auction house pally a lot easier. The last thing I did yesterday evening was buying 5 wolves for the guys and when I get home I will try to get mining on my main toon to a level where I can mine mithril.
I have decided to pick up a few more professions for my guys:
Toon1: ench, mining
Toon2: leatherworking, skinning
Toon3: Jewelcrafting, Alchemy (alch is powered purely by auction house stuff)
Toon4: Tailoring
Toon5: None (This toon runs on a really old computer where I am forced to have a really small game window so the graphics card can handle wow, I prefere not to do anything on that machine except spamming LB)
Have a nice weekend,
Bucco
5/31/08
5/20/08
Alliance stinks!
I just realized that!
I have enough of playing alliance chars. I decided to roll 5 Orc shams on a server I don't have any chars (EU-Thrall) for a fresh start and to meet a few new faces. So far I am pleasently surprised by the community of the server.
The few people whom I have met were usualy nice and just curious (as opposed to the usual "Rofl reported" flames I used to get on alliance side). One person even whispered me: "Is this going to be another of those one man arena teams?". I thought that was kind of funny since 5 boxing shammys seems to become an everyday thing ;)
My toons are called Rhoxx, Rhóxx, Rhòxx, Rhôxx and Rhøxx and are level 21 currently (Arsenal link). So far I am having a blast and have completed all the ghostland quests (I have never leveled there before) and I must say that I like that far better than the new Draenei lands. tonight after work I am going to finish my water totem quest and then I'll head to SFK.
I do however need a guild name for my guys. I came up with the following suggestions:
<Rocks>
<Things that make you go Hmm>
<The final five>( big BSG fan here)
Please comment which guild tag you whould chosse or if you have another suggestion.
Have a sunny day, Bucco
I have enough of playing alliance chars. I decided to roll 5 Orc shams on a server I don't have any chars (EU-Thrall) for a fresh start and to meet a few new faces. So far I am pleasently surprised by the community of the server.
The few people whom I have met were usualy nice and just curious (as opposed to the usual "Rofl reported" flames I used to get on alliance side). One person even whispered me: "Is this going to be another of those one man arena teams?". I thought that was kind of funny since 5 boxing shammys seems to become an everyday thing ;)
My toons are called Rhoxx, Rhóxx, Rhòxx, Rhôxx and Rhøxx and are level 21 currently (Arsenal link). So far I am having a blast and have completed all the ghostland quests (I have never leveled there before) and I must say that I like that far better than the new Draenei lands. tonight after work I am going to finish my water totem quest and then I'll head to SFK.
I do however need a guild name for my guys. I came up with the following suggestions:
<Rocks>
<Things that make you go Hmm>
<The final five>( big BSG fan here)
Please comment which guild tag you whould chosse or if you have another suggestion.
Have a sunny day, Bucco
5/11/08
I'm still around
Hey everybody,
I know I have been neglecting this blog for about half a year and a lot of things happened.
First of all in november I decided to stop multiboxing and took a WoW break to do a few other things. After a few months I started playing again and toyed around with a rogue and a warrior but nothing kept me interested. I started a resto shaman, played to 70 and raided a few times with some old friends but lost interest because full time healing just isn't that interesting for me.
I figured when I have a decently equpped shaman at 70 and a rogue why not simply power level 4 more shamans to 70 and try some of the things that so many other guys at have done successfully: pve and pvp with 5 shamans.
When I am done leveling those toons I will transfer my shamans to a high pop german pve server (did I mention thos toons are alliance?). If you have any suggestion where I should transfer please leave a comment. Maybe you are a multiboxer too and like me to come to your server so we can toy a round together?
Anyways, I gotta return to SM now (toons are lvl 31 atm) and blow up the cathedral with my rogue a few more times.
Stay tuned for further updates,
Bucco
I know I have been neglecting this blog for about half a year and a lot of things happened.
First of all in november I decided to stop multiboxing and took a WoW break to do a few other things. After a few months I started playing again and toyed around with a rogue and a warrior but nothing kept me interested. I started a resto shaman, played to 70 and raided a few times with some old friends but lost interest because full time healing just isn't that interesting for me.
I figured when I have a decently equpped shaman at 70 and a rogue why not simply power level 4 more shamans to 70 and try some of the things that so many other guys at have done successfully: pve and pvp with 5 shamans.
When I am done leveling those toons I will transfer my shamans to a high pop german pve server (did I mention thos toons are alliance?). If you have any suggestion where I should transfer please leave a comment. Maybe you are a multiboxer too and like me to come to your server so we can toy a round together?
Anyways, I gotta return to SM now (toons are lvl 31 atm) and blow up the cathedral with my rogue a few more times.
Stay tuned for further updates,
Bucco
10/30/07
Blog Links
Hi all,
I have added a Blog Links section (lower right below the videos) so people interested in Multi-Boxing can easily find other Blogs and Websites. If your Link is missing or if you do not want your Link to appear please drop me a message.
Bucco
I have added a Blog Links section (lower right below the videos) so people interested in Multi-Boxing can easily find other Blogs and Websites. If your Link is missing or if you do not want your Link to appear please drop me a message.
Bucco
10/29/07
The Shattered Halls
Good morning everybody!
I compiled a video of which I consider one of the most fun instances: The Shattered Halls. This video does not only include the boss fights but also some of the trash pulls which are really fun to tank.
In the fight with Grand Warlock Nethekurse I started training something that I will need to be able to do for a few fights: Moving chars during the fight. If you don't know the fight, Nethekurse spawns void zones at the feet of your chars that you need to get out of as they do damage.
It may sound rather easy: Just move out of the void zone and in fact it is when you play just one char but playing five at the same time makes this task a little harder. Apart from building threat on the tank, healing and dpsing one needs to keep an eye on all monitors for the void zones and when they spawn one has to find the right keys to move the char. Fun and challenging!
The Nethekurse encounter is rather forgiving; there are other void zone encounters that kill your toon much faster so it is a good training. I managed to save all my chars from the void zones but one but I hope to get better at this when I run the instance a few more times.
Warbringer O'mrogg is incredibly boring. All you have to do is be VERY careful with aggro. I shortened that fight in the video.
Warchief Kargath Bladefist on the other hand is a nice encounter. On WoW Wiki I have found a strategy where to position your toons so they will not get hit by the blade dance. It works pretty good. Maintaining high dps on Kargath and fearing the adds does the job.
The video can be found here:
o.m.a. vs. The Shattered Halls
Have a nice week,
Bucco
I compiled a video of which I consider one of the most fun instances: The Shattered Halls. This video does not only include the boss fights but also some of the trash pulls which are really fun to tank.
In the fight with Grand Warlock Nethekurse I started training something that I will need to be able to do for a few fights: Moving chars during the fight. If you don't know the fight, Nethekurse spawns void zones at the feet of your chars that you need to get out of as they do damage. It may sound rather easy: Just move out of the void zone and in fact it is when you play just one char but playing five at the same time makes this task a little harder. Apart from building threat on the tank, healing and dpsing one needs to keep an eye on all monitors for the void zones and when they spawn one has to find the right keys to move the char. Fun and challenging!
The Nethekurse encounter is rather forgiving; there are other void zone encounters that kill your toon much faster so it is a good training. I managed to save all my chars from the void zones but one but I hope to get better at this when I run the instance a few more times.
Warbringer O'mrogg is incredibly boring. All you have to do is be VERY careful with aggro. I shortened that fight in the video.
Warchief Kargath Bladefist on the other hand is a nice encounter. On WoW Wiki I have found a strategy where to position your toons so they will not get hit by the blade dance. It works pretty good. Maintaining high dps on Kargath and fearing the adds does the job.
The video can be found here:
o.m.a. vs. The Shattered Halls
Have a nice week,
Bucco
10/27/07
Mechanar heroic part 2 video + Shadow Labs clear
Good morning everybody!
It's 1 am in germany and I am about to go to bed. Before doing so I wanted to share what happend during the last couple of days.
First I finished the video on the second part of Mechanar heroic. It shows killing the second keykeeper and the calculator but I skipped Nethermancer Sepethrea. That fight has just too much movement involved for a multi-boxer. The video can be found on YouTube:
o.m.a. vs. Mechanar heroic (part 2)
After getting headless horseman rings and first upgrades for heroic badges for my toons I felt it was time to try the shadow labs again. Downing Ambassador Hellmaw is not too hard with the pvp trinket and due to the fact that all my toons are undead.
I am so happy about chosing undead because WotF has simplified a couple of encounters. Sure the 5% health bost for taurens is nice but for multiboxing purposes I think undead is the better choice.
Until today Blackheart the Inciter was the real problem I had with this instance. I couldn't kill him because my toons were just too "soft". Today I have "outgeared" him in the first try. At about 25% my DDs were down and only my priest and my prot warrior were alive. The warrior doesn't do enough damage to kill the priest in the chaos phases and the priest has enough mp5 to keep everybody alive. So I was able to get the last 25% down only with those two toons. Felt like it took half an hour but was fun to do.
The last two bosses were rather easy (as expected). Grandmaster Vorpil went down on the third try after I figured out when to run where and Murmur was even easier.
After getting the next two fragments for the Karazhan prequest I started trying the Black Morass and I was surprised: I expected have no chance at all because of all the movement involved but I was able to make it to the second boss twice.
During my first attempt I didn't realize it was already rift number 12 till I got killed and on my second try I got a little confused.
Anyways, one of my mages has nice new shoulder pieces and I expect that it is possible for me to open the dark portal during the next couple of days.
Everybody have a good night,
Bucco
It's 1 am in germany and I am about to go to bed. Before doing so I wanted to share what happend during the last couple of days.
First I finished the video on the second part of Mechanar heroic. It shows killing the second keykeeper and the calculator but I skipped Nethermancer Sepethrea. That fight has just too much movement involved for a multi-boxer. The video can be found on YouTube:
o.m.a. vs. Mechanar heroic (part 2)
After getting headless horseman rings and first upgrades for heroic badges for my toons I felt it was time to try the shadow labs again. Downing Ambassador Hellmaw is not too hard with the pvp trinket and due to the fact that all my toons are undead.
I am so happy about chosing undead because WotF has simplified a couple of encounters. Sure the 5% health bost for taurens is nice but for multiboxing purposes I think undead is the better choice.
Until today Blackheart the Inciter was the real problem I had with this instance. I couldn't kill him because my toons were just too "soft". Today I have "outgeared" him in the first try. At about 25% my DDs were down and only my priest and my prot warrior were alive. The warrior doesn't do enough damage to kill the priest in the chaos phases and the priest has enough mp5 to keep everybody alive. So I was able to get the last 25% down only with those two toons. Felt like it took half an hour but was fun to do.
The last two bosses were rather easy (as expected). Grandmaster Vorpil went down on the third try after I figured out when to run where and Murmur was even easier.
After getting the next two fragments for the Karazhan prequest I started trying the Black Morass and I was surprised: I expected have no chance at all because of all the movement involved but I was able to make it to the second boss twice.
During my first attempt I didn't realize it was already rift number 12 till I got killed and on my second try I got a little confused.
Anyways, one of my mages has nice new shoulder pieces and I expect that it is possible for me to open the dark portal during the next couple of days.
Everybody have a good night,
Bucco
10/25/07
Heroic calculator down
I finally managed to down Pathaleon in heroic mode. It was a struggle with about 10 to 15 corpse runs on the second level trash and the boss himself but after my first attempt already got him to about 25% I really wanted to kill him. Second level trash hits so much harder than first level, especially the Tempest-Forge Destroyers.
Being able to kill a heroic dungeon final boss offers new perspectives:
The calculator was kind enough to drop
Have a beautiful day,
Bucco
Being able to kill a heroic dungeon final boss offers new perspectives:
- I have a steady income of primal nethers
- I have a steady income of void crystals from the not needed epic drops
- I can farm for the suneater (I so much want that sword on my warrior, looks so good)
- When patch 2.3 hits the servers there are supposed to be daily quests for the heroics. Hopefully there is one for the calculator that yields 2 badges and 25g cash
The calculator was kind enough to drop
Have a beautiful day,
Bucco
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