4-boxing advice?

[Tyop]

Ever since I got (yet) another computer and retired my old bard main I've been thinking of trying to 4-box, but I just can't decide on which classes to pick.

Preferably only one melee class for ease of boxing. I want tankage, enough healing to do stupid things, slow, snare and some form of pulling.

Right now I'm thinking warrior, cleric, shaman, necro as they're all classes I actually enjoy playing and as they'd fill gaps in what my friends are playing but I'm very open to suggestions.

- Warrior for tankage and fairly good melee dps.
- Cleric for those quick, quick heals, DvA (must be very nice when boxing), res, buffs, pacification. No dps in this setting 'tho.
- Shaman for slows, haste, melee buffs, some dps.
- Necro for very good dps, snare, MW when applicable, pulling, looking badass.

I came up with this since I already have a 56 shaman, 57 necro on separate accounts and a full set of fierce heraldic somewhere, so obviously I'm partial to this combo, but I wouldn't post this unless I really wanted your opinion. I'm in this for the fun of it, not to reach 65 in five days.

[czai]

SK / CLR / SHM / WIZ would work too, gives you an FD puller and evac, plus both SK and wiz can snare.

Tank / CLR / ENC / DRU gives you snare and evac as well.

Probably boils down to what you like playing the best.

[Velle]

Well I 3box warrior, cleric and wizzie and it works out beautifully. I 3box named in KT np (wizzie's burst dps rocks). If I were 4boxing I would add either bard or sk.

[zaramas]

[zaramas]

Tank / CLR / ENC / DRU gives you snare and evac as well.

Thats my setup. Currently one machine is down so i am limited to War/Dru/Enc.

I had access to a 65 chanter but my friends started playing again so its back to the 56 one.

With the old 4 I could hit any tier 2 or lower plane and do fine. That was before the warrior was time flagged and only at 6K buffed. Now that he is 9K buffed ( just kazzad/9/WoG/Shielding from the Orante BP) I can do a LOT more.

I have soloed all the dragons in WW ( Before the VP revamp ), Did almost every mob in Valor or storms...except the lords of course. Soloed all of Keal but the big named. Just about any non pop/god zone is a snap.

Once the 4th box is up and running again and I ding the New chanter 57 for the better slow I plan to try out the exp versions of the Sewers. I did it with just the War/Dru/Clr but having to use a proc for slow was a little too close.

I have though abought Lv a Beastlord to replaxce the chanter but probally wont.

Other combos work to but the Trinity setup seems to work best for me.

[Karlious]

You need a Tank Healer and Slower... the 4th could be whatever. The Wizard idea seems like a good one tho!

[Avallach Whitewinds]

I'd vote for SK/CLR/ENC/WIZ, personally.

If you're only going to have one tank class, I think you'd get more benefit out of the crack from the ENC than from the SHM buffs - especially if you use a knight instead of a warrior. The only reason I'd use the SK over WAR is for dps. That and he can Zbite for the casters.

[Brutul]

Wizards are a great bot. So are clerics. Tank/Cleric/Enchanter/Wizard would be great. You have healing, rez, buffs, haste, slow, snare, evac, mez, and dps. 4 toons is so much easier than 3 to get a solid group without giving anything up hehe.

[Gunnar]

Mmm.Just boxing my wifes shammy is enough to give me brainache after a couple hours.

[Brutul]

Originally Posted by Gunnar

Mmm.Just boxing my wifes shammy is enough to give me brainache after a couple hours.

Me too hehe. I 3-boxed War, Cleric, Mage for a while and it was a good group, but just more work than I want to do when I'm grinding exp hehe. Two is pretty much max for me for any extended period of time.

[Gunnar]

Too much work omg.Let someone else heal,buff and slow...I can pull leet trains and hit stuff.That's fun

[Buuhmann]

btw. pick a warrior as tank. You get best tankage, dps depending on the weapons, aggro by just hitting incite and attack on. The need to cast spells all the time to keep aggro sucks for multiboxing.

warrior cleric chanter and wizard is prolly the most effective AND easiest to play multibox quad team. You might switch a druid for the wizard for better snare, neat overall dps trough DS, dots and nukes and the assistheals but wizard burst dps for nameds probably makes up for the loss of assistheals of the druid...

[Tyop]

Very sound advice here, thank you all. The combo you're suggesting sounds very promising and should definately be less work to box than the one I first suggested.

[Alisdahre]

I'd suggest using an SK as well. The SK may not be able to take on as big a hitter as the warrior, but with the SK you can at least pull them to even try in the first place. There are a large number of areas where the extra beef the warrior will give you will be a moot point, since you'll be fighting multiples cause of the lack of feign/pet pulling. It's gonna prove to be hectic mezzing off more than one mob while still keeping aggro off the other characters with the warrior, and he'll end up tanking more than one mob for a while. The warrior can tank a single better than the SK, but the SK will be able to tank a single better than the warrior can tank 2, 3, or more.

For example, if you ever want to attempt to box high risk LDoNs, it won't happen without a good puller. A warrior puller is going to net you many 4 to 5 mob aggro chains, all hitting for around 990. You won't keep the warrior alive long enough to mezz, nor slow, all of that. The SK will net you singles, with the occasional double if you decide to go with it, through feign pulling.

An SK/shaman/randomDPS can win high risk LDoNs. A warrior/any healer/randomDPS can't even begin to attempt one. The warrior combo can take bigger single mobs, but that's just the problem... you need a way of getting them singled, or at least very thinned depending on how hard the mobs hit. While pacify works good in some areas in the case of a warrior/cleric combo, feign will work in far more.

[Payn]

I currently run war/clr/dru and it works very well, I just use root for cc and truncheon of doom for slows. Oh and I play all 3 on the same box :P I need to save up for some more machines hehe.