Discussion - Boxing a class you don't play? (1 Viewer)

[arcreactorkc]

As I am expanding my box group I find myself adding classes I have never played before.

In the early days I played just my wood elf druid. When I came back to the game I started playing Magician as I really liked the idea of a pet class.

As I decided I needed to box to achieve my goals I added a rogue specifically for the lockpicking ability to help my mage get his epic.
Then I expanded the group to a shaman for heals as I didn't have one in the group and didn't want to rely on a merc for heals.

I have never fully driven the shaman or the rogue, I have used RGMercs to run them 99% of the time. The only time I have ever driven the rogue was to build lockpicking skill and then to get my mage into where he needed for an epic item.
After completing the mage epic I shifted gears and created a shadow knight so the group had a full tank replacing my mage. The shadow knight was new to me but I picked it up really quickly, still having no idea how to play rogue or the shaman.

I'm now adding a bard, again using rgmercs to control him and never driving manually, I spend almost all my time driving the SK to pull mobs and travel.

Do others also have classes they are unfamiliar with in their group?

 

[knave23]

 

[Shadow]

Most of us have classes that we are unfamiliar with because we continue to use amazing plugins put out by the CWTN team @ChatWithThisName and @Sic particularly. Of the classes I box, I am unfamiliar with:

DRU, WIZ, PAL, ENC, BST, BER. I have a little bit of knowledge about these classes, but would not be effective if I played them manually. The best part? I don't have to thank to the above.

 

[postleaf]

I don't know how to play any of the classes really. I'm just the team manager

 

[Avian]

Healer classes. I just find main healing boring, so I only ever learned them to the extent that I needed to to play them passably with hotkeys. I got pretty good with shaman by hand as it was my healer for my primary group when I was still boxing entirely by hand, but druid and cleric? Meh.

So if anyone ever finds themselves in a group with me healing, just know I am phoning it in and you are super dead.

 

[Robban]

I don't know how to play any of the classes really. I'm just the team manager

100%, except maybe my warr.

But anything I know about the other classes I learned from watching what plugins/macros/Lua does with them...

 

[Doc James]

Nope it's just you. Kidding....I think everyone goes through this.

 

[Algar]

I'm adding one as we speak.

At first I was worried about setting up hotbars/etc but I suspect seeing other people's expertise expressed in boolean is better than a lot of information I would get elsewhere and will provide a solid foundation to grow from.

Too much time on my hands and this community will likely provide the rest of what I need if I wanted to play the class outright. I would like to be able to drive any of them at any time in any capacity.

 

[Myysterio]

every character I have started other than my wizard has been a class I never really played but was only familiar with. However, I dont accept not knowing how they act and learn the class. The exception I would have to say is zerker cause zerkers are just different rogues and serve no real purpose other than being a different rogue/monk with less utility. I don't own a zerker, I just box them cause people in my guild love them for some reason and i have access to a lot of accounts.

 

[fuggun]

Honestly. I'm necro only, I've always soloed. So, now I drive with sk. Necro with AC. Being able to manage group without learning every class is only reason I'm playing again. Not enough time. Somewhere I grew up and accumulated alot of responsibilities. My bad..... I blame life.

 

[Silverback]

Watching CWTN in action actually taught me how to play a couple of classes heh.

 

[hackzimus]

I typically run KA, I have had to manually run the toons I want in my group a bit and study them to build their ini's. Usually I spent a few nights grinding with the rest of the group on auto, set up my UI and mash keys etc then I build the INI to reflect what I'm doing.

One benefit to doing this, when we do alt raids I can just log a toon in and be ready to rock to fill whatever role is needed without much fuss.

My DPS classes usually rock 70-80% of the dps I can pull manually which is my guideline and the healers are set to be super reactive. I drive my SK usually.

 

[Atomic Bomb]

Boxing character I've never played defiantly made me learn a lot more about them, forced me to learn enough to make them work with KA
Bard, Cleric,Rogue,Berserker

 

[blahblahblah84]

Yes, it's hard to be familiar with them, since I have every different class in my various groups. I muddle though with the help of posted .Ini files. I'm sure nothing is optimized, but my groups mostly do ok.

 

[Trixster28]

I am learning my bst, sham, monk and sk as I go, I know the ranger and bard well.

 

[delfnec]

I don't know how to play any of the classes really. I'm just the team manager

Yah, commander

 

[bractos45]

What I did when starting with a new class; is watch what the INI / CWTN / RGMercs is using on said class. You'll start to notice a rotation of abilities. Then you can create hot buttons based around that to play manually. If your entire group is "botted" pick a random class to just pay attention to, then you can start to drive them yourself. Great way to avoid boredom so you're not just pressing auto-attack on your SK a million times over. One of my favorite classes to pilot (which before CWTNs plugins I had no experience with) is Enchanter. Keeping buffs up while locking down mobs is incredibly satisfying.

Basically use MQ2 as your own "real-time tutor".