Question - Thinking about 3 or 4 boxing

[taz6two]

Currently have a shaman and a warrior team. What would be most effective for progression. I am thinking of three or four boxing. Was thinking mage but already have a tank... maybe cleric and wizard? Or enchanter and wizard?

 

[Sic]

Currently have a shaman and a warrior team. What would be most effective for progression. I am thinking of three or four boxing. Was thinking mage but already have a tank... maybe cleric and wizard? Or enchanter and wizard?

shammies can do solo heal duties (especially outside of TBL), but i would recommend a CC (bard for melee dps, and enchanter for CC)

 

[edsarto]

Currently have a shaman and a warrior team. What would be most effective for progression. I am thinking of three or four boxing. Was thinking mage but already have a tank... maybe cleric and wizard? Or enchanter and wizard?

Bard, Zerker. Shammy can heal easily and although Bard is not as good CC as Chanter, its good enough in most cases with the plus of Melee bonus with DPS and AC and the Zerker just means less time needed to heal the Warrior. You could go Ranger for the added DPS and if you play it well it can be backup CC to the Bard.

 

[LamahHerder]

TLP or Live? What current levels?
Are you using KISS today or something else?

Answer = WAR+SHM+CC+DPS
Best Answer = WAR+SHM+CC+DPS+DPS+DPS
You do not need to gold all those additional, having just the WAR gold is fine and a f2p is going to be better than any merc.

Which CC? I would say BRD, because I love bards...

 

[( @ )( @ )]

CC, I use a bard. But that's me.

 

[wymranar]

I started out with the exact same combo. I ended up adding a MNK for dps/pulling when necessary.

It came in pretty handy for missions like darkness howls or unmezzable mobs/giants. For progression I was definitely missing legit crowd control, as the SHM pint abilities weren’t cutting it.

I will say if you add 1 or 2, it won’t be long before you finish out the group. I think that’s what 85% of people that start boxing end up doing here anyway.

 

[wymranar]

The SHM can solo heal anything really, and mine almost always beats my clerics out on the heal parse with just squalls/renewal/lion.

I eventually followed Tuco’s (guy from the daybreak forums) advice and added another priest, and I’ve been pretty happy with my decision.

I do think with two priests that eventually a will run into a dps check, and I’ll probably level a BER on one of their accounts for such an event in the future.

 

[unhing3d]

Currently have a shaman and a warrior team. What would be most effective for progression. I am thinking of three or four boxing. Was thinking mage but already have a tank... maybe cleric and wizard? Or enchanter and wizard?

i started with a 3 box sk,brd,sham then added a zerker then finally cut the merc cord and went 6 box with sk,shm,brd,mag,zerk,zerk. It’s honestly more fun and for just the cost of a night out once a month there’s so much fun to be had running around with 6 toons. I use isboxer to keep my clients in order with my two monitors and it works great! no issues with mq2. I’m busy maxing my AAs up to 110 and as soon as that’s done i’m gonna start on the last few expansions and tick those boxes.

I’d seriously consider 4 more toons even if you keep them F2P they’re better than those mercs

 

[Mighty]

Zerker, Zerker, Zerker

 

[taz6two]

Sorry, was out of pocket for the last couple of days.

@Sic - thanks for bard/chanter sounds good, I actually grouped with another boxer who had both of these in his 4 toon setup. He loves the bard.

@edsarto - I am always wanted to try the Zerkers

@LamahHerder - Live server, both almost 110 and Gold. SHM has about 19k AA, War about 13k AA, I use KA11 and kissini ever 5 levels (though it seems to mess the conditions up). Everyone seems to love the bard, I am definitely going to add one

@( @ )( @ ) - Thanks, another vote for bard.

@wymranar - I love my Monk, need to revive him. HMM Monk/Bard maybe

@unhing3d - Thanks for your thoughts - 6 toons for the cost of a night out... does sound do able. I see you also have a bard on your team. I think i will stick to 4 for now, since i only started playing 2 box a short time ago. I also tend to still group with others, but I have always loved solo'ing and a 6 box team would be solo with all the help one needs.

@Mighty - so a Druid huh? =P

Thank you all for you responses. I am thinking Bard/Zerker might be the right way to go for now.

 

[unhing3d]

Sorry, was out of pocket for the last couple of days.

@Sic - thanks for bard/chanter sounds good, I actually grouped with another boxer who had both of these in his 4 toon setup. He loves the bard.

@edsarto - I am always wanted to try the Zerkers

@LamahHerder - Live server, both almost 110 and Gold. SHM has about 19k AA, War about 13k AA, I use KA11 and kissini ever 5 levels (though it seems to mess the conditions up). Everyone seems to love the bard, I am definitely going to add one

@( @ )( @ ) - Thanks, another vote for bard.

@wymranar - I love my Monk, need to revive him. HMM Monk/Bard maybe

@unhing3d - Thanks for your thoughts - 6 toons for the cost of a night out... does sound do able. I see you also have a bard on your team. I think i will stick to 4 for now, since i only started playing 2 box a short time ago. I also tend to still group with others, but I have always loved solo'ing and a 6 box team would be solo with all the help one needs.

@Mighty - so a Druid huh? =P

Thank you all for you responses. I am thinking Bard/Zerker might be the right way to go for now.

I actually started with the Bard as my main so I build a melee DPS 6 box group around it, I think it's suggested to have an Enc if you have a caster based one though. But the bard is outstanding at CC i've never once had an issue even 4 pulls get the brakes put on pretty fast

 

[MrPatate]

Which xpac are you on?
Asking because TBL required some heavy heals due to AE from nameds, easier to heal in ToV for exemple.

 

[taz6two]

I have the latest, ToV but I have been hanging out in EoK (the 105 one) a lot. Was thinking of starting progression from SoF unless there is something I need from before then. Hell my favorite was PoP back in the day.... so much good content, I am almost sad that I rushed to the the 100's so fast, maybe I skipped to much.

 

[Killertoxin]

I run a warrior, cleric, bard, mage x2 rogue mercs ill be adding in a wiz and zerker in the near future.

 

[eqgeek]

Well if you have a tank, a mage is always a good back up tank in the event he goes down. My formula is usually:

Tank + Crowd Control + DPS with Portability (Wiz or mage) + DPS

If you 3 box, I'd do a Warrior, Shaman, and probably a big time DPS + CC which would be an Enchanter.

If you 4 box go Warrior, Shaman, Enchanter, Mage

Keep in mind that if you use kiss, watching someone 4 box melee very well always looks suspicious, but casters always look like you just hit /assist plus a bunch of macros that cast. Use the enchanter to pull to the tank, then go to town.

 

[taz6two]

Right now I’m running a zerker, cleric, bard and mage. It’s been a lot of fun thus far.

@eqgeek good point on the suspiciousness.... I was getting paranoid in the newbie areas. Need to head out to less popular zones. Also probably need to space out my assist at XX better.

 

[RoaringLion]

Currently have a shaman and a warrior team. What would be most effective for progression. I am thinking of three or four boxing. Was thinking mage but already have a tank... maybe cleric and wizard? Or enchanter and wizard?

Little late to this thread, I'd vote Bard however.

What did you end up going with?

 

[dealings]

chanter in tov lets anyone tank even trains ae stun ae mez ftw
so you have warr shm add a chanter (who incidentally some seem to squeeze out some great dps out of) for the 3rd slot
can go bard instead of chanter if you are can mix in some finesse pulling w some lesser cc
lastly if you have a shm and bard its the law u have to have a zerker
oh ya truly the last thing, just cause u make a heroic of any of those classes dont expect to beat EQ , xp, aa, gear, achievements........ go a long way

 

[fohpo]

If you ever plan on going past 3 box, if melee go bard - if caster go enc (I have both in my caster team because I can't live without a bard).

 

[RoaringLion]

If you ever plan on going past 3 box, if melee go bard - if caster go enc (I have both in my caster team because I can't live without a bard).

In the early expansions Enchanters are over powered and provide immense benefits to your group due to charm, haste, clarity, slows, debuffs, etc... In latter expansions Enchanter provides awesome benefits to a group full of casters. Nevertheless, there are a few expansions in between, maybe after PoP and before DoDh, where it is just outright better to have a bard in all situations due to Enchanters being grossly underwhelming.

Just my two cents!