Is dual-boxing in late-twenty Battlegrounds a horrible idea?

[khriskin]

I would love to learn to dual-box in the battlegrounds (not Warsong Gulch!), but I'm not sure how many people would descend upon me with sharpened knives for even trying

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[windfury]

Personally I dislike dual boxers in my smaller BGs, they almost always cause or heavily contribute to a loss, as they're pretty easy to take apart if the other teams aren't stupid and provide much less than multiple people filling those same spots would. I tend to afk out when I see it, others probably will give you crap for it, up to you if you can deal with that.

If you do do it I wouldn't suggest shadow priests for low levels, they're not very mobile and are very squishy when they don't have a lot of resilience. Although apparently mind spike > shadow word death spamming shadow priests are effective at higher levels. The only class I've seen really work at lower levels is multiboxed hunters tbh.

[khriskin]

*nods* I have a pair of hunters, but I feel like they are overkill for BGs, just too much ranged firepower in a coordinated strike there. I want to learn to play, not just nuke people from orbit. :P

Figured the priests would be more challenging, but I was also looking for the larger battlegrounds where it would be less of a hobble for my teammates. I was hoping a 15 vs 15 would be okay-- but maybe I should hold out for the 40 vs 40? :)

[windfury]

What level are you talking about, just from the post I assumed it was lower levels and that excludes av?

I *hate* them in WSG, that's where they really noticably lose games. I don't even notice them in AV unless I literally walk into them, I can't think of any I've come across in ab tbh.

And honestly I thouht the whole idea of dual boxing in pvp was to nuke from orbit as fast as possible, any other way and a dual boxer shouldn't win in an otherwise equal match.

[khriskin]

Yeah there is /no way/ I'd try them on a 10 vs 10, there's not enough gold in the world to bribe me to try that! *grin*

I'm 25 now and I was looking at AB, but if a 15/15 is going to be bad, I can put it off until I hit 45-- I just was hoping a 15/15 would give me enough wiggle room that they wouldn't turn on me instantly. :P

And I guess my personal goal for PvP would be to turn the pair into a different use of the same tool-- I wouldn't be as good as two guildie shadow priests playing solo, but I'd be better than two uncoordinated ones (or at least equal).

There's some obvious disadvantages to having one person behind the wheel-- but I'm also putting a lot more time and effort into learning how to play them than I think most of the casual PvPers at this level do? But I'm really not sure on that, since I never played low levels. :(

I figure if I've learned to play them while walking on a treadmill, then I can do just about anything if I put my mind to it! lol :D

[hooves]

AB is a good one because you can stay back at one base (stables or farm depending on faction) and defend, or hit on the offensive and always have a 2nd person-- with extra heals there to back you up.

[khriskin]

I'm going to be putting serious effort into my 'heal not-me' macros when I'm doing my draft of the keybinds-- either the healer targeting addons will see me as a false positive or I'll get my heals in under the radar... either way I figure it will help out the real healers (if there are any)! :D

But priests are pretty squishy... maybe I just need to find someone on Shandris to dual with until I've got the hang of it. lol