What got you into multiboxing?

[FtGeno]

Everybody has a starting point, some catalyst that causes them to go "Hmm", and they begin to explore and learn. For me that catalyst was Ellay and his gang. We happen to be in the same battlegroup (Reckoning) and while playing my belf hunter in AV I go in to check Iceblood tower to make sure it is secure. Lo and behind what do I see?, four identical shaman standing amidst a totem farm. They were all the same race and shared the same (or very similar gear) and names, Aelli, Aellie, etc; So I figure I wanna hang out with this guy for a while and just shoot at whatever he targets. Umm, where is it? Everything he targeted just exploded. I was impressed to say the least.

Rather than pester him with dumb questions while he was busy detonating Alliance I figured I'd follow him for a bit more and watch, try to pick up on a few things. I figured the obvious; single keyboard with either multiple monitors/windows and lots of keybinds and macros. After the game I googled 'dual boxing' and found this site thus beginning my journey. I decided to go Horde because hey, that's where the cool people go amirite? I decided on mages because my first character was a mage so I have good familiarity with the class and to top it off they're getting some nice buffs in WotLK. I can't wait to see the kids at 80.

[Coltimar]

I started out dual-boxing my pally and priest a few years back. No macros just two windowed copies of WoW running. I saw a video of Bradster and his priest + locks. I started tri-boxing when my lock hit 60 but it was getting really hard, so I hit the web. Google turned up this site ^^

[Xinxo]

I honestly can't remember why I started. All I remember is I went from 2 to 5 in about a week....

[sqeaky4100]

1) Ellay's video

2) After watching Ellay's video. I got pwned by some 5boxer in AV.

Dabbled into it, but didn't have the machine to do it. Once I upgraded I started right away

[Solon]

The whiners in the suggestion forums at worldofwarcraft.com made me want to. If anything bothered those nearly illiterate retards that much, I needed to take part. Solo play in WoW is too easy, and group play is too hard (I need to be able to afk instantly for extended periods or frequently). 5-boxing is a great compromise.

[Pardall]

The first day I reached 70, with my first char, I took this SS in an AV:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9902/thezergencounteromggl2.jpg

I had no idea what it was, I thought it was some kind of bug. Like 2 months later my friend gave me 2 youtube links, "You HAVE to watch this". The video was from that 5-draenei shaman doing Heroic Sethek Halls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDwawWr2yQ . That amazed me so much, I thought all the possibilites of farming, etc (what I like most in WOW). But, this time I had no idea of what to do. I searched on Google but couldn't find any good solution for me other than multi-hardware.

I then gave up the idea, when like 2 months ago I decided again to search for "multiboxing" on YouTube, found Veronikka's videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8ocQNj7l0 - and some other videos that took me to this site. And here I am.

[Hat]

Warcraft is boring end game. I needed a challenge. I would've given it up. But people on the forums complained too loud about multiboxers, so, I looked up what multiboxing meant, and voila. I was hooked.

[Bradster]

I ran with a static group of friends (4 others). Played many games. They slowly left for other things. Which left me by myself at the end. Tried getting them in to boxing, all of which would like to but have too much going on like school or between jobs and such so it never happened.

Wow started to get boring, I needed something to spice it up so I started 2 boxing my Sham and War. That lasted about a week when I thought man 5 would be nice. I wonder if that 5 boxing Xzin guy will share with me his setup, perhaps I can do that! I think I was the 14th member on this site. There was only a handful of about 4 boxers out there, I proudly became the next one.

Damn fun run, really cool to be apart of it. now i'm between games, playing with two out of 4 friends in EQ2 just 2 boxing atm with them. Just enjoying their company holding out for Blizzard to hopfullyl switch stances on BG and arean stuff. If not so far i'm enjoying myself in EQ2. Lacks a little excitment with being on a PVE server (1 friend is almost at level cap and doesn't want to reroll) but even so the content is still pretty cool. hit level 54 this weekend x2 with my old duo. Saw some pretty cool shit this weekend on there.

[Xzin]

I box for the ladies.

[Ellay]

I had no idea my videos were that influential /blush

I started boxing in Everquest because it make it that much easier to enjoy the game since grouping was required to level and exp.

[Psybercop]

I had always boxed to some extent in other games, but never able to do them in unison, until I stumbled across one of Bradsters video's which led me here.

[hardcoded]

Had a blast boxing in eve. Mass farming, mass ownage in small-to-mid scale pvp(support roles don't require a lot of attention, but are massively helpful). I set up two computers specifically so I could mine with 7 accounts with my buddies there.

Played wow with some co-workers with one client, but it didn't compare. Started dual-boxing by mass alt-tab'ing with two clients. Read up here and started dual boxing using keyclone. Tried 3 clients with a trial account, and went to 5 clients on two comptuers using octopus the next week.

[Ishar]

lol. I started boxing in EQ...I don't remember why....probably because solo was so hard in that game. I can't remember if i saw somebody two-boxing first, or just randomly took it upon myself to borrow a friends cleric to heal myself... (Account sharing is much more tolerated in EQ, and it was more a case of 'Ryan is asleep, damnit, let me stretch his keyboard across the dorm room and start healing myself...' than account sharing lol) Eventually i got my own cleric, and then well, 3 followed 2, 4 followed 3, etc. By the time ya get to being almost an entire group, you start wondering, since you end up soloing 99% of the time at that point anyway, why not a full group? And now im completely ruined. 4 out of 5 people i meet i can't stand, and i hardly ever group with anyone. even good friends. multi boxing made me antisocial =(. Or maybe it just enables me to be anti-social...

[Suprem01]

I got into it when I got killed by 5 druids lol. That was the most interesting day.

[offive]

Played the game since beta for 2.5 years (4 solo level 60s Alliance, rolled a undead shadow priest and PvP'd to 16k honor kills a few months prior to TBC, did the raid leader/ GM thing, etc), and then quit for 6 months. Came back just prior to TBC to play that expansion, got 1 toon to 70. Put the game on hold for another few months due to boredom.

I did a very crude / basic box a pally/rogue combo to farm guardian stones in Un’goro prior to TBC. When I saw the Zins, he was my influence to make the full jump to 5 boxing. But I decided on a mixed class PvE group build. Warrior tank for extra pain and suffering (in the current form, I hope wrath fixes that)

RAF has me at 8 accounts now... :/ I wish Bliz had just said here link your accounts you already have! That would have been a very nice nod to boxers. Needless to say now I am working on teams two, three, and four. I have quad boxed Kara with friends, I plan on getting that to 8 boxing dps classes in Wrath end game.

I think I will get maybe one or two teams up to 80, play the end game for a while through the winter and then take another break, as boredom with the game sets in and spring comes. I like being outside so during Spring and Summer, my WoW fix is not as necessary. My PvE motivation will either be bolstered or crushed by Wrath. I think Wintergrasp will be entirely too silly with 8 Elemental Shamans running around (cheers for raid totems).

[Caspian]

Xzin's 5x level 60 mage SM clears (what was it 25-30g an hour you were bragging about, those were the days :rolleyes: ), his screenshots with 5x at a Nef kill and his video of TBC beta Arenas where he 1 shot the pally then crushed the rest of the team.

[Prepared]

I started multiboxing with Diablo 1 in January of 1997. The main reason was so that I could hold more things online at battle.net. The other reason was because I had two computers at home during the time and had two dial up connections to the Internet. I was using my fax line at the time to connect on the 2nd computer. It was kind of hard to control both characters on the two keyboards though. It took a lot of getting used to. Over time, it didn't much matter because almost everyone was using 'God mode' and all kinds of hacks with Diablo 1. This trainer, called the BoBaFeTT trainer which a certain person wrote that I know really closely, allowed players to hack into almost every aspect of the game because the game code that controlled things were inside of players computer memory.

When Everquest was released on March 16, 1999, that began my serious multiboxing. It started with two accounts. I had a necromancer as my main and my alt was a cleric that healed, rezzed or did whatever was needed. Then I found I needed a porter so my druid was born. Then I needed an enchanter to keep things mezzed during battle that had too many mobs around so ... it just kept going on and on. Eventually it got to the point was I had two of some classes. I had two warriors and two bards before I stopped playing Everquest and moved to World of Warcraft.

With WoW, I was going to play just one character, then it kept building up quickly. Before my first character reached level 30, I had a full group of characters leveling and took them all the way to level 70. All of my characters were different classes. Then I started another pack of 4 characters of different classes and leveled them to 70. Then this year, I found out about these forums and the software used to send keystrokes from one keyboard. Once I found out about that, I began thinking about boxxing a lot more like a huge number of shaman. Wasn't sure what the number would be until Recruit-a-friend was announced and decided I was going to start 32 shaman on a PvP realm. Decided it would be the first realm in the list alphabetically, Aegwynn. Then Blizzard announced PvE to PvP transfers were available so I transferred my level 70's over to Aegwynn and split out 4 of those characters to new accounts so they could buff and protect the 32 shaman. So that's where I am now, 36 accounts on World of Warcraft. Then Blizzard announced the release date of Wrath of the Lich King as November 13th. So my goal is to get as close to level 70 on my shamans as possible before then. Right now, they are still level 60. It's taking a long time to get them to level 61 but they should reach it by tomorrow.

[Stealthy]

On my old server (Blackrock) came accross a guy running a mage / preist combo farming mobs in Blasted Lands...thought it looked cool, googled dual boxing, found the site and decided pretty quickly I wanted to 5-box. :P

Cheers,

S.

[cvt]

Pre-BC for me, started on a pvp server where levelling was always alliance in groups of 2 or 3, and horde solo.
second toon round, I dual-boxed. but I only did it accasionally and for levelling.
quit the game, came back, 9 months later cleared bt, got bored, stopped raiding, twink helped fill time, but that also got boring, so I started tri-boxing (2 weeks ago?).
3 of the same class quickly became pointlessly boring, so started 3 different classes, loving it, finally a challenge in the oversimplified WoW. Had/have a couple trials for 5 boxing, 5 different classes, was good, but I constantly play with another person, now a dual-boxer.

So I suppose, the search for something in the game that wasn't ez-mode.

[shaeman]

I heard about Zin a couple of years ago and thought it sounded pretty cool but didn't want the hassles of setting things up from a hardware sense.

I used to frequent a warlock site- wowmb and someone put on some screen shots of their 4 or 5 lock team. May have been a video. Dual boxing got mentioned in the thread and I checked it out, and book marked the site.

Over a period of time most of the people I played with left my guild, swapped to alliance or quit playing etc and I went from running a guild that was preparing to start raiding to not even having enough people to do a 5 man.

I spent a while going through the motions - trying to find fun in wow. Levelled a third 70 and then remembered dual boxing.

Played around with it, mainly boosting other characters of mine - then got seriously commited to it with the advent of RAF.

I took the opportunity to level an alliance team so I could meet up with those friends of mine that left for the alliance side - so oddly multiboxing has resurrected the social side of the game.

I will be levelling another alliance team - I'm sorely tempted to go for 4 shaman to make my beloved 1 pally 4 shaman team but on the alliance side, but am also considering playing a hunter, warlock and priest and RAFing up a shaman so i have a number of classes I can solo play with (and so I can try some 5 class multiboxing fun).

[Ken]

Mostly because it made more content more accessible to me and because it was something new that seemed to be worth trying out. (I got a bit bored after getting my first character to 70)

[mmcookies]

I made the mistake of picking paladin as my main's class when I started six months after original WoW's release.
As anyone back then can tell you, paladin gameplay action was MINIMAL.
Hell, there was even a brilliant post on the pally forums satirizing the class design as based around being able to play one handed while downloading and watching hot lesbian porn.

But eventually, even excellent pr0n can't keep me interested so I went away on hiatus until TBC.
The thing is, I am very loyal to my designated main (who's still my main in 5-boxing today).
So the second time I came back, I had to keep playing her, but quickly got bored, so I decided to dual-box with a priest in tow.
Together, they did some impressive things together, and kept my interest for about six months.
(To be fair, I've been playing MMOs for 10 years now, so I often take time away from games)

Really, after you start dual-boxing it becomes a slippery slope.

This time, I came back in anticipation of WotLK, and decided to go all out and 5-box.

[Jamien]

Some wanker called Tastyheals kept ganking me with his priest/mage group, so I started up a shaman group to get him back.

Now I get him to gank hordies for me! :D
<3 tasty

[Deekhay]

All of these are the reasons why I multibox :)

1 - Been playing WoW since 2005, always had two accounts, used one to rush toons on the other. The will was there just didn't know how to "express" it (aka knew this site ;))

2 - Played with some friends, they left, I stayed, never wanted to join a guild, lots of pugs, mostly very bad experiences...

3 - Decided to join pve raiding guild, felt worst than a job and people disappointed me so much... left... back to pugs.

4 - Lots of pugs, mostly very bad experiences...

5 - Created pvp guild, awesome experience with grown up people :). Most just couldn't stand the need to level to 70, mostly due to rl issues. We stopped, created pve raiding guild with the core from the pvp guild.

6 - We needed more people to raid... unfortunately. People too greedy, undisciplined, very bad experience, the guild management absorbed 60% of my game time and it wasn't fun although the advacement was great.

7 - Stopped playing for 5 months, cancelled both accounts.

8 - Reached dual-boxing.com. WoW is a new game :). Started 5 boxing and now first steps on 10 boxing. This is my game.

[ss2]

I used to multibox in lineage 2 with 3-4 characters, along with friends who would do 2-3, mostly because we wanted to level our characters but the population in that game was very blah. Doing something alone that would normally take several people gave me a "high" that can only be fixed by more multiboxing, playing just 1 character is a drag now

[Spatulor]

I'd known about multiboxing for about a year (I think) before I started. What tipped it off was seeing 5 alliance mages in AV when i was killing some time with my paladin. Unfortunately, the game ended RIGHT as they dismounted and I hit them with an Arcane Torrent. At the time, I was fairly confident I'd be able to take them. Now....not so much. I'm pretty sure one volley of fire blasts would have dropped me. (My pally's got solid prot gear, but I BG as ret - in greens - for kicks)

That, however, was the moment I went "Hmm. I wonder." I spent about a week experimenting, researching, and learning with friend's accounts and trial accounts to see if my computer could handle it, and just what I was getting myself into. Then I went out and got 4 more accounts, and went right from solo play to 5boxing. Now my boys (5x orc shaman <Crew>) are level 63, and I should get 64 tomorrow. I've learned a lot already, and multiboxing's made wow fun again. I was right on the verge of quitting.

[Fat Tire]

I started boxing in EverQuest about 1-2 months after it came out. It was 2-boxing at first and I would put 1 character in the EC commons tunnel so I could buy/sell/trade and the other I would do dungeons and grinding kills. People often forget that EQ had only very few quests. Once the Bazaar came out with luclin it became easier,however, I really never liked it and missed the EC tunnel very much. Do you guys remember when you would get alot of gold and couldnt move? Trying to make it to the bank weighed down with gold begging for a SOW. Ahh the good old days.... I eventually moved up to 5 boxing EQ 4 me+1 wife. Doing the same with WOW just started doing it a little later.

[Steph]

I had 12 Ultima Online accounts. These were back in the day primarily to hold player houses. I also used those to do things like train magic resist, which was done by having the trainee on a ship, healed by one or two other chars - there was not threat in UO - while at least one, but better a couple of mages summoned demons and told them to attack the trainee. Since there was no path for the demons to walk to the trainee, they cast their spells at the trainee. That was something that I could and did do by myself or for guildmates.

In WoW, my primary character was originally a paladin, then a protection warrior in MC times and from then onward. A protection warrior couldn't really kill anything in a reasonable time alone back in the day. While I had a bunch of alts, there was also stuff - like rep - that I wanted for my warrior without respecing each time. So I added a char that I put on follow and controlled with the extra buttons on the mouse of that PC. Then I read Xzin: the man with ten arms ('http://www.wowinsider.com/2006/12/15/interview-with-xzin-the-man-with-ten-arms/') and considered that. That article was published in mid December 2006. In February 2007 I had my rig together and started boxing my first team in WoW, which was 3xwarlock,1xmage and 1x priest. Just before season 4 start, I hit 70 on four shamans and PvPed a lot with them in BGs and Arena. Just now I am RAFing 4xhunters to 60 and will do 4xdruids just after that in preparation for WotlK.

[echo]

Lotus' 5 draenei shaman on Alliance/whisperwind. Saw him as I was leveling my rogue in BEM. Didnt think too much of it at first. Honestly wasnt educated or heard/saw anything about multiboxing at all (no videos/stories/forum threads/etc.) so thought it was a bot or something. So I just went along and did my own thing killing raptors and spiders and paid him no attention. Lotus came by me and kept healing me x5, which was awesome. So I sent him a tell saying thank you and we started to :) talk. So I asked him what he's doing and he referred me to this site; rest is history.

moral of the story: Acts of kindness and a civil manner wins people over. :)

[Rin]

I started boxing in EverQuest about 1-2 months after it came out. It was 2-boxing at first and I would put 1 character in the EC commons tunnel so I could buy/sell/trade and the other I would do dungeons and grinding kills. People often forget that EQ had only very few quests. Once the Bazaar came out with luclin it became easier,however, I really never liked it and missed the EC tunnel very much. Do you guys remember when you would get alot of gold and couldnt move? Trying to make it to the bank weighed down with gold begging for a SOW. Ahh the good old days.... I eventually moved up to 5 boxing EQ 4 me+1 wife. Doing the same with WOW just started doing it a little later.

I too started boxing on EverQuest (fights were a lot slower in EQ as compared to WoW... I was boxing with individual computers, no synchronization, etc. It worked for the time and was a ton of fun). The reason why I started boxing was because I was bored with one character. Having one character to me is simply the easy mode in a game, and from my personal experience - leads to burn out. There's only so many points and things you can do as one single character. As multiple characters, hundreds of doors unlocked for me (I was able to farm, solo 'end-game' content, keep items for myself without worrying about /roll(ing), etc.) these positive benefits are the reason why I multibox. That, and of course being able to 1-2 shot anyone in WoW is always a boon.

I find multiboxing to be challenging as well, I'm always developing strategies as to how I can accomplish x or y. There's a lot of things that we as multiboxers can accomplish, but haven't bothered with yet. I hope to change that, and I know there are several of you who will be doing the same.

[Bigfish]

Initially, it was because I played a hunter, and getting groups as a hunter back in the day was pretty hard, since traps were largely different and other DPS classes tended to do things better. (ie, they could CC better and DPS harder) So when my wife got me a laptop, I put WoW on it, and leveled a Shaman thinking I could use her to piggy-back my way in to groups. Didn't quite work as planned, and so I put up an older computer I had lying around and leveled a Warrior to take advantage of the tank shortage. Again, no dice. So I finally said "screw it", bought 2 more computers, and ran my own party of 5 hunters. It worked out ok until 60, when things got kinda iffy, but then BC was just around the corner, so I set up a 5 man group of a shaman, paladin, mage, priest, and druid and haven't looked back since.

Now I've got a 70 of every class, and full intentions of 10-boxing WotLK.

[suprafro]

RAF

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I multiboxed in DAoC for a couple years, though alt+tab multiboxing and not true synchronized multiboxing as it exists today. So after about 9 months of solo WoW and 3 60s, I got bored and went back to DAoC for another 6 months or so. Once I got bored with DAoC again, I came back and started 4-boxing WoW with a buddy of mine. Did that for about a year until I found this forum and the news about the Zerg starting up on Mag and moved over there.

[aNiMaL]

Why did I start multiboxing?
A question asked in /w's a lot aswell.
My usual /w answer is "I saw it in a movie, tried it with 4 trials and I couldn't stop myself buying the accounts after 10 days"

Teh details:

Hmm, I'm not even sure, I saw a movie online, I think it's that SH heroic movie mentioned earlier.
Then I scouted it out on on my (OMG)gf's(NOOO) account,
I was so excited I forgot about the bannable thingy,
Both accounts had a lvl 60 shammy already, so I zergrushed to 70 and just did a bit of dailies, nothing special.
Then my gf decided to give up on our relation and the money I was saving for the surprise holiday to Canada had to be wasted on something I did love.

My Quinbox was born.

And they happily live ever after. \o/


Note: I've always been a "gamer geek", so this just had to happen at some point in life.

[bugilt]

Xzin's 4 mage 1 priest arenas got me all hot and bothered. I wanted to do it so bad, but things just weren't right for me. Once the multicore cpus started coming out I knew it was time. I never thought I'd get as far as I did with how much I hated leveling. Once I felt the power the leveling didn't seem so bad.

[Kaynin]

When I was leveling a character, I saw 5 hunters in a train in Ashenvale. Some time after I saw the in Ungoro, then I saw them in Hellfire again. Until I saw him in Orgrimmar. And I asked what it was. He explained. I was like, omg so cool.

Three months or so after that, I had two accounts in my name. I browsed a bit, got autohotbey and started dualboxing for the fun of it. I was surprised to how hard it was to dualbox (the first time). It was very intense.

Then I saw some movies of how quad boxing shamans were doing good in PvP as well as PvE, and shamans are my favorite class. So I started quad-boxing as well.

Some of the movies of Veronika pushed me into buying more accounts.

[zanthor]

I had a 60 rogue, started a priest on a new account since we were constantly short heals in my raiding guild...

As I leveled I realized it was a huge pain in the ass so I started coming up with a custom UI mod based off whispercast to make it easier... pretty soon I had it setup so I just had to [Self Edit: Voilation of Site TOS to describe more of the naughty stuff]... anyhow with 2.0 releasing and the UI locking down a lot harder, I quit being naughty and started learning to 3 box... I used two machines, maximizer, and lots of mouse focus action flipping between clients quickly and button smashing...

One day I mentioned to a friend how awesome it would be to have a keyboard hook application that replicated your keys... did a quick search, found nothing... figured I'd code something someday...

A few months later I stumbled on Dual-Boxing.com... found Keyclone... wow... amazing...

Now I have 7 accounts total, closing two shortly for Lich Kings release, but my 5 box shamans will be rocking at 70 soon, my pally/mage/mage/priest/priest team is to be permanently retired and I'll probably level individuals up to 80 to balance the team optimally.

[Gurk]

I have 2 boxed for a long time in EQ. I used to just alt-tab between my warrior and druid.

In WoW I was happy with single boxing until Aellie owned my 5v5 team 4 times in a row back in season 2 or 3. At first I was mad and felt mad because I knew they were using some sort of software or hardware but I had no clue what. Then RAF came out and I decided "If you can't beat them, join them"

On a side note, about these forums. I saw a post about Vyndree making all those clear computers on www.hardocp.com, which linked back to these forums. The funny part is I managed to read that whole thread without even know what this site was about. All I was thinking was "Cool and cute girl making computers!". It wasn't till much later I found this site via a youtube video.

[Aethon]

I'll be honest, I dual boxed without realizing it some years ago. Just macros and 2 computers (and a lot of back and forth switching).

Then I got bored and wanted a 60 warlock, so I paid for powerleveling (and got banned on that account)

After that, another year or so later I was again bored of the characters I had and started botting. I botted to fairly a high level(never farmed mats/primals or anything) but got banned in the May 20th wave earlier this year.

After that, I figured since I'm starting fresh, might as well give multiboxing a chance. Checked out the website, learned a lot of info and gave it a go. Went up to 5 when they started the new RaF bonuses.

Haven't been disappointed yet!

[Skuggomann]

I box for the ladies.
O, Yeeea!


Also i started boxing to inpress Xzin :love:





 

[Hor]

It all started just after the release of Shadows of Luclin for EQ, I was playing a Shaman in a raiding guild on Tarew Marr. Several of our tanks started boxing, they were all adding Clerics to the raid as their personal healers. At the time I was living with some hippies in Connecticut, so when one of those friends was gone with his girlfriend for a couple of weeks, I decided to log on his SK and see how it worked. It was to be the first crude steps of boxing that got me started, I had a keyboard in my lap, and another on the desk. And two mice side by side. It worked alright, but obviously not that efficient. Later, I had a rogue of my own and started boxing him with my Shaman. By the time I met Sam I had rerolled on Sullon Zek with some friends of mine from Utah. We all made a group of characters together, and by that point I had a computer that was easilly capable of running multiple clients at once. So, I started playing a Gnome Wizard and Enchanter. One day, I see these Dark Elves, a whole group of them. And they're all named Samsomethingorother. And I did what most people do when confronted by such a sight. I said wtf, my roommate explained to me who the Sams were. Eventually, we did some pug raids in those last days of Sullon together. We were levelling and killing, then WoW came out ... and there was no one left to kill. I held off on playing WoW for a while, because no Death Knights, and I just wasn't impressed initially from the Beta. Eventually, the Utah people convinced me to play WoW, I played/raided as several different classes. It seems like over the past 2-3 years I keep rerolling and levelling quick, getting gear quick, getting bored quick. Then repeating the process. Then one day I noticed the RAF ad on the wow site, and I started thinking ... what if I just made my own group? I made my first group and haven't looked back. I've made other toons/groups since then just to milk RAF for all it's worth. But honestly, I don't miss solo play, I was at the point of really having to convince myself to play at all, and boxing changed that. It made the game fun again, boxing means never having to say LFG. And I like that.

[Ruodhaid]

Xzin´s moies and screenshots from level 60, made me want to try it, when i had the money for it, was the same time This ('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5brtLZbXYE') was released so i didet make mages as i wantet to but did the shaman thingy and it has been an awnsome ride :)

[Pippin]

I heard about Zin a couple of years ago and thought it sounded pretty cool but didn't want the hassles of setting things up from a hardware sense.

I used to frequent a warlock site- wowmb and someone put on some screen shots of their 4 or 5 lock team. May have been a video. Dual boxing got mentioned in the thread and I checked it out, and book marked the site.

Over a period of time most of the people I played with left my guild, swapped to alliance or quit playing etc and I went from running a guild that was preparing to start raiding to not even having enough people to do a 5 man.

I spent a while going through the motions - trying to find fun in wow. Levelled a third 70 and then remembered dual boxing.

Played around with it, mainly boosting other characters of mine - then got seriously commited to it with the advent of RAF.

I took the opportunity to level an alliance team so I could meet up with those friends of mine that left for the alliance side - so oddly multiboxing has resurrected the social side of the game.

I will be levelling another alliance team - I'm sorely tempted to go for 4 shaman to make my beloved 1 pally 4 shaman team but on the alliance side, but am also considering playing a hunter, warlock and priest and RAFing up a shaman so i have a number of classes I can solo play with (and so I can try some 5 class multiboxing fun).

That might have been me :) I am on that site all day long, everyday and posted a three box lock team I had at the time.

I use to box in SWG and WOW also but was running it in windowed mode and was litterly alt tabbing. Was very frustrating. I found a video I think on youtube of Bradster and that led me here and that lead me to the love of my life. Keyclone. lol

[Jheusse]

I dual boxed in DAoC, Like a fool my original main was a bard. Fun support class, hit like a little girl with both arms broken. After not getting to max level for a year because I was dependent on others to level, I created a second char to tinker with on a separate account, this was an animist. Being able to solo level effectively and fast was a huge change, I was stunned. Then I started running them together with follow, done manually. I switched from two keyboard and mice to a kvm with a pushbutton swap, my bard had the fountains of healing, and catacombs was out, so I started duo farming named mobs and selling the stuff. I was able to rack up a good bit of money and have fun. Never was all that good at RvR, though I had lots of fun with BG toons. My bard main and then later my druid brought up with /level did time as buffbots.

I actually ran into dual boxing when I was reading the public forums at Elitist Jerks. My raiding feral was slightly stalled because my RL doesn't allow a major time commitment to raid in, the raid time commitment ramps up in T5. I was trying to find tricks and tips to get my alts leveled a little faster, and then they started talking about RAF, then about multiboxing, then I followed a link. And here I am, climbing the level curve a lot faster than the learning curve.

[sicsid]

I saw videos of Xin and his warlords back in the day. I was at the time, dual boxing my roomies old acct on 2 pcs, 2 keyboards. Its kinda hard to do that, took a break from that for a bit. Then i saw some videos about a year later with shamans in AV. I was hooked again, this time i did more research, found this site, fell in love with MBing.

Its great!

[Marious]

Got Ganked multiple times on my 70's while doing dailies at the Isle, he was a multiboxer, he was multiboxing shaman, more then likely he is one of you guys that plays on Daggerspine. Now I do not go out of my way to kill hordies with my MB team they tend to be the ones that like to get at me and then I have to show them a thing or two and annialate them, they are so used to having no Alliance MBers but now I am there and watch out if you get in my way because you will get steam rolled. Now I have nothing against the shaman MBer but once I get up there with my team and I find him we gonna have some fun!

I only tri box, but have 4 accounts this morning I was thinking I am going to go full out 5 and screw the LFG channel and all that lameness. I do not know of any alliance boxers on Daggerspine other than me, well I did see some dual boxers but no more than that. When and if I get my 5th I think I will be the first but I could be wrong. So far its loads of fun and make the class I dont like to level easier to "bear" get it a play on words I am leveling a druid, and normally I cant stand them but with triboxing its bearable (there I go agian) Ok I'll stop before I see a tomato come my way.

[Rudi89]

I dual-boxed a bit in EVE and WoW, although I didn't call it that at the time. ;) That along with seeing the Xzin articles on WoW Insider got me my first exposure to it. Then last year my wonderful daughter was born and my raiding time became drastically, drastically reduced. Raiding was what I loved doing in WoW as I hate leveling and find PvP too twitch-oriented (I like doing the PvE puzzle encounters, if you will). Then the Recruit-a-Friend promotion came out and I decided to level a mixed group so I could solo 5-mans. Now that I'm actually able to start getting into instances it's been excellent: a real PvE solo challenge.

[FabFive]

I ran across this site with an interview with Xzin was amazed at what one person could pull off and needless to say the team was born that night.

[Chester]

I was doing the dailies with 4 other toons on follow. 4 others in my family had stopped playing so kept thier accounts going, found it a way to make some gold in less time. Then one day as I was doing my dailies in this fashion, I saw 5 shaman doing the same thing, they were being controlled and not just on follow. I was impressed, and thought if there was anyway I could do that I was going to. It sure would make doing dailies much easier. This all in an effort to support my raiding I did 5 days a week 5 hours a day.

Then I discovered this site and keyclone. I started a group with dailies in mind once I hit 70. My raiding guild fell apart, and I was lost. Than after reading how you could do instances and people were pvping my goals quickly changed. Then raf happened about a month later, I started my original team over on my own accounts and made a few more teams. I now have 4 teams in the outlands working thier way towards 70. A pally tank, 4x shaman. A shadow priest and 4x locks. 3 mages, pally tank, and a shadow priest, and 5 hunters because I want to tame everything.

[Jaws5]

Pugs and players going afk, time management issues.

5 boxing fixed it all.

[pinotnoir]

No time to raid anymore and my guild transfered from azshara to magtheridon. I always wanted to multibox and never had time cause I was raiding. Once I couldnt raid I had two choices. Quit the game or multibox. Well I am 5boxing now but the game is getting boring again. The expansion should keep me interested but I may grow tired of the eternal grind and give up.

[Tasty]

Some wanker called Tastyheals kept ganking me with his priest/mage group, so I started up a shaman group to get him back.

Now I get him to gank hordies for me! :D
<3 tastyGlad I helped ;)

How/why did I get started? The first time I tried to dual-box was ages ago. I thought, I"ll make two copies of wow and logon at the same time! It wouldn't let me lol :P (/durr) At that point in time I was unemployed so buying another account was out of the question. Eventually, later on I stumbled upon Keyclones five mage video and furthermore discovered this site lol :) - the best online community ever!!!!! ROCK ON anyway long story short, iBox :)

[valkry]

RE: What got you into multiboxing?

PuGs.
ROFL

Tasty got me into multiboxing as well, I've always known about it and I dribbled in dual boxing but his constant QQing finally led me to upgrade to 4, now 5, accounts at once. Will eventually get into deca boxing though.

[Tasty]

RE: What got you into multiboxing?

PuGs.
ROFL

Tasty got me into multiboxing as well, I've always known about it and I dribbled in dual boxing but his constant QQing finally led me to upgrade to 4, now 5, accounts at once. Will eventually get into deca boxing though.woot :D

[OzPhoenix]

This site did it for me really. I'd quit WoW for about six months after playing continuously since Beta '04. When I found this site, purely by accident, it all began again...hehe.

[Nmagrig]

I have multibox'd every mmo I have played however never in the form we all are doing it now. Yay for evolution in video games.

I was doing a AV one time on my hunter and I had the misfortune of running into a 5 warlock squad by the name of Mudd. I could never get close enough to him to actually get off 2 shots because of something like 25 dots on me. Everyone on our side was screaming haxxs ect the usual stuff. Meanwhile I knew then I had to figure out what he was doing.

It was then I went to my friend and ultimate resource for information (Youtube) and found videos of people multiboxing. Got this site and came here. I started off with 3 accounts since I already had 2. I was feelin the power. So then I got a 4th and the next logical step after that was 5 lol.

Funny thing is, is now I have people asking me how I do this and how they can as well. This stuff is like one big circle that keeps getting bigger and bigger :D.



-Team Cont

[Ghrizzle]

i saw a 5 man shammy team alliance side doing what looked like a military display of movements. I wish i could remember his name but asked him a few questions then looked it up and found this site. I only dual box and really that's all i got the courage for at the moment. but none the less he inspired me.

[Mystrana]

Well i First heard about Xzin and a few complaints on the forums about him :) for about a year i read every post and searched for every video i could find about Xzin (i was your stalker Zin hehehe) then i did a goggle with Boxing as my hooks.
Found DB.com and read every post there was , hehehe well not all but about 4 hours of crusing the forums.

Talk to a few friends and me mum :love: and went " I can do that "
started with 2 acc. then went to 3 a week later...after about one month had to go 4 so i could use me pally as a healer for the Dt's.

so thats it Xzin was the start of my boxing interest.

[FtGeno]

I'll add to my initial post by saying that I've been making a list. They don't know I'm coming but they will. :thumbup:

[Fef]

I am a very casual player. I never was in a raid (I mean never) even though I have been playing WoW from release day. I also hate PUGs, I hate them so much. I must have tried that about 10 times, I was always disappointed/annoyed. So more characters just give me access to more content.

I have been dual boxing from the start, too tempting since we had two accounts at home. It was mostly about boosting a new character with an older one, no special macros or anything, just two clients each on a screen.
I then moved to three accounts, again to boost pairs of characters with a high level. I could level characters quite easily that way. I like the levelling part of the game for some reason.

The RAF decided me to go to five accounts. What a blast !

The great news is that an online friend of mine started five-boxing too. When WotLK comes out, we might be able to play most of the content.

[Kyudo]

I'd already grinded up 4 or 5 chars to 70 solo by about this time last year, but I simply didnt have the time to take advantage of having them all, so that got me thinking, hmm I could get a 2nd account and just have the priest follow the warrior and heal him or whatever. I jumped on google and searched for something like "multiple accounts macros" and stumbled across this site. A week later I had 5 accounts, an upgraded PC and a whole new game to play. Wow has never been the same since.

[Griznah]

I stumbled upon boxing a long time ago, but didn't think much of it back then, but when RaF XP bonus came along and an internetfriend was talking about it, I decided I should try. I was going to level a new char (paladin) anyways, and since they suck a lot for solo play, I wanted some "backup". I started with 3 chars, pala tank and then 2 shadow priests. I was thinking to myself "what is the point of doing just 3 chars? I wanna do instances by myself damnit!", and since I got 3 accounts going, the expansion to 5 wasn't any troubles. Just about the time I hit 60, they announced the Vampiric Touch/Replishment changes, also the buffstacking changes, so I decided I wanted a synergy-team. so, here I am today, level 65, 5 different specs, and soloplayed Ramps, BF and SP. UB tonight =)
PS: Oh yeah, and pugs sucks ;)

[Naylix]

History: I originally was a student with a very limited budget, so when I was introduced to the idea of MMO games some 10+ years ago, I just laughed. Way too much money to waste on a game, when you can just download all kinds of other games. :whistling: (having no money and a gamer-addiction, makes you do immoral and deeply illegal things - so dont tell anyone, but I didn't pay for software back then). However, I was a bit fascinated by the elimination of the "4 player" limit, which most games could offer. Also, most games were quickly rushed through, and then discarded anyways. So I started buying Diablo, which at least supported 8 players. Now there was some fun times, and still - 5 tiers with 8-10 "levels" in each - and then 3 difficulties. Again, you just got through it, and after farming items for 2 weeks, it gets really old, really fast.

So strategy games, C&C and warcraft was the way to go. And ofc Heroes of Might and Magic series :love: . And sometime after Diablo2 LOD expansion, someone whispered the magic words in my ear "Blizzard is making this new game, and it's gonna be bigger than anything the world has EVER seen" . He and I got lucky some time after, and landed us 2 spots in the us closed beta. Later, we switched to EU beta, and got a much better feeling of a MMO-rpg, since playtimes suddenly coincided with the majority of other beta-testers. And it was just AMAZING to run around and meet new people all the time, in this vast world. So when Wow was released in EU, I had gotten my gf hooked aswell and a bunch of friends. We all started new characters on Draenor EU, and played in groups. After some months, we joined a lvling guild. Fun, casual and relaxing. But slowly also boring. Because what was this "Molten Core" thing that people kept whispering about ? So, to fast forward a little - several months later, a new raiding guild formed on Draenor, called Chimaera. Most of us joined, and we set foot in Molten Core. And then it took off. We quickly became the dominant guild hordeside. Clearing Molten Core was a matter of months, BWL a matter of a few more months, then farming while waiting for the no 1 guild on the server to open the gates. (they were 5-6 months ahead of us gearwise, and had an idea before us. They made the entire server grind silithid wooshies for them, in return they promised the most active farmer a full BWL run, with ALL drops). So they completed the scepter, and opened the gates. We competed with them for kills in AQ40, and they were still slightly ahead, so they got C'thun down before Naxx, we didn't :( .

Naxxramas - to make it short, massive competition and in the end, they killed 4 horsemen, we didn't. We got 3 server firsts, they got the rest in there.

TBC talents hit, honor changes, game changes. Raiding is more or less suspended. Alliance guild falls apart(!) and Chimaera prevails. TBC hits. Chimaera levels up, and claims 4-5 server firsts in Karazhan, clears it first, Gruul first, and from then on, well, lets just say, they are the only guild today on the server, who has killed Kil'jaden. And the server firsts are plentiful (read: unchallenged)

And this was where I part ways with Chimaera. The amount of time dedicated to raiding was simply too much. And, depending/being depended on by 24 other people for 5½ hours a day, 5-7 days a week got a bit rough on RL.

So I went casual ... and had seen heard some fun videos on youtube existed, about this guy playing a bunch of mages... (xzin ofc) .. then shortly after, my eyes opened to the amazing amounts of whinethreads about this "multiboxing thing". I liked the idea, of making yourself less dependant and more versatile - and also actually adding some challenge to the game. Plus the freedom to be slightly dominant in pvp, when facing complete scrubs.

And, after watching a bunch of other videos, one of them linked this site directly in the video. So I came here. Registered. Read the wiki. (yes, I read it first!!) Read noobthreads. I gave it about 2 days thought, then bought a new gaming rig, with quadcore and stuff. Bought 5 new battlechests (keeping my main account able to boost) and started MB'ing.

Then ofc bought 5 new chests 3 weeks later, when RAF was introduced :/

Made 2 new teams, and are currently lvling them.

Latest feat: soloing Zul'farrak @ lvl 45, with a 5-boomkin team :)

Loving it, and might make the druids my mainteam for WotLK.



Damn, longest post ever :S And too lazy to shorten it.

[Notes]

Screens from Xzin's crew, posted by a guildy on the guild website I was in back then. There was no easy to use keyclone-like program yet(that I knew of) so I would have to go and buy 5 pc's.
A year later I found this website + keyclone and started with some trial accounts.

The real start was running into Siker on 5 mounts with his 4 locks + 1 priest ... Upgraded my pc to his pc specs and got started in no-time.
:thumbsup:

Now been away for 4 months(been playing solo chars), but with WOTLK around the corner I'm now back :thumbsup: (still got 11 levels to go for 70 :D )

[Kulzor]

My multiboxing started way back in Asheron's Call. They allowed plugins and bots (just nothing unattended), so I wrote a "guardian bot" program, and used it on two extra accounts. I'd run around on my main toon, and have this extra pair of guardians running around with me. If anything came near me, they'd help kill it. (And since things came near me when I attacked them, it worked well... Much like running around with a pair of NPCs.)

In WoW I had one account until probably 4 months after TBC, then decided to level a second toon, and wanted to use the first to level them. No multiboxing happened there though. Early this summer I realized that if I moved my healer to a third account I could farm rep in some instances with my hunter, tankadin and resto druid. Seeing how much more efficient having a buddy join my three turned out to be, I added a fourth in mid summer. Just in the last two months I found that when a fifth toon joined my four we could actually take down some bosses, and rep farming became pretty easy, and yet guildies weren't on all the times I wanted to do that farming, so I added the fifth account.

My guild is tiny, and often doesn't have enough for instance runs, so I'm really enjoying having five toons. Also, I've recently gotten my group geared to a point to be able to actually handle some heroic instances, and that's far better yet. Definitely looking forward to Wrath and hoping to "solo level" by using instance runs there from 70-80.

[TheBigBB]

I was interested since the early days when I saw a guy with a priest and a warrior. I was so jealous that he had his own healing, where my warrior had to sit there and eat and drink and get slapped in the face with no back-up! Then, I actually encountered the Zins in battlegrounds when cross-server opened up. I didn't know how he did it, but I didn't quite care yet. I just decided to open up a second account later on and box it like a total noob with no macros. Just two computers and pushing every button on both of them. Maybe this is why playing 5 different classes on one keyboard doesn't seem bad to me, because I am used to using TWO keyboards. I boxed that way for a whole year!

Once RAF started, I got a great new computer and finally read about how to play 5 at once. I set them up on one computer with one keyboard, experimented with different classes, and a couple months later I'm doing instances and loving it.

[ObesAU]

I started multiboxing (2 boxing to be precise and the term used at that time was botting) in EQ not long after Kunark was released.
I wanted to be able to log on and achieve stuff without waiting to get a group.

Then I 3 boxed DAOC. And 3 boxxed eq2.

Didn't multibox wow until RAF bonus.

[heyaz]

I can't really remember how it happened. I remember hearing of Xzin back pre-tbc and watching his videos, and although I thought it was amazing I wasn't ready to buy 5 PCs and do the hardware gig. Just seemed excessive and my room is already 80 degrees from one pc and a large monitor. That and I travel almost constantly and had been playing my main(s) on my laptop from hotels and other places I was staying, so even if I had invested in the hardware it would just sit in my unoccupied apartment most of the year.

Sometime around June I was watching some kind of video and googled some sort of keywords that I can't remember, and discovered that it can be done with software, then I was sold. I managed to level my first group on my laptop, minimum graphics settings but definitely playable

[DemonWithin]

I was about to quit WoW but i knew how much money WoW saved me (from going to the pub/clubs everynight etc) i wanted a new way to make the game interesting and sure enough 1 EOTS my cousin and i were getting demolished by 5 shammys, i just loved jumping in the middle of them and getting blow up in 1 hit i thought it was hilarious so i started up my own team =D but can only get 3 going atm, stupid comp needs upgrades for more :(

[CumpsD]

I've played WoW since the very first beta, and had gotten to a point where I've done everything, from hardcore grinding, to Warlord, to questing, fooling around, ... So I was about to quit, since I was just fooling around casually now.

Then a guy at work said he'll be trying out multiboxing. And I beat him to it by registering 4 trial accounts to give it a try. The effort and level of thought that went into macros and then enjoying the final result convinced me to go for it. So I upgraded to full accounts and am now lvl 39, and will do my very first AB this weekend :)

Loving it.

[Schwarz]

The thing that got me into wow was seeing someone from magtheridon in my AV. I was an idiot and followed him/her around the whole time seeing what he/she could do. I searched for his toons on the armory then searched for some videos. After watching a bunch of xbox videos I randomly came across this site. I would say above and beyond anything this site got me into Multiboxing.

[Zenthor]

Stumbled on a bradster.net video ...not sure how. Had never heard of dual boxing up till then and was not looking for anything like it.
Now...5-five man teams later....and a live sucked away....lol.

[Warchamp7]

My buddy messaged me the other day on Trillian (MSN) saying he saw some guy controlling 5 shamans in a Battleground all with variations of the name Earthshokk.

After that, I looked into the matter, found this site, found a private server (Instant 70) and now I'm dual-boxing a mage and priest, tinkering with it. If I can land a job I might end up boxing on retail.

[Helmer]

first post! been lurking for a while. What got me into multiboxing? I had been aware of Xzin and his team for a while and was always intrigued. playing with a cross faction guild and being gm horde side, i had a lot of characters and set up a second account. Never really had the intention to multibox at all. Started playing 2 characters at once, just alt tabing to change focus between characters and looked for a more effecient way to do it. Started a new job and met "Elo" from these forums, he introduced me to this site, and when RAF opened up i talking to him about setting up a third account. Today i have several teams of 3. but am currently using my 70s to boost my RAF characters through instances to get all classes lvled.