the excitement of meeting another multiboxer

[Orshok]

I was quite excited a few days ago in SW: I saw 5 mages gnomes. Send them a tell. Not easy to see who was the main. Spent 20 mn waiting for them to move. I checked the guild on armory : 5 mages, one pala, 4 shaman, some other lowbies.
For sure, the pala was a main. Put him on my friends list. One day later, hes connected :

- hey man, are you a multiboxer ?
- yes,
- thats great, me too. Thats exciting,
- ... silence ...
- do you know dual-boxing.com ?
- yes,
- whats your name on the forums ?
- I forgot,
- hey, maybe, one day, we could team together either for 5 team or do a raid. That would be great,
- Im doing good with my team. Dont need any help.

[Oswyn]

rofl, he forgot his name?

Meeting other boxers is cool. I usually give them a high five, salute, then move on.

[Dorffo]

yea - not everyone who's drawn to the ability "solo" dugeons etc. is generally sociable in game :) Depending on when you catch me I might be very talkative, or I might be in solo-mode and not want to chat with anyone.

It's just like meeting any other random player, except that they happen to also enjoy the same niche hobby - but I've run across plenty of solo toons that were quite standoffish as well.

[Chranny]

Sounds like someone didn't really wanna talk. :P

[Seraphaw]

Sounds like someone didn't really wanna talk. :PWell in comparison, if someone with the same car as you walked up to you and said "Oh hey, we got the same car, that's just amazing!".
I would wonder what the hell was going on. :rolleyes:

I bet he was just busy leveling ;p

[elsegundo]

yea that happened to me before. i would chat with people and they would go off and not reply. or just /wave /applause /cheer and be on their way. im guessing they're busy. which is fine. i dont press the commonality to the point of being annoying. not saying that Orshok was. lol

[Buefurd]

That is rather funny, but I for one am always happy to meet another multiboxer, in fact, I met one yesterday with my newly created alliance toons on Destromath. He was boxing 4 druids. I'm always down to try and dual-dualbox some content with another boxer. :P If anyone plays here /whisper "Mehasbackup" and I'll be down to group up :)

[warwizard]

i still have yet to hook up with the other 4 or 5 boxers on my server :(

[Malekyth]

hehe, I went insane when I met a tri-boxer on Lightbringer. He still hadn't found his Mute button in KC so his alts were jerking around and hopping while he typed. It was cute. :) I can see how a multiboxer might not want to chat though. We all have our reasons for doing this, and "anti-social" is probably on the list.

[Coltimar]

I always try to be helpful and engaging with other boxers. As a result there are a few others on my server that I have nice chats with from time to time. It's cool.

[Ogloo]

2 types of boxers..

1. want to pawn so they make 5 toons instead of 1. and play the game normally but with x5 dps.
2. dont want to play with anyone so they make a group and hide in the corner..


My group= "1"

[Malekyth]

You left out the boxers whose playtime isn't consistent enough to maintain a presence in a guild, yet love running instances, yet hate PuGs. (mine)

Aaand the nerds who rejoice in making things work differently, usually through lots of scripts and batch files and more effort than it's probably worth. (mine also)

Aaand those who don't care about dominating other players, but want to do something that few other WoW players have accomplished. Pfft to the Achievements system. (mine as well)

Aaand the multitude of other reasons that don't fall into your two neat categories. ;)

[Kel]

I know of two on my server. One was a 5 shaman team in a guild called Multibox (or something similar) who used to hang around outside the arena master a lot, I'm not a pvper myself so figured I wouldn't have much to talk to them about. Second one was recently when I was questing on my 2 shaman, noticed my health drop out of combat and saw a priest had buffed me and targetted them to thank them (if I ever get a gamepad I'm binding emotes to a few keys so both toons can be nice), then I noticed motw on me and saw a druid just behind the priest.

They mounted up at the same time and rode off with the druid in the right place to be following the priest (rather than two unique players), didn't see them fighting though so it may just have been two friends playing together. They didn't whisper anything to me (and I'd been fighting so they would have known I was a MB) and I think they were in one of the foriegn guilds on my server so i didn't want to whisper them in case they weren't comfortable speaking in English. Even if they weren't a boxer it's nice to have someone buff both of my toons, I just felt bad that I couldn't buff them back.

Personally I MB (not very often) a) because it's faster than levelling two characters individually and b) because it's a bit different to levelling one at a time and after levelling a few toons it's nice to have a change of pace.

[Ken]

[...]
I bet he was just busy leveling ;p
Or editing macros! I really cba on voice chat or regular chat when I'm writing macros.

[Mooni]

There's a guy like that on my server. I was level 66 or so in Terrokar the first time I saw him.
Haven't talked to him since because I felt like I was bothering him.
Then during the scourge invasion, I saw a 5-class team of alliance which were all human except for one Night Elf. They also ALL had the ambassador title.
I would've loved to talk to her, but being alliance and all she could only grunt and snort. Still the conversation would have been better than the one you had.

[Shokz]

I personally run around with my combat logs on all my toons most of the time, one reason is that people always ask the same questions and i honestly cant be botherd, secondly alot of the time im sat on the couch with the misses talking or im on vent talking to mates, so theres really no reason to look at the chat.

[keyclone]

2 types of boxers..

1. want to pawn so they make 5 toons instead of 1. and play the game normally but with x5 dps.
2. dont want to play with anyone so they make a group and hide in the corner..
group 1 here

[Powerwar]

I have met a horde arcane mages group on Cyclone battlegroup EU servers a couple of times.
Always when I kill him he stays away from my group. Anyways, our only communication tends to be "You hit my grounding totems... I kill you... thx for the free honor points".

Thanks to him I learned that if a shaman has a single grounding totem casting 5 chain lightnings at once will make them all land into the totem, so when I see a poor shaman laying a grounding totem I just shock the totem with my main and then chain lightning him to death with the slaves.

[David]

First boxer I met was right in my first 5v5 match. I freshly dinged 70, got me the blue pvp set and a paladin friend. I ended up 10 games against a 5boxer with s2 gear. I managed to kill him the first time but after that he abused the gear difference (about 5k hp) and thunderstorm bombed me.

[Kayley]

First multiboxer I met was in AV, opposite faction. I don't even recall his name now. Although during AV I spaced out (was easy to pewpew) and next thing I knew I was being attacked by x4 orc shaman :D bleeeeh dead.

Luckily for me the multiboxers on Frostmourne are nice ;D at least nice enough not to put me on ignore when I spam them :P (even the ex-multiboxers are up for chat haha, even when I don't want to talk :love: )

[robtest]

i still have yet to hook up with the other 4 or 5 boxers on my server :(


Hey Now! I guess a dual-boxer doesn't count??? Albeit I guess we did just whisper back and forth as you ran around Zul-Drak...

;(

[Ellusionist]

i still have yet to hook up with the other 4 or 5 boxers on my server :(Now now, you know better! I even /wave'd at you on my mage while I was leveling (my solo character). :)

[Ellusionist]

i still have yet to hook up with the other 4 or 5 boxers on my server :(


Hey Now! I guess a dual-boxer doesn't count??? Albeit I guess we did just whisper back and forth as you ran around Zul-Drak...

;(And I remember you, too. :)

You took the rest of my group down once in Wintergrasp. (I was out of mana and being AoE'd/shot at by the cannons)

/wrath

[robtest]

i still have yet to hook up with the other 4 or 5 boxers on my server :(


Hey Now! I guess a dual-boxer doesn't count??? Albeit I guess we did just whisper back and forth as you ran around Zul-Drak...

;(And I remember you, too. :)

You took the rest of my group down once in Wintergrasp. (I was out of mana and being AoE'd/shot at by the cannons)

/wrath

You are gonna have to watch out now!!! It shouldn't be too long before warwizard's shammies are 80 and ready to come play. Then it is gonna be 2+4 vs. 5 instead of 2 vs. 5 like we had the other night! ROFLMAO :D


PvP is something that I am relearning. I have one Conquerer and probably over 100k Kills single play, and leveling kinda spoiled me on dual boxing. Pretty much everything since I have gotten it has been FlameShock, LavaBurst, maybe chain to Kill, and no real chalenges, except to find some elites to play with. I do find it fun in pvp to now test another multiboxer to see how they react to the conflict, it help me learn. I do tend to hang to the sides a little more though. Single play, I love to run in amungst em far too much! Lately my favorite joy is hunting Tauren DK's. Even more than healers. I will have to get some names and look at spec's though. Some of em I take, some of em slice me like butter... But there is something satifying about seeing the tauren animation of flopping on their face when you get em! :pinch:

We will have to keep the "Multiboxing on Garrosh-US ???" thread alive and do some WGs, maybe we could find a corner of the map and play!

[Ellusionist]

That would be fun... get together with the quad-boxer and lets roll in WG at non-battle times, just for something to do! :D

[warwizard]

Ellusionist it was a blast finally meeting you in WG tonight and having you rock my socks off ;)

[Ellusionist]

Ellusionist it was a blast finally meeting you in WG tonight and having you rock my socks off ;)

undefinedIndeed, was fun! You had me mashin' buttons like a retard, that's for sure.

Btw, what was with that hunter? You swapped out one shaman for that WG or what?

[mibane]

there are a couple of boxers i have seen on my server (blackrock horde), sadly on the occasions i have seen them they haven't been in a talking place. I recently saw my first alliance boxer the other day outside sm, mages and a priest, only one mage when i started the fight... then there was 4, then i was dead, hopefully i'll meet him again one day on more even terms ;)

*on a side note if there are any dual boxers blackrock horde side playing healer/dps or 2 dps i would like to instance with another boxer.

[warwizard]

Hunter was a random person i was grouped with, he has a noobie quad team a bunch of level 12 shaman :)

Are you boxing with hardware or a software setup?