Stupid stuff you did MBing

[wolpak]

What have you done multi-boxing which was silly that you wouldn't have done SBing?

I probably went about 10 minutes before I realized my druid was dead. Pain the butt to get back to him too.

[Tombs]

Probably a classic mistake. Questing in Stormpeaks and Icecrown I have one multiple occasions while flying around seen an herb on one of my characters. I dive down on just one character and pick it then mount up again and watch my other character fall to his death.

[mikekim]

I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it again

[Gurblash]

I started....

[Moredots]

On my warlock pet quests i didn't notice that when you accept with one he does some dumb event. I thought my auto accept worked on all my toons.... the only thing worse than warlock pet quests is having to do them again. I don't even use the succubus anymore :(

[Zerocool2024]

You know that dot you get from the last boss in HOL?

It's this Static Charge that stays on you for a few seconds, then jumps from one toon to the next, and it never stops.

Well, being on my DK's, I left it on myself, and just laughed at the idea, and played with it in front of the Alliance, Blah blah blah.

The Dot can kill you, but I had RUn tap, so I would just tap, and it healed me and everything was fine.

Then I went to the Gryphon and picked my flight back to Dalaron.... (You see where this is going?)

Mid flight, they all die... Sonnava bitch...

[Catamer]

mine was allowing a friend of the guild to join me on a run of UP.
I hate UP because I find it very hard to multibox, the guy raids with his guild and has several peices of 25 man raid gear on his ret pally, I of course have a prot pally and don't have access to anything in the 25 mans
I kind of wondered why he would want to do UP since there couldn't possibly be anything from there he needs and I could definately use the one handed sword. He even made mention that I would probably want the sword.
I didn't really want to run with him but I figured what the heck, we have different specs.

I sword dropped and I rolled need for my main spec
so when he rolled need on the sword for his off spec and won it :cursing: ....
of all of the reasons I multibox came home at that moment.
I have never felt so stupid in all of my life. :wacko: for my one moment of weakness when I agreed to run UP with him. I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

[Akeldema]

You know that dot you get from the last boss in HOL?

It's this Static Charge that stays on you for a few seconds, then jumps from one toon to the next, and it never stops.

Well, being on my DK's, I left it on myself, and just laughed at the idea, and played with it in front of the Alliance, Blah blah blah.

The Dot can kill you, but I had RUn tap, so I would just tap, and it healed me and everything was fine.

Then I went to the Gryphon and picked my flight back to Dalaron.... (You see where this is going?)

Mid flight, they all die... Sonnava bitch...

What Boss is this? Sounds like a very funny way to play wintergrasp :P
I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it againOh how many times i have done that :(

[wolpak]

I forget to make sure all my alts have either picked up a quest or got the quest item. The worst feeling is getting to the quest giver and seeing 4 question marks. WTF?

Oh, all 4 of my alts got stuck in the elevator in UC and slipped through the crack and fell to their death. I started rezzing them and they would just fall back down as my pally sat in the elevator. Some dude was like, what are you doing, I started to explain but was like, forget it.

[turbonapkin]

On a near daily basis I forget to mute while typing and drop a full team of fire elementals for no reason.

Most days I lose a toon and don't notice for considerable periods of time.

On more than one occasion I've been one keypress away from broadcasting my account passwords into trade.

Pretty dum, huh?

[konraddo]

Similar to post #7

The most stupid thing is to let a stranger into your MB group as they beg for joining an instance JUST for completing quests. Free for all is used as I always use my main to pick things up. Guess what, all last boss's loots were picked up in 0.5 second. Try to complain? "Oh, I thought I won the rolls, else how could I pick them up?"

So yes, the most stupid thing is to trust a stranger. We can live by ourselves so let that be.

[sp000n]

I started....Hah! Amen.

I hate when I have the keys active and I respond in General Chat with all five toons at once. I'm the only real boxer I know on my server (Alleria) so it brings a lot of questions.

[balderrdash]

On my Mage/Druid/Shaman set I often play the mage alone, so his #1 key is blink when solo, and a follow macro when in the group. You can't imagine how many times I've started an instance and blinked that poor bastard into a set of elites when I was just lining the toons up because I forgot to switch the icons.

On my newer group, three pallies, I had fought long and hard to get to the BRD bar when I was more than a bit under level. I was so excited to get to plugger, to unload bags and bags full of greys, that when I pushed #1 after selling. I forgot it was follow on toon's #2 and #3 but taunt on #1 and got a good portion of the bar to beat my ass in exchange. I never did finish BRD, level 58 now. That rez run just isn't worth it . . .

[wolpak]

I started....Hah! Amen.

I hate when I have the keys active and I respond in General Chat with all five toons at once. I'm the only real boxer I know on my server (Alleria) so it brings a lot of questions.

The thought of it is pretty funny for people who have no idea what multi-boxing is. I had all 5 guys ding at once and one dude was like, wtf? I also always accidently make them all jump at once which is annoying cause I don't like to bring attention to myself if I don't have to.

[Enndo]

The first day I started I hit 12 and went to Org to grab the FP and wep training etc, than ran all the way to xroads when i realized I lost one of my toons lol.

[Siaea]

The first day I started I hit 12 and went to Org to grab the FP and wep training etc, than ran all the way to xroads when i realized I lost one of my toons lol.That's my biggest thing (and possibly the most annoying).

Also, finally decided to go for epic flyers x5 on these girls, and I'm doing the quests in Icecrown that I'd originally deemed too annoying when I was leveling. Picked up the quest to gather those 3 pages to make whatever that book of the dead is, and it's a low drop. Finally get the pages, head back to the airship (which itself is an epic journey with econo flyers) and one of the shaman only had 2 pages. :cursing:

[Coltimar]

I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it againSame here. Grrrr!

[Caspian]

Mid flight, they all die... Sonnava bitch...So what happens when you die mid Flight? Do they fall to the ground right away? Do they stop dead at the next stop or make it all the was to the destination dead?

[Zal]

Fly half way across a zone only to realize follow broke. Then have to fly all the way back

[Ughmahedhurtz]

One word: elevators. Between Thousand needles, shattrath and thunder bluff, I bet I've spent 200g in repairs from "Britney" moments like forgetting to unstick my autorun key or lagging just that tiny bit and watching the train go flying off into splattsville. /groan

[Zerocool2024]

You know that dot you get from the last boss in HOL?

It's this Static Charge that stays on you for a few seconds, then jumps from one toon to the next, and it never stops.

Well, being on my DK's, I left it on myself, and just laughed at the idea, and played with it in front of the Alliance, Blah blah blah.

The Dot can kill you, but I had RUn tap, so I would just tap, and it healed me and everything was fine.

Then I went to the Gryphon and picked my flight back to Dalaron.... (You see where this is going?)

Mid flight, they all die... Sonnava bitch...

What Boss is this? Sounds like a very funny way to play wintergrasp :P
I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it againOh how many times i have done that :(Loken -

Arc Lightning: single target attack dealing ~4k damage plus a chance to debuff the target. The debuff deals another Arc Lightning to all players within 10 yards (that is 4k damage plus the chance to get the debuff)







Mid flight, they all die... Sonnava bitch...So what happens when you die mid Flight? Do they fall to the ground right away? Do they stop dead at the next stop or make it all the was to the destination dead?Lol, mine just dropped mid air and died, the bodies get taken back to the nearest flight master.
You fly when you're dead in that area, so I had to fly BACK to the flight master, lol.

[modhackmaster]

A while ago, I finally leveled up my four shimmies to LV80, and started to farm the gears and REPs in Heroic. After a few days, I realized that one of my shimmies’ equipped-trinkets were all gone. 8| I searched all the bags and banks, and did not find the same trinkets as other shimmies’. I thought I sold them by accident, and I was so pissed about myself for not paying attention while I used the addon to sell useless items. Anyway, I pulled 2 lower rank trinkets from the bank (yes, I have a habit to save all the old gears, don’t ask me why :evil: ). A few days later, I found that both trinkets were gone too. I was like….WTF. :cursing: So, I took the addon out. Same night, I found one trinket was gone after I nailed H Gundark, but the Venture coin trinket was still there. ?( I was pulling my hair out for that moment. I just couldn’t figure out what caused it. Finally, I went through my bank and found the last useable trinket and put it on him. While I was doing H UK later, and I paid extra attention to the shammy. During the first pull, I found that the shammy was starting “dischanting” during the fight, and I immediately stopped it. Then, I checked all the action icons, and found that shammy has the self-made “disenchant gloves” macro on one of the icons. Since I didn’t have those gloves in his bags anymore, and the macro only work half way: it starts the disenchant order.... I didn’t think that was the case a while ago.Then, I suddenly realized that our lazy/easy attack macro for shimmies:
/use 13
/use 14
/assist party1
…..
Now you know why my trinkets were all gone except the Venture coin trinket because the vendor one is NOT disenchantable.

Even after so many Heroic runs, and gearing up my shimmies, this poor shammy still stuck with the item level 105 trinket… since this is the only best left over trinket that he can use….. it is remarkable … for my epic failure
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kul+Tiras&n=shabo

My other shimmies:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kul+Tiras&n=shacy
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kul+Tiras&n=shajin
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kul+Tiras&n=shaai

[Oatboat]

You sir....... you win the prize. I feel bad for ya....

[Natch]

I lol'd irl. Hilarious :) (Sorry about your trinkets though, haha)

[daviddoran]

On my warlock pet quests i didn't notice that when you accept with one he does some dumb event. I thought my auto accept worked on all my toons.... the only thing worse than warlock pet quests is having to do them again. I don't even use the succubus anymore :(

My warlocks are 70 and I haven't done the felhunter or succubus quests.... I'm demonology spec too... i just get by with felguards x3...

[Zappy]

Wow. Sorry, but the trinkets one is pretty hilarious. Since he wasn't doing DPS, what was his SPS (Shards per seconds)? :D

When I first started boxing and was just starting to learn the ropes, I was dueling someone in crossroads. I didn't know how to use the "mute" functionality of keyclone yet, but after I finished my duel, I was shocked to discover that somehow, one of my toons ended up in ratchet. I was talking to my friend in vent when this happened and to this day, I'm not sure exactly how one of them managed to run off that far, let alone end up in ratchet.

The more recent one I've been doing lately is on my main. He's an engineer and I used the flexweave underlay to make my cloak a parachute cloak. I can't tell you how many times I've killed unsuspecting ally with it by using Thunderstorm to knock them off their mount, then hitting the cloak to parachute to safety. I knew one of these days it would catch up to me, and finally it did. A 79 hunter was camping my druids (59 at the time) in hellfire, so i logged in on my shammys and proceeded to camp him for a while. He finally managed to mount up and fly and then was spitting on me. He had no clue that he was going to be dismounted, so I thunderstormed him off his mount and killed him again a few times. The next time, he was trying to fly evasively away from me, but couldn't out run my epic flyers with his tard mount. This time, when I dismounted to hit my TS, I knocked him off as I planned, but didn't realize my other shammys weren't muted, so they all fell to their death. Big oops there. LOL

I would suggest that any engineering shammy make that cloak and have fun with it, cause you know it's just a matter of time before they nerf it.

[Stealthy]

When I first got my DK team Titansteel destroyers, I flew up to Ebon Hold to use the runeforge there to inscribe runes on them. Unfortunately for me - on my enchanting toon, the disenchant button is right next to the incribe rune button. I was clicking through on each toon to do the rune for each mace and misclicked on the last one...and didn't pick up the mistake until I had sharded it...doh! A rather expensive mistake... :pinch:

[aboron]

Thing 1) Click to move enabled on leader

Thing 2) Quest givers in high places


These 2 things have probably caused me at least a dozen group deaths so far.

[Ferrea]

I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it again

[homerjunior]

When I first started to Mbox I went to duel someone and thought to myself "I have 5 characters this should be easy" 4 duels later I worked out why I could not attack with all 5

[Gadzooks]

On my Mage/Druid/Shaman set I often play the mage alone, so his #1 key is blink when solo, and a follow macro when in the group. You can't imagine how many times I've started an instance and blinked that poor bastard into a set of elites when I was just lining the toons up because I forgot to switch the icons.

On my newer group, three pallies, I had fought long and hard to get to the BRD bar when I was more than a bit under level. I was so excited to get to plugger, to unload bags and bags full of greys, that when I pushed #1 after selling. I forgot it was follow on toon's #2 and #3 but taunt on #1 and got a good portion of the bar to beat my ass in exchange. I never did finish BRD, level 58 now. That rez run just isn't worth it . . .I recently ran my 80's through BRD for the achievement, it felt SO GOOD to aggro the entire upper bar area and arcane explode them all, then do the same for the lower level. :) That one laugh that cycles over and over grates on my nerves!

I've done the same as everyone else - dismounted while in flight in Icecrown, had toons follow off cliffs, had toons drown because the underwater breathing wore off or I missed one, forgot to pick up or turn in quests, finding out one of my toons doesnt have a flight point so they have to run or swim to get it, wasting tons of time...i have a couple gnomes, and they get caught on everything - doors, stairs, grass, so that always leads to much mirth.

The worst is when something screws up, and one of my followers casts at mobs I *don't* want at the moment. I just did that in Tanaris over the weekend, I was killing bugs, when my shaman decides (for reasons of his own, which he won't share with me) to aggro another bug of his own choosing a ways off, which dragged 5-6 more bugs on me, and in my panic I ran into another pack, next thing you know it was a solid wall of red on top of the team (those stupid little minions were everywhere) and it was instagib time.

I swear to go, the blizz devs put an RNG into our macros or targeting, just to make it interesting for us. My followers arent set up to target until and unless I tell them to with an /assist, how he changed target, I still havent worked out - and it's not the first time it's happened, my other team had that happen too.

Oh well. I kinda like random elements, it keeps you on your toes - and the incident made me stop and rework my "oh, shiiiit!" macros!

[Tasty]

The Harpoon surfing quest off the cliff with /follow still on :P

[mikekim]

When I first got my DK team Titansteel destroyers, I flew up to Ebon Hold to use the runeforge there to inscribe runes on them. Unfortunately for me - on my enchanting toon, the disenchant button is right next to the incribe rune button. I was clicking through on each toon to do the rune for each mace and misclicked on the last one...and didn't pick up the mistake until I had sharded it...doh! A rather expensive mistake... :pinch:

Ouch - you win ;(

[Siaea]

This morning, doing UK (daily heroic) my enchanting shammy ninja'd the caster ring Ingvar drops from my resto shammy 8|

Almost had to kick her from the group.

[wolpak]

This morning, doing UK (daily heroic) my enchanting shammy ninja'd the caster ring Ingvar drops from my resto shammy 8|

Almost had to kick her from the group.

If she then hearthed, that would be a great story.

[AlmySidaKay]

This morning, doing UK (daily heroic) my enchanting shammy ninja'd the caster ring Ingvar drops from my resto shammy 8|

Almost had to kick her from the group.

If she then hearthed, that would be a great story.Now if shamans could just bubble this story would be complete.

[Siaea]

If she then hearthed, that would be a great story.Yea, they were arguing about it for the rest of the morning.

I really am going insane I think. . .

[Taliesin]

Damn, if my enchanter (priest) did that to me, I'd boot her from the group and spec the shaman resto. Sub the warlock back into my group to replace the DPS and run for a couple weeks that way.

I think she'd think twice about doing that again.

[Dotalot]

I will often complete a kill quest then realise that I forgot to pick it up on one character X( - and have to run it againlmao i have done that so much .. :D .. but i think my biggest fook up was 5 boxing AV bg running all the way to bal (im horde) and realiseing all my toon's were still in the start tunnel O.o

[Zub]

was in zangarmash, doing some of the underwater quests.
Baby starts crying so i move all my toons to the surface (no mobs there) and go check the baby/change her nappy.

I come back to my screen 5 min later and my main is still happily floating, alive, but the remaining of the team (2 yards below surface) all drowned :(

[Die_Pastafaris]

stupid things? i forgot to soulstone my warlocks during the [fort he horde] achievement so i died in stormwind with one of ‘em and got only one black warbear

:cursing:

[Seraphaw]

Stupid stuff I did MBing...

I became slightly schizofrenic during my first two long sessions of multiboxing. I started to think about myself in third person and planning tasks that would be impossible for me to do irl at the same time, it was incredibly weird... :S

[Malekyth]

Stupid stuff I did MBing...

I became slightly schizofrenic during my first two long sessions of multiboxing. I started to think about myself in third person and planning tasks that would be impossible for me to do irl at the same time, it was incredibly weird... :SI've been at it since June last year, and I still do that! Especially after having a good old WoW binge on a weekend, it takes me an hour or two to shake the idea that I'm ... multiple. Eek. It's a mild sensation, sure, but the fact that it exists at all probably would get me committed in the early 1900s ...

[RdrckSmith]

Well, I just started 5-boxing last weekend so while I hope that these remain the stupidest things I do while multiboxing, I suspect that it's just the start of even stupider mistakes to come! :)

First, since I loved druids back when I played WoW solo, I rolled up a team of 5 druids and when I got to 16 I went to get the aquatic form quest. I think I looted at least my 7th or 8th bauble thing from underwater before I remembered that even though the quest timer gives you half an hour, once you loot the item it only lasts for a few minutes. I was very thankful when I realized that I could just buy the ability from the trainer instead...

Then, following the awesome RAF 1-60 TourGuide, I was doing the quest in Bloodmyst to "coerce" the secret message from Sunhawk elves. I looted it on my first kill, happily ran back to Blood Watch and I must have stared at the screen for five minutes wondering why only my main got a quest completed message. I guess the questgivers won't accept four characters pointing at the main and saying, "seriously, we did find it, he just gave it to you, right?"

[Gurblash]

I guess the questgivers won't accept four characters pointing at the main and saying, "seriously, we did find it, he just gave it to you, right?" ROFL... isn't that the truth.

[Taliesin]

Initially made a single mount/dismount macro that would dismount if already mounted, and vice versa. Went to mount with one toon on the ground while others were flying, and *splat*. I've since taken dismount out of all mount macros and simply changed the dismount keybind in the WOW interface to fix that.

Started a guild run in H VH with me comprising all 3 DPS. After a few trash group kills taking forever, I realize that I had not tweaked my targetting macros properly to work when not running in my full group mode and my shaman and warlock were not killing a damned thing.

Also running up to a ledge in Fjord and stopping the tank right at very edge. Didn't take into account lag in updates between all the windows. All my toons stopped, except the warlock. He flies off the ledge on his dreadsteed, spins mid-air to face me again, and I swear I could see a tear in his eye as he disappeared from sight.

[unseen]

Last week I was flying out to do gundrak from dalaran. I had autorun on while I flew.

My dog came looking for some attention so I started petting him. I look up at the screen a few moments later and all my guys are dying from exhaustion - they had flown way off into the ocean. I turned them around and flew as far back towards land as quick as I could, but they all died. I then ran all the way out to where they died and rezzed, but I was still too far out and died from exhaustion again. Had to spirit rez x 5 for petting the dog. Sigh.

[Zub]

and I swear I could see a tear in his eye as he disappeared from sight.
lol. whoops!

[Khatovar]

He flies off the ledge on his dreadsteed, spins mid-air to face me again, and I swear I could see a tear in his eye as he disappeared from sight.

Awww! Poor lock!

[mibane]

apart from the usual not picking up quest one one and breaking follow. my best nub moment was at cenarian in zangar, just finished handing in quests and an alliance cheered me, so i spread out, target her with all my toons and /dance... then a friend whispers me and so when i reply i hit '2' shammies unleash lightning upon the poor alliance. Guards subsequently pummel me into the ground.


There is also a toon pulling another group in an instance, still haven't worked out how that happens but it never ends well.

[Allestaria]

OMG these are hilarious stories. I don't use the mount/dismount macro as a worry for the same thing. I seem to always have one toon that doesn't mount. The most annoying thing I've done so far... I have 2 on Raf and 2 that aren't so 2 are 4 levels higher then the others. Well I was on one of the slaves and noticed she didn't have the same quests as the others and a couple I didn't want. So I decided to delete them... Well SHE didn't have the quests... and I used jamaba to delete the ones I didn't want. Well it deleted the ones she had that would of been in the same place IF she had had the others. So I lots 3 quests before I did the DUH idiot this toon doesn't have those you can't delete what she doesn't have. I was to lazy to run back to get them.

[Vmpwraith]

Yeah I've done all the normal stuff , forgot quest items had lose runaways and forgot toons on other maps but recently I've been raiding my 5 man team with a guild and at times I'll hit my /follow key and cant understand why toons aren't following me. I also have those moments of panic as a raid mate runs past me and I think its a follow thats broken and I'll go off spamming my follow key and my Guildies will say weird stuff in chinese to the effect of "what the hell are you doing" as I run after them, still they think its cool to have a boxer along.

[GenHoth]

I got banned by blizzard for running more than 1 D2 instance per computer. How lame, huh?

[Oathbreaker]

How sweet that Blizzard allows us to jump into water now without taking damage. If only I hadn't recently cast Path of Frost.

-Oath

[Leon]

The little silly things like getting on a Boat/zepp and sailing off while second toon is stuck on something and not noticing till your on the other side of the world, not noticing that follow broke in a instance till its a wipe and only one is alive, tageting a mob and then changing without allowing for the slave to switch before attacking... done that way way to often.

[DIllett7799]

Two words, Spiral staircases. God, Outside of UC up to the zeps. In org to the flightmaster. I have real problems with freaking all kinds of stairs. I have gotten into the habit of just running up the stair with each toon individualy, as it seams to be faster :(
Also one of my worst cases, Im running myself though UBRS with my friends toon, and i click auto run on that toon, well, it was still passing keystrokes and before i knew it i had half of the instance attack the 80, and I could not understand why. Well It seams I auto ran all 3 chars off a cliff/bridge/something in urbs, as they fell they agroed a tun of stuff, and when they died...that stuff decided to attack me...Needless to say I died. :( sadday.

[Yamio]

In Ungoro, I had just rearranged my keybinds when I saw a devilsaur walking, no, tiptoeing towards me. (you know how quiet those things can be). I spaced my team out, quickly threw up buffs, and pulled him. My tank was going to town and had good aggro so I start DPS'ing. Like usual when my tank has good aggro, I'm not watching what my guys are doing; I'm concentrating on healing, mana and aggro.

After about 30-40 seconds, the fight not going good. Devilsaur is kicking my tank's butt, and I'm not doing nearly enough damage. I look over at my team, and I'm horrified to see two of them standing in an inn, having a pint and not fighting anybody.

In my haste to reconfigure my keybinds, I had missed it up for those two, and not just a little. The hearth icon is on one of the vertical action bars on the right side of the screen. The attack button is on the bottom left action bar. Needless to say, after Devilsaur whipped my butt, I rezzed the other three toons, and hearthed out so they could join their buddies.

That was one moment where I was happy there was no one looking over my shoulder to see me do something so stupid.

[Leon]

Heh, they were the smart ones who saw the threat and decided that discretion was the better part of valor

[Ken]

When I got level 77 on my new characters I saw that 1 character didn't have his mount yet. I portalled to Shattrath and was on my flightpath to Shadowmoon Valley to then realize that it was my druid and he didn't need a mount, since he has flight form.
To my defense: I never played a druid before.

[ironcoffin]

I logged onto my first account fine... next while my first account was up in org in the middle of the city I logged onto my second account.. with keyclone... and I broadcasted my second account information bnet and password. lol