Help me be like Prepared. =)

[Fukatron]

Alright I registered not so long ago to Dual-Boxing.com; So i will like to say Was Up Everyone!!! :D

:) I've been coming to this website since like 2007 since i saw Ellay Videos at 70 doing
Arena/BG's Saying: Who am I? Aelli Aellie ect. :cool: Before i begin my topic i will like to tell
you a little bit about myself. Am 19 years old graduated from High School last year. Been
working fast food/construction since i graduated. Am about to start college this semester
to start a career and better My Life. Enough with the boring part. :)

Now i know everyone here knows Prepared. "The guy who Multibox/boxed 32 shamans." i dont know
What happened to him but all his shamans are 70+ and his main is 79 but he really inspired me to do
the same. Gaming has been a really big Hobby of mine since like Nintendo playing some Double
Dragon 3 haha. i've taken the time to buy 32 copies of WoW and TBC. just need to find some cheap
WOTLK Cdkeys. i stoped console gaming since i beat PSO on dreamcast in 1998 then introduced to
diablo 1 in 1998 on my Windows 95 PC ^^ To hurry up and end this essay i will like Opinions on what
I need to get Like Monitors, Mouse, keyboards and building specs on how ever many PC's Lol.

I might get alot of bad comments like am retarded but then again its just a hobby. :rolleyes:

PS. I have a 32" LCD HDTV 1080i 720p 480p 480i compatible. not sure if that will be any good for a monitor to use for slaves, but it might work =/

[Zal]

Edit: Nevermind, i'm unable to help. I gotta stop reading stuff at 6:30 am when i haven't even gone to bed yet....

[heyaz2]

On a minimum wage income, how exactly will you afford 32+ accounts per month? There is a point where I think it becomes ludicrous even if you are making $100k+ per year.

You also have to consider what your goals are. If you just want a buttload of shaman for no damn reason at all, go for it. If you have any specific goals - reconsider. You won't be able to solo 25 mans, you won't be able to solo BG's because they require you to be in several places at once (even quad boxing has a serious impact on things like WSG and AB because of 4 people following each other), and as far as raiding towns and things like wintergrasp, people will just spam AOEs (since every class has one now) and kill your group whether it's 32 shaman or 320 shaman. And even if they didn't, I can't imagine justifying the effort to level that big of a group to do the same thing over and over, especially since there's really no tangible reward for that kind of thing.

Be that as it may, if you have lots of disposable income and time, and just want to do something absolutely ridiculous just to say that you did, have at it :)

[Zub]

as heyaz2 says, what are you really trying to do?

[spronnancy]

ummm just a quick question but ummm y dont you just start off boxing 2 accounts or 5 accounts


"I might get alot of bad comments like am retarded but then again its just a hobby."
umm yeah thats one hobby that costs ALOT of money and like Heyaz2 said "On a minimum wage income, how exactly will you afford 32+ accounts per month? There is a point where I think it becomes ludicrous even if you are making $100k+ per year." he is right? and if ur about to start college how will u have time do do this?

[Clone]

While I agree with most of the comments about BG being impossible, I do disagree that anyone could aoe that many characters if they have lightning shield on. I also disagree that 25 man content couldnt be boxed. Although clearly there would be some bosses that arent possible.

If it was me doing it, Id make just 25 characters, 2 paladin tanks, 1 warlock, 1 mage, 1 priest. 20 shamans. Or something along those lines. Id do it purely with the intent of killing some 25 man bosses. I think the amount of time it takes to level that many characters means that you had better have something big to motivate you at the end because you wont make it otherwise. I think this is why Prepared hasnt made it yet. Im not sure what Sam is doing but the way he was leveling his chars via grinding will take him 5 years to get to 80 anyway.

Id most probably level 5 at a time which means you dont have the expense of all 25 accounts whilst you are leveling. Also once you get your first team to 80 you have a pala tank there to boost the other accounts up to 60 with.

Once you have all 25 characters up to 80, then Id buy the equipment needed to use all of them. That way if it takes u 6 months to level all the characters, the new 8 core processors may be out or nearly out and you would be able to get a lot more bang for your buck.

If you are still 100% keen on taking the dive and leveling all 25 at the same time, Id estimate that you would want to aim for at least 4 i7 machines with at least 12gb of ram on each machine.

I hope that has helped and maybe given you a few ideas to work with :)

[Oswyn]

Am about to start college this semester to start a career and better My Life.

Probably not a good idea to start 32 boxing wow then... ;)

[Malekyth]

Multiboxing is really a lots-of-free-time-and-expendable-cash hobby. WoW demands your time and money anyway, but multiboxing comes with a lot of learning and UI-tweaking overhead which cuts into what a lot of us think of as play time. And obviously, more expensive. IMO, though I'm sure someone can prove me wrong, it's not appropriate for a college student. You'll have better things to do and worry about being able to afford. :)

[Meshuggenah]

First learn to construct a sentence, then possibly a raid.

[Bettysue]

32 accounts at 15 dollars a month is 480 dollars a month.

Fast food/construction usually pays minimum wage for non-management/engineering types. But I'll assume you are making 10 dollars an hour, and getting full 40 hour weeks in. That's 1600 dollars a month prior to taxes, but for the sake of it we'll forget about those. You'll be left with a touch over 1100 dollars a month. Take out, rent, food, gas, and money for books for the college classes you plan to take and you're left with next to nothing, then you have to pay those taxes we forgot about. Financally, it's a very poor descision on your part, not to mention the impact the time taken will have on your grades.

College isn't just High School version 2, there is a lot you will have to think about that you didn't have to worry about in High School. You have to pay rent, balance time for school and work, keep your schedule, stay up on your reading, et cetera. If you are really looking to multibox as a hobby, try to keep it in the hobby realm, try 5 boxing for a while, and reduce your initial financial and temporal investments, until you are able to descearn whether or not you will be able to balance life success, and gaming. Remember, degrees pay you, soloing 25man raids does not.

[Khatovar]

I don't understand why you feel the need to go from lurking to 32+ accounts. If you've been following the multiboxing community here for the past 2 years, you know what is required to start. This sounds like just another groupie post, just like the ones we get every so often by people who want to know how to be like Prepared, or who wanted to multibox 30, 50, 100 accounts, with goals no bigger than being a headline on a slow news day at *insert random WoW news site here*.

[Fukatron]

Am not looking for Bad comments on "Learning how to Construct a sentence" Money isnt that big of an issue, and paying a monthly fee of 480 dollars isnt much BETTYSUE. I was only asking on help with computer specs and monitor setup. Thanks CLONE for helping me out the most; Really appreciated.

[Bettysue]

No where did I mention your need to construct a sentence using proper gramatical syntax. You asked for my opinion, as to what you would need to get started. I provided the opinion you requested, you need to financial backing coupled with the time to take advantage of your financial endeavor. Before you can consider what monitor to buy or even which mouse to use for that matter, you need to consider the fact that you will not be able to support your hobby at this level, given your stated income.

Now if you just happened to win the lotto and want to be a gaming phenom for a week or 2 then I don't think you would be here asking what you need to buy, you would be out snatching up the latest and greatest equipment.

You need a network connection that can handle this many accounts, and I don't mean to say WoW demands high bandwidth, but whatever you plan on using to control all of your characters will. Consider a business router/switch combo, as this endeavor will be outside the capabilities of the off the shelf linksys/dlink routers with switches built in. Many colleges restrict your upload and download rates if you live in the dorms and use their network, so you will either ned to live off campus or convince them to allow you to have your own connection installed.

When looking for machines to use stack RAM you'll need it more than anything really. WoW has a comparatively low demand on the processor and graphics card, though these will help your greatest benefit will be seen with RAM. Monitors are your personal desire really, the bigger they are the more they cost it's a pretty well known rule.

Next, find a really comfortable chair because this will become your life, as you will be unable to fund much else. Then invest in a good tutor, because you are going to be cramming a college load into your WoW time. I'm basing a lot of this on my time at ASU while I was making near 8000 a month and still living on Ramen, mind you I completed my degrees while still in the black, it just wasn't easy, college is a building you visit to throw money at most times.

My suggestion is still the same, manage life first then attack fantasy realms and 14 year olds on the other end of the internet. Start small, well smaller, and see how well it works for you then build up to your goal, otherwise you will find yourself trying to ebay those CD-keys trying to buy food for next week.

While I'm on it, a word about misquoting...it means you didn't read for comprehension, and then offered your opinion based upon your own logic fallacy. Issues like these are often the result of improper planning, and poor understanding of the consequence of your actions. It is these traits that will cause your demise. To each his own I suppose, just don't ask for opinions if you don't what to hear the other side. To be like Prepared, you need to be financially stable, college bound on minimum wage does not meet this minimum, therefore, you are doomed to failure prior to your climb to success.

Having worked at a bank for a while I will tell you that spending greater than 25% of your stated monthly income on a single recurring bill is a recipe for financial ruin. Then again "Financial Ruin" might be a good guild name...

[Malekyth]

College isn't just High School version 2, there is a lot you will have to think about that you didn't have to worry about in High School. You have to pay rent, balance time for school and work, keep your schedule, stay up on your reading, et cetera. If you are really looking to multibox as a hobby, try to keep it in the hobby realm, try 5 boxing for a while, and reduce your initial financial and temporal investments, until you are able to descearn whether or not you will be able to balance life success, and gaming. Remember, degrees pay you, soloing 25man raids does not.

This is true! Even if you're living with your parents and pretending like it's high school ... it isn't. It's a new leap of attention and dedication. If you're doing college right, you're living college, using most of your free seconds for cramming in a little extra study. If I were to go back to school (er, impossible, I'm 35 and have a dream career, I'm done :P), I'd dump multiboxing instantly.

[Malekyth]

Then again "Financial Ruin" might be a good guild name...

HAH! I need to steal that someday. :)

[Stealthy]

2 posts and you're already trolling.

Indeed....

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