What Single Boxers will never know

[seijitsu1]

Ok, so this is just a random question from a new boxer.

What would you consider to be a pinnacle moment that you have accomplished multiboxing that a single boxer may never experience, or get? And I am not just looking for "I finished XYZ instance with my team" although those are incredible accomplishments and I do not by any means diminish your ability to do it, but I am looking for the stuff that you didn't necessarily think you would enjoy when you first started boxing.

[Mercurio]

Soloing heroics WHILE solo-toon raiding ICC10. It just makes me feel so much better about the raiding experience when I can turn my body 15 degrees to my other computer and make progress on a heroic on my other team while the crazy raid talk or AFKs go on. I just can't imagine having all my focus on raiding with one toon solo. How do people do that?

It's like watching TV with all those life-wasting commercials instead of watching DVR-recorded shows. I could never go back - I like efficiency too much.

[HTeam]

Wiping the alliance side with my 4 warlocks in AV. Just the 4 of us.

[Khatovar]

Completing any instance without round-robin AFKs, loot disputes and Gearscore/L2P drama.

[Littleburst]

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4852/wowscrnshot072708215438.jpg

That, besides running an instance at your own pace, going afk whenever you want to, quit when you want to etc.

[zenga]

What would you consider to be a pinnacle moment that you have accomplished multiboxing that a single boxer may never experience, or get?

- The ability to ignore every single player regardless of his status, name, guild ... whenever i feel like it, without it affecting my gameplay.
- The ability to just afk in a dungeon to make dinner, take a sh** or have a smoke as long as i want.

[lordmythic]

Its the little things that make me laugh which make this all worthwhile:


Whenever you see "LFM Chillmaw" and laugh because you dont need a group

When you are doing your Grizzly hill pvp dailies and some hot shot high resil enhance shaman comes along and trys to gank you but then realizes (too late) you were hiding 4 other toons in the Boomkin.

[zenga]

When you are doing your Grizzly hill pvp dailies and some hot shot high resil enhance shaman comes along and trys to gank you but then realizes (too late) you were hiding 4 other toons in the Boomkin.

Haha true that. I often have that at the icc entrance. When i have too many instance resets i do an AV inbetween. Ofc when i come back my toons are staggered on eachother and pvp tagged. The opposite faction guys see that and try to gank ... and when spreading out and kill the first one you see the others two thinking 'too late'.

It's like you say, those little things makes it worth it.

[Mercurio]

Its the little things that make me laugh which make this all worthwhile:


Whenever you see "LFM Chillmaw" and laugh because you dont need a group

When you are doing your Grizzly hill pvp dailies and some hot shot high resil enhance shaman comes along and trys to gank you but then realizes (too late) you were hiding 4 other toons in the Boomkin.

Yeah, it did my heart good after managing to get Toravon down by myself yesterday to sit in Dalaran and see all the "LFM VoA 10" messages streaming by in trade.

I felt like saying "LFM VoA 10... Oh, wait, I only need me, nevermind. Gonna go solo it." But I thought that would seem a bit pompus.

[Seldum]

For me the answer is easy:

One shotting mobs and players.

Theres just something about the ability to do insane damage on a push of a button.

[Auqiel]

For me, the most interesting experience has been with my well-geared five-man shammy team in AV at level 70. I considered turning off XP gains because I was having so much fun in there. The things which stand out for me echo what has already been said but, in particular:

* All five shammies critted chain lightning (about a 1 in 250 chance) right in front of a huge wave of hordies. I took down twelve of them in a single shot and left another five or six with virtually no HP.

* Defending the towers single-handed, especially in the horde base. You can almost perceive the look of shock on their little faces when they run in to try and get the flag and are instantaneously blown out of the door, off the tower, and wiped out by five thunderstorms.

* There's always one rogue (and it always seems to be a rogue) who fancies his chances at picking off your leader at the start of an AV when you're running for Galv. I don't think they spot that the char running behind your leader is actually four chars lumped together. By the time they realise, they've already been dead about five seconds.

* When opposing characters have learned a harsh lesson at your hands and then come up against you again later. They stop, in the middle distance, consider for a second and then turn tail and run. The time I managed to scare off a group of nine or ten just by laying out my twenty totems in readiness sticks in the mind.

Aside from PvP, soloing an instance with five shammies (and, importantly, no tank) lived long in the memory. It's a shame Blizz thinks this is impossible and won't let me use the dungeon finder to do it.

[Aenar]

I'm recent 5x80 with my toons, so haven't had any high-end epic moments. But I loved '1-shotting' trash while leveling. I especially enjoyed doing every Group quest without asking for assistance from friends/guild. Along with that, enjoyed killing the 'boss'/objective so fast that the NPC's special abilities weren't used. Those are the non-achievement-Achievement moments.

On a side note, doing the Hodir dailies where you feed the ghost-giant a worm... I have to melee cause my team casting will blow the mobs up before triggering the objective... I doubt that single players have that problem. :D

[ghonosyph]

I think my favorite thing is running around with jamba auto decline duel on with my alts following in hellfire and having someone request duel multiple times on my lead and get pissed and yet they try each of my other alts which also decline lol. They keep trying tho, its pretty funny. "why is my duel thing bugged?" hahaha

[SmartJelly]

Checking my auctions whilst stuck in a instance waiting on other ppl. :)

[DrChaos]

NOT having to wait for someone to log in so i can run something or having to sit in a que waiting for tank/healer....

[Gramzngunz]

My favorite moment, and the reason I created my team, was to world PVP by myself. Running into Stormwind ready to melt some face all alone was my most rewarding moment. I could never find anyone to attack cities/world pvp with me, so I decided to make my team so I could do it alone. When I rolled into SW AH and killed everyone, and made my way around the city killing the people chasing me... all my hard work had finally come to fruition. :cool:

[heyaz]

>2k playing 80% of the team

[Blacky_Chan]

Wiping the opposite sides AH and all the Auctioneers in a matter of seconds.. and watching everyone revive is there anymore to say?

[lans83]

Being able to rez myself or my slaves in the middle of the battlefield in any BG as long as one of them survives. My main team is 4 Pallies, see sig below. Whether it be in BGs, instances, or out in the world, if one survives, I can rez my whole team without having to make a corpse run. Of course, if it's in a BG and someone loots the corpse, I'm SoL. :D

[Ughmahedhurtz]

For me, it's the knowledge that I won't need to group with anyone else until I hit at-level 10-man+ content. And the joy of being able to /leave 1.

[edit] Of course, the /leave 1 bonus is less meaningful now that the LFD tool is live.

[Seraphaw]

I guess the recognition I get from fellow gamers, good and bad, is a big part in why I multibox.
It's just fun when people ask questions or just want to see some mayhem being caused and lurks silently behind my characters to see some kind of spectacle.

I also do it for the added skill that requires to play more than one character, it certainly made world of warcraft more appealing when I would have quit if I single boxed long ago.

...and ofc grouping with myself and being able to gank people by myself.

[genocyde]

Mine was doing arena with 4 mages and a priest (all me) last season. I ran into a bizzare all melee DPS team (probably a 10 game points farming team with 0 rating).

I popped arcane power, icy veins, trinkets and all and cast blizzard x4 between us and mind sear on one and not a single one made it through alive. 10 second victory with 0 damage taken. I wish I had a fraps of that one.

[Bigfish]

Getting The Safety Dance on Heigan while 10boxing.

[Sam DeathWalker]

"Wining" EQ1:


http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?&topic_id=133048



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Sam Deathwalker wins this - the rest of us lose.

Everyone just walk away now


Notice the times:

[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonflames hit a Blackwater resident for 8920 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonflare hit a Blackwater resident for 8408 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Samadvancer hit a Blackwater resident for 10726 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] a Blackwater lookout was hit by non-melee for 34 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater lookout was pierced by thorns.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater lookout pierces YOU for 580 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater lookout tries to pierce YOU, but misses!
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] a Blackwater lookout was hit by non-melee for 34 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater lookout was pierced by thorns.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater lookout punches YOU for 1069 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Samfinancer hit a Blackwater resident for 8532 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Samromancer hit a Blackwater resident for 8920 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonsfires hit a Blackwater resident for 9870 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] You slash a Blackwater resident for 198 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] You slash a Blackwater resident for 253 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] You slash a Blackwater resident for 168 points of damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonwind hit a Blackwater resident for 7677 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonblaze hit a Blackwater resident for 8286 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonflood hit a Blackwater resident for 8043 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonstorms hit a Blackwater resident for 9884 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] You cannot see your target.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Samdancer hit a Blackwater resident for 9455 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragonswarm hit a Blackwater resident for 7385 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] Dragongale hit a Blackwater resident for 9141 points of non-melee damage.
[Thu Jul 17 02:46:18 2008] A Blackwater resident's body is consumed in ghostly flames.

[genocyde]

Things a single boxer will never know: Sam Deathwalker

[coglistings]

the time when I entered in the 5 new account keys after already being a fiveboxer and then beginning to think how another 5 accounts would work out ingame....

/bowwing before sam.....

[Marious]

Knowing that you will be reported multiple times and most of it is ignored by the GM or the GM talks to you and tells you, your not doing anything wrong and that they will take care of the reporter for being abusive :) Getting praise by other players for boxing :() doing dailies and getting x5 the reward :) Not caring what anyone else thinks just cause your a boxer. And so much more.

[HTeam]

logging on, doing transmutes x8, cutting gems, putting them on the AH and collecting yesterdays sales of 3k gold....in under 10 minutes.

[Gramzngunz]

Things a single boxer will never know: Sam Deathwalker

Samdeathwalkers WEBSITE w/ all his crazy pictures in the short shorts and fuzzy vest! haha!

[seijitsu1]

I bow to Sam Deathwalker,.. although only moderately and while keeping eye contact after having seen his pictures.

[lightstriker]

gank your own opposing fraction alts.

[thinus]

The art of the PENTAGRAM!!!!

[lans83]

providing you have enough accounts, like Sam, being able to raid a capital city anytime you feel like.

[Maxion]

Killing a faction leader by myself using just 5 characters.

[ragawaga]

Killing a faction leader by myself using just 5 characters.

What team did you do this with?

[Maxion]

What team did you do this with?

My multiclass team, screenshots are in the screenshot forum somewhere, maybe i'll do it again later and fraps it.

[Gormand]

Coming down on flying mounts with tank in the lead, hitting the dismount button while still a reasonable way up, spamming DPS and Tank macros and watching a hail of arrows streak in from off screen over your tanks head to destroy the mob you had targeted and having it die just in time for you to get there and loot it.

No matter how many times I do this, it still looks cool and makes me glad I multibox.

[Blacky_Chan]

I just love how amazed people are even by simple 5 man teams let alone 10-25 they are so interested to learn more about it i think ive converted atleast 15 people to dual boxing and onwards :3

[Saoul]

The pain of a 300g+ repair bill :mad:

[Ellay]

The idea that you are no longer bound by rules the game has made. You've set your own and it bends to your will.

[Ghallo]

For the first time ever:

Wife: You can play as long as you're multiboxing.


Seriously, multiboxing saved my marriage. Being able to AFK any time I want (hell, I've walked away in the middle of tough fights) makes multiboxing awesome.

Back in the BC days, I had my guildmates run through to Blackheart the Inciter for the trinket about 15 times (for my tank). No trinket dropped and 2 evenings wasted. Of course, nothing they wanted dropped... and my god how boring!

Three days later my guildmates asked me to help them with a run. I agreed (they had to have a tank...) and 2 minutes later my wife walks in to say her best friend from out of town wants to go to dinner with us.

Suck.

Shortly after that I started multiboxing. As my guild fell apart I simply ignored the chaos and enjoyed the blissful silence of Guild Chat. Soon I was able to complete content alone that my guild couldn't do together. Oddly enough, I still don't have that trinket... oh well :)

[suprafro]

Having some alts fall of the bridge in blades edge arena, or getting stuck on the edge of the ramp while in persuit of someone

[Poyzon]

Being able to take as long a break as I want in the middle of doing an instance has been invaluable for me.

[Tdog]

Completing all the Heroics in about 2 - 3 hours while at the same time not once having to put up with some annoying whiny little beotch, complaints about loot, or any other kind of drama. Then log off and enjoy the rest of the day with my friends.

[Saithe]

Tanking TOC25 on my Warrior on one screen while doing ICC25 on my Hunter in the window behind it. (A !@#$ ton of alt-tabbing in the middle). And winning loot on both of them.

Other than that, it's the little things. Being able to log on an alt to buy something from the AH and run it to the raid instance without my main leaving is nice, so is checking the AH on my banker alt, or just taking 2 of my characters (all different classes/names) into 1 heroic/raid without anyone else ever knowing until it's too late...Good times.

[Gomotron]

Being able to take as long a break as I want in the middle of doing an instance has been invaluable for me.

+1

Last night I put my daughter to bed as I was running Heroic DTK. Parked my team in front of Novos. When I put her in bed she woke up and wanted me to stay with her until she fell back asleep. 20 minutes later I snuck out of the room and finished stomping the instance.

Win!

[Auqiel]

the time when I entered in the 5 new account keys after already being a fiveboxer and then beginning to think how another 5 accounts would work out ingame....

/bowwing before sam.....

Coglistings... I'm right on the brink of doing this very thing myself. How's it worked out for you? Has it been worth it? Any unexpected complications?

[Zaelar]

Playing the AH during a raid to cover the repair bill. When people talk about how much they lost I talk about how much I made. +1 for doing something else while raiding with 1 character(one time I did a voa during downtime), and +1 for being able to break whenever you want without inconveniencing a whole group.

[Maxion]

Killing a faction leader by myself using just 5 characters.


What team did you do this with?


My multiclass team, screenshots are in the screenshot forum somewhere, maybe i'll do it again later and fraps it.

Making movies of doing the things mentioned in this thread. ;)

Faction Leaders 5-boxed (http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=28794)

Someone should make a movie of themselves running two different raids at the same time.
Maybe whisper yourself back and forth a bit during it to prove it is actually done simultaneously.

[Mukade]

When "Looking for guild charter signatures, paying 10G" looks far more appealing.

Having the Badboy addon, and automatically reporting gold sellers 5 times.

When choosing trade skills is about which one not to pick.



But most of all, it's not just about being able to run instances at your own pace, and the satisfaction of completing them solo.

It's about really being able to experience the lore and the ambience of those places. Doing all the quest chains that lead up to a place like Wailing Caverns, really understanding what's going on in there, and being able to become a part of that.

When your party of adventurers can remain a party for the whole of the game, and really have adventures. When all finishing an instance means, is it's time to start another adventure.

[HTeam]

Standing behind Balinda's house in Alterac Valley and dropping a volley of dots on each alliance that rides past. Ok, that's fun all by itself, but the best part is taking along a friend who stands downrange and finishes people right at the point where they have to dismount or die.

[Seldum]

I have one which isen't "positive".

Having to spec 5 chars or more. Emptying 5xbags, or leveling 5x2 professions. Its very time consuming.
Or macro 5x toons and setting up the add-ons etc.

But despite the above its still a epic win to do content on your own. Theres just something about the raw power of 5 toons I never get tired of.