Do you guys still play one character ever?

[Rampancy]

I'm loving dual boxing so far (3 ele shamans), I'm currently bored as I'm all quested out at level 82.6 and PvP xp is horrible.

Anyway, it seems like I can have a much higher level of play on one character. I'm sure it will always be this way, but if I stick to it will I still be proficient at all 3?

[EaTCarbS]

Back in Wrath I would raid with my pally, then multibox heroics.

[Khatovar]

Higher level of play, sure. There's no doubt it's easier to give all your attention to one character than it is to split it among multiples. But there's also a lot to be said for the average multiboxer against the average non-multiboxer. Back in the day, when I sucked more at multiboxing, I was still outperforming single-played guildmates in raiding and dungeons.

All you have to do is look around here to see people excelling while multiboxing. We've got PvP teams with high ratings season after season. We've got multiboxers who raid current content with just their own multiboxed group, or a handful of boxers and those who multibox half the raid for their otherwise "normal" guild. We've got people who've tackled and succeeded at normal and heroic 5mans before a good chunk of the population was even done leveling. And there's tons of people who multibox other, more personal progressions, like Exalted or Lore Master, or mount farming...even alt farming and profession farming.

There's also lots of multiboxers who break up their teams and solo raid or solo PVP or just wander around looking at flowers. If you're burnt out on something, by all means take a break. Play one character or try something different. Your slaves don't have feelings, they won't feel neglected...though you could end up like me someday. I feel naked if I don't have a swarm of slaves following my main around. ;)

[Kedash00]

i dont ever play solo anymore, ever...if i can't play all 5/10 i'm not even going to log on. that's just me personally though.

[Littleburst]

I quit/took a break from boxing and only solo play mainly a feral atm. I always still played 1 character to either join 4 others for BG or a HC/raid.

It's a game you play because you want to enjoy yourself (I hope), so do whatever you like. Get 50k Critter kills on a lvl 1 gnome if that's what you like.

[Apps]

I go through spurts of time where I box and solo.

My guild is not a MB guild. matter of fact, I dont know any on my server... Right now, I play a priest or pally solo with my guildmates in Firelands, and then I will take a day to do all 7/7 guild challenges via boxing. They love me cause I am basically single handedly leveling our guild in dungeons. I think, once I get into Outlands, the balance will shift, and I will box more than solo.

Comes and goes.

[Tonuss]

Like Apps, I go through periods where I play a single character, and periods where I multibox. At the moment I'm playing a rogue solo and just enjoying the rep/PVP grind. At some point the itch to multibox will become to strong to ignore and I'll start doing that again.

[Rampancy]

Cool, thanks for the input guys. It is much appreciated. It is good to know there is a place multiboxers can come and chat in peace. There seem to be a lot of people that are either amazed or extremely hateful towards us. Thanks for everyone's hard work, this site seems like a great resource that I will be able to use quite a bit.

I am looking forward to gearing my triple shamans at 85. I've only been able to stick around 2200 on single characters, but could never get farther due to a lack of partners. I'm hoping I can at least get to 1800 with triple ele sham this season.

My real concern is that I can't kite. One of the main ele shaman buffs was LB while moving. I haven't spent much time researching this yet as I am not 85, but I saw a thread talking about circle strafing around a target.

At this point I'm hoping I can just burn someone down quick enough to make it a 3v2. Should be fun though!

[Akoko]

I raid on my resto druid and I am levelling 5 druids multibox.

I love both styles of play, couldn't imagine giving up one for the other. Playing on a single character, you get more of an RPG-feel where you actually feel attached to your character and how he or she grows and gets more poweful (and has a story, if you RP). And it's more possible to min/max and play a single character to the fullest in terms of raiding or PvP. And I love socializing with my friends in the guild. I have a blast either doing the 25 man raids, or 10 mans on weekends with a smaller, closer group, or even running Zandalari heroics with my RL friends, using Ventrilo of course.

With multiboxing, it's all you, there's little or no interaction with other players. But this is a good thing sometimes. I never, ever, pug using the dungeon finder and I wouldn't on my main either. I find it very challenging and engaging, and it requires a lot of ingenuity in the setup and class composition. For almost every class it will boil down more or less to spamming a single button for a non-optimal DPS rotation, but things like healing, tanking, and movement will take up all our attention. Movement is one of those big things that single boxers take for granted.

However, multiboxing feels lonely. And my five identical characters with nearly identical names seem to have less "personality" than a single character. So I consider multiboxing to be just one of my solitary hobbies. If I want to play with friends I play on my single character. If I don't want to be disturbed by anyone, and just want to kick ass with 15 treants and 5 Typhoons knocking everything back indefinitely, I play my druid team :)

Edit: One thing I'll never go back to, however, is 2, 3, or 4-boxing. It seems to only result in the worst of both worlds. On one hand, there's the difficulty of multiboxing combined with the asshattery of PuGs, and the fact that you can't run dungeons or setup macros at your own pace as you have 1-3 other people waiting for you. And for PvP, smaller numbers of toons doesn't give enough burst damage to actually outweigh the disadvantages of multiboxing. So only 1-box, or 5-box for me (maybe 10-boxing if I had the money).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I play solo in new games to see how stable the engine is, check out the standard gameplay, etc. Basically, I single-box as a trial to see if it's even worth multiboxing. Otherwise, I can't imagine not being able to run my own group in MMOs.

[skeezy]

Sure, I play with oher ppl sometimes and in groups where I play one at a time, feels a bit odd sometimes but a different kind of fun

[EaTCarbS]

I play solo in new games to see how stable the engine is, check out the standard gameplay, etc. Basically, I single-box as a trial to see if it's even worth multiboxing. Otherwise, I can't imagine not being able to run my own group in MMOs.

I am the same way. If I can't multibox it, then it doesn't hold my interest.

[Jeremiah]

I have mostly given up on PvE and just play PvP nowadays.

I lead with a group on Bloodlust called QQ premades, a cross realm premade service.

When I'm leading a group of 15-40 people, I find it really stressful and difficult to maintain a +90% win rate and box successfully, because there is just too much information to handle.

So when I lead a BG, I only play solo toons.

If a friend of mine is leading, I multibox 3 toons.

Another QQ leader is a multiboxer so quite oft, he and I will head straight to towerpoint and he and I will hold it off against 20+ horde attackers.

3 Frost DKs, 2 Ele/Resto shams and a prot paladin is a mean thing to face in AV. We normally wait for TP to burn then go kill Galv by ourselves.Boxers are unstoppable in AV/IoC :D

[Ashley]

Wheres the fun in single player when you can wipe a whole raid as a multiboxer :D

[Oatboat]

i solo the auction house all the time

[Littleburst]

i solo the auction house all the time

Multboxing is more efficient :D

[Rampancy]

ISO tutorial on how to multibox the AH =p

[Scelesti]

I keep my MB toons and my solo toons separate.

I really hate changing my UI, keybinds and everything else in between the 2. When I'm multiboxing I'll use a completely different set of keybinds(and obviously macros) than when I solo play. I raid on a resto druid and multibox my toons. Outside of raids I probably multibox more than I play my solo characters, and when I'm leveling professions, etc I won't always log on all the characters at the same time(call me crazy).

[Akoko]

I keep my MB toons and my solo toons separate.

I really hate changing my UI, keybinds and everything else in between the 2. When I'm multiboxing I'll use a completely different set of keybinds(and obviously macros) than when I solo play. I raid on a resto druid and multibox my toons. Outside of raids I probably multibox more than I play my solo characters, and when I'm leveling professions, etc I won't always log on all the characters at the same time(call me crazy).

I was actually worried about this same issue when my Druid team hits max level, I was hoping to sub out one of them for my main Druid. How do you people deal with the issue of needing different addon/keybinding configurations? I'm not sure exactly how far the ISBoxer "Virtual Config Files" thing goes.

[Littleburst]

I was actually worried about this same issue when my Druid team hits max level, I was hoping to sub out one of them for my main Druid. How do you people deal with the issue of needing different addon/keybinding configurations? I'm not sure exactly how far the ISBoxer "Virtual Config Files" thing goes.

Having a system in your bindings helps. For me every char has the same basic spells on the same binds. Things like buffs and major cooldowns. I never did anything worth mentioning with several different classes though.

[MiRai]

Having a system in your bindings helps. For me every char has the same basic spells on the same binds. Things like buffs and major cooldowns. I never did anything worth mentioning with several different classes though.
I do this as well.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

How do you people deal with the issue of needing different addon/keybinding configurations? I'm not sure exactly how far the ISBoxer "Virtual Config Files" thing goes.
I didn't pick up ISBoxer until Rift, so it's a bit different there. Basically, I get my alts set up all the same keybinds and then /exportkeybindings <altkeys>, then all I have to do is broadcast "/importkeybindings <altkeys>" and they all instantly configure like I want. Ditto for exporting and then importing the UI settings. Makes cloning configurations a breeze.

As for the ISBoxer config files, considering you can set up a different XML file for each grouping/layout/etc. and have different, specified filenames for each character, it's more or less infinitely configurable. You can aggregate or split things up as much as your methods require.

[Scelesti]

I actually have 2 wow clients. Makes addons a lot easier.

Curse Client will actually recognize two different clients and will allow you to add addons for each separate client and update them separately, etc. REALLY nice feature.

I have found myself solo queueing tank on my "main" DK, as I'm trying to get him some tank gear to make queueing randoms easier. It's worked out pretty well. I just have to be careful not to move bars around. Obviously with a separate client, there's separate settings involved.

To make a second client all you have to do is duplicate your wow folder(copy paste if duplicate isn't an option). The only pain is that on patch day you have to update both clients. Not a really big deal. I don't fully understand the isboxer config files. I think those are more for the way the isboxer addon works in game. I BELIEVE it has nothing to do with the way other addons work in game.

Keep in mind keybindings and macros will stay the same with 2 clients. I tend to run with less addons when I multibox, and I obviously don't solo play with Jamba. For example I find x-perl easier to set up on my boxed toons, but I prefer ShadowedUF on my solo toons.

All personal preference, thats just the way i run it.

[Unded]

This is good stuff! We all play games for fun! I play wow atm and usually play 5 unless my 'surrogate son' is on then I 'll play four of my toons and round robin them to keep same level. I will solo as needs done for certain things-for example Firelands quests. I have an odd number of 85's so may need to solo for the dailies for that .I use a separate wow install for soloing from my multibox stuff.

[warren_woods@email.com]

I play 5 druid team in dailies. Have a mixed class team I don't play as much recently. Am also leveling a shaman team that are at 75. In these and others I play 17 a day that are alchems, 15 xmute masters. So multiboxing is heavy focus, but I also raid 3 nights a week in top horde guild on server. To my knowledge I'm only player 5boxing on the server, but have met a couple with 2 accts.