What made you start boxing

[Phanes]

This started on another thread and I did not want to derail it.

I put forth the question why did you start boxxing?

For me I think it started back in 1999 when I was playing EQ. I had started as a Pally, I loved Pallys in D&D, but soon found out they were not good at tanking or healing so I switched to a Druid. I went to unrest and at 14 and joined a group of higher teens. They were pulling from the house and asked me to snare, dot, and backup heal. Now remember back when the servers started to see someone in bronze platemail was quite a sight to see. So they pull the Reclusive Ghoul Magi and we kill him and he drops the Savant Cap +3 wis/ +3 int head piece perfect for a wis or int based caster and probably the most powerful piece of gear any of us had seen at that point.

So at the time when EQ fired up beta testers had tried to start this policy that the person who formed the group got dibs on loot and if they did not want it they could decide who got the loot. This philosophy maybe lasted about 2 to 3 months after launch then went full NBG. So the group leader who was 18 says he is going to take it for himself but if anyone wanted to buy it from him it would be 500pp. The guy was a warrior.... So of course I say it should be NBG /lottery. To which the guy says at 14 I was only here at unrest due to his good graces and the phat exp I was getting is my reward. The rest of the group did not agree so he grudgingly allowed us to /random on it and I won the roll.

A few pulls later we get the hand and it drops the ivory bracelet. Again the group leader loots it and says he is keeping it and if anyone wants it they can pay him 500p for it.... So a big argument breaks out and the group breaks up. The leader kept the loot and was seen later /auc it for 500pp in GFay. For the rest of the week the guy kept sending me tells calling me a greedy bitch and told me how I had ruined the game for him because I was a loot whore who jumps up and says lottery every time something drops.

I think it was then and there I basically just soloed EQ as a druid to 50 or 60? I don't remember what the starting cap was. Every time I did get into a group it was nothing but bad pulls, F bombs, fag jokes, and loot drama. Once I hit 60 I had some content I could not solo so I made a cleric and PLd him. I had an old computer sitting in my closet I pulled out and put a 56k modem in and added a 3d accelerator to the 2d card. PLing was easy back then you just had to tag the mob for 1 point of damage then have the other guy blow it up. So as long as something was not really really red you could solo reds pretty quick that way. They did nerf that at some point however when guys were making instant 40s with giants. I never caught how they did it but something about using damage shields and DOTs and zoning.

I played that cleric for guild raids and dual boxxed content solo. Pretty much every game since then to include Jump Gate, DAOC, AO, The Realm, Counter Strike, WoW, and others I cannot recall I at least dual boxxed them all if not just ran entire groups. What I really love about boxxing now is with todays hardware/software I can go back to old games like that make my own group and go explore and experience content I was never able to do before.

So what is your story how did you become a boxxer?

[Apps]

Three events happened to me...

1. I was in a BG and got rolled by 5 shamans in EoE. I reported it, not knowing what it was, (thought it was a hack) The GM told me it was cool, sorry for my luck, "P.S.- next time dont try to take on 5 fully PVP geared shamans :)"

2. I was questing a mage in Howling Fjord. A 5 boxer came in and landed right in front of me, decimated the entire area in ~ 10 seconds and mounted and left. I followed this toon, mainly because I was still curious about the shamans, and this toons guild was a guild I MADE and STARTED 3 yrs prior, but left when I quit wow. Nice chat with her.

3. met a 5 boxer all rogues, in AV. There was no touchin the first "boss" chick. These rogues had the shit down on lock, and if someone spotted them, it was ~3 seconds of knives and stab sounds and a vanish. Amazing!

Sooo, I decided.... If you cant beat em... :)

Here I am... Nearly a year under my belt.

[HomoDoctus]

1. I can't stand pugs.

2. i work 10-13 hour days and usually 6 days a week. committing to a raid time or even heroics with my guild is quite difficult.

3. watching youtube video of boxers in action was very inspiring :)

4. I can't stand pugs. yes, I hate them that much :)

[Phanes]

Apps not to derail but who is your avatar just some random pic or is that from a movie or something?

[lamf123]

I started back in Shadowbane because I had a need for a priest to buff, heals and the for the run buff. I rolled a priest on a second account on second pc and would toggle back and forth via kvm. So i didnt have to constatly swap over to heal I setup a macro that hit the HoT key every 30 second or so and would run that sometimes to. This was before keyclone came along if I'd still ben playing SB at that point I probabaly would have rolled a full group, I think a group was 9 toons.

[~Sanjoin~]

1. I can't stand pugs.

2. i work 10-13 hour days and usually 6 days a week. committing to a raid time or even heroics with my guild is quite difficult.

3. watching youtube video of boxers in action was very inspiring :)

4. I can't stand pugs. yes, I hate them that much :)


HAHA :D much the same as me here :D

I started Boxing a while ago, DAoC it's time, 2002 or so ;)
I guess I was back then one of the first DAoC EU Boxers on our realm or maybe on the 3/4 German realms at least.

in WoW I boxed from the first day, EU launch Day, February 2005 or so ...
I watched this Forums and Communy rise and prosper and I joined 2008 or so and I love to be part of it.
Even if I did not contribute much to the community, that's because my boxing skills are, despite the time I am boxing, not very outstanding :D ... so that's why I love you guys ... that kept me boxing 'till today, where I sure have given it up on some point ...
Thanks for all the stuff and your help all the time guys!!

[Bigfish]

I've always been a big solo player ever since i started MMOs. The allure was more for a world I could lose myself in rather than playing with others. Problem is, designers don't see it that way, and I was always on the poor end of gear.

Eventually I considered a pocket healer, but it never went as well as i would have liked. Eventually got got the point of three hunters in WoW while i bashed 3 keyboards. Then I read about Xzin and how he was pulling it off. Thought wireless keyboard recievers was a good idea, and did 5 hunters. Met Ellay after getting trounced in a few bgs, BC came out and I started a group from scratch based on a multiclass pve group. Worked out pretty well for a while. Now I can't play an mmo without boxing. Not that I don't hop on solo every now and then, but it's a constant reminder of how annoying other players can be, and the drama of guilds and so on.

I find at this point I just prefer to go it alone now, killing my own bosses, running my own dungeons, and so on. Just saves so much time and effort on my part and others to just run like that.

[Apps]

Apps not to derail but who is your avatar just some random pic or is that from a movie or something?

ole college friend of mine, "SAYS" it was his GF at the time. Dunno if its legit or some photo he just sent me to be funny, but I liked it. (He said they arent together so use I used it..lol)

[Fat Tire]

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I started boxing right after seeing this video in 2008 and then discovered boxing pvp after watching ellays vids.

[CheeseCake]

For me its
1. i seriously cant stand 90% of pugs even if you get into a guild you can raid/5 man with its still pretty much pugging with some of the most awful people ever.

2.I watched these
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=multiboxing&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGMhzofKumA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvUHoA-rwc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6CR0UDfJ2k&feature=channel_video_title

Another by ebs i cant find.
Watched these and was just amazed by how great multiboxing seemed. So i started playing wow solo for a bit get the hang of the game see what the population was like and well the word Pug comes back : / so off i went 3 boxing for a month then 5 boxed.

I have gone back to solo couple times but its just not as fun for me now

3. I cant raid as im pretty ill, so commiting to a few hrs to raiding unfortunatly is bad for me as i need to leave in seconds.
Running instances myself is nice that i can take my time and not worry about my AFK.

Plus ive met some great multiboxers now, im talking about you lot
Ebony, Quidding, Cyberus, Howster, Littleburst, Nikita
And this awsome site which i check on first every day :)

[Sam DeathWalker]

Just seemed to me to be the right way to play. EQ1 was my first MMO and instantly I could see that two guys is going to be better then one guys ....


Started 2 wizards on SZ, figured out how to connect 2 pc's to one keyboard (I guess I was the first to use focus fire multiboxing) and then went to 4 wizards (I remember how nice it was when I got the spell rend I was able to one shot mobs in Emerald Jungle coined the phrase "instakill"), then added a cleric/warrior/chanter, and then just kept adding lol ...

Looks like someone remembers pvping against me when I only had 4 wizards:

http://www.aionsource.com/topic/52514-asmo-hate-is-coming-to-zikel/page__view__findpost__p__1208268

[Ughmahedhurtz]

1. I can't stand pugs.

2. i work 10-13 hour days and usually 6 days a week. committing to a raid time or even heroics with my guild is quite difficult.

3. watching youtube video of boxers in action was very inspiring :)

4. I can't stand pugs. yes, I hate them that much :)

This, plus Team Wizzy in DAoC. I've semi-multiboxed (as in, 5 accounts but no boxing software) for a few years before discovering hardware boxing about 6 months after WoW went live. Been boxing WoW and now Rift ever since.

[Bollwerk]

Started in EQ once I saw how hard it was to solo mobs for XP. Never looked back.

[Lyonheart]

My first toon was a human warrior in EQ1. I played him solo, grouped when i could, but soon found out that having to rest for many minutes to regin my health sucked ballz. I bought a 2nd PC and started a cleric.. I have been hooked since. When i started my cleric /follow was not even in the game yet. They added that a few months after the game went live. I would steer two guys with two mice/keyboards at the same time. one n my lap and one on the desk.

I also boxed as many as 5 accounts the old school way. at/tab ftw. I was 3 boxing WoW years later when i saw 5 lvl 18 shamans stacked, running around one shotting things..all casting at the same time. I asked how and the rest is history ( they pointed me to this site )

Its very difficult for me to NOT play a full group now. The hatred of pugs..waiting around etc.. I will try other games.. but If i cant eventually run my own full group.. I might not be there long.

[EaTCarbS]

I was pvping on my hunter back in BC, and got facerolled by 5 human warlocks in wsg. Started googling and what not, ended up giving it a shot, and here I am.

[Kedash00]

i rolled a lock, had my wife's account that had the priest on it, had the priest on follow, and kept alt tabbing to heal. Googled how to play multiple toons at once in wow and stumbled upon this site, and now i'm 10 boxing.

Damn this is addictive. Like crack for nerds...

[Zub]

pretty much the same, was using the wife's account on follow, alt-tabbing.
Had enough of asking for instances (that was before the LFG tool) and saw a few vids, (Ellay and Vyndree notably) and added a few trial accounts.
3boxed at first then 5boxed through the end of TBC and Wrath

[dragoneye]

i work crazy hours and there's no way to raid on my schedule. started 5boxing so i could run dungeon groups while hanging out with mates in gchat. ... now it's turned to 10boxing and i assume soon 25.. ack!!

[Khatovar]

I started with the old alt-tab method in EQ2 because I wanted to level up my crafters a bit for something or other. I don't even remember. It didn't last long, it was meant to be a very short term thing.

Eventually our friends convinced us to come back to WoW and try out that there Burnin' Croosayd. Since raids could be 10manned, we decided we wanted to give it a try, but we didn't have enough warm bodies and no one wanted to heal. I'd wondered if I could do the same thing in WoW that I'd done in EQ2 and found the whole boxers vs bots junk on the forums, so I decided to look into it further. Lo-and-behold, dual-boxing.com.

[valle2000]

I started multibox because I don't want to play with random strangers and it's not possible to play with irl friends all the time. Also I hate rushing through dungeons and often take short breaks (checking email, chatting etc) even inside dungeons. This is not possible if doing pugs.

You can also log in and log out whenever you want without having to care about feeling guilty abandoning other people.

[valkry]

My mate convinced me to :P

[Tonuss]

Everquest leveling would slow to a crawl once you got high enough, like level 30 or so. After level 50 it got even worse. Once I had a druid at level 50 or 51, I figured it'd be easier to level alts by using him to PL them instead of doing the solo/group level grind the 'normal' way. Not only was it easier, it was ridiculously fast and a lot of fun. But other than PLing alts via manual window swapping, I didn't do much with it.

I did the same in WoW after about a year, using a main character to quickly PL alts when my friends weren't on. I probably would not have progressed past that had I not found this place and learned about keyclone. Five boxing looked like a hell of a lot of fun. Once I had keyclone working it was only a matter of time before I'd be running full groups of my own.

[Apps]

You can also log in and log out whenever you want without having to care about feeling guilty abandoning other people.

Love this bonus.

[Gomotron]

My multi boxing goes way way back.

When Ultima Online came out, I bought it and enjoyed a few days of lag hell until the server situation got worked out. Then, after a few months, I started crafting a lot. Blacksmithing required a ton of iron bars, and they were too expensive to buy, so I decided to mine for my own and then smelt them myself. I bought a macro program and would mine on a boat at night and during the day. However, skill-ups in blacksmithing were ridiculously hard once you got close to 100 skill, so I wanted to mine on more than one character to collect twice the ore. Not to mention, I wanted to keep one character mining 24/7 so having a second account made sense as I needed to transport the ore to my house to smelt.

Once I moved to EQ, I started a SHD. I solo'd initially, but I quickly found that SHD's were ridiculously weak. Probably the weakest class at launch. I almost gave up but then decided to add a shaman into the mix. The heals, slows and buffs were amazing and I was able to level with ease. However, soon, the shaman was overtaxed with healing the SHD (still a weak class!) so I added a CLR into the mix. With this team I was able to camp dungeons and spent a lot of time in LGuk (FBSS FTW!). However, once Kunark came out, I really needed some CC for dungeons. So I added an ENC to the group. The Clarity/crack was a godsend as was the CC and attack speed buffs. Overall, however, the group was lacking DPS sufficient to keep camps cleared before respawn, so I knew I needed more DPS. A druid in my guild quit the game and gave me her account to use. So I added a druid for ports and DPS. At this point, I was 1 short of a full group so I decided, what the heck? I added a rogue for DPS. At the time, ROG were the equal to WIZ for DPS and I liked the ability to pick locked doors in dungeons.

I stayed with EQ until Gates of Discord came out. By that point, my group was not strong enough to level effectively, so I was falling behind on AA accumulation. Honestly, I was becoming bored with the game as well and lost the desire to grind.

I am proud to say that my original setup was remarkable in its inefficiency. In fact, one of the pictures of my early setup was used as an example of how NOT to set up multiboxing in the sticky by Bradster. If I had known about hardware key broadcasters, I probably would have gotten a few more years out of EQ. As it was, I made the switch to WoW and by that time, became acquainted with dual-boxing.com and discovered a plethora of new tools to help MB'ers.

[thefunk]

Interesting - I came to it completely differently, had one wow account back in vanilla days which I levelled a pally to 30 and quickly got bored. My cousin wanted to play so I created another account for him (rightly or wrongly, I now know the law). we had a race to 70 when bc came out which he clearly won. then he gave it up.

That left me with 2 accounts, and loads of dailies to complete. so tried playing alt tab and its a pain in the bum! so googled "multiplaying wow", "2 accounts at once wow " and so on. Fortunately I hit this site first and then the reading began...

I didn't know about macros in those days either so went from being a clicker type player to keyclone junkie in about a month. It's a shame I don't have any time to play anymore but it got me thinking about learning vba for Excel - If I could down a heroic 5 boxing, I could bloody well automate some steps to some pointless spreadsheet at work! Now I have to stop myself coding all the time, even if I'm getting disproportionate amount of respect for it Hehe.

[SaraiE]

I found this site! 'Nuff said!

SaraiE

[Unded]

I started multibox because I don't want to play with random strangers and it's not possible to play with irl friends all the time. Also I hate rushing through dungeons and often take short breaks (checking email, chatting etc) even inside dungeons. This is not possible if doing pugs.

You can also log in and log out whenever you want without having to care about feeling guilty abandoning other people.


Right on Valle2000!Those sum up why I multibox.
I started multi boxing in SWG way back when doing the alt/tab thing in windows and eventually found this site when I started to play WOW.
I have some rl friends in my WOW guild-a few became friends from SWG and as they migrated to this game it just seemed the only way to play for me-multiboxing with whichever friends were ingame at the time I was on.I have a couple of Texas gals in my WOW guild-met them on ally aside where I started and they migrated to horde with most of the guild a few months before Burning Crusade came out. I have no wish to solo play the game except to tear up some of my fellow multiboxers in AV cause it needs done sometimes :)

[Kimchee]

I guess I’ve been boxing in one form another since 2000 in Anarchy online. I got my MP to lvl 150 and I decided to create another character. I wanted to run them together so I bought another account. I finally got my Engi to level 94 or so to get the Slayer droids? I can’t remember since it’s been so long. I got bored after this and stopped playing AO for good. I was hoping to go back when the graphics upgrade happen, but that never saw the light of day.
In WOW, I saw a guildy running both his toons at the same time and attacking simultaneously. That’s when I got interested and asked him questions. He basically stated to do a search in youtube. The first video I ever saw was of Vyndree’s and I’ve been Hooked since.

[Atrocious]

I actually started dual boxing before I knew there was a term for it. It was way back in vanilla right after I started. I found that too often my pally would die if I had a bad pull just questing. So added a priest since I had two PCs. Then got sick of wow and the grind at about level 30-40ish.

Then I came back about a year ago. So I joined some RL friends on the server they were on. After running like a crazed chicken after people in herilooms and who knew the instances, and nobody slowing down to tell you what to do, let you loot, etc. I got sick of it. Went back to dual boxing again, just doing quests. Did an instance a day on each of my toons, got sick of that. Also found that my back and neck started hurting from operation two keyboards at the same time. Started looking and found this place. Started 5-boxing right after that.

Shortly summed up, I MB because I've come to find that about 90% if the earths population are assholes. The shit that goes on in PUGs just gets on my nerves. I still remember a poor DK who me and my guild mates got as a replacement when one of our guildies had to log. He was sooooo thankful we gave him some tips and had him tag along even tho he did a meager 4k dps. Instead of just bitching at him and kicking him.

[Shania]

For me, well, sick of the selfish, self centered players in WoW.
Ideally if I could I would box all raids, but its not doable, less people I would have to play with the better in most cases lol.

I raid on my main Hunter in my own guild, 10 man raiding guild which also has my fiance and my daughter as well who raid 3 nights a week in Firelands. Personally i'd rather raid with them and my boxed toons if it was possible, but its not, so we have a smallish guild, with decent core members "for now"

pugs, other guilds etc, its all a pain in the ass, I dont want to waste my time when I am online, I wanna get in there and get what is set out to achieve done, swiftly with little bullshit as possible.

+ being a mount whore its awesome to box certain older raids for mount collecting that your not going to have to share the roll if/when a mount drops etc.

And BG'ing on x3 or x5 its just far to much fun to not box it lol

I dunno... I just prefer doing things myself, or with family, closer friends etc, less people overall = happier times in most cases. /shrug

[Eloxy]

Randomly saw a movie of ellay on YouTube got me in. First started 3boxing then made another for a 4 shammy team. Miss tbc pvp ;)

[Andreauk]

I was solo playing WoW when 5 identical shammies ran past me in Elwyn forest. I whispered them asking how they did it and he/she was really helpful answering all of my questions.

I was sick of fail groups and loved the idea of being able to run things on my own. So once I checked it out and found that it was legal I started 5 boxing.

I'm a slow learner and I'd say it took me a good 12 months before I felt like I knew what I was doing.

[deadguyfred]

1. I can't stand pugs.

2. i work 10-13 hour days and usually 6 days a week. committing to a raid time or even heroics with my guild is quite difficult.

3. watching youtube video of boxers in action was very inspiring :)

4. I can't stand pugs. yes, I hate them that much :)

Pretty much that, I hate relying on people who have no clue on how to work together... I was in Wintergrasp and I saw the most amazing thing.. a 5 Boxer w/ 5 DKs all casting AOD and demolishing the advancing Alliance.. I started wispering him and he sent me to this website, and I knew I had found my salvation! Now everytime someone wispers me w/ a "WTF how you doing that?" I remember those DKs named "Bones" and I tell them to visit www.dual-boxing.com (http://www.dual-boxing.com) for information.

[daviddoran]

I started back in BC when there was no dungeon finder, so getting a group together for a run took a while. I wanted some gear off of some heroic, I forget which, but I got the group together, I flew to the stone, waited for a second to fly to the stone so we could start summoning, got 2 ppl there, then the tank bails and the group falls apart. I had spent 2 hours up to that point and I was like "there has got to be a better way"

I then made a new account, started small, alt tabbed boosting with a paladin, dual screens made it a bit easier than it could have been, but still, hard to keep track, and I said to myself "there has got to be a better way" then I started googling, found the Xzin PvP videos, and Ellay's arena videos, found this site, and keyclone, and the rest is history. I took a break from wow cause shaman were doing shitty DPS, but they got a few buffs, and now they are on top again. Not sure if I want to keep paying for them all (currently using the free 7 day promotions on AV weekend to get geared up again.)

[Zzc2]

I started in EQ 1, without using boxing software and using multiple computers i boxed and farmed many of the zones.

for wow i was doing 3 boxing, tank dps heal, then went to 5 after seeing the video fat tire posted

[ebony]

i was boxing it seems in BC days no software i just had my mage and pally on there own acconts for food water and her profs for the pally i used to keep the mage in the city at raid time on my laptop selling portals all the time making some gold. easy gold back then.

saw a live steam someone told me to watch (prob a lot did) i really like this and did why not try it so got a old pc and started 3 boxing with keyclone as the other software could not work over networks. now on isboxer for a good year + and love it. even help when i can in the irc channels.


reasons why.

1) LFG just came out guild runs die my 50 players a day that used to ask me to tank for them stoped. as they all started using LFG.

2) wotlk seemed more fun did not have time to do dayey quests and all the dungeons on my mage, ok ins que for tank 50min for the mage and wonted more alts (hunter. shammy and a lock.) and wonted to try out see what i could do i was very happy what i did in wotlk. boxing a raid boss with 2 real players is the most stessfull thing i done ever but wow after the 60 or so wipes and he killed him and had access to the full loot WOW! it feels so good. to work so hard and kill something. you know u was doing half the work for.

3) just saw a lot of videos over the years ok shammys x5 is not something i really wonted to do. i did do them in the end as a backup for cata but that backfired and i ended up running deathkights that i love they just feel a bit automated sometimes with the same bar to easy to play.. saw the 5 mages here and gmones and allways wonted to have mages played them since start of wow and really love the mage class i do love the lock class as well with pets. but am back on mages and the game has changed 100% for me. made goblin mages and well i got them to 80 and hated them.

whats next?
will i quit wow? well before i moved back to ally yes i was, I was paying to log on and hating it. 3 years of ally is going to be hard but i wonted to be with more boxers so as i had reroll a group i moved. Do i wish i moved? not really it was fun but to be fair we did not do a lot together. though i find it hard to spell i do like to talk a lot in chats and guild chat good job dual-boxing.com got irc :D . in a guild of boxers sometimes its dead and though i talk noone really wants to.

I just hope my mages can do and offer me what i need out the game. even if its running old stuff for T5 and just doing random stuff i Love AV and can spend days there just doing it so thats all the pvp i need and i hope blizzard brings back some kinda random pvp in the world i can have some real fun with. I still do not think am on the right server to be fair that's a shame. the server i feel i should be on has a lot of world pvp and its RP something am very much into. but to be fair i could not level on it there was tom much world pvp so i would have to think about moving there.


anyway i talk to much....

[jstanthr]

The number 1 thing that got me going was xxin and oathbreaker on magtheridon. saw them a few times in bc when i was getting started, and it's been all downhill from there.

[cmeche]

It was the Veronica Hmgt vid that did it for me.

[drarkan]

I saw this dude named Ace, he had a whole bunch of toons with ACE Variations, A pally with 4 mages, and a priest set aside for doing randoms. I haven't seen him around for a long time. Oh yeah he did have toons with King, Queen, Jack, and such too I think, but bliz made him change those cause they wanted to keep open the idea of making those titles.

But if you read the forums here Ace, I bow down to you in thanks for opening up my eyes to the possibility of multiboxing.

In fact the first time I saw him was when I wanted to take over Hala when I was on my level 80 hunter, and I did a /who for Nagrand, and I saw all the same names like his, and I started chatting with him and thinking about it, I felt like I was one of those people I see when they turn and look at me with the WTF look on their toon's face as I ride by them. I was one of those people, but after realizing that he wasn't hacking, I started googling multiboxing, searching on forums, and watching videos on it, and came to the obsession of wanting to do it myself. Now I can't imagine leveling up a toon without having 4 others to back him up LOL

[Kjelle]

Had 4 accounts in EQ1 but was never a serious boxer, was just for leveling some alts that never ammounted to anything :). Was not using any software just 3 computers and some external numpads.

When WoW came I quit EQ and started with 1 account but sort of retired before BC and restarted with EQ. Returned to WoW when some RL friends started it up, changed main from a rogue to a warrior tank and added another account (priest) to heal myself, later added a third account with a mage so killing would go a bit faster. Boxed some normal and heroic dungeons with 2 or 3 toons with friends still using multiple comps and numpads during BC but mostly during wrath.

With Cata with every quest beeing soloable I almost dropped some accounts but ended up buying 2 more togheter with isboxer. Trigger was seeing some boxing videos and reading Ualaas guid to isboxer and thinking to myself that sounds like fun, wonder if I can do it :)

Am currently boxing a mixed team and have just stared on heroics (12 orbs so far) so I am bit behind the curve. With isboxer and my own full group (or at times with 1 or 2 RL friends) dungeons are fun again.

[vieux]

I started just a way to level alts.
Way back at the end of BC i found a bug where the pally jugements will stack if you cast them with in one second of each other, I started 3 pallys and was able to 3 men all instance at the right level when all the mobs are yellow to me. That was great fun till they hot fix it while I was inside a instance becaust the bug worked when I started that instance but stop working by the time I got to the last boss. But I was hooked and never really stoped.

[dancook]

In early Diablo II, I had two accounts and I would level two simultaneously with great difficulty :) an AOE caster and someone to run after them to get exp.

In early WOW days when Tyr's Hand was the place to be, I got a second account on another PC and controlled them both using two mice and keyboards. I used a warrior + healer combo, so I could just keep farming! fun...

When I learnt more about multi-boxing five characters, it appealed to me because I hated logging to wow at 6pm... and no getting into a dungeon until about 8pm, and then people leaving.. and never finishing it having wasted the entire evening.

Pugs really sucked back then.

[Molson]

I started MMORPGs playing with 1 account, and usually my brother would play with me. He would always get bored much faster than me and I would end up with his account. I think Anarchy Online was the first time I dual-boxed a game as I had both our accounts.

I joined WoW back in Vanilla and 2 reasons drove me to dual box: no scrolls for enchanting, so I needed 2 accts with 2 enchanters, and having my own pocket healer for my DPS.

I returned to WoW 1 account short, and quickly got 2 more for RAF benefits. I was dual-boxing for a while and was getting bored, and I was doing it the hard way: 2 separate computers! I saw a 5 man in a BG just raping people and I was impressed.

I left my old server (PST time) due to it being empty during my prime time (went Oceanic) and found I was sick of working my ass off for a guild master to benefit from my work. (Guild bank/guild XP) - I had helped get my last guild to 25 - it was a twink guild and I was the only one leveling chars to 85...anyways, I decided to start my own guild.

Luckily I was able to buy a higher lvl guild about a week after starting my lvl 1 guild and it has the 10% xp buff, so its all good for leveling up my future 5 man wreaking crew. I haven't done 5 full chars outside the beginning zone YET, but once I get a better computer setup I will.

I think I will have a 4 DK/1 Disc Priest setup at one of my 85 teams. I am currently leveling another team with shammy's and another with mages. I think the Shammy's will probably go 4 sham+1 prot pally

[BobGnarly]

Like many others, I started during everquest (pretty sure I coined the phrase "ever") before there was even a collection of people that talked about doing this. At least none that I'd found. I think it was mostly a bunch of people on their own back then, kind of uncharted territory which was pretty fun (ya, I made up the word "fun").

When wow launched, I played single character for quite a while because I was playing with friends and it was a lot of fun so didn't really feel a need. Then I created my own website and started wearing a loin cloth and bragging about how many hookers I've banged, and before you know it, I coined the term "box" and started playing multiple shaman.

Oh, also, there was this boxer named "xbox" that really inspired me to play multiple shaman. He released a video (btw, I invented videos) showing himself blowing up people on a pvp server and I was hooked! :)

[Zub]

Like many others, I started during everquest (pretty sure I coined the phrase "ever") before there was even a collection of people that talked about doing this. At least none that I'd found. I think it was mostly a bunch of people on their own back then, kind of uncharted territory which was pretty fun (ya, I made up the word "fun").

When wow launched, I played single character for quite a while because I was playing with friends and it was a lot of fun so didn't really feel a need. Then I created my own website and started wearing a loin cloth and bragging about how many hookers I've banged, and before you know it, I coined the term "box" and started playing multiple shaman.

Oh, also, there was this boxer named "xbox" that really inspired me to play multiple shaman. He released a video (btw, I invented videos) showing himself blowing up people on a pvp server and I was hooked! :)

Lol i saw what you did there ;-)

[Fat Tire]

Like many others, I started during everquest (pretty sure I coined the phrase "ever") before there was even a collection of people that talked about doing this. At least none that I'd found. I think it was mostly a bunch of people on their own back then, kind of uncharted territory which was pretty fun (ya, I made up the word "fun").

When wow launched, I played single character for quite a while because I was playing with friends and it was a lot of fun so didn't really feel a need. Then I created my own website and started wearing a loin cloth and bragging about how many hookers I've banged, and before you know it, I coined the term "box" and started playing multiple shaman.

Oh, also, there was this boxer named "xbox" that really inspired me to play multiple shaman. He released a video (btw, I invented videos) showing himself blowing up people on a pvp server and I was hooked! :)

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