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d0z3rr
07-07-2008, 02:58 PM
Okay, some of these may not apply to everyone, but this is a general list of the negative aspects of multiboxing:

10. Makes solo boring - Tried to play a character solo after multiboxing for a while? Yep, it sucks.
9. Addiction - Hey it's Saturday and 1pm, lets play my multiboxing team! Hey it's now Saturday and it's 8pm, I still need to eat dinner!
8. Always being tempted - What would this team be like? What if I created this team and tried this....how would this work? I'm always tempted to try different groups.
7. The cost - May not apply to those with deep pockets, or those who know how to work the WoW economy. 5x WoW = higher electricity bills, 5 subs, more computer hardware and/or peripherals. 5x toons = 5x mounts to buy, 5x characters that need bags.
6. Harder than it looks - You sat there and watched that Ellay video and was like "cool, let me hop right in". Several hours later you're STILL setting up your UI's and dealing with macro issues, dealing with fearbombs, figuring out what to do when your "main" dies.
5. Living up to the hype - You enter a random bg, and see "Omg multiboxers, we're gonna win!" Everyone follows you expecting you to decimate the entire instance because they watched Ellay's video on warcraftmovies.com.
4. Living in fear! - Always wondering if Blizz will nerf multiboxers to the point where we can't do it anymore. Always wondering if Keyclone will get you banned. (doesn't bother me, but I see this ALOT).
3. Time to setup - Stated before, I don't know about you guys but it takes FOREVER to setup new chars. I gotta setup their ui's, setup the assist/follow macros, figure out what I want to name them, buy them bags, figure out their talent specs....etc. Could be just me....luckily bongos and trinity have a profile you can save/load.
2. The attention - You'll find people following you alot, asking questions, making remarks. People in bg's will bother you. You may get praised alot, or spat on. But after a while it gets annoying and you wind up having to ignore it all - even the nice people.
1. The noobs/morons/aholes - All the morons that say we're hacking, all the noobs who can't seem to figure out how we do it. As if it's some grand mystery. I mean seriously, how hard is to google? YES we need 5 accounts, YES we pay for 5 accounts, NO it's not hacking, NO I will not run you through an instance, NO I will not be selling the accounts. The same frickin questions over and over and over. QQers on the forums that try to get us banned because they were hit by 5x chain lightning. As if it's hard to find 4 other shamans and do the same thing while coordinating on vent. People that say we ruin the game. People that think we're botting. It's like Blizzard needs a mandatory Intelligence Quotient test when signing up for an account.

Of course, all these negatives are far outweighed by the results. Feel free to add more.

noir
07-07-2008, 03:21 PM
Only thing that bothers me is the $$$. XD

dancook
07-07-2008, 03:25 PM
Valid points, but I did expect collection quests to be #1

-silencer-
07-07-2008, 03:32 PM
Valid points, but I did expect collection quests to be #1
Especially since my first tauren characters were a multibox team.. EVERYTHING in the tauren starting areas is a collection quest. :/

I'd pay money to join a server with a mandatory IQ+maturity interview+test.

The most annoything shit.. worse than the "WTF HAXX BOTT" people.. are the passive-aggressive ones like last night:
Whisper from mr-noname:: why do you waste our time with that addon?
Reply to mr-noname:: which one? i'm using around 40 addons.
Whisper from mr-noname:: i think you know which one
Reply to mr-noname:: www.dual-boxing.com - forums there explain everything.
/ignore mr-noname

mackenziemi
07-07-2008, 04:07 PM
yeah I gotta agree with Dancook, Collection Quests #1 multiboxer bane ;( :cursing:

kura
07-07-2008, 04:10 PM
I just avoid the collection quests.. I'd rather go collect "honor" moonfiring people in STV.

turbopinto
07-07-2008, 04:38 PM
For me:
#1 - Alliance doorways with their little lips that the following 1-2 chars get caught on.
#2 - towers and their ramps that people love to fall down off of.
#3 - collection quests that lead to other quests that have good items.
#4 - fearbombs just after using the beast within.

blast3r
07-07-2008, 04:48 PM
hehe..this is so true. think i'm going to go make me a /say me only speak chinese macros. (no offense intended, btw)

Fleecy
07-07-2008, 05:50 PM
#1 Collection quests! :cursing:

#2 Movement based boss/instance fights! :wacko:

Zite83
07-07-2008, 06:50 PM
#1 Macros for me... I just installed Trinity 2 and so I had to redo all my macros... Which is a good thing, because I now have more space to make bigger macros... What I didn't know was... Wow... I have alot.... of macros.. Redoing them all into Trinity was painful.. I spent about 2 hours .. just retyping them all... 8| I also didn't know how complex some of my macros were...

mojofizznut
07-07-2008, 07:08 PM
I'm five-man'ing with software only (beefy pc), so slightly different pains:

1) running through Ogrimar in the evenings (no trouble in instances, bgs etc, just the major towns)

2) Those pesky bad pulls when I have to work hard :)

Someone mentioned 'movement in instance boss fights'. This was a pain at first, as fights somtimes jump behind your four dps etc -- the key here is to just forget about follow during fights. Use your movement keys and rotate all of your five man around (back up, strafe, spin, you can do it all). Then after fight recollect in follow. If you have /assist in your /follow macro (say if you are using the no-focus strategy), seperate them into two macros on two keys. The reason is each time you /assist to change targets, /follow hits and will spin your slaves around facing you - and in wacky fights where aggro is all over, you need to target and move them independently. Anyway, works for me.

Mac
07-07-2008, 07:41 PM
- Follow distance not adjustable
- That 5th and final item you wanted for all your toons that refuses to drop.
- Undocumented addons that you know would make your life easier but your not using because you can't figure them out like everyone else.
- Zeppelin arrival loading screens.

edit: forgot one... the tab key.

TheElles
07-07-2008, 07:43 PM
Definately collection quests and $$ for me. The other one I don't like is when you hit a lag spike and one or more of your chars are suddenly out of /follow range and you have to double back and collect them :wacko:

Mendicant
07-07-2008, 08:46 PM
1 or more of your followers getting snagged on random objects

Spiral stairs/ramps

Tasty
07-07-2008, 08:51 PM
My one and only problem - WoW Critical errors. I get so many of them lol :/

Yamio
07-07-2008, 08:59 PM
when you hit a lag spike and one or more of your chars are suddenly out of /follow range and you have to double back and collect them
/agree

Some collection quests I don't mind doing. The ones where every mob will drop what you need comes to mind, but that's only up to a point. That damn TM quest where you need 30 skulls is pure caw-caw.

Diamndzngunz
07-07-2008, 09:04 PM
You forgot to add epic mounts and failing to follow, swear its gay

OzPhoenix
07-07-2008, 09:11 PM
Spiral stairs/ramps

This.

5 Tauren Shamans just weren't built for some of these tiny little stairs.

Plus - Undercity Elevator.

kwschs
07-07-2008, 09:16 PM
Only thing that bothers me is the $$$. XD

QFT@@

blast3r
07-08-2008, 11:10 AM
1 or more of your followers getting snagged on random objects

Spiral stairs/ramps

This is one of the main reasons I do not miss being Horde. I literally hated anytime I needed to get on a zep or even a flight. Seems most of them are up winding stairs. Heck, I hated that before I had more than one charachter and hated it 5 times as bad afterwards.

Sina
07-08-2008, 12:03 PM
THOSE STUPID CIRCULAR THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO WALK UP IN OGRIMMAR TO GET TO THE FLIGHT DUDE OR THE ONES FOR THE ZEPS... OMFG I HATE THOSE FUCKING THINGS

Mak
07-08-2008, 12:29 PM
Wow, great post. I definitely have to agree on the collection quests, spiral stairs and lag spikes. I'm PvE through and through (even though I'm dying to get my hands into PvP, just haven't had the guts yet) and quested the whole way up, collection quests and all. The low drop rate ones sometimes took hours. The spiral stairs (esp those in Darnassus for me) piss me off unless I stop every couple steps to make sure my girls are following me. And the lag spikes! Just recently I get them with my pally's Crusader Aura on and I end up leaving one or two of them behind and have to go back and get them. I have quite a habit of looking at the other screen to make sure they're all following me but when I fail to do that and wonder why something isn't dying fast enough, I realize my two mages are left at the other end of the zone.

Snowfox
07-08-2008, 08:37 PM
jumping while swimming breaks follow!!! curses blizzard!!!!

Sanctume
07-08-2008, 08:54 PM
jumping while swimming breaks follow!!! curses blizzard!!!!Water Walk FTW.

I hate not having enough keys for my macro without spending extra $$$ for something like X-keys.

Eteocles
07-08-2008, 09:02 PM
#1 Worst thing about Boxing: Runaways. ('http://home.comcast.net/%7Egotnks2/WoW3/Runaways.jpg')

gilley
07-09-2008, 04:46 AM
jumping while swimming breaks follow!!! curses blizzard!!!!

Pressing spacebar while on flying mount breaks follow :(

Molt
07-09-2008, 07:23 AM
Rolled a set of Alliance toons recently and made a discovery which annoyed me greatly: If a Gnome is following a human (not tried with other mains) into the water then the Gnome will drown.

I know there's a lot of people who'd approve of Gnome drowning but having characters not only stop following but just randomly die isn't fun. I ended up lining up the entire lot on the beach, move backwards to remove follow, then hit Autorun on each char and 'Follow Main' when they hit the other side.

Yamio
07-09-2008, 07:34 AM
I know there's a lot of people who'd approve of Gnome drowning An Orc told me Gnomes are good for eating too, but they don't digest well.

Frosty
07-09-2008, 07:58 AM
Rolled a set of Alliance toons recently and made a discovery which annoyed me greatly: If a Gnome is following a human (not tried with other mains) into the water then the Gnome will drown.

I know there's a lot of people who'd approve of Gnome drowning but having characters not only stop following but just randomly die isn't fun. I ended up lining up the entire lot on the beach, move backwards to remove follow, then hit Autorun on each char and 'Follow Main' when they hit the other side.This happens when humans follow draenei as well. :(

-silencer-
07-09-2008, 10:14 AM
Rolled a set of Alliance toons recently and made a discovery which annoyed me greatly: If a Gnome is following a human (not tried with other mains) into the water then the Gnome will drown.

I know there's a lot of people who'd approve of Gnome drowning but having characters not only stop following but just randomly die isn't fun. I ended up lining up the entire lot on the beach, move backwards to remove follow, then hit Autorun on each char and 'Follow Main' when they hit the other side.This happens when humans follow draenei as well. :(
Just have a 2nd /follow key, specifically for water, where the group follows the smallest member of the party. Problem solved.