And yet another multiboxer is born
I've been playing WoW almost since it's initial release, and I'd always found it frustrating that the strategically heavy content was always so team-based: I'ts been said that WoW is not rocket science, and while it's true... well, people are morons. I can't count the times I'd had the perfect solution to a wonky composition or the lack of a specific ability in a pull, and yet the run was called (or just consistantly wiped) because of some retard in the group who couldn't think his way out of a wet paper back if you gave him the explosives to do it with.
I got my shaman to 70, and decided it wasn't complex enough for my enjoyment. I switched to a druid, and involved myself as much as I could in the math behind the sheet. But eventually, you hit a gear plateu, and the math isn't getting you any farther... the game was starting to die out and get boring.
Enter my happenstance stumbling over a clip on youtube, wherein two people played ten characters in kara.
One thing leads to another, and I'm browsing dual-boxing.com, watching videos, and reading keyclone FAQ's during maintenance this week. I went out and grabbed 4 more battlechests, grabbed keyclone, and set to work. My 5box tauren shammy team (Plox, Plocks, Plawks, Plocs and Plokz) went from 1 to 15 in a night. Initially it was a little wonky, but I got the hang of it. I much prefer this setup to the usual single-toon playstyle - already downed all of RFC. To that end, (insert general thanks for the information compilations found on, and linked to on, this site, here.)
I do have a few questions, though - not technical ones, but more social ones. For the first few hours of play (1 through about 7) I picked up and lost several onlookers, fascinated with the 5 shamans following each other around, lining up and lightning bolting plainstriders. I got generally good responses from them - "Oh, sweet" "that's possibly the most amusing thing I've seen in years" etc.
And then I hit the barrens. I saw it coming, but that doesn't mean it's any less of an annoyance. In five minutes, I went from getting the occasional "wow, cool" to being blatently spamed/harassed in tells for botting and hacking and so forth. Most of the videos I've seen have quotes along the lines of "thanks for reporting me as a bot" and so forth - how often has this happened to some of the more experienced multiboxers here, and how have you learned to handle the situation/respond to it? Have you ever had an uninformed moron almost get you in undeserved trouble? Are there any pitfalls to be wary of, aside from the automation bits (which I'm not even sure I want to know how to do)?
Feedback would be appreciated. I'm enjoying this enough (and spent more than enough money) to rough it out and get used to it, but I'd prefer to not jump headfirst into things without at least hearing from the experience of others.
