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When I started boxing, I went straight to 5boxing. I had already leveled 2 priests, a pally, hunter and lock to 70 in TBC. When I'm running instances with other people, I'm usually stuck tanking or healing. It seems like the only way to get my dps some emblems now is when I 5box. Everyone seems to prefer to pew pew.
I 5-box, though I have 10 accounts total (with 6 active at the moment). I had leveled a character solo to 60 and then purchased a second account to level alts via instance runs, and once I found out about keyclone and this site, it wasn't long before I was running five accounts. I had considered getting 10 to run 10-man raids eventually, but have shelved that idea for the time being.
10 boxing for the ability to level up teams in raids solo.
And when I do want to do something slow with 1-2 toons (raiding a 25-man, shopping on the AH, flying to a location, etc) I can do dailies or something on my other group of five. No downtime.
And because it is fun :)
I five box because I can't 6 box. I came from EQ2 where the group size is 6.
But pretty much the same reason as you. I don't want to do PUG's.
5 here unless my wife wants to play then 3 and she runs 2, working on convincing her into letting us 10 box.
I box 10 when I do it. Largely just so I can have a multi-faceted experience.
I box five. Simply because I don't stand PUGs, and because it gives me access to (what for me is) high level content.
I might try someday if I feel I covered all that is accessible with only five.
I do 5, mostly so i can try to gear up eventually to the point where my extremely hardcore raiding friends will feel comfortable dragging me along to what is the "old" content for them, and not have to be asking them to help me for gearing runs. I also have one buddy who is even more causal and intermittent of a player than me, and I can just leave a slot open for him without having any real effect on my group progress.
I'd have to say one of the biggest reasons i play with any consistency at all is to keep in touch with all the RL buddies I left behind on the east coast (US) when I moved to Cali. There are 3 I know who play wow a lot, but don't use any other form of online/live messaging.
And oddly enough, though I have pugged very little, there are quite a few really fun players I have run with that I'd say overall pugging is about 70% good, 30% bad, from my experience. Usually as long as one of my good pug friends invites me, I can expect a reasonable group.
1...both my accounts have different names so until i get that fixed (which im workin on) i wont do it. once it rectified, then ill be 2-boxing.
I'm taking a break from my five. I'm working on another five team in order to transfer to another set of accounts (for 10 total) when they hit 80. Same as others above - five-boxing in order not to PuG. In the future, I'd like to 10-box for the challenge.