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I ghetto multiboxed DAoC before moving to WoW. I say ghetto as I wasn't really multiboxing as we know it today. Was basically running 4 PCs and 4 clients with 4 mice to do it. It worked pretty good as I was mostly doing PVE anyway, and DAoC wasn't like WoW -- you actually had one or two characters whose sole job was buffing the group and then standing there looking useless. So I really only drove 2 at a time at most.
When I got tired of soloing in WoW, I made a 2nd account and tried that. Still sucked almost as bad as solo. Then I saw Team Wizzy's videos actually doing 4 PBAoE toons in DAoC from one keyboard/mouse and knew I had to do that in WoW. Of course, this was before I found out about dual-boxing.com and (if I recall correctly) before keyclone/octopus/etc. were even created. Wrote a little client-server app in VB5 that did your basic key broadcast. Tested it on two accounts and it worked, so I bought the other 3 accounts and never looked back.
TL;DR = I knew how to macro and multibox before finding the more advanced tools to do it. I agree that having a tool that automates everything is fine, until that tool stops working. Then you're stuck with no clue how to fix or even diagnose the root cause of the problem.
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I am a fan of auto configs I really like the one in ISBoxer. If you do not want to use the Auto Wizard than do not.
I provide support and consultation on high end test equipment most of our equipment has an auto mode and I will tell my customers that they should not use it as a crutch but more of a jumping off point.
With ISBoxer I set up the auto wizard and than tore apart what it was doing and how it did it. Reverse engineering so to speak.
We all think and work differently if you want to do research and dig into the application and learn as you go that is great. If you want to just push a big button and play that option is nice to have. ISBoxer gives you both options.
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I like that there are wizards, which can get you going fast.
If that's all you want to do.
I prefer reverse engineering the wizard, or at least trying to understand how it works.
A post like Zanthor's "Zero to Hero" is closer to my preferred method.
It says click here like this (so I have to do it myself).
But then explains what we are doing and why we are doing it.
The Youtube video's are good too.
But they go fast and some are for older versions.
With a different means to achieve the same result now.
All in all, extremely happy with IS Boxer.
