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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.
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.
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
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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