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I'd already grinded up 4 or 5 chars to 70 solo by about this time last year, but I simply didnt have the time to take advantage of having them all, so that got me thinking, hmm I could get a 2nd account and just have the priest follow the warrior and heal him or whatever. I jumped on google and searched for something like "multiple accounts macros" and stumbled across this site. A week later I had 5 accounts, an upgraded PC and a whole new game to play. Wow has never been the same since.
I stumbled upon boxing a long time ago, but didn't think much of it back then, but when RaF XP bonus came along and an internetfriend was talking about it, I decided I should try. I was going to level a new char (paladin) anyways, and since they suck a lot for solo play, I wanted some "backup". I started with 3 chars, pala tank and then 2 shadow priests. I was thinking to myself "what is the point of doing just 3 chars? I wanna do instances by myself damnit!", and since I got 3 accounts going, the expansion to 5 wasn't any troubles. Just about the time I hit 60, they announced the Vampiric Touch/Replishment changes, also the buffstacking changes, so I decided I wanted a synergy-team. so, here I am today, level 65, 5 different specs, and soloplayed Ramps, BF and SP. UB tonight =)
PS: Oh yeah, and pugs sucks ;)
History: I originally was a student with a very limited budget, so when I was introduced to the idea of MMO games some 10+ years ago, I just laughed. Way too much money to waste on a game, when you can just download all kinds of other games. :whistling: (having no money and a gamer-addiction, makes you do immoral and deeply illegal things - so dont tell anyone, but I didn't pay for software back then). However, I was a bit fascinated by the elimination of the "4 player" limit, which most games could offer. Also, most games were quickly rushed through, and then discarded anyways. So I started buying Diablo, which at least supported 8 players. Now there was some fun times, and still - 5 tiers with 8-10 "levels" in each - and then 3 difficulties. Again, you just got through it, and after farming items for 2 weeks, it gets really old, really fast.
So strategy games, C&C and warcraft was the way to go. And ofc Heroes of Might and Magic series :love: . And sometime after Diablo2 LOD expansion, someone whispered the magic words in my ear "Blizzard is making this new game, and it's gonna be bigger than anything the world has EVER seen" . He and I got lucky some time after, and landed us 2 spots in the us closed beta. Later, we switched to EU beta, and got a much better feeling of a MMO-rpg, since playtimes suddenly coincided with the majority of other beta-testers. And it was just AMAZING to run around and meet new people all the time, in this vast world. So when Wow was released in EU, I had gotten my gf hooked aswell and a bunch of friends. We all started new characters on Draenor EU, and played in groups. After some months, we joined a lvling guild. Fun, casual and relaxing. But slowly also boring. Because what was this "Molten Core" thing that people kept whispering about ? So, to fast forward a little - several months later, a new raiding guild formed on Draenor, called Chimaera. Most of us joined, and we set foot in Molten Core. And then it took off. We quickly became the dominant guild hordeside. Clearing Molten Core was a matter of months, BWL a matter of a few more months, then farming while waiting for the no 1 guild on the server to open the gates. (they were 5-6 months ahead of us gearwise, and had an idea before us. They made the entire server grind silithid wooshies for them, in return they promised the most active farmer a full BWL run, with ALL drops). So they completed the scepter, and opened the gates. We competed with them for kills in AQ40, and they were still slightly ahead, so they got C'thun down before Naxx, we didn't :( .
Naxxramas - to make it short, massive competition and in the end, they killed 4 horsemen, we didn't. We got 3 server firsts, they got the rest in there.
TBC talents hit, honor changes, game changes. Raiding is more or less suspended. Alliance guild falls apart(!) and Chimaera prevails. TBC hits. Chimaera levels up, and claims 4-5 server firsts in Karazhan, clears it first, Gruul first, and from then on, well, lets just say, they are the only guild today on the server, who has killed Kil'jaden. And the server firsts are plentiful (read: unchallenged)
And this was where I part ways with Chimaera. The amount of time dedicated to raiding was simply too much. And, depending/being depended on by 24 other people for 5½ hours a day, 5-7 days a week got a bit rough on RL.
So I went casual ... and had seen heard some fun videos on youtube existed, about this guy playing a bunch of mages... (xzin ofc) .. then shortly after, my eyes opened to the amazing amounts of whinethreads about this "multiboxing thing". I liked the idea, of making yourself less dependant and more versatile - and also actually adding some challenge to the game. Plus the freedom to be slightly dominant in pvp, when facing complete scrubs.
And, after watching a bunch of other videos, one of them linked this site directly in the video. So I came here. Registered. Read the wiki. (yes, I read it first!!) Read noobthreads. I gave it about 2 days thought, then bought a new gaming rig, with quadcore and stuff. Bought 5 new battlechests (keeping my main account able to boost) and started MB'ing.
Then ofc bought 5 new chests 3 weeks later, when RAF was introduced :/
Made 2 new teams, and are currently lvling them.
Latest feat: soloing Zul'farrak @ lvl 45, with a 5-boomkin team :)
Loving it, and might make the druids my mainteam for WotLK.
Damn, longest post ever :S And too lazy to shorten it.
Screens from Xzin's crew, posted by a guildy on the guild website I was in back then. There was no easy to use keyclone-like program yet(that I knew of) so I would have to go and buy 5 pc's.
A year later I found this website + keyclone and started with some trial accounts.
The real start was running into Siker on 5 mounts with his 4 locks + 1 priest ... Upgraded my pc to his pc specs and got started in no-time.
:thumbsup:
Now been away for 4 months(been playing solo chars), but with WOTLK around the corner I'm now back :thumbsup: (still got 11 levels to go for 70 :D )
My multiboxing started way back in Asheron's Call. They allowed plugins and bots (just nothing unattended), so I wrote a "guardian bot" program, and used it on two extra accounts. I'd run around on my main toon, and have this extra pair of guardians running around with me. If anything came near me, they'd help kill it. (And since things came near me when I attacked them, it worked well... Much like running around with a pair of NPCs.)
In WoW I had one account until probably 4 months after TBC, then decided to level a second toon, and wanted to use the first to level them. No multiboxing happened there though. Early this summer I realized that if I moved my healer to a third account I could farm rep in some instances with my hunter, tankadin and resto druid. Seeing how much more efficient having a buddy join my three turned out to be, I added a fourth in mid summer. Just in the last two months I found that when a fifth toon joined my four we could actually take down some bosses, and rep farming became pretty easy, and yet guildies weren't on all the times I wanted to do that farming, so I added the fifth account.
My guild is tiny, and often doesn't have enough for instance runs, so I'm really enjoying having five toons. Also, I've recently gotten my group geared to a point to be able to actually handle some heroic instances, and that's far better yet. Definitely looking forward to Wrath and hoping to "solo level" by using instance runs there from 70-80.
I was interested since the early days when I saw a guy with a priest and a warrior. I was so jealous that he had his own healing, where my warrior had to sit there and eat and drink and get slapped in the face with no back-up! Then, I actually encountered the Zins in battlegrounds when cross-server opened up. I didn't know how he did it, but I didn't quite care yet. I just decided to open up a second account later on and box it like a total noob with no macros. Just two computers and pushing every button on both of them. Maybe this is why playing 5 different classes on one keyboard doesn't seem bad to me, because I am used to using TWO keyboards. I boxed that way for a whole year!
Once RAF started, I got a great new computer and finally read about how to play 5 at once. I set them up on one computer with one keyboard, experimented with different classes, and a couple months later I'm doing instances and loving it.
I started multiboxing (2 boxing to be precise and the term used at that time was botting) in EQ not long after Kunark was released.
I wanted to be able to log on and achieve stuff without waiting to get a group.
Then I 3 boxed DAOC. And 3 boxxed eq2.
Didn't multibox wow until RAF bonus.
I can't really remember how it happened. I remember hearing of Xzin back pre-tbc and watching his videos, and although I thought it was amazing I wasn't ready to buy 5 PCs and do the hardware gig. Just seemed excessive and my room is already 80 degrees from one pc and a large monitor. That and I travel almost constantly and had been playing my main(s) on my laptop from hotels and other places I was staying, so even if I had invested in the hardware it would just sit in my unoccupied apartment most of the year.
Sometime around June I was watching some kind of video and googled some sort of keywords that I can't remember, and discovered that it can be done with software, then I was sold. I managed to level my first group on my laptop, minimum graphics settings but definitely playable
I was about to quit WoW but i knew how much money WoW saved me (from going to the pub/clubs everynight etc) i wanted a new way to make the game interesting and sure enough 1 EOTS my cousin and i were getting demolished by 5 shammys, i just loved jumping in the middle of them and getting blow up in 1 hit i thought it was hilarious so i started up my own team =D but can only get 3 going atm, stupid comp needs upgrades for more :(
I've played WoW since the very first beta, and had gotten to a point where I've done everything, from hardcore grinding, to Warlord, to questing, fooling around, ... So I was about to quit, since I was just fooling around casually now.
Then a guy at work said he'll be trying out multiboxing. And I beat him to it by registering 4 trial accounts to give it a try. The effort and level of thought that went into macros and then enjoying the final result convinced me to go for it. So I upgraded to full accounts and am now lvl 39, and will do my very first AB this weekend :)
Loving it.