Multiboxing and Raiding DKP

[Savage]

Does anyone raid here? An interesting thought just popped into my head. For a guild that uses DKP, do they let each of your multibox characters have independent DKP? I mean, I dont see why not, but I could see people getting pissed that you have all of that DKP to roll with, and that you're taking up 4-5 spots.

[Basilikos]

I'm just theorizing here, but the issue here is to remember that YOU don't have that DKP. Your CHARACTERS do. If one single-boxed character cannot transfer DKP to another single-boxed character, then your multiboxed characters should NOT be able to do so either. Basically, the rules should apply to each of your characters like they do to everyone else's. If everyone has that understanding up front, it should be fine.

This goes to the heart of why the ignorant and naive in the WoW community think multiboxing gives an advantage - they tie their in-game gains to their personal gains, which is ridiculous.

[Savage]

I'm just theorizing here, but the issue here is to remember that YOU don't have that DKP. Your CHARACTERS do. If one single-boxed character cannot transfer DKP to another single-boxed character, then your multiboxed characters should NOT be able to do so either. Basically, the rules should apply to each of your characters like they do to everyone else's. If everyone has that understanding up front, it should be fine.

This goes to the heart of why the ignorant and naive in the WoW community think multiboxing gives an advantage - they tie their in-game gains to their personal gains, which is ridiculous.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. The only reason that i said something is that I didnt think a lot of people here raided for obvious reasons. I figured the few that do would have a lot of info on it. I dont plan to raid, but I just figured that would be an interesting question.

[Suvega]

You better pray you can find a very -understanding- guild. Raiding with 4 characters will be difficult unless they are in desperate need of players for a raid.
Do -NOT- expect to get all your characters in over someone else, that is quite selfish imo.

I.e. You can play multiple characters because you need the "challenge", over someone else who just wants to play.

[TheBigBB]

I'm pretty sure that no one multiboxes to any significant degree in 25 mans. You could pull it off for some ealry Hyjal or BT bosses and that's about it. The guilds who would allow it aren't serious progression guilds or else they wouldn't even care about tossing gear to characters who can't even help later on when personal accountability becomes important. So in that sense the multiboxer who gets loot over others across multiple toons is sort of not playing fair to his teammates anyway because he's not going to be able to bring all his guys to every boss.

[Toned]

I used to 6 box Everquest raids (because the player limit was 72, so space wasn't as big of an issue). Some guilds would let each of my toons act as independent people as far as DKP was concerned, others only let me get dkp on my main. It really depends on your guild. Pre-TBC I 2 boxed MC/BWL/ONY and my guild only let my main have DKP but I could use my main's dkp on my alt if I wanted. I've yet to run into a WoW guild that lets multi-boxers raid, earn loot, and dkp for each character. I also stopped raiding after SSC/TK so who knows now maybe there are guilds more willing to allow MB raiders. I honestly think the best way and probably the only way you will be able to achieve a loot system where you are able to get your toons DKP/Lewt is to start the guild yourself, or with a fellow MBer. Then recruit single people for other roles.

[Toned]

You better pray you can find a very -understanding- guild. Raiding with 4 characters will be difficult unless they are in desperate need of players for a raid.
Do -NOT- expect to get all your characters in over someone else, that is quite selfish imo.

I.e. You can play multiple characters because you need the "challenge", over someone else who just wants to play.

Soap Box Often?
Multi-boxing is a style of playing why shouldn't you be able to raid that way if your guild lets you.

[Tonuss]

If you had a 4 or 5 boxer that regularly ran with your raid group, and they were getting only one character's worth of DKP... how fast do you expect to progress when one-fifth of your raid is gearing that slowly?

[Toned]

If you had a 4 or 5 boxer that regularly ran with your raid group, and they were getting only one character's worth of DKP... how fast do you expect to progress when one-fifth of your raid is gearing that slowly?

Exactly.... you get it !

[TheBigBB]

You better pray you can find a very -understanding- guild. Raiding with 4 characters will be difficult unless they are in desperate need of players for a raid.
Do -NOT- expect to get all your characters in over someone else, that is quite selfish imo.

I.e. You can play multiple characters because you need the "challenge", over someone else who just wants to play.

Soap Box Often?
Multi-boxing is a style of playing why shouldn't you be able to raid that way if your guild lets you.

Make posts out of total ignorance often? Find me even one guild who's cleared through Black Temple using someone multiboxing while raiding. It's not feasible. MAYBE a 2-boxer could happen, but not likely. What do you do when one of the box team has to kill constructs? What do you do on Mother when one or more of your guys gets Fatal Attraction? How do you even begin to do Archimonde? A real serious progression guild would never even dream of allowing all the hard work to be spent on someone who can't micromanage when they could just recruit another solo player. Multiboxing is not a hobby that works well with complicated micromanagement social encounters. Raiding can be done for some early bosses, but not in a serious guild who makes it far.