What got you into multiboxing?

[Bigfish]

Initially, it was because I played a hunter, and getting groups as a hunter back in the day was pretty hard, since traps were largely different and other DPS classes tended to do things better. (ie, they could CC better and DPS harder) So when my wife got me a laptop, I put WoW on it, and leveled a Shaman thinking I could use her to piggy-back my way in to groups. Didn't quite work as planned, and so I put up an older computer I had lying around and leveled a Warrior to take advantage of the tank shortage. Again, no dice. So I finally said "screw it", bought 2 more computers, and ran my own party of 5 hunters. It worked out ok until 60, when things got kinda iffy, but then BC was just around the corner, so I set up a 5 man group of a shaman, paladin, mage, priest, and druid and haven't looked back since.

Now I've got a 70 of every class, and full intentions of 10-boxing WotLK.

[suprafro]

RAF

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I multiboxed in DAoC for a couple years, though alt+tab multiboxing and not true synchronized multiboxing as it exists today. So after about 9 months of solo WoW and 3 60s, I got bored and went back to DAoC for another 6 months or so. Once I got bored with DAoC again, I came back and started 4-boxing WoW with a buddy of mine. Did that for about a year until I found this forum and the news about the Zerg starting up on Mag and moved over there.

[aNiMaL]

Why did I start multiboxing?
A question asked in /w's a lot aswell.
My usual /w answer is "I saw it in a movie, tried it with 4 trials and I couldn't stop myself buying the accounts after 10 days"

Teh details:

Hmm, I'm not even sure, I saw a movie online, I think it's that SH heroic movie mentioned earlier.
Then I scouted it out on on my (OMG)gf's(NOOO) account,
I was so excited I forgot about the bannable thingy,
Both accounts had a lvl 60 shammy already, so I zergrushed to 70 and just did a bit of dailies, nothing special.
Then my gf decided to give up on our relation and the money I was saving for the surprise holiday to Canada had to be wasted on something I did love.

My Quinbox was born.

And they happily live ever after. \o/


Note: I've always been a "gamer geek", so this just had to happen at some point in life.

[bugilt]

Xzin's 4 mage 1 priest arenas got me all hot and bothered. I wanted to do it so bad, but things just weren't right for me. Once the multicore cpus started coming out I knew it was time. I never thought I'd get as far as I did with how much I hated leveling. Once I felt the power the leveling didn't seem so bad.

[Kaynin]

When I was leveling a character, I saw 5 hunters in a train in Ashenvale. Some time after I saw the in Ungoro, then I saw them in Hellfire again. Until I saw him in Orgrimmar. And I asked what it was. He explained. I was like, omg so cool.

Three months or so after that, I had two accounts in my name. I browsed a bit, got autohotbey and started dualboxing for the fun of it. I was surprised to how hard it was to dualbox (the first time). It was very intense.

Then I saw some movies of how quad boxing shamans were doing good in PvP as well as PvE, and shamans are my favorite class. So I started quad-boxing as well.

Some of the movies of Veronika pushed me into buying more accounts.

[zanthor]

I had a 60 rogue, started a priest on a new account since we were constantly short heals in my raiding guild...

As I leveled I realized it was a huge pain in the ass so I started coming up with a custom UI mod based off whispercast to make it easier... pretty soon I had it setup so I just had to [Self Edit: Voilation of Site TOS to describe more of the naughty stuff]... anyhow with 2.0 releasing and the UI locking down a lot harder, I quit being naughty and started learning to 3 box... I used two machines, maximizer, and lots of mouse focus action flipping between clients quickly and button smashing...

One day I mentioned to a friend how awesome it would be to have a keyboard hook application that replicated your keys... did a quick search, found nothing... figured I'd code something someday...

A few months later I stumbled on Dual-Boxing.com... found Keyclone... wow... amazing...

Now I have 7 accounts total, closing two shortly for Lich Kings release, but my 5 box shamans will be rocking at 70 soon, my pally/mage/mage/priest/priest team is to be permanently retired and I'll probably level individuals up to 80 to balance the team optimally.

[Gurk]

I have 2 boxed for a long time in EQ. I used to just alt-tab between my warrior and druid.

In WoW I was happy with single boxing until Aellie owned my 5v5 team 4 times in a row back in season 2 or 3. At first I was mad and felt mad because I knew they were using some sort of software or hardware but I had no clue what. Then RAF came out and I decided "If you can't beat them, join them"

On a side note, about these forums. I saw a post about Vyndree making all those clear computers on www.hardocp.com, which linked back to these forums. The funny part is I managed to read that whole thread without even know what this site was about. All I was thinking was "Cool and cute girl making computers!". It wasn't till much later I found this site via a youtube video.

[Aethon]

I'll be honest, I dual boxed without realizing it some years ago. Just macros and 2 computers (and a lot of back and forth switching).

Then I got bored and wanted a 60 warlock, so I paid for powerleveling (and got banned on that account)

After that, another year or so later I was again bored of the characters I had and started botting. I botted to fairly a high level(never farmed mats/primals or anything) but got banned in the May 20th wave earlier this year.

After that, I figured since I'm starting fresh, might as well give multiboxing a chance. Checked out the website, learned a lot of info and gave it a go. Went up to 5 when they started the new RaF bonuses.

Haven't been disappointed yet!

[Skuggomann]

I box for the ladies.

O, Yeeea!


Also i started boxing to inpress Xzin :love: