What got you into multiboxing?

[FtGeno]

Everybody has a starting point, some catalyst that causes them to go "Hmm", and they begin to explore and learn. For me that catalyst was Ellay and his gang. We happen to be in the same battlegroup (Reckoning) and while playing my belf hunter in AV I go in to check Iceblood tower to make sure it is secure. Lo and behind what do I see?, four identical shaman standing amidst a totem farm. They were all the same race and shared the same (or very similar gear) and names, Aelli, Aellie, etc; So I figure I wanna hang out with this guy for a while and just shoot at whatever he targets. Umm, where is it? Everything he targeted just exploded. I was impressed to say the least.

Rather than pester him with dumb questions while he was busy detonating Alliance I figured I'd follow him for a bit more and watch, try to pick up on a few things. I figured the obvious; single keyboard with either multiple monitors/windows and lots of keybinds and macros. After the game I googled 'dual boxing' and found this site thus beginning my journey. I decided to go Horde because hey, that's where the cool people go amirite? I decided on mages because my first character was a mage so I have good familiarity with the class and to top it off they're getting some nice buffs in WotLK. I can't wait to see the kids at 80.

[Coltimar]

I started out dual-boxing my pally and priest a few years back. No macros just two windowed copies of WoW running. I saw a video of Bradster and his priest + locks. I started tri-boxing when my lock hit 60 but it was getting really hard, so I hit the web. Google turned up this site ^^

[Xinxo]

I honestly can't remember why I started. All I remember is I went from 2 to 5 in about a week....

[sqeaky4100]

1) Ellay's video

2) After watching Ellay's video. I got pwned by some 5boxer in AV.

Dabbled into it, but didn't have the machine to do it. Once I upgraded I started right away

[Solon]

The whiners in the suggestion forums at worldofwarcraft.com made me want to. If anything bothered those nearly illiterate retards that much, I needed to take part. Solo play in WoW is too easy, and group play is too hard (I need to be able to afk instantly for extended periods or frequently). 5-boxing is a great compromise.

[Pardall]

The first day I reached 70, with my first char, I took this SS in an AV:


I had no idea what it was, I thought it was some kind of bug. Like 2 months later my friend gave me 2 youtube links, "You HAVE to watch this". The video was from that 5-draenei shaman doing Heroic Sethek Halls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDwawWr2yQ . That amazed me so much, I thought all the possibilites of farming, etc (what I like most in WOW). But, this time I had no idea of what to do. I searched on Google but couldn't find any good solution for me other than multi-hardware.

I then gave up the idea, when like 2 months ago I decided again to search for "multiboxing" on YouTube, found Veronikka's videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8ocQNj7l0 - and some other videos that took me to this site. And here I am.

[Hat]

Warcraft is boring end game. I needed a challenge. I would've given it up. But people on the forums complained too loud about multiboxers, so, I looked up what multiboxing meant, and voila. I was hooked.

[Bradster]

I ran with a static group of friends (4 others). Played many games. They slowly left for other things. Which left me by myself at the end. Tried getting them in to boxing, all of which would like to but have too much going on like school or between jobs and such so it never happened.

Wow started to get boring, I needed something to spice it up so I started 2 boxing my Sham and War. That lasted about a week when I thought man 5 would be nice. I wonder if that 5 boxing Xzin guy will share with me his setup, perhaps I can do that! I think I was the 14th member on this site. There was only a handful of about 4 boxers out there, I proudly became the next one.

Damn fun run, really cool to be apart of it. now i'm between games, playing with two out of 4 friends in EQ2 just 2 boxing atm with them. Just enjoying their company holding out for Blizzard to hopfullyl switch stances on BG and arean stuff. If not so far i'm enjoying myself in EQ2. Lacks a little excitment with being on a PVE server (1 friend is almost at level cap and doesn't want to reroll) but even so the content is still pretty cool. hit level 54 this weekend x2 with my old duo. Saw some pretty cool shit this weekend on there.

[Xzin]

I box for the ladies.

[Ellay]

I had no idea my videos were that influential /blush

I started boxing in Everquest because it make it that much easier to enjoy the game since grouping was required to level and exp.