What got you into multiboxing?

[Psybercop]

I had always boxed to some extent in other games, but never able to do them in unison, until I stumbled across one of Bradsters video's which led me here.

[hardcoded]

Had a blast boxing in eve. Mass farming, mass ownage in small-to-mid scale pvp(support roles don't require a lot of attention, but are massively helpful). I set up two computers specifically so I could mine with 7 accounts with my buddies there.

Played wow with some co-workers with one client, but it didn't compare. Started dual-boxing by mass alt-tab'ing with two clients. Read up here and started dual boxing using keyclone. Tried 3 clients with a trial account, and went to 5 clients on two comptuers using octopus the next week.

[Ishar]

lol. I started boxing in EQ...I don't remember why....probably because solo was so hard in that game. I can't remember if i saw somebody two-boxing first, or just randomly took it upon myself to borrow a friends cleric to heal myself... (Account sharing is much more tolerated in EQ, and it was more a case of 'Ryan is asleep, damnit, let me stretch his keyboard across the dorm room and start healing myself...' than account sharing lol) Eventually i got my own cleric, and then well, 3 followed 2, 4 followed 3, etc. By the time ya get to being almost an entire group, you start wondering, since you end up soloing 99% of the time at that point anyway, why not a full group? And now im completely ruined. 4 out of 5 people i meet i can't stand, and i hardly ever group with anyone. even good friends. multi boxing made me antisocial =(. Or maybe it just enables me to be anti-social...

[Suprem01]

I got into it when I got killed by 5 druids lol. That was the most interesting day.

[offive]

Played the game since beta for 2.5 years (4 solo level 60s Alliance, rolled a undead shadow priest and PvP'd to 16k honor kills a few months prior to TBC, did the raid leader/ GM thing, etc), and then quit for 6 months. Came back just prior to TBC to play that expansion, got 1 toon to 70. Put the game on hold for another few months due to boredom.

I did a very crude / basic box a pally/rogue combo to farm guardian stones in Un’goro prior to TBC. When I saw the Zins, he was my influence to make the full jump to 5 boxing. But I decided on a mixed class PvE group build. Warrior tank for extra pain and suffering (in the current form, I hope wrath fixes that)

RAF has me at 8 accounts now... :/ I wish Bliz had just said here link your accounts you already have! That would have been a very nice nod to boxers. Needless to say now I am working on teams two, three, and four. I have quad boxed Kara with friends, I plan on getting that to 8 boxing dps classes in Wrath end game.

I think I will get maybe one or two teams up to 80, play the end game for a while through the winter and then take another break, as boredom with the game sets in and spring comes. I like being outside so during Spring and Summer, my WoW fix is not as necessary. My PvE motivation will either be bolstered or crushed by Wrath. I think Wintergrasp will be entirely too silly with 8 Elemental Shamans running around (cheers for raid totems).

[Caspian]

Xzin's 5x level 60 mage SM clears (what was it 25-30g an hour you were bragging about, those were the days ), his screenshots with 5x at a Nef kill and his video of TBC beta Arenas where he 1 shot the pally then crushed the rest of the team.

[Prepared]

I started multiboxing with Diablo 1 in January of 1997. The main reason was so that I could hold more things online at battle.net. The other reason was because I had two computers at home during the time and had two dial up connections to the Internet. I was using my fax line at the time to connect on the 2nd computer. It was kind of hard to control both characters on the two keyboards though. It took a lot of getting used to. Over time, it didn't much matter because almost everyone was using 'God mode' and all kinds of hacks with Diablo 1. This trainer, called the BoBaFeTT trainer which a certain person wrote that I know really closely, allowed players to hack into almost every aspect of the game because the game code that controlled things were inside of players computer memory.

When Everquest was released on March 16, 1999, that began my serious multiboxing. It started with two accounts. I had a necromancer as my main and my alt was a cleric that healed, rezzed or did whatever was needed. Then I found I needed a porter so my druid was born. Then I needed an enchanter to keep things mezzed during battle that had too many mobs around so ... it just kept going on and on. Eventually it got to the point was I had two of some classes. I had two warriors and two bards before I stopped playing Everquest and moved to World of Warcraft.

With WoW, I was going to play just one character, then it kept building up quickly. Before my first character reached level 30, I had a full group of characters leveling and took them all the way to level 70. All of my characters were different classes. Then I started another pack of 4 characters of different classes and leveled them to 70. Then this year, I found out about these forums and the software used to send keystrokes from one keyboard. Once I found out about that, I began thinking about boxxing a lot more like a huge number of shaman. Wasn't sure what the number would be until Recruit-a-friend was announced and decided I was going to start 32 shaman on a PvP realm. Decided it would be the first realm in the list alphabetically, Aegwynn. Then Blizzard announced PvE to PvP transfers were available so I transferred my level 70's over to Aegwynn and split out 4 of those characters to new accounts so they could buff and protect the 32 shaman. So that's where I am now, 36 accounts on World of Warcraft. Then Blizzard announced the release date of Wrath of the Lich King as November 13th. So my goal is to get as close to level 70 on my shamans as possible before then. Right now, they are still level 60. It's taking a long time to get them to level 61 but they should reach it by tomorrow.

[Stealthy]

On my old server (Blackrock) came accross a guy running a mage / preist combo farming mobs in Blasted Lands...thought it looked cool, googled dual boxing, found the site and decided pretty quickly I wanted to 5-box. :P

Cheers,

S.

[cvt]

Pre-BC for me, started on a pvp server where levelling was always alliance in groups of 2 or 3, and horde solo.
second toon round, I dual-boxed. but I only did it accasionally and for levelling.
quit the game, came back, 9 months later cleared bt, got bored, stopped raiding, twink helped fill time, but that also got boring, so I started tri-boxing (2 weeks ago?).
3 of the same class quickly became pointlessly boring, so started 3 different classes, loving it, finally a challenge in the oversimplified WoW. Had/have a couple trials for 5 boxing, 5 different classes, was good, but I constantly play with another person, now a dual-boxer.

So I suppose, the search for something in the game that wasn't ez-mode.

[shaeman]

I heard about Zin a couple of years ago and thought it sounded pretty cool but didn't want the hassles of setting things up from a hardware sense.

I used to frequent a warlock site- wowmb and someone put on some screen shots of their 4 or 5 lock team. May have been a video. Dual boxing got mentioned in the thread and I checked it out, and book marked the site.

Over a period of time most of the people I played with left my guild, swapped to alliance or quit playing etc and I went from running a guild that was preparing to start raiding to not even having enough people to do a 5 man.

I spent a while going through the motions - trying to find fun in wow. Levelled a third 70 and then remembered dual boxing.

Played around with it, mainly boosting other characters of mine - then got seriously commited to it with the advent of RAF.

I took the opportunity to level an alliance team so I could meet up with those friends of mine that left for the alliance side - so oddly multiboxing has resurrected the social side of the game.

I will be levelling another alliance team - I'm sorely tempted to go for 4 shaman to make my beloved 1 pally 4 shaman team but on the alliance side, but am also considering playing a hunter, warlock and priest and RAFing up a shaman so i have a number of classes I can solo play with (and so I can try some 5 class multiboxing fun).