I had 12 Ultima Online accounts. These were back in the day primarily to hold player houses. I also used those to do things like train magic resist, which was done by having the trainee on a ship, healed by one or two other chars - there was not threat in UO - while at least one, but better a couple of mages summoned demons and told them to attack the trainee. Since there was no path for the demons to walk to the trainee, they cast their spells at the trainee. That was something that I could and did do by myself or for guildmates.

In WoW, my primary character was originally a paladin, then a protection warrior in MC times and from then onward. A protection warrior couldn't really kill anything in a reasonable time alone back in the day. While I had a bunch of alts, there was also stuff - like rep - that I wanted for my warrior without respecing each time. So I added a char that I put on follow and controlled with the extra buttons on the mouse of that PC. Then I read Xzin: the man with ten arms and considered that. That article was published in mid December 2006. In February 2007 I had my rig together and started boxing my first team in WoW, which was 3xwarlock,1xmage and 1x priest. Just before season 4 start, I hit 70 on four shamans and PvPed a lot with them in BGs and Arena. Just now I am RAFing 4xhunters to 60 and will do 4xdruids just after that in preparation for WotlK.