What got you into multiboxing?

[Ken]

Mostly because it made more content more accessible to me and because it was something new that seemed to be worth trying out. (I got a bit bored after getting my first character to 70)

[mmcookies]

I made the mistake of picking paladin as my main's class when I started six months after original WoW's release.
As anyone back then can tell you, paladin gameplay action was MINIMAL.
Hell, there was even a brilliant post on the pally forums satirizing the class design as based around being able to play one handed while downloading and watching hot lesbian porn.

But eventually, even excellent pr0n can't keep me interested so I went away on hiatus until TBC.
The thing is, I am very loyal to my designated main (who's still my main in 5-boxing today).
So the second time I came back, I had to keep playing her, but quickly got bored, so I decided to dual-box with a priest in tow.
Together, they did some impressive things together, and kept my interest for about six months.
(To be fair, I've been playing MMOs for 10 years now, so I often take time away from games)

Really, after you start dual-boxing it becomes a slippery slope.

This time, I came back in anticipation of WotLK, and decided to go all out and 5-box.

[Jamien]

Some wanker called Tastyheals kept ganking me with his priest/mage group, so I started up a shaman group to get him back.

Now I get him to gank hordies for me!
<3 tasty

[Deekhay]

All of these are the reasons why I multibox

1 - Been playing WoW since 2005, always had two accounts, used one to rush toons on the other. The will was there just didn't know how to "express" it (aka knew this site )

2 - Played with some friends, they left, I stayed, never wanted to join a guild, lots of pugs, mostly very bad experiences...

3 - Decided to join pve raiding guild, felt worst than a job and people disappointed me so much... left... back to pugs.

4 - Lots of pugs, mostly very bad experiences...

5 - Created pvp guild, awesome experience with grown up people . Most just couldn't stand the need to level to 70, mostly due to rl issues. We stopped, created pve raiding guild with the core from the pvp guild.

6 - We needed more people to raid... unfortunately. People too greedy, undisciplined, very bad experience, the guild management absorbed 60% of my game time and it wasn't fun although the advacement was great.

7 - Stopped playing for 5 months, cancelled both accounts.

8 - Reached dual-boxing.com. WoW is a new game . Started 5 boxing and now first steps on 10 boxing. This is my game.

[ss2]

I used to multibox in lineage 2 with 3-4 characters, along with friends who would do 2-3, mostly because we wanted to level our characters but the population in that game was very blah. Doing something alone that would normally take several people gave me a "high" that can only be fixed by more multiboxing, playing just 1 character is a drag now

[Spatulor]

I'd known about multiboxing for about a year (I think) before I started. What tipped it off was seeing 5 alliance mages in AV when i was killing some time with my paladin. Unfortunately, the game ended RIGHT as they dismounted and I hit them with an Arcane Torrent. At the time, I was fairly confident I'd be able to take them. Now....not so much. I'm pretty sure one volley of fire blasts would have dropped me. (My pally's got solid prot gear, but I BG as ret - in greens - for kicks)

That, however, was the moment I went "Hmm. I wonder." I spent about a week experimenting, researching, and learning with friend's accounts and trial accounts to see if my computer could handle it, and just what I was getting myself into. Then I went out and got 4 more accounts, and went right from solo play to 5boxing. Now my boys (5x orc shaman <Crew>) are level 63, and I should get 64 tomorrow. I've learned a lot already, and multiboxing's made wow fun again. I was right on the verge of quitting.

[Fat Tire]

I started boxing in EverQuest about 1-2 months after it came out. It was 2-boxing at first and I would put 1 character in the EC commons tunnel so I could buy/sell/trade and the other I would do dungeons and grinding kills. People often forget that EQ had only very few quests. Once the Bazaar came out with luclin it became easier,however, I really never liked it and missed the EC tunnel very much. Do you guys remember when you would get alot of gold and couldnt move? Trying to make it to the bank weighed down with gold begging for a SOW. Ahh the good old days.... I eventually moved up to 5 boxing EQ 4 me+1 wife. Doing the same with WOW just started doing it a little later.

[Steph]

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.

[echo]

Lotus' 5 draenei shaman on Alliance/whisperwind. Saw him as I was leveling my rogue in BEM. Didnt think too much of it at first. Honestly wasnt educated or heard/saw anything about multiboxing at all (no videos/stories/forum threads/etc.) so thought it was a bot or something. So I just went along and did my own thing killing raptors and spiders and paid him no attention. Lotus came by me and kept healing me x5, which was awesome. So I sent him a tell saying thank you and we started to talk. So I asked him what he's doing and he referred me to this site; rest is history.

moral of the story: Acts of kindness and a civil manner wins people over.

[Rin]

I started boxing in EverQuest about 1-2 months after it came out. It was 2-boxing at first and I would put 1 character in the EC commons tunnel so I could buy/sell/trade and the other I would do dungeons and grinding kills. People often forget that EQ had only very few quests. Once the Bazaar came out with luclin it became easier,however, I really never liked it and missed the EC tunnel very much. Do you guys remember when you would get alot of gold and couldnt move? Trying to make it to the bank weighed down with gold begging for a SOW. Ahh the good old days.... I eventually moved up to 5 boxing EQ 4 me+1 wife. Doing the same with WOW just started doing it a little later.

I too started boxing on EverQuest (fights were a lot slower in EQ as compared to WoW... I was boxing with individual computers, no synchronization, etc. It worked for the time and was a ton of fun). The reason why I started boxing was because I was bored with one character. Having one character to me is simply the easy mode in a game, and from my personal experience - leads to burn out. There's only so many points and things you can do as one single character. As multiple characters, hundreds of doors unlocked for me (I was able to farm, solo 'end-game' content, keep items for myself without worrying about /roll(ing), etc.) these positive benefits are the reason why I multibox. That, and of course being able to 1-2 shot anyone in WoW is always a boon.

I find multiboxing to be challenging as well, I'm always developing strategies as to how I can accomplish x or y. There's a lot of things that we as multiboxers can accomplish, but haven't bothered with yet. I hope to change that, and I know there are several of you who will be doing the same.