What got you into multiboxing?

[Hor]

It all started just after the release of Shadows of Luclin for EQ, I was playing a Shaman in a raiding guild on Tarew Marr. Several of our tanks started boxing, they were all adding Clerics to the raid as their personal healers. At the time I was living with some hippies in Connecticut, so when one of those friends was gone with his girlfriend for a couple of weeks, I decided to log on his SK and see how it worked. It was to be the first crude steps of boxing that got me started, I had a keyboard in my lap, and another on the desk. And two mice side by side. It worked alright, but obviously not that efficient. Later, I had a rogue of my own and started boxing him with my Shaman. By the time I met Sam I had rerolled on Sullon Zek with some friends of mine from Utah. We all made a group of characters together, and by that point I had a computer that was easilly capable of running multiple clients at once. So, I started playing a Gnome Wizard and Enchanter. One day, I see these Dark Elves, a whole group of them. And they're all named Samsomethingorother. And I did what most people do when confronted by such a sight. I said wtf, my roommate explained to me who the Sams were. Eventually, we did some pug raids in those last days of Sullon together. We were levelling and killing, then WoW came out ... and there was no one left to kill. I held off on playing WoW for a while, because no Death Knights, and I just wasn't impressed initially from the Beta. Eventually, the Utah people convinced me to play WoW, I played/raided as several different classes. It seems like over the past 2-3 years I keep rerolling and levelling quick, getting gear quick, getting bored quick. Then repeating the process. Then one day I noticed the RAF ad on the wow site, and I started thinking ... what if I just made my own group? I made my first group and haven't looked back. I've made other toons/groups since then just to milk RAF for all it's worth. But honestly, I don't miss solo play, I was at the point of really having to convince myself to play at all, and boxing changed that. It made the game fun again, boxing means never having to say LFG. And I like that.

[Ruodhaid]

Xzin´s moies and screenshots from level 60, made me want to try it, when i had the money for it, was the same time This was released so i didet make mages as i wantet to but did the shaman thingy and it has been an awnsome ride

[Pippin]

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).

That might have been me I am on that site all day long, everyday and posted a three box lock team I had at the time.

I use to box in SWG and WOW also but was running it in windowed mode and was litterly alt tabbing. Was very frustrating. I found a video I think on youtube of Bradster and that led me here and that lead me to the love of my life. Keyclone. lol

[Jheusse]

I dual boxed in DAoC, Like a fool my original main was a bard. Fun support class, hit like a little girl with both arms broken. After not getting to max level for a year because I was dependent on others to level, I created a second char to tinker with on a separate account, this was an animist. Being able to solo level effectively and fast was a huge change, I was stunned. Then I started running them together with follow, done manually. I switched from two keyboard and mice to a kvm with a pushbutton swap, my bard had the fountains of healing, and catacombs was out, so I started duo farming named mobs and selling the stuff. I was able to rack up a good bit of money and have fun. Never was all that good at RvR, though I had lots of fun with BG toons. My bard main and then later my druid brought up with /level did time as buffbots.

I actually ran into dual boxing when I was reading the public forums at Elitist Jerks. My raiding feral was slightly stalled because my RL doesn't allow a major time commitment to raid in, the raid time commitment ramps up in T5. I was trying to find tricks and tips to get my alts leveled a little faster, and then they started talking about RAF, then about multiboxing, then I followed a link. And here I am, climbing the level curve a lot faster than the learning curve.

[sicsid]

I saw videos of Xin and his warlords back in the day. I was at the time, dual boxing my roomies old acct on 2 pcs, 2 keyboards. Its kinda hard to do that, took a break from that for a bit. Then i saw some videos about a year later with shamans in AV. I was hooked again, this time i did more research, found this site, fell in love with MBing.

Its great!

[Marious]

Got Ganked multiple times on my 70's while doing dailies at the Isle, he was a multiboxer, he was multiboxing shaman, more then likely he is one of you guys that plays on Daggerspine. Now I do not go out of my way to kill hordies with my MB team they tend to be the ones that like to get at me and then I have to show them a thing or two and annialate them, they are so used to having no Alliance MBers but now I am there and watch out if you get in my way because you will get steam rolled. Now I have nothing against the shaman MBer but once I get up there with my team and I find him we gonna have some fun!

I only tri box, but have 4 accounts this morning I was thinking I am going to go full out 5 and screw the LFG channel and all that lameness. I do not know of any alliance boxers on Daggerspine other than me, well I did see some dual boxers but no more than that. When and if I get my 5th I think I will be the first but I could be wrong. So far its loads of fun and make the class I dont like to level easier to "bear" get it a play on words I am leveling a druid, and normally I cant stand them but with triboxing its bearable (there I go agian) Ok I'll stop before I see a tomato come my way.

[Rudi89]

I dual-boxed a bit in EVE and WoW, although I didn't call it that at the time. That along with seeing the Xzin articles on WoW Insider got me my first exposure to it. Then last year my wonderful daughter was born and my raiding time became drastically, drastically reduced. Raiding was what I loved doing in WoW as I hate leveling and find PvP too twitch-oriented (I like doing the PvE puzzle encounters, if you will). Then the Recruit-a-Friend promotion came out and I decided to level a mixed group so I could solo 5-mans. Now that I'm actually able to start getting into instances it's been excellent: a real PvE solo challenge.

[FabFive]

I ran across this site with an interview with Xzin was amazed at what one person could pull off and needless to say the team was born that night.

[Chester]

I was doing the dailies with 4 other toons on follow. 4 others in my family had stopped playing so kept thier accounts going, found it a way to make some gold in less time. Then one day as I was doing my dailies in this fashion, I saw 5 shaman doing the same thing, they were being controlled and not just on follow. I was impressed, and thought if there was anyway I could do that I was going to. It sure would make doing dailies much easier. This all in an effort to support my raiding I did 5 days a week 5 hours a day.

Then I discovered this site and keyclone. I started a group with dailies in mind once I hit 70. My raiding guild fell apart, and I was lost. Than after reading how you could do instances and people were pvping my goals quickly changed. Then raf happened about a month later, I started my original team over on my own accounts and made a few more teams. I now have 4 teams in the outlands working thier way towards 70. A pally tank, 4x shaman. A shadow priest and 4x locks. 3 mages, pally tank, and a shadow priest, and 5 hunters because I want to tame everything.

[Jaws5]

Pugs and players going afk, time management issues.

5 boxing fixed it all.