[align=center]Prepared The 36 Boxer of World of Warcraft
WE ARE PREPARED for any encounter in World of Warcraft! Player versus Player? Sure! As long as all my characters are there for the battle!

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Xzin Edit: 10/15/08 - Front page of Yahoo!!!!



Bradster Edit: I've decided to repost this on the front page. After I posted this I didn't have a chance to visit the forum for a few days. When I return the internet is full of posts and news of this blog post. This is not my setup, I am a 5 boxer. I'm just a forum mod here that enjoys making blog posts. In fact as of right now I do not play World Of Warcraft. So please give the right man credit for his work which is Prepared the man behind the machines. Keep us posted Prepared on your progress.

Xzin Edit: Welcome Digg, Kotaku, Crunchgear, Gizmodo, Gameriot, Joystiq, etc. For clarification, Brad IS NOT the same person as Prepared. He just made the post. I continue to be dismayed by the comments that some people make towards multiboxing. We are all here to have fun and some people choose to have fun in their own ways. It doesn't mean they live in their basement or have no life. I fully respect the amount of effort he and many others have put into their hobbies. I ask that you appreciate what Prepared is doing and understand the amount of work is takes to do what he does to be non trivial. Unconventional? Sure. But where would we be if everybody was exactly the same? The bitter irony is that many of the crude and negative comments are being made by fellow gamers. Kind of sad, really. I thought gaming was becoming more mainstream and accepted.

This is not the first time this site has hosted large numbers of WoW accounts being played at once (Gameslah's 50 Boxing Setup). Prepared has taken it to a completely new level though.






A lot have asked me, why create so many? The main reason is to invade Stormwind and Ironforge when they reach top level. I'm sure the Alliance will put up a big fight when that happens. We'll see how it goes. If they don't make level 70 before Wrath of the Lich King, then it will be at level 80. That is my main goal. That will probably happen after I've got some PvP gear from the battlegrounds. I'm also planning to do some 25 and 10 man raid instances but that is secondary to my PvP goal. Of course I'll be doing arenas too to build up PvP gear but I'm not expecting to do that great there because I'm way behind in gear right now. I need to get to level 70 first, then level 80 and by then I will probably have all green gear while most others have been doing the battlegrounds and arenas.

It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.

32 of my shaman are level 61. One shaman that I had before I started the 32 is at level 70 along with 8 other level 70 classes that I had. My mage, priest and druid are in the center of the circle of shaman in the pictures but they are kind of hard to see. I've also got some mages and priests that I'm currently working on that are level 23. Once they are at level 31.9, I will stop working on them, get 16 of them to level 60 with the recruit-a-friend bonus levels and work on the shaman again.

When Wrath of the Lich King is released, I plan to be at the store when it opens and will purchase 36 copies of it. With tax, it should be about $1500 for all of them. Then the shaman are on their way to level 80 along with the priest, druid and mage.

By the way, I have 9 level 80 shaman created on the Murmur PvP realm in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. I mainly tried it out to see how well my computers would work as they are. With the exception of one my desktop computers, I should be fine with the hardware that I have.

I use 3 addons in the game. CT_MapMod is used to give me locations for quests, etc. ClassIcons is another addon that I use to show the class of the target. It helps for PvP encounters. Then the last addon I use is SSPVP2 which is excellent for displaying timers and other things while in the battlegrounds.

For my keys to send to all instances of WoW on my 11 computers, I use Octopus 1.3.2. Maximizer in Octopus allows me to start up all WoW instances at the same time or any individual instance such as if a WoW instance has crashed. It also allows me to shutdown all of the computers at the same time.

Here is a picture of my computer set up:



Not shown to the right is another laptop which runs 3 copies that I just moved there. The keyboard on the right was moved to the top shelf there as I don't really use that keyboard while playing. I have macros that set my main assist/cast/follow. Any of the eight screens to the front can be set to main assist/cast/follow as my mouse scrolls to them all using Octopus.