Haha, only 3.5 minutes?Originally Posted by 'pengwynman',index.php?page=Thread&postID=141346#p ost141346
i lol'd
Sorry, I lol'd too
Haha, only 3.5 minutes?i lol'd
Rin
Retired 10-Boxer (Wildhammer [A], Burning Legion [H]-USA)
This thread is great. I enjoy multiboxing because it lets me do what I want, when I want, without restrictions. I too come from a hardcore Everquest (uhm, when it was popular - :thumbup: ) background, where I would spend far too many hours raiding, with no end in sight. I remember once spending 5 days out of my week (at about 6 hrs a night) on 1 boss in the game, and then finally killing him on day five, only wondering - wtf am I doing?
I started boxing because it gave me an outlet - a way to do the things that I wanted, whenever without worrying about others. You'd be suprised at how many people will actually embrace you if you say something like, "hey, I'm going to be running <this>, do you want to come, or can you bring any chars along?" Also, as other posters have pointed out, you don't need to worry about other people when you're boxing. And, now that I've got my girl into boxing ... well, you can only imagine how our nights are spent.
Rin
Retired 10-Boxer (Wildhammer [A], Burning Legion [H]-USA)
Oh yeah I didn't even mention runs where I take only one toon then someone bails and we can't find someone else so I just bring in an alt. Talk about the <3. Particularly in KZ. There was one night where I started with one and then we lost a healer. So I brought on one of mine as well. Then 2 bosses later the guy came back. I just walked my priest out and he comes back in. Then a boss later a DPS had to go, so I brought in a 2nd dps. Then at Netherspite we lost another DPS. Where were we going to find a DPS to come in for ONE boss??? THE ELO ARMY!!! In comes another shaman and we take him down.
No muss, no fuss, running instances with friends, while multiboxing.
~Elo of BlackHand (Alliance)
(TBC Team) 1xPally, 4xShaman -> Elothyn(70), Eloshama(70), Eloshamb(70), Eloshamc(70), Eloshamd(70)
(Wrath Team) 1xPally, 2x Shaman, 1xMage, 1xDruid -> Elothyn(74), Eloshama(74), Eloshamc(73), Elozaen(73), Elothune(73)
(Alts) 1xPriest, 1xWarlock, 1xWarrior -> Elothin(70), Elozen(70), Elothan(70)
I'm on Garona Alliance Side as well. Which guild were you previously in? So I can avoid them, lol.
I've been in <Dragon Bane> for about 3 years and I really enjoy the atmosphere :-)
If you ever need any help running anything let me know, I'm currently leveling my Prot pally(64) / Holy Priest (67) Team. (But I've also got a few 70s)
those people arent worth your time. now you know. life's too short to have to deal with that garbage. hope you find a nice relaxed guild to chill with in the future.
Ya chosing yur own times is the greatest thing about multiboxing.
Also in guilds how do they give you loots? Each toon gets dkp or you get one toons worth of dkp to split over all yur toons? Or is there just enough rot stuffs you will get everything you want anyways?
It depends on the guild how you do loot. You either earn points to bid or do a loot council where officers vote. Usually everyone ends up well geared after a few months no matter what. The big difference is that in a points guild, usually the same guy gets his gear first - the guy who has shown up to every raid since 2004. Anyway, loot is usually only a point of drama in poorly run guilds, which is most guilds.
I'd like to add you to my list of friends, because at some point I will be going back and doing content which uses more than 10 people, and it'd be nice to have some boxer-friendly people who might want to bring some alts along to help out. I'd like to get the classic raider achievement, for one. I have my own guild for all my characters called <Army Dreamers> now, if you want to ever slap some alts into my guild to keep up with my progress, that'd be cool.
The guild to avoid is Intrigue. They used to be called Conspiracy, but the GM had health issues and left. A lot of my friends skipped out after that, but what's left is still good players. Their GM is an awesome player; one of the best theorycrafters I ever met. Just, apparently, don't get on their bad side. :thumbdown:
It's just one of those "never tried it and therefore don't understand it" things. Not much different really then trying to explain MMOs to a non-mmo gamer
10 boxing = pro, imo
Agreed with pretty much everyone. Someone capable of responding that way to such a courteous post is beneath consideration, not worth thinking too much about unless you're shaking your head and smirking while you do it.
It's possible that it wasn't actually meant personally ... I mean, maybe the dude didn't think about his responses but just acted the way he thought he should. I've noticed a lot of that in WoW, where certain stimuli evoke particular canned responses, e.g. complaining about something in /trade begets "QQ MOAR!" as an immediate reflex action. The complaint doesn't matter, the actual substance of the complaint is nothing they intend to think about, they just follow the script established by louder peers and move on. I think a lot of the negative responses to multiboxing are unleashed for the same reason, because the unleasher thinks he's supposed to. This guy might've seen "multibox" and consulted his script: "oh, I need to be incendiary, OK", is all. Or he could have seen "leaving guild" as a similar trigger. Either way, it's possible that it wasn't a truly personal response, so I hope there is no scarring.
Agreed^210 boxing = pro, imo
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