Bear with me, I have a point to all of this.

I'm a roleplayer. Have been since long before WoW - done it all from Dealands to d20 to Whitewolf, shadowrun, 1st & 2nd edition D&D, etc.

When you're designing a character for Whitewolf's Werewolf: the Apocalypse, you need to chose your character's moon-zodiac. One of the choices available are the Ragabash characters: Those born under the new moon. The lore behind these characters is that the break the ebb and flow of what is considered the norm. They buck tradition and go out of their way to be abnormal, to do the unexpected and be unpredictable. The way the book I have describes it, "They are the outcasts of today and the traditions of tomarrow."

Nowadays, the general consensus is that multiboxing melee toons is abnormal. It probably is like that for good reasons - melee breaking autofollow being one of them. Latency with autofollow being another, and so on. However, this is merely an obstacle. This is just something that gets in the way, and if there's one thing I've noticed about multiboxers of all kinds (particularly the ones who frequent this community) is that we're the types who find a problem, and overcome it. If we weren't, nobody would have ever dual-5boxed karazhan. Nobody would have taken Gladiator titles with multiboxed teams. The list goes on and on.

I view multiboxing as a chance to *be* that ragabash role in the development of WoW gameplay. The evolution of technique and strategy will never really end so long as changes keep being made to WoW, or new tools emerge to play WoW with. Sure, most people 'detest' (if by detest, you mean aren't interested in or can't focus on anything but the problems inherent in) melee multiboxing. I can see why - the challenges and obstacles that get in the way are pretty much a pain in the ass to overcome. But I look at those challenges and obstacles as what they are: something to BE overcome. Come wrath I'm going to be kicking up a quad-boxed DK team specifically because melee boxing is supposed to be very difficult to manage, so I can explore the issues and work my way through them as nescessary.

Naysayers be damned, I've got an inner Ragabash chomping at the bit to give this a shot.