Selos kiting ftw
Selos kiting ftw
Hello multi-boxers, this is my first post. I have never dual boxed before and my WoW accounts have been frozen since July 2005 (I have 2 Collectors Edition - yay for mini diablo and mini zergling).
I found this site about a month ago as I was considering getting a second EQ2 account and running on my notebook. I installed EQ2 on my notebook and while it ran fine, the performance was not acceptable. I thought this might be the case since it has a shared GPU and is running Vista Business but I hoped that that since it was a T7200 processor with 2GB of RAM that it would still run well.
Finding this site has sparked my interest in WoW again and instead of dual boxing, I am considering 5 boxing. I have access to 4 desktops in my home that should run WOW plus my Notebook so I am all set to start 5 boxing. Just need to wait another 2 weeks before I have time to play (3 Law exams left then I have some vacation time). Can't wait!
I dual-boxed when WOW first came out, but then dropped out after a few months. Now that Burning Crudade is up I'm going back in -- triple boxing this time.
I like it because I always enjoyed role playing a party in the classic CRPG like Wizardry. I enjoy developing a group with interdependant skills. Also my work schedule does not allow me to work with others in raids and groups.
Never thought about this before, but the Wizardry games were my first and favourite CRPGs and I'm sure the interdependency and synergy thing you are talking about is a big part of my attraction to boxing.Originally Posted by Adronson
I unfortunately am semi anti-social. I seriously do not like LFG, or waiting around for people to meander over to the grouping area. bleh
When I first started playing EQ, it quickly became apparent that you couldn't do anything worth while solo. When I joined a small guild of friends with many RL responsibilities, I ended up starting up a new account and using eqw just to be able camp items and get some AA. My little duo quickly evolved into a paly, shaman, cleric, and enchanter (cuz you have to KEI) group.
And the rest is history. Well EQ is anyways. I taught my wife to multi box a warlock mage duo, which i borrow from time to time. Now I just faction grind, camp bosses, and deam of ways to pvp my non pvp group.
Pfft - I soloed almost all of EQ. You just had to be the right class and know all of the clerics with rez (later, click sticks).
Of course I still raided with groups and my guild but eq was something you COULD solo all the way to 50 (at the time) and later 60. Although, small groups were sometimes better exp - most groups in early eq were simply horrible. Plus, there really were no ports or anything - so getting a group together could take quite some time.
That all said, I think most people just didn't know how to solo in eq. I really never boxed eq but eq brought us one of multiboxing most infamous characters - SamDaMan. I have respect for Sam's ideas but good lord man.... there are some things that just don't need to be on the Internets. Plus, he was awful at PvP and only marginal at PvE - perhaps he got better, who knows.
Oh yeah - Necros could at one point almost literally let their pets solo for them. I admit though - no cleric or warrior was going to make it from 1 - 50 solo. Just no way.
I know what you mean. I did actually solo quite a bit of the outdoor world. I started with a shaman and took him to 50ish. What i meant by worth while was doing the dungeons, which by far is the most enjoyable aspect of mmos to me.
Hehe, I remember using sam's guides to camping zones. That brings back some good memories.
What is that guy up to anyway? He is the only other person that I actually have even heard rumors about that has ventured beyond 7 boxing or so (Jay from Team Wizzy boxed 6 or 7 I think - whatever a full DAOC group is). Last I heard, Sam had something like 12 (2 full groups in EQ as EQ had 6 players per group) characters he boxed.
For those of you who may have missed it (be glad you did), Sam was active around 2003-2005ish on some of the popular EQ message boards of the time. He played on one of the PvP servers that EQ had (even though EQ's PvP was so broken I refused to play on a PvP server). He had a tendency to boast about his "accomplishments". As in challenge people to see who had the highest burst dps (uhh 6 casters vs 1 person?) or how many thousands of people he killed/owned whatever. I am all for being confident in your abilities but Sam took things a bit.... too far in my opinion. What really highlighted Sam's appearance in the early EQ PvP scene was his online photo gallery shots.
You see, he openly admitted to hiring hookers. He then intentionally posted pictures of said hookers to his online photo galleries. He would have them write on whiteboards about how long he could go for, etc. It was.... weird. I mean, personally if that is his thing then thats fine. Just.... keep it to yourself? Plus - the guy looked a bit.... unkempt? His outfits were a bit out there and combined with his computer setup.... things just got weird.
Then there was his physical setup. It looked like he raided Home Depot and hacked it together with chains and wood and bolts. He basically made a bed, and suspended his monitors in front of him. The idea made logical sense but Keep in mind this was the early 2000s - so flat panels were EXPENSIVE. So he used CRTs. That weighed something like 30 lbs each. The whole thing together was just.... amazing. And amazingly weird. Perhaps if he had made it professionally, it would have looked pretty decent - but he just sorta hacked it together from what the pictures showed.
Now, I may not be one to argue seeing as my setup is pretty massive. I mean honestly, I am getting ready to 10 box. But I don't feel the need to epeen war about it. Plus, my setup is professional and very well done. I intend to write about it as soon as I finish the last few parts.
So yeah - Sam was quite the character. Not sure if having him associated with multiboxing is a good thing or not though. I try to bring a level of professionalism to this hobby. To Sam..... I am not entirely sure what it was really nor do I know if he is even still playing EQ or not. If so, I sincerely hope he has figured out a way to control his characters in PvP better. He died a lot in EQ PvP from what I understood - although to his credit he was getting better at PvE from the last that I heard.
I started 2-boxing because most of the time I work night shifts (5 days on, 2 days off and 5 days on) and a lot of times no one else I know is playing.
Then I saw Xzin's videos....
And I was floored. I simply had never seen anything like it and just had to try it. I 4-boxed a warlock team and the sight of seeing a target (PVP or PVE) with 8 dots on it ticking down to death in seconds was winning the lottery. It was life-changing.
I still play with friends while they are on, but during the times when I'm alone on the server- I'm multiboxing it and loving it.
How did I end up multi-boxing? Hmmmm...
Well, TBC dropped the floor out of my WoW gaming world.
I suddenly found that what had previously been a very active and interesting raiding schedule became completely empty for me, and I didn't know what to do.
I thought about leaving, obviously, but the reality is that there's not much else I'd rather fill my spare time with.
I tried to follow the chain of attunements and rep-grinds that the new world required, but quickly grew bored with it.
I also found that the effect the whole thing had on people I have gamed with for the best part of ten years across a number of games was very unpleasant. There was suddenly a clique that had never existed before, and the inclusive nature of the guild that I had always held so dear was gone.
My standing is such that I could have comfortably been a part of that clique, but that's just not my thing so I found myself withdrawing more and more, filling my online time with a variety of meaningless actvities, including levelling a veritable army of alts to the mid-40's before losing interest again.
And so began my multi-boxing experiment.
I've always played WoW with my wife, and for various reasons we already have four machines here so I started three-boxing a mage team, with her playing a pally-tank and a RL friend of ours playing the Priest.
The friend lives right next door, and brings his Apple notebook round whenever we get the team going and it's breathed new life into the game for me.
I've since changed my setup to consist of two fire mages and a Warlock for the off-tanking of mobs that can't be sheeped, and we're having a ball at the ripe of age of level 28.
Since we can't always get the team together when I want to, and we agreed not to play those particular characters except in the team, I recently bought a fifth machine, fifth account, and started a second team consisting of three locks plus one priest, with my wife filling the fifth slot as a mage.
That's going great too, and I'm struggling to imagine any time I'd want to go back to playing WoW any other way....
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