For me, it started after my initial gaming computer got fried, and being in school at the time, I decided I really needed a computer to type papers on, do research with, etc. So I ended up buying an el cheapo dell. Problem was it was a real POS, and it wouldn't run FFXI, my game of choice at the time. So, after much poking around and scraping up money, I managed to get some replacement parts for my original computer, and got that up and running again. The El cheapo dell just sort of sat around for a year after that, until one day after I had started playing WoW, I decided to try and install it on the PoS. Surprisingly it worked, and so I figured I would roll a healer on a second account. That way, I could still play my hunter main, but I could get it into groups by attaching the healer at the hip.

Well, it turns out liking orcs so much I decided to roll a shaman instead of an actual priest or druid, again, wasn't the best of ideas. Oh, it was a very nicely equipped shaman from 1-40, with me grabbing all the good instance quests and finishing the stuff that would normally be done in a group, but it didn't really accomplish its purpose.

So then that October my wife got me a laptop for our anniversary. Well, with 3 computers sitting there, I figured I could run instances with my own mni-group if I actually had a tank. So I leveled a Warrior to go with my shaman/hunter combo. It worked a little better this time, and I even managed to clear uldaman with the trio while it was still level appropriate for warrior, and a bit underleveled for the shaman. Eventually though, I got them BRD, and the plan just sorta fell apart, both because my Warrior kinda sucked, and with only 3 people, DPS really wasn't killing things as fast as they needed to die.

So at this point, I started leveling a trio of hunters, and questing and grouping goes really fast at low levels with them. However, I couldn't get past the 2-people-too-short issue I thought I would come across later, so eventually, I broke down and bought 2 more el cheapos from Dell, although this being some years later than the original, they actually run WoW pretty well with the exception of capital cities and really laggy areas.

So, now with 5 computers, I decided leveling 5 hunters would be a good idea. 5 solid DPS, 5 tanking pets, and 5 people who could heal their tanking pets if needed. Well, I get them all to 60, and came across an annoying factor: gearing 5 characters of the same class is a pain in the ass going just by instance drops. So I resorted to PvPing my gear. Now, while really fun, it also gets repetetive and easily blown up by more than 2 mages (although it was really fun to watch some lone mage/lock run up thinking they could be a hero and seeing them get eaten by 5 glowing red tigers).

After getting about half the PvP set, BC comes out. At this point, I decided I'd really like to try a straight PvE group, that didn't have overlapping gear concerns, so I rolled my Paladin, Shaman, Druid, Priest, and Mage group. It has worked amazingly well thus far, and provides me with plenty of options for whenever I feel like controling a single character.

edit: No idea why some random link popped up in there.