Quote Originally Posted by 'evilbob',index.php?page=Thread&postID=187225#post 187225
...but reading these boards leave me with a rather mixed opinion about this particular endeavor.

I've been playing wow on and off since beta. Naturally, during this time, it can gradually start to wear on you and become a touch boring, and that's without wincing at all the nerfs over that time. While hunting for a way to make it interesting again i came across the idea of multiboxing and now i must say that it's caught my attention however, there are a few issues that have been nagging at me, most of them dealing with gear.

You see, i left right before wrath came out and have since learned about the badge change. This worries me because if i can't get a character nice gear over x amount of time unless i play each one solo (since some raids can't be boxed), why box? Then i thought to myself, well that's fine... raids were becoming a bit of a joke when they dropped em from 40 mans to 25 anyway, perhaps i'll focus arena instead. And yet, right on the heels of that thought, were post after post about how much trouble people on the board are having with them. That even Aelli was getting farmed and he was a big name in tbc

So, now i'm left wondering that if i do quad box, and if i am the mouse and wow is the maze...then where is the cheese? Perhaps with a little input i'll catch a scent.
We all get something different from boxing - some love the mechanics, and tinkering, some love the challenge, some do it to avoid the horrible world of pugs, some do it to get the pew pew factor in PvP, and some use it as a path to the end-game epics.

We can't tell you if you'll find what you're looking for with MBing, it's really something you have to try for yourself, and then decide if you like the things it gives you, and also deal with the downside of it.

For myself, I started as a way to escape pugs and work on the end-game content myself, and very quickly forgot that, and grew to love the building/leveling process more. I could care about Heroic/raid gear, honestly. I'm having a BLAST leveling a new team, I have 3 in Hillsbrad in their mid 30's, and they're starting to feel their power, and getting really fun - and when I need a break, I jump on my 3 80's, and I'm working through the old dungeons for the dungeon achievements - they blew BRD and LBRS apart the other night, and (possibly) tonight, they're getting keyed to UBRS and blowing a hole through Drak. They bitchslapped Strat both sides a while ago, I run the Baron when I'm bored, for the mount. Soon, Sunken Temple, Scholo, and the Isle. Then it's on to Mechanar and Botanica and see how far they get there.

Most players would look at that content and say "What's the point? The gear sucks! Who cares!?!?" I would have said the same thing before I started MBing. Now? I do it because I can, and it's fun to me. Maybe it would'nt be fun to you. I don't care about the end game anymore, I have fun exploring and re-exploring the old content. I can't wait to get my new team to Outlands, this time around I'm going for the quest achievements there. Epics? Sure, they'd be cool, but I don't need them, really.

Anyway, the best thing is that you found this place. Keep reading, maybe start up a couple of trial accounts and see if you can get the hang of it, see if you're set up hardware-wise, and level a team. MBing is a complex enough thing, that there's plenty of things to hook you and make you dive in 100% - or it won't do much for you, and you'll move on. It's really not something that can be predicted, ya know? There's also a lot of challenges to getting a team up and running, to keep you busy for a while.

I think you'll find that you'll be so busy leveling that you'll forget the end-game for a while, and I've noticed, for a lot of people, that's what makes the game fresh for them again. If you focus on the last 5-10% of the game, yes, it grows stale pretty fast - look at all of the endless complaints of boredom and how "easy" the game is on other forums - players at the level cap are so focused on the end of the game, they get no enjoyment from the rest of it.