I started boxing quit early on in Everquest, slowly working my way up to 6-boxing. Ever since that I have a hard time enjoying playing a solo character for more then a month, in any MMO. Boxing just adds so much for me, from the added utility, to the freedom to do what you want to do up to the RP-value of having your own "family" of toons. I like gearing up my toons, I like dinging with them and get new spells and when you box you get all that x(insert number of boxes).

I have never boxed in WoW but I did 3-box for a while in EQ2 and for a very short while 2-boxed in Lotro. I must say though that I like it the best in EQ, dunno why.

The "Massively Multiplayer" part of MMORPGs has always been "sharing a Virtual World together" and not "group up and grind mobs together" btw. Funny how hard it is to explain the difference between those 2 statements to "anti-boxers" though. I always use the example of how I did the Qeynos-->Freeport run once in EQ in 1999 with my level 4 Enchanter and encountered this other player halfway Norrath in Highkeep( a safe haven), who was doing the run the other way around. Back then it was a thrill to make this journey and meeting this guy was fun. We drank something in one of the Inns there and then said our goodbyes, each heading into danger again in separate ways. One of my best memories in EQ. Note how this did not involve grinding mobs for XP. But people don't play like that anymore, they do not make MMO's like that anymore so basically you get a "does not compute" when I tell people this story.