Personally boxing (and learning about RAF boosting) has saved my WOW for me. My main (80 orc hunter) was getting stale, got all the gear I could possibly want out of 10m naxx, don't have the time to devote to a 25m guild (and besides I like my current guild too much to ever leave them for anything...it's the people, not the content we clear that's our focus).
So I went and resurrected my original wow toon, a human rogue on a diff pvp realm and leveled her to 80 to join her guild (mostly friends and friends of friends) in 10m raiding. By the time I got to 80, they'd all been decked out and stopped running naxx and people were starting to drop like flies to 25m guilds. So that toon did a few PUGs @80 before I got fedup with PUGs.
So then I resurrected another old toon, a 42 human priest on that same realm, and started leveling him. Got used to being one of maybe 2-3 ppl online in the guild at any given time, and had some fun playing him, got to 66. But I was really missing the guild chat and camaraderie of my horde guild on shadowsong.
That's when I discovered boxing, and decided "hey this is a great way to get some more high level toons quickly". I already had 2 accounts (one WotLK and one TBC), so I started my non-RAF team of prot pally + holy priest. Could've RAF'ed but I wanted to play twin blood elves, since I already had two TBC or better accounts and didn't want to pay for a 'temporary' TBC account, I'm boxing them to 80 together now. My guild is very supportive of it and often asks how things are going, what's the biggest pull I've done so far, contributed bags and some startup cash (even though I have an 80 on the realm that could've done that lol).
So I'm having fun with that and once the team hits 80 (going to upgrade the TBC account to WotLK when I near 70 and then maintain two accounts), anyways when the team hits 80 I'm going to RAF a 3rd account from my 2nd account and instance boost two pairs of toons to 60 using the pally. Then I'll gift 59 levels to a L1 on the 2nd account and get five 60's out of the deal.
So boxing rejuvenated my WOWing as it's a way to get two 80's in the effort it would normally take to get one, and then get five 60's in about 2-3 weeks even at my modest play schedule.
Once the boostees are all 60, going to transfer the two toons off the 3rd account to my main account, leave the three 60's on my 2nd account, and then dual-box up 3 more pairs of toons to 80 (got a mage I'll solo to 60 on main account then join her to another toon).
I will continue to maintain two accounts because I plan to dual-box level toons in the next expansion too, so might as well keep them on two accounts.I even have my monthly subscription renewals staggered so I pay once per 15 days instead of paying both at once each month.
And here I was headed to about my 5th "retirement" from wow lol.
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