Practice makes perfect - Multiboxing "retrains" the brain.

[Tdog]

Has anybody found that they box better with practice?

Oh of course. I am able to pay attention to alot more things happening to all my toons now then I did when I first started boxing 1 1/2 years ago.

Funny you should say this...I realized the other day that the part of the game I enjoy/spend the most time on is the meta-game -- that is, planning teams, figuring most efficient ways to play them, etc. I think I most enjoy fiddling with my "5Box Wow Planning" spreadsheet. :whistling:

I'm sick, I know.

Not at all. TBH sometims I love sitting there and theorizing up new ideas for macros and placement of them.

Reminds me of those "studies" that say nobody can effectively use dual monitors for more than one thing at a time in a productivity setting. Idiots.

Lawl wut? I use to have 4 monitors and used all 4 of them when studying various things out online over several websites all at once. Much more effiecent than doing it all on one screen.

I would argue that practicing multiboxing makes you better at multiboxing.

You're basically configuring your alts for remote control, not remote operation (meaning, all your toons are at the same place at the same time).

If you were playing one toon in Molten Core and another in Black Wing Layer at the time, thats multitasking. Multiboxing is somewhere inbetween.

That's an interesting thought but tbh I have to disagree in your definition of multitasking.

One set of eyes can only directly focus on one thing peroid, however you can still be aware of other things that you are not directly focusing on and still efficiently perform several tasks at the same speed that you could do one. An example of what I'm talking about...


Say you're cooking some spahgetthi, you don't just cook the noodles, get that all taken care of, then just cook the beef, then just chop the vegtables, then just set the table. You do it all at once.

Get the Pot on the stove and start warming up the water, then start tearing up the ground beef, then add the noodles and oil, then start warming up the beef, then start cutting up your mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, garlic, w/e else you put in your spahgetthi, draining your noodles somewhere inbetween, and then removing the beef somewhere inbetween, mix it all together and you're done.

Now even though you were not DIRECTLY focused on the noodles and beef while you were preparing the sauce and setting the table, you were still aware of them and still prepared each item in the same amount of time as you would have prepared that one item if you just foucsed on one thing at a time. So instead of taking like 45 minutes to make the dish you took like 20 minutes.


In Multiboxing you can still be aware of several different things, espeically in a trinity group, even though you are only directly focused on one thing. Even though you might be hitting a tanking/dps macro, you're still aware that you need to heal this or that toon soon, then this ability is about to come of CD, then you need to reposition the tank here or there, then heal the tank, then the next ability is off CD, then you need a group heal, so on and so forth etc. So yes imho multiboxing requires multitasking.