Quote Originally Posted by 'chaosultimamage',index.php?page=Thread&postID=217 648#post217648
Personally, I'd say that the only relation to multiboxing and multitasking would be if you did it this way.

One monitor (and no PiP or anything), one keyboard / mouse, and no addon to alert you about slaves. Now, you're still allowed to use Keyclone / your choice of method to get the input from 1 source to multiple clients.

That way, you're actually having to monitor EVERYTHING on your own. No Jamba to warn you that your slave broke follow is dying, etc...Doing it with multiple monitors, PiP, addons, and all that make it more like "teamwork" even though it's one person controlling it. You get assistance from the other toons without your direct attention.

Now, I can safely say that I have definitely gotten better at boxing since I started. I've learned so much more about macros, I've started trying new things, mixing classes, etc...it definitely takes more once you start doing that, adds a whole new level of difficulty to the game. But, I still wouldn't say it's so much "multitasking" the way most of us do it. We've got a lot of help nowadays.
Um... this is a lot like flying a plane in zero visibility with no instruments... just because you have a tool to tell you the status of something doesn't mean you aren't multitasking - it means you have a consolidated location to get all the notifications you need.

When you play 5 of a single class/spec I can argue thats not multitasking most the time, thats doing the same thing 5x per keypress. Once you deviate you have stepped into multitasking for sure. Once that global cooldown is more than 1 thing to pay attention to, you have to dps and heal and tank, you have to watch positioning of your toons, etc.

Another great multitasking builder is raiding as any class, but very much so as a healer. Nothing says multitask like watching 25 life bars and healing them while ensuring you don't get a debuff from standing still while avoiding the glowy crap and sometimes, not always but sometimes jumping into the glowy crap.