What made you start boxing
This started on another thread and I did not want to derail it.
I put forth the question why did you start boxxing?
For me I think it started back in 1999 when I was playing EQ. I had started as a Pally, I loved Pallys in D&D, but soon found out they were not good at tanking or healing so I switched to a Druid. I went to unrest and at 14 and joined a group of higher teens. They were pulling from the house and asked me to snare, dot, and backup heal. Now remember back when the servers started to see someone in bronze platemail was quite a sight to see. So they pull the Reclusive Ghoul Magi and we kill him and he drops the Savant Cap +3 wis/ +3 int head piece perfect for a wis or int based caster and probably the most powerful piece of gear any of us had seen at that point.
So at the time when EQ fired up beta testers had tried to start this policy that the person who formed the group got dibs on loot and if they did not want it they could decide who got the loot. This philosophy maybe lasted about 2 to 3 months after launch then went full NBG. So the group leader who was 18 says he is going to take it for himself but if anyone wanted to buy it from him it would be 500pp. The guy was a warrior.... So of course I say it should be NBG /lottery. To which the guy says at 14 I was only here at unrest due to his good graces and the phat exp I was getting is my reward. The rest of the group did not agree so he grudgingly allowed us to /random on it and I won the roll.
A few pulls later we get the hand and it drops the ivory bracelet. Again the group leader loots it and says he is keeping it and if anyone wants it they can pay him 500p for it.... So a big argument breaks out and the group breaks up. The leader kept the loot and was seen later /auc it for 500pp in GFay. For the rest of the week the guy kept sending me tells calling me a greedy bitch and told me how I had ruined the game for him because I was a loot whore who jumps up and says lottery every time something drops.
I think it was then and there I basically just soloed EQ as a druid to 50 or 60? I don't remember what the starting cap was. Every time I did get into a group it was nothing but bad pulls, F bombs, fag jokes, and loot drama. Once I hit 60 I had some content I could not solo so I made a cleric and PLd him. I had an old computer sitting in my closet I pulled out and put a 56k modem in and added a 3d accelerator to the 2d card. PLing was easy back then you just had to tag the mob for 1 point of damage then have the other guy blow it up. So as long as something was not really really red you could solo reds pretty quick that way. They did nerf that at some point however when guys were making instant 40s with giants. I never caught how they did it but something about using damage shields and DOTs and zoning.
I played that cleric for guild raids and dual boxxed content solo. Pretty much every game since then to include Jump Gate, DAOC, AO, The Realm, Counter Strike, WoW, and others I cannot recall I at least dual boxxed them all if not just ran entire groups. What I really love about boxxing now is with todays hardware/software I can go back to old games like that make my own group and go explore and experience content I was never able to do before.
So what is your story how did you become a boxxer?
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Originally Posted by Phanes
much the same as me here 
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