What made you start boxing

[valkry]

My mate convinced me to :P

[Tonuss]

Everquest leveling would slow to a crawl once you got high enough, like level 30 or so. After level 50 it got even worse. Once I had a druid at level 50 or 51, I figured it'd be easier to level alts by using him to PL them instead of doing the solo/group level grind the 'normal' way. Not only was it easier, it was ridiculously fast and a lot of fun. But other than PLing alts via manual window swapping, I didn't do much with it.

I did the same in WoW after about a year, using a main character to quickly PL alts when my friends weren't on. I probably would not have progressed past that had I not found this place and learned about keyclone. Five boxing looked like a hell of a lot of fun. Once I had keyclone working it was only a matter of time before I'd be running full groups of my own.

[Apps]

You can also log in and log out whenever you want without having to care about feeling guilty abandoning other people.

Love this bonus.

[Gomotron]

My multi boxing goes way way back.

When Ultima Online came out, I bought it and enjoyed a few days of lag hell until the server situation got worked out. Then, after a few months, I started crafting a lot. Blacksmithing required a ton of iron bars, and they were too expensive to buy, so I decided to mine for my own and then smelt them myself. I bought a macro program and would mine on a boat at night and during the day. However, skill-ups in blacksmithing were ridiculously hard once you got close to 100 skill, so I wanted to mine on more than one character to collect twice the ore. Not to mention, I wanted to keep one character mining 24/7 so having a second account made sense as I needed to transport the ore to my house to smelt.

Once I moved to EQ, I started a SHD. I solo'd initially, but I quickly found that SHD's were ridiculously weak. Probably the weakest class at launch. I almost gave up but then decided to add a shaman into the mix. The heals, slows and buffs were amazing and I was able to level with ease. However, soon, the shaman was overtaxed with healing the SHD (still a weak class!) so I added a CLR into the mix. With this team I was able to camp dungeons and spent a lot of time in LGuk (FBSS FTW!). However, once Kunark came out, I really needed some CC for dungeons. So I added an ENC to the group. The Clarity/crack was a godsend as was the CC and attack speed buffs. Overall, however, the group was lacking DPS sufficient to keep camps cleared before respawn, so I knew I needed more DPS. A druid in my guild quit the game and gave me her account to use. So I added a druid for ports and DPS. At this point, I was 1 short of a full group so I decided, what the heck? I added a rogue for DPS. At the time, ROG were the equal to WIZ for DPS and I liked the ability to pick locked doors in dungeons.

I stayed with EQ until Gates of Discord came out. By that point, my group was not strong enough to level effectively, so I was falling behind on AA accumulation. Honestly, I was becoming bored with the game as well and lost the desire to grind.

I am proud to say that my original setup was remarkable in its inefficiency. In fact, one of the pictures of my early setup was used as an example of how NOT to set up multiboxing in the sticky by Bradster. If I had known about hardware key broadcasters, I probably would have gotten a few more years out of EQ. As it was, I made the switch to WoW and by that time, became acquainted with dual-boxing.com and discovered a plethora of new tools to help MB'ers.

[thefunk]

Interesting - I came to it completely differently, had one wow account back in vanilla days which I levelled a pally to 30 and quickly got bored. My cousin wanted to play so I created another account for him (rightly or wrongly, I now know the law). we had a race to 70 when bc came out which he clearly won. then he gave it up.

That left me with 2 accounts, and loads of dailies to complete. so tried playing alt tab and its a pain in the bum! so googled "multiplaying wow", "2 accounts at once wow " and so on. Fortunately I hit this site first and then the reading began...

I didn't know about macros in those days either so went from being a clicker type player to keyclone junkie in about a month. It's a shame I don't have any time to play anymore but it got me thinking about learning vba for Excel - If I could down a heroic 5 boxing, I could bloody well automate some steps to some pointless spreadsheet at work! Now I have to stop myself coding all the time, even if I'm getting disproportionate amount of respect for it Hehe.

[SaraiE]

I found this site! 'Nuff said!

SaraiE

[Unded]

I started multibox because I don't want to play with random strangers and it's not possible to play with irl friends all the time. Also I hate rushing through dungeons and often take short breaks (checking email, chatting etc) even inside dungeons. This is not possible if doing pugs.

You can also log in and log out whenever you want without having to care about feeling guilty abandoning other people.

Right on Valle2000!Those sum up why I multibox.
I started multi boxing in SWG way back when doing the alt/tab thing in windows and eventually found this site when I started to play WOW.
I have some rl friends in my WOW guild-a few became friends from SWG and as they migrated to this game it just seemed the only way to play for me-multiboxing with whichever friends were ingame at the time I was on.I have a couple of Texas gals in my WOW guild-met them on ally aside where I started and they migrated to horde with most of the guild a few months before Burning Crusade came out. I have no wish to solo play the game except to tear up some of my fellow multiboxers in AV cause it needs done sometimes

[Kimchee]

I guess I’ve been boxing in one form another since 2000 in Anarchy online. I got my MP to lvl 150 and I decided to create another character. I wanted to run them together so I bought another account. I finally got my Engi to level 94 or so to get the Slayer droids? I can’t remember since it’s been so long. I got bored after this and stopped playing AO for good. I was hoping to go back when the graphics upgrade happen, but that never saw the light of day.
In WOW, I saw a guildy running both his toons at the same time and attacking simultaneously. That’s when I got interested and asked him questions. He basically stated to do a search in youtube. The first video I ever saw was of Vyndree’s and I’ve been Hooked since.

[Atrocious]

I actually started dual boxing before I knew there was a term for it. It was way back in vanilla right after I started. I found that too often my pally would die if I had a bad pull just questing. So added a priest since I had two PCs. Then got sick of wow and the grind at about level 30-40ish.

Then I came back about a year ago. So I joined some RL friends on the server they were on. After running like a crazed chicken after people in herilooms and who knew the instances, and nobody slowing down to tell you what to do, let you loot, etc. I got sick of it. Went back to dual boxing again, just doing quests. Did an instance a day on each of my toons, got sick of that. Also found that my back and neck started hurting from operation two keyboards at the same time. Started looking and found this place. Started 5-boxing right after that.

Shortly summed up, I MB because I've come to find that about 90% if the earths population are assholes. The shit that goes on in PUGs just gets on my nerves. I still remember a poor DK who me and my guild mates got as a replacement when one of our guildies had to log. He was sooooo thankful we gave him some tips and had him tag along even tho he did a meager 4k dps. Instead of just bitching at him and kicking him.

[Shania]

For me, well, sick of the selfish, self centered players in WoW.
Ideally if I could I would box all raids, but its not doable, less people I would have to play with the better in most cases lol.

I raid on my main Hunter in my own guild, 10 man raiding guild which also has my fiance and my daughter as well who raid 3 nights a week in Firelands. Personally i'd rather raid with them and my boxed toons if it was possible, but its not, so we have a smallish guild, with decent core members "for now"

pugs, other guilds etc, its all a pain in the ass, I dont want to waste my time when I am online, I wanna get in there and get what is set out to achieve done, swiftly with little bullshit as possible.

+ being a mount whore its awesome to box certain older raids for mount collecting that your not going to have to share the roll if/when a mount drops etc.

And BG'ing on x3 or x5 its just far to much fun to not box it lol

I dunno... I just prefer doing things myself, or with family, closer friends etc, less people overall = happier times in most cases. /shrug