Multiboxing Tips: What was the one thing that really helped you move from a good multiboxer to a great one?

[MiRai]

What do you find more fun, the getting started/setting up of building a team or the playing of the team?

Setting up and configuring teams in ISBoxer is sometimes a lot more fun than actually playing the game.

[JackBurton]

•The more advanced configs are hard to teach. One thing one of my favorite teachers said is that you really know something well if you have the ability to teach it. Thats one of the reasons thier isnt alot of documentation of the advanced stuff.
•Move from lurker to poster. I met new boxer guidie the other day that knows about db.com but never posted. feel free to ask questions but be aware that your question may have been answered a week ago already and thats why people arnt falling over each other to answer your post.
•To be honest the guides i post are not really guides but a call for help. I rather show my work when im stuck so that it doesnt look like im asking for a free handout.
•I like to kinda reverse engineer stuff by looking at videos and asking myself how they did that.
•Sometimes while im playing i get these great ideas for improvements. Try to find some way to record these ideas so i dont forget them. I do the same for snags or bugs in my profile.
•study the boards every day. alot of good guides are burried in these boards. and if you miss a day you may not notice a great guide. Alot of times right after i post a question to the forums I find it myself burried in the forums. use google search becaues its better than the forum search using the format: site:dual-boxing.com +keywords
•save nuggets of information you see on the forums. You can use that information to inteligently answer new questions and you will be able to summon it fast. For example while you remembered the spirit of an old post you probally wont remember what keywords you'll need to punch into google to bring that thread back up. Google Docs is the free cloud server i use.

[Shania]

I just wanted to ask, what was the one thing you started doing (or mastered doing) that really helped you "step up" your multiboxing game? (It doesn't have to be good to great, I'd accept "mediocre" to "ok" as well ).

Comes down to a few different things like:

1) This site & the Community within.
2) Isboxer - With out a doubt!
3) Merc's 2 step macroes!!
4) Persistence, trial and error.
5) Again this site, the invaluable guides, info, helpful responses from others, helping each other etc!!

[luxlunae]

•save nuggets of information you see on the forums. You can use that information to inteligently answer new questions and you will be able to summon it fast. For example while you remembered the spirit of an old post you probally wont remember what keywords you'll need to punch into google to bring that thread back up. Google Docs is the free cloud server i use.

You know I love documentation jack (I still have a copy of your keybind worksheet on my usb drive). What kind of stuff is on your docs scratchpad?

[candlebox]

I apologise if I am telling you how to suck eggs...

It's not that I don't know how, I have had a pocket healer so long that i didn't need to : )

It is a lot more for the brain to process. Gives you a lot more room for error having a healer though.

[moog]

For me it was the video feeds and click through healing of ISBoxer - what a staggeringly, amazing product that is!

Before, in WoW, I needed octopus arms to heal my mixed group - with a variety of function keys, alt-function keys, ctrl-alt functions keys etc, to do different sized heals on different members of the group.
In big/stressful fights, it was easy to get it wrong and lose chars/wipe.

When I saw the posts showing how you could combine video feeds, clicking through and and in-game addon like clique (IIRC) to allow 'proper' healing of the whole group, it changed my mixed team into a dungeon stomping team of death!

[JackBurton]

Remembered what Apps said about MOSG. Made me remember something i saw..

Now this is why I come to these forums. People coming up with creative ways to do new things rather than the same old, same old.

[Apps]

Remembered what Apps said about MOSG. Made me remember something i saw..

Not really sure if this is a compliment or... lol

I said Mosg2 because of the following:

Mosg2 showed me how to setup ISBoxer from scratch, and do it without the assistance of the wizard. I found this to be invaluable. The wizard does SO much for you, but at the same time, sorta limits users somewhat. Granted 90% of the users fit the aspect of the wizard, so im NOT knocking it.
He taught me, when he didnt have to. He helped me when it may not have been convenient. He got on skype (which I never used before) and walked me through it like I was a 5 yr old. Hes spent countless hours working on manifestos for everyone. No benefit to himself... he already had it all worked out. He showed me how to use repeaters in a way I hadnt even considered. He showed me how to set up using quick swap keys, and load entire new key map sets at the same time. He showed me how to box a game that wasnt easily boxable at the time.

Most importantly, he (by example) led me to want to help other people too, now armed with better knowledge and understanding of the ISBoxer software.

And not just the software specifics. He as an individual within a massive community, took the time to 1 on 1 with me. Ive sent PMs here and there... some get answered some dont. Of everyone, he was the most impressionable and absolutely left a distinct mark in my learning. I was at a point where I thought "this was it" for boxing, and was bored... having felt as if I had mastered it. Boy was I wrong.

If ever there was a Mosg2 Cheering squad. Id be in the front row.