New guy non sticky questions.

[zenga]

1) do you recommend a full working knowledge of macros before attempting to box or can I just copy everything I need?

Myself I started multiboxing from the first day I started playing wow. It made it initially more difficult, but once past a certain mark I was doing the same stuff everyone else was doing, and sometimes more. My point being: if you learn to do it properly from day 1, you gonna benefit massively later on. With doing it properly I mean having a basic understanding of what the macro's do rather than just copy/paste. The whole setting up and figuring out is imo one of the joys of multiboxing (for me at least).

2) easiest and common pitfall to boxing?

Imo ISboxer has made it incredibly easy to copy/paste (share) setups, and makes people feel powerful from the first day they box. But as they advance they hit a brick wall since they never put any effort in how/why. As if you learned how to drive an automatic gearbox in the US, but then you move to europe and get that fancy bmw company car, but you can't drive it cause its a manual gear box.

But it's not a requirement to have fun initially while multiboxing. Not at all.

3) if I can box two can I box five or is there a different learning curve?

2 of the same spec or 5 of the same spec make little difference, unless you micromanage stuff like procs for example. Different roles is what is most difficult.

4) what do you hate and groan about this hobby?

Hating is a big word, but I prefer the people who do it for the 'art' of multiboxing (.i.e. for the challenge to be in control of multiple toons) over the people who do it just to feel more powerful. And I slightly regret that over time more of the latter seem to have joined the community. Allthough that removing /follow from bgs corrected that a bit.

5) what do you love about it?

The fact tthat it gives you a sheer unlimited amount of possibilities to play WoW. You can come up with the most crazy ideas and pull them off or fail horribly. But in the end it's mostly yourself who is the limiting factor, not so much the game or other players. And you can play group content without having to take someone else his/her schedule into account.

6) what do you box class- wise and why would you recommend it?

Started with 5 shamans, at lvl 60 (back then the raf cap) I swapped out a shaman for a pally tank. Over time I have boxed pretty much everything and have more toons scattered among many servers than I have boxers in my wardrobe. Currently I mess around playing 2 rogues in arena. But whenever I'm bored with a certain setup I invent new stuff to do. One of the most fun things I've done was levelling a brand new mixed team in cata, without any heirlooms, entirely through dungeons, with the goal to complete every dungeon at the appropriate level, and get every dungeon achievement along the lines. It was not majority of my playtime back then, as I mostly play the game single, but it was incredibly fun to try and knock out for example the TBC heroics. That made me enjoy a lot of content I had missed, since I started playing in wrath. It kinda summarizes what multiboxing can do imo.