Why Don't More Multiboxers Raid?

[wakasm]

Here are some reasons why I currently don't raid. Although I keep trying to get myself to a point to do it. I was really close with Cata, and feel like I'll be very close in WoD assuming I don't burn out.

Issue One:
Just general time. Working 40-60 hours a week makes it harder (for me) to get to the point of raiding. I hope multiboxing stays around forever so that the day I can have more time, I can dive right into it. I really feel like in 5 years, I'll be financially stable enough to make this happen... but until then... work is work!

Issue Two:
This is a dumb one... but the whole 8 accounts on one B-Net thing bugs me to no end. I have no idea why. Every single patch I hope to see they increase this to 10. I feel like it this happened, I would put in 200% more energy into trying to raid. Even though I have a second bnet account (well 4 with diablo), there is just something about knowing that a lot of my account specific stuff won't work with my other bnet account always deflates me a little bit.

Issue Three:
I don't feel I am a great MMO player. Even though BC, WoTLK, Cata (skipped MOP), and WoD so far, I've been able to clear most 5-man content... I always feel like I'm gimped by my game knowledge. Macros are almost always someone elses. I research a lot of stuff, but it's almost always someone elses. I learn more about playing the game from peopel multiboxing than I do from PLAYING the game. I feel like this limits me as far as even simple things, like boosting my DPS, or playing smarter. It's not just a lack of effort... I just think that a lot of gaming things come more naturally to others than it does to me as far as being elite goes. I do the best that I can, but find out people are doing it 3 times better than me. I am not sure if it's a mechanical skill thing, a mental one, or what.

Issue Four:
I feel like I am always 2 steps behind in the multiboxing software (isboxer). Whenever I get stuck, I generally can solve the problem mentally, but struggle implementing it in the software. This is where people like Mirai and Lax come in and constantly make me feel like I'm a noob (which is a good thing), because they solve these issues inside the software that I can only solve conceptually outside of the software. It's very polarizing to know there is a better way to do something, but not to be able to implement it, just to find out there was an easy way to implement it.

Issue Five:
I get too caught up on completion-ism sometimes. And when I try, I try too hard. I'm definitely a try-hard lol. WoW Achievements do not help this.

Issue Six:
I play too many other games. This is probably the biggest soul sucking aspect, which is probably related to issue one (being time). My gaming backlog is so long... and sometimes that gets me demotivated, which is usually when I take a break form multiboxing. (But I always seem to come back)

Issue Seven:
I think I'm too slow. If it takes you 9 hours to level, then it probably took me 18. I am not always keeping my eye on the most efficient way of doing things. Which probably seems counter-intuitive to how a multiboxer is.

[Vayku]

From past experience I had alot of struggle in character positioning.
This mostly endorsed me to stop boxing all together, and due to School etc I had no time or was either not in the mood to setup Bindings specific for my chars. I have been researching for quite awhile now and plan on trying to raid with my boxers. I soon will give it a go again for sure!

I just recently started playing again, and I wanted to step it up alittle by starting to Multibox again.
The first time I had multiboxed was back in 2012, I asked for a trial and was in love that right after I bought the product. Hopefully I could try it out once more since lots have been changed back from 2012.

Vayku

[Shania]

I still only raid on my main Hunter and solo, as in in a guild but not with my boxing toons.

Basicaly no one on Oceanic Realms that Box, and if any do, they are very few and far inbetween.... /sad

And I am just not skilled enough or have 10 accounts (i have 5) to solo 10 man raid, can probably do ok on 2-3 ranged dps, that be about it.

[valkry]

I still only raid on my main Hunter and solo, as in in a guild but not with my boxing toons.

Basicaly no one on Oceanic Realms that Box, and if any do, they are very few and far inbetween.... /sad

And I am just not skilled enough or have 10 accounts (i have 5) to solo 10 man raid, can probably do ok on 2-3 ranged dps, that be about it.

I still box, on frostmourne

[Bodom]

For the first time since LFR came out I encountered another multiboxer in LFR a few days ago. I've been running LFR almost every week since it came out with multiple teams and people comment on it in almost every group (when they notice, most of my characters have different names/classes and transmogs so they don't look like typical multibox teams), so I'm guessing PvE multiboxers are incredibly rare.

If I had 10 accounts I'd definitely try soloing raids, at least the easier bosses. Would be fun. I've currently got 3 and now with WoW tokens I'm almost tempted to get another two accounts for heroics and challenge modes, but I'm not sure if I could handle tanking and healing at the same time.

[emitchell109]

I cant wait to take my toons into LFR just for sh!ts n giggles.

[Hor]

My thoughts require a little bit of background, first I started boxing in EverQuest - long, long ago. Initially it was an easy way to farm some AAs and items in places where few people still hunted in those days. Then World of Warcraft came along a few years later and I made the switch, in BC I started boxing with Keyclone (I had done purely hardware boxing in EQ) and was in love with the concept all over again. At the time I was suffering from raiding burnout, having been in a couple of progression guilds through the meat grinder that was Vanilla raiding. Possibly spending an hour each night summoning food and water contributed to my disatisfaction with the concept, anyhow... BC was all about me, not the raid.

I was doing Arenas and running Heroics basically, though by the end I was running Karazhan and Gruul's a bit as the itch had returned. Wrath came along and I came out of the gates swinging, I powered up my DK and joined my four Ele Shamans wrecking Heroics for a while. Raiding changed drastically at that point though, and suddenly I and a few close friends could clear raid content instead of 40 people just to get a chance at a few bosses. I kept boxing the Heroics for a while, but as I became more in demand as the guild's main tank and raid leader I lost interest in boxing. I did take a couple of Shamans from to time just to add a little extra oomph to our DPS. Or, I'd bring an offtank sometimes. But generally, I was much more interested in focusing on the raiding itself.

I quit the game in Cata, and stayed gone throughout MOP. I didn't come back until WoD was released, and I almost didn't come back then. So far I haven't raided at all, I've spent my time doing solo content exclusively and found that when I play the game on my own terms I love it. I don't know that I could ever really go back to raiding, but I'm definitely coming back to boxing. Having said that though, I'm not sure I could raid while boxing either. Maybe in LFR, maybe. But I don't have any experience with that. My experience with raiding through Wrath and Cata was Hard Modes and Achievements, and it's frustrating enough when some dink doesn't move out of the fire. I'm not sure I could keep my own completely out of harms way in tougher fights, so I wouldn't feel right forcing others to play around me like that.

I have however met a couple of boxers on my server already (Blackhand US), so the possibility of tag teaming some content is there, and fairly appealing honestly. Beyond that, I doubt I'll do much in current raid content until I'm soloing it for xmogs and mounts.