Are we too harsh?

[Kaynin]

(NOTE: age riestriction is 8 years old)

That's a max limit, for those wondering.

[Zaelar]

All you NEED to know to multi-box:

It isn't cheating.(well technically you don't need to know this...)
You need a different account for each character.

Thats about it. Then add in some helpful suggestions:

/assist party1 and /follow party1 macros. Can also use a toon's name or focus. -- highly suggested
If you play on one computer, use windowed mode. A broadcaster(keyclone/autohotkey/etc.) is helpful but not required.(anything over 3 I suggest using a broadcaster, 3 isn't hard without one though)
If you play on multiple computers a broadcaster(hardware or software) helps a lot.
For more information on broadcasting check the wiki and/or stickies in the forum.

Misc information:

General consensus is it is hard to use melee classes. A tank is fine but things get messy if you have more than one. It isn't impossible though.
Make your tank your main if you have one, healer if not.(if playing with 2 having your healer as secondary is fine) You should have whatever character is going to need the most micromanagement/attention as your main.
The wiki and stickies in the forum contain a lot of useful information, be sure to check them if you have a question. Using the forum search feature can answer many questions too. Don't be afraid to ask if something isn't answered elsewhere. Put in a reasonable effort to find an answer first though.
If you ask a question you must include the secret word from the sticky/wiki page of the relevant topic. Failure to do so will result in you getting banned. (the secret word will be edited out of your post automatically so others can't see it)

Maybe something like that in an easy to find place?

PS the secret word doesn't actually exist.

[Frosty]

First, you guys are all mean, and I'm never coming back again....EVER! :P

Second...What ever happened to the tried and true "RTFM"???? I have a ton of questions, but I research everything I can first before asking.
The main reason for this is I always learn something additional, that I wasn't even looking for, along the way.

[shaeman]

I frequent a number of forums and this is quite a common problem no matter which site.

There are a number of people that are impatient, expect people to help them, expect to give nothing in return and take offense at suggestions that they use either a search function or read the stickies.

Their attitude is that if you don't like it don't read it - but fail to realise that you then have to search through post after post of "help me now" topics to find something worthy of responding to.

Posting a special "Read this first rarely works" - they will ignore it - usually with the excuse that they don't have the time to waste reading something like that they want the answers now.

I'm not sure of solutions - other than moderators that post a url to the stickies and lock the thread.

Now - Can all you top multiboxers take my charactes and level them to 70 for me please. And make sure you do the job right - I'll expect them back fully epiced up.

[majoho]

Some people just post to be rude, if they are sick of people asking "stupid" questions they can just ignore it they don't have to post in the thread, but since they are assholes they insist on doing so.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Although the irony is amusing, I didn't quite see any offensive posts made by Majoho personally, and the thread he linked to was basicly asking for input what people thought would be best. With perhaps some arguements to help him decide what to do.

I think in this case people have been too harsh. :P

I think that was a pretty good example, I assume there is no modding here.

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I don't think Majoho came over particularly poorly in his original post. It could have been crafted better but it wasn't awful.

His subsequent behaviour in the thread didn't cast him in a particularly good light. Still giving the benefit of the doubt though.

What was wrong with my behaviour?

I explicitly said in my first post that I DID READ THE STICKES - and yet someone thinks he has a point by posting "read the stickies" - I thought a message board was for debating, doing some ping-pong and coming up with good ideas, but I guess I'm wrong.

And yes I said people that were rude were assholes, how would anyone say they aren't - it's not like I was calling someone randomly assholes.

[Eteocles]

Because it WAS covered in a sticky...the one he linked you to to boot. Said sticky listed the pros and cons of each class for boxers, and regardless of that, ONLY YOU can decide what you want to play. You want us to pick yer class for you, you want us to play it too? And wipe your ass? ..."MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! BATHROOM!"; hell at this point you're pretty much not even playing; pick what you like, play what you like, enjoy it. We've listed what's good and bad about the classes, the synergies are obvious even without multiboxing(Windfury + Warr = happy warrior; healer + warr = happy warrior; boomkin + destro lock = happy high-dps warlock, etc)

[Icetech]

I just started coming here a week ago... first thing i did was read stickies/howto's.... there are some damn good ones.. i was able to multibox without asking one question... just by reading.. then i had the odd macro question and such... if people are too lazy to reado stickies, screw em. And that may sound harsh.. but a guy just posted today asking if there is a way to make the alts loot.. WTF there has been TONS of posts bout that, just search. You can never be too harsh to lazy ass forum people that want every spoonfed

[Dawnstone]

Half my enjoyment from multiboxing was learning HOW to do it. When my two PCs sync'd across the network the first time, and one mouse scrolled onto the 2nd pc, I was in awe. And this came from reading the boards, searching the stickies, using the search function, and even going off-site to other software DL's to weigh the pros/cons. It wasn't about having someone show me what to do, it was about having the information at hand and building something from it.

I love these forums because we can bounce ideas around (minimap ping, addons, macros, hardware, etc) and get honest responses. I don't think this forum was ever built to take average joe and turn them into a Multiboxer... its more of a place where we discover if we can create ourselves into a multiboxer.

[Kaynin]

Everyone's always been nice to me.

I kinda feel left out now. ;<

[Boylston]

Everyone's always been nice to me.

I kinda feel left out now. ;<

If you were halfway competent at the search function, you'd find several threads where we make fun of you.... Punk!