First the setup.



Two computers, Ubuntu, keyclone, synergy on both and running two instances of
Warcraft.



Started with 3 mages running around Goldshire generally dieing a lot and making
a right hash of things, got them up to level 5 or so and decided to level a
healer. Levelled a priest to 10 in half the time it took the mages to get
to 5 and got them together for some quad boxing fun.



Things I learnt:


  • Oh dear god it's
    hard... Trying to communicate to people and convince them I'm not a
    bot usually results in the slaves running around, spamming nonsense and
    generally making people believe I am a bot.
  • 99% of people think I'm a
    bot.
  • "You're facing the
    wrong way" gets old, very quickly.
  • Keyclone will disconnect
    and/or crash when either someone’s watching or I've pulled everything.
  • Collection quests are
    rubbish (I knew this already but multi boxing confirms it). eg. Collect 15
    red things that have a drop rate of 1 in 4 (quite a good drop rate in
    regards to the last quest I did), this means I need to kill in the margin
    of 250 mobs if not more. Wouldn't be so bad but because your in a
    group money/xp is split so your not gaining as much.
  • People who moan about
    multiboxing really really really really don’t get it.


Generally though it's been quite fun, I don't like the
attention that much but I suppose you've got to live with it. Everyone
I've met has stopped and watched, either running on confused after a short time
or accused me of power levelling (yeah because it's so easy!), botting and then
the rest. The best was a level 70 who
followed me for a bit and said nothing but, “OK… this is new…”



I'm not really looking forward to getting my tank involved and quint
boxing. That’s going to be a challenge, there's only so many keys on the
keyboard and I've only got so many fingers!
Also I don’t think the hardware will take it. The older box freezes and stutters when entering Stormwind and
everything stutters to a halt.

Anyway, just my 2p worth to the dual boxing community.