Hi all

I just decided to try out dual boxing and want to make sure I'm heading down the right track. Having read through as much of these forums as I can get away with at work, I'm now extremely impressed but a bit overwhelmed by the options and possibilities!

My needs aren't all that complicated. I'm not really interested in going more than 2 accounts at a time. Briefly, what I want to be able to do is a) use a high level character to help level lower level chars with quests and instances (I'm an alt addict!) and b) have both my high level characters do their dailies at the same time. I've got a holy Paladin and a Prot warrior, awesome for raiding and when my guild needs me for anything, not so good for doing dailies. The warrior has a pretty good dps set but could do with a healer (repair bills somewhat defeat the purpose of doing dailies) and while the paladin doesn't die much, she takes forever to kill anything, or if she's in her dps gear she has no mana pool and has to drink after just about every kill. Together however I think things would be much easier. If I don't prove to be completely unco

Firstly, hardware. I'm using a single PC so my first task was to upgrade my poor old AMD 3500. It served me well for 3 years but it really was time for an upgrade. Now have an Intel dual core 3 GHz with 4 Gb memory. Wasn't looking to spend megabucks and I'm seriously happy with the increased performance. I've also got an 8800GT vid card and 2 monitors.

So far so good, I now have 2 copies of WoW in separate folders on the PC, and have transferred 2 of my characters (the warrior and my 52 hunter) to my second account. I've now managed to set both games up in windowed mode (one with resize disabled) so I can get one to appear full screen on my main (widescreen) monitor, and the "slave" account is maximised (but not fullscreen) at 1024x768 on my old 17" CRT. Ok it's a little fuzzy and I have to drag it over and maximise every time I run the game, but what the hey, it does the job. It allows me to switch quickly and easily to my second screen if I need to.

Now for the fun part. Software. I'm debating what to use. I'm looking at free solutions for now because I am just starting out, I may switch to one of the paid apps when I figure out what I'm doing or if I want to take this idea further. For now I'm considering using MultiboxerV2 and Autohotkey. Having my second character auto accepting quests and taxi rides and following me would be extremely handy. Or is there a better solution out there to Autohotkey and Multiboxer that I haven't considered? Most of the tools I've read about seem to be for multiple computers and that's not what I'm running. As mentioned at the start I got a bit overwhelmed.

Anyway... how am I doing so far? I only finished setting up the second game copy last night but then I had a raid to go to so I didn't get to play with it. Planning to get the boxing software sorted tonight if I can before server maintenance. Can't wait to give it all a try!

(Edit: Dang, sorry if this is TL: DR, I have to learn to type less! 8| )