The ultimate WoW boxer

[lmnt9]

Damn...

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gam ... rs/1255554

http://videogames.yahoo.com/featurescre ... 57&index=0

I mean, really. How can that be possible without using crazy macroing / bots that are illegal in game? I'd like to see a video of him actually doing it.

I box two and its fairly challenging.

[Aardor]

There are a number of tools that are legal to use to help with multiboxing in wow, so I'm sure he uses those. As far as macro/bots (like macroquest in EQ), there are ones out there that work and generally go undetected unless your character farms honor for 2 weeks without logging off =P.

I would also like to see him in action...if he doesn't have some of the characters full macroed, I don't see any way he'll be able to control all of them in any useful manner.

[miir]

That's a gold farming setup.
It's not humanly possible to actually play the game like that.

[Jarori Bloodletter]

That's a gold farming setup.
It's not humanly possible to actually play the game like that.

It is NOT a farmer. its an insane person who loves WoW that much.


http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Portal

Hell i 3 box OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS even tryed 5 boxing shammys.. its actually fun~

[lmnt9]

I can see how it would be easy to box given the same character class with all the various tools - but when I think of boxing - I think of playing two different characters at the same time. I don't see the fun in running around with two of the same toon, other than doubling output.

I'd even go as far as to say that using two of the same class connected using those addons/hardware is not "boxing" - its more along the lines of "mirroring".

When I say I box two characters, I mean I have two complimenting characters that I try to play as effectively as possible using two separate machines with no extra software.

I think that's how most people did it in the past - with maybe some extra keypads and hotkeys.

[sarlen]

I use to raid as 4-6 Clerics on nights we couldn't muster a full healing force for the raids, but it was always on 4 to 6 different machines and I enjoyed it immensely. This new perversion on multi-boxing just seems like cheating to me.

[Bagar-]

I use to raid as 4-6 Clerics on nights we couldn't muster a full healing force for the raids, but it was always on 4 to 6 different machines and I enjoyed it immensely. This new perversion on multi-boxing just seems like cheating to me.

I agree. The fun of EQ boxing was that you actually had to be quick and reactive on each individual character. I boxed a paladin, cleric, and necromancer and it was a lot of fun rotating between the three and trying to utilize all of the abilities in a much more dynamic and faster paced manner.

Unfortunately WoW doesn't allow that sort of boxing, as each class has too many abilities and fights are much too interactive or fast-paced to begin with, you'd have to have some serious reaction times to pull off true WoW boxing that doesn't rely on macros or programs; at least in a raiding situation.

[Boogahz]

Pain was 2-boxing anything and a Bard in EQ1 when you still had to twist songs.

[Psyloche]

In EQ I played up to 8 characters between 2 comps. I didn't have access to any other hardware and I'm not even sure I would have liked it. I really liked just having to alt tab to the 3-4 different characters I'd be playing, part of the fun was remembering exactly which order the tabs of characters were on either my desktop or laptop. Thing is, boxing in EQ was not much of a challenge imo. Almost every DPS/Tank/Healer was a lot of nothing (medding, long cast nukes or auto attack) and occasionally casting a big heal (CH). So maybe I missed a few Flying Kicks or something, it really wasn't a big deal. Threat came from procs off the warriors weapons, I knew exactly what mobs were inc and which were getting mez'd, I don't know, it just seemed so god damn easy to play that playing that many characters is what made it fun near the end.

In WoW and you have much more spammed abilities that require you to be pushing them or your DPS or threat drops significantly (I usually play Rogue, S. Priest or Prot War and have played a Lock and Hunter). Boxing 5 shaman or 40,000 of the same character isn't all that impressive to me since it's more or less all keybindings the same with key press replicated across all the accounts which are on AF. Some set ups have separate inputs (keyboard and mouse) for the different accounts but I imagine that shit is all just key press replicated.

[lmnt9]

Pain was 2-boxing anything and a Bard in EQ1 when you still had to twist songs.

/sigh - I miss Bards.

[Aardor]

Boxing 5 shaman or 40,000 of the same character isn't all that impressive to me since it's more or less all keybindings the same with key press replicated across all the accounts which are on AF. Some set ups have separate inputs (keyboard and mouse) for the different accounts but I imagine that shit is all just key press replicated.

It is pretty funny when you get blown up by 5 chain lightnings at the same time, from people named obeada, obeadb, obeadc, etc.