An interesting sight...

Grinding honor for Keichan in AV recently, saw something
interesting:
an actual five-boxer.

How many of you have seen multiboxers in action? I've known one
personally in Everquest, none in WoW. Didn't see any until that day.
Raid warning from the leader said she was taking up D at Balinda.
Someone remarked "wow, five elemental shamans", and I looked at
the raid composition and it was so: she had set herself up as
group 6. I was halfay across the Field of Strife, and doubled
back for a look. Sure enough, a cluster of female Draenei were
moving in sync, one in lead, the other four obviously slaved. All
were named "Sweet"-one-thing-or-another, from Gorefiend, I believe.
I saw her just eat up a Tauren druid who foolishly charged.

Powerful practice, if you can afford it. If I could afford five
Internet and Warcraft accounts, I wouldn't have nearly so much
trouble gearing up or getting characters maxed out. Not before
Kara, anyway. Play alone, be my own group, all the way to full
heroic gear.

I would, however, prefer a balanced group, with no weaknesses.
Playing five of one class is also powerful, if you have the right
class: rogue (always), druid, shaman as Ms. Sweet chose, possibly
warlocks or hunters. You might lose one or two of your team in
a lot of situations, but in getting wiped out you could still
greatly reduce a well-defended target.

Anyone else know any multiboxing stories?

Dondle, 65 Undead Shadow Priest, Doomhammer
Firiona, 29 Blood Elf Paladin, Doomhammer

Cardrianala of <Alibi>, 70 Night Elf Holy/Disc Priest, Gilneas
Dorandy of <Omani>, 70 Gnome Affliction Warlock, Gilneas
Keichan, 69 Night Elf Arms/Prot Warrior, Gilneas
Samery, 70 Human Arc/Fire Mage, Gilneas
Ayakochan, 69 Night Elf BM Hunter, Gilneas

On May 19, 10:46 am, EJH <ejhaw... RemoveThis @ameritech.net> wrote:
>   Grinding honor for Keichan in AV recently, saw something
> interesting:
> an actual five-boxer.
>
>   How many of you have seen multiboxers in action? I've known one
> personally in Everquest, none in WoW. Didn't see any until that day.
> Raid warning from the leader said she was taking up D at Balinda.
> Someone remarked "wow, five elemental shamans", and I looked at
> the raid composition and it was so: she had set herself up as
> group 6. I was halfay across the Field of Strife, and doubled
> back for a look. Sure enough, a cluster of female Draenei were
> moving in sync, one in lead, the other four obviously slaved. All
> were named "Sweet"-one-thing-or-another, from Gorefiend, I believe.
> I saw her just eat up a Tauren druid who foolishly charged.
>
>   Powerful practice, if you can afford it. If I could afford five
> Internet and Warcraft accounts, I wouldn't have nearly so much
> trouble gearing up or getting characters maxed out. Not before
> Kara, anyway. Play alone, be my own group, all the way to full
> heroic gear.
>
>   I would, however, prefer a balanced group, with no weaknesses.
> Playing five of one class is also powerful, if you have the right
> class: rogue (always), druid, shaman as Ms. Sweet chose, possibly
> warlocks or hunters. You might lose one or two of your team in
> a lot of situations, but in getting wiped out you could still
> greatly reduce a well-defended target.

I think it's a lot easier to control 5 characters of the same class
since you can minimise your keypresses. I'd imagine it would be very
difficult to play 5 different classes with different skill, cast
times, etc through macros. Also a class like a rogue requires a lot of
micro management to be successful, they use a wide range of skills to
win fights, whereas I imagine shamans are popular because of their
burst damage compressed into just a few skills. Having 5 of them must
mean enormous burst such that I doubt any character can survive more
than 2 casts from them.