I used to be a brutal anti-boxer. However, after RAF’ing myself and trying to use two toons at the same time, I realized it opens up many doors for additional gameplay option. In my limited experience thus far, it’s quite fun being able to use more than one toon at a time.
This will also help bolster my alt army for the next love rocket farm, as well as panda world bosses, while also effectively cutting the “average” time it takes to get a boss kill there will be multiple rolls per kill, rather than just one roll per kill when not boxing.
This is even starting to scratch an itch I’ve had as of late where I may actually want to start collecting non-plate mogs too. Uh oh…should I get two more subs so I can run 4-man groups for plate, mail, leather and cloth collections?
Anyways, my stance on boxing has changed. It’s fine as long as it’s done with Blizzard’s rules. It’s a bit of a chore but it’s turning out to be quite interesting and fun, and is certainly a unique gameplay style.
Multibotters can still eat dirt, but multiboxers playing within Blizzard’s rules seem fine to me now that I’ve actually started to experience it and better understand it.
I have had two accounts since vanilla. At first I wanted an account for kids, but it was also great for cross faction gold and item movement, since I played both factions.
Then I started running both at once in questing. It started out leveling a new toon and using my shaman as a 60 healbot. He was on follow and I would just reach over and hit heal as needed.
Now I always play two at once for world content like questing. I enjoy having two toons as a team. I don’t use use software, but do use double mounts and follow extensively. Many of my teams have one as healer or tank.
Anyway, when one laptop broke, I had no desire to do world content. I did a few instances, but now back to both at once.
Three of my brothers also had a second account for their kids. But none of them really got into playing both accounts at once. And currently, they don’t play at all. For me personally, it really makes the game better. World bosses become about 40% easier rather 100% (Since I don’t use software), but it’s also always having a companion toon alongside.
Can get two clothing types when running old raids.
Mine are on separate emails, since I had them before battlenet and never merged them.
It means my collections are not joined, but they mainly have the same stuff anyway. I had all my plate toons on this account, but decided to move pally to other account for a different team, and suddenly had no plate mogs there besides what was in storage. But have plenty there now.
I don’t support it, personally. Yes it does give an advantage over people with one account, particularly with input broadcasting software (quicker herbing, easier mog farming, world pvp) and nobody should feel like they have to have more than one account to enjoy the game to the fullest extent. Especially when having multiple accounts costs resources (money/gold).
What I see happen a lot is that someone is against something they don’t like until the day that they start benefiting from it then they change their stance on the subject.
I totally understand why people want to do it but I am not a fan of it.
Oh, I didn’t say that I no longer think it’s P2W - it definitely still is, just like the WoW token. It’s certainly a unique gameplay style though and I see the appeal of it, even without considering any P2W aspects.
I mainly just have anywhere from 2 - 4 toons following each other around, doing quests. Pretty much what I have always done when multiboxing. It’s just useful to have an army of toons.
The rabid oMg I hAtE mUlTiBoXeRs never bothered to listen to those of us who just like having lots of toons. It was stupid and extremely short sighted. Derp.
When blizzard finally decided to really ban boxing and from what I’ve been, they haven’t found a way around it, (don’t see any in the open world anymore) that is when tokens started to really take off in sales.
Bliz will never go back, the little bit of extra revenue from the extra accounts has been replaced by a big bump up from those token sales because of the prices of the AH being higher.
I am glad that boxers are gone. They wrecked the economy.
Bliz has created a game destroying monster called tokens that will in time, destroy the player base.
