How many of you two-box?

Forestlordx · Post by **Forestlordx** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:55 am

By two-box I mean either have two accounts running in window mode on one computer or two accounts running normally on two computers. Just curious if anyone here does that type of thing.

Lahaie · Post by **Lahaie** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:09 am

Occasionally I do, but not really to play them both at the same time. I usually run them in full screen mode and alt-tab to switch between them on my laptop.

I normally use it to trade stuff. I have been considering using it to help myself with 2 man quests but have had video issues running both accounts on the same machine since Patch 2.1 arrived.

Having most of the graphics disappear while in the middle of a difficult battle might leave me a little irritated...

If I had more space in my house and the money, I would consider setting up 2 machines to run side by side...

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:20 am

I do a little, mainly to run lowbie alts through instances if I feel lazy, or to trade things between my accounts. Unless you could the fact that most of the time I have whatever account I'm not playing at the time running censuses on my laptop

heartless_ · Post by **heartless_** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:35 pm

I used to two-box on a single box with DAoC, but I am just not that addicted to these games anymore. Of course in DAoC you almost were required to use a buff bot or suffer being owned repeatedly.

Eyeball-Dragonmaw · Post by **Eyeball-Dragonmaw** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:41 pm

heartless_ wrote:I used to two-box on a single box with DAoC, but I am just not that addicted to these games anymore. Of course in DAoC you almost were required to use a buff bot or suffer being owned repeatedly.

I loved Dark Age of Buffbot

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:42 pm

When leveling my alts I would often run myself through instances or hard quests with my cousin's account. I would just log onto my cousin's account on my comp and then log onto my account on my wife's comp, then put my alt on /follow. I've never actually attempted to play both at once really, but because they're both desktops that might be a tad difficult since they're a few feet away from each other so I'd have to play musical chairs

Tartara · Post by **Tartara** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:14 pm

Oh, yes, if I need to two-box to trade items or two-man a quest, I have a great method I can recommend:

"Hey, honey? Can you log off your main and log on that guy I still have on your account and run him to Booty Bay? Thanks, sweetie!"

heartless_ · Post by **heartless_** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:14 pm

Eyeball-Dragonmaw wrote:
heartless_ wrote:I used to two-box on a single box with DAoC, but I am just not that addicted to these games anymore. Of course in DAoC you almost were required to use a buff bot or suffer being owned repeatedly.
I loved Dark Age of Buffbot

But did you love it enough to go back and play on the new "no buffbot" servers? I did, and I forgot how painful that game was to play without buffbots

Eyeball-Dragonmaw · Post by **Eyeball-Dragonmaw** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:34 pm

heartless_ wrote:
Eyeball-Dragonmaw wrote:
heartless_ wrote:I used to two-box on a single box with DAoC, but I am just not that addicted to these games anymore. Of course in DAoC you almost were required to use a buff bot or suffer being owned repeatedly.
I loved Dark Age of Buffbot
But did you love it enough to go back and play on the new "no buffbot" servers? I did, and I forgot how painful that game was to play without buffbots

Nope once I was accepted to WoW closed beta I never looked back....sold all my chars on Ebay for DAoC.

Ceto · Post by **Ceto** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:35 am

I've always wanted to try it, but I didn't get a second WoW-capable machine until a couple months after I stopped playing. It's still something I'd like to play with, tweaking two setups to get the perfect dual box UI.

Post by **Rollie** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:47 am

I used to 2 and 3 box in EQ all the time. I haven't tried it in WoW. It seems to me that you would be fairly restricted in what you could do. At least how I play, each character takes way too much attention to be able to do multiple things at once. Maybe I'm just not an uber boxer =)

Boxing in EQ wasn't hard at all. I multi-boxed a cleric, enchanter, rogue on a regular basis, ha.

Forestlordx · Post by **Forestlordx** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:01 pm

Yeah I knew a guy when I played EQ who managed 4 accounts at the same time. He had a group always. Enchanter, Cleric, Beastmaster, mage. Combat situations seemed alot slower timewise than similiar situations in WoW, so I agree with you Rollie that it would be very hard to do more than 2 unless you had some macros configured to do special things...maybe that's how people who do more than 2 box do it now...have each character with complex macros so that each encounter it just does it automatically to a point...

uigrad · Post by **uigrad** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:53 am

When I played eve online, almost everyone would two-box. You would usually use one character for mining, and another would be in a battleship defending.

Two-boxing was so common in eve that CCP allows users to pay only half price for second accounts. I always found this strange. It seemed to me that they acknowledged their game wasn't fun when played as originally intended!

Phreeze · Post by **Phreeze** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:49 pm

Lahaie wrote:I normally use it to trade stuff. I have been considering using it to help myself with 2 man quests but have had video issues running both accounts on the same machine since Patch 2.1 arrived.

just run them 2 in windows ! so you can quit 1 wow without getting those graphical errors, tried it tonight

i occasionnaly use the account of my brother to help my lowies out btw

heartless_ · Post by **heartless_** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:29 pm

Two boxing in WoW seems to be nothing more than an easy way through lowbie instances. This would be a non-issue honestly if Blizzard ever got on target with a decent LFG system.

I am still level 60 and I've not gone to a dungeon since TBC launched because there is NEVER a group available

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:57 am

Yeah groups are had to find, my warlock got a ZF group (which was awful) and that was it having gone 1-55 in the last couple of months, I ran myself through the lower places and just skipped most the others.

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:24 am

Kinda touched on another subject here, but with the way the game seems to me currently, I'm not even sure why anyone runs the sub 50ish instances anymore. For me anyway, when I do play, I lvl fairly quickly and any nice items gotten from an instance are quickly outleveled/outdated.

I mean, I guess you can still go for the fun factor, but grouping with pugs who aren't very good isn't my idea of fun =/

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:11 am

pre TBC instances are now really just a question of novelty if 70's are going to run them. Like ZF with 3 hunters, 2 shadowpriests, 2 pallies, 1 warrior.

A friend of mine did a 5v5 team with 1 pally, 4 hunters. Fun times.

Tartara · Post by **Tartara** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:46 pm

I ran my 70 warlock through Scarlet Monestary recently. Took 25 minutes to clear the Library completely - but a lot of fun and things to disenchant on the way. I only did it because I'm trying to collect all the keys she missed on her way up originally.

I guess I should have offered to take a level-appropriate person with me, but it never crossed by mind...

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:26 pm

at 60 I used to take my MS warrior to SM... if I wanted to do a rush run (under 15 min) I would need at least a 34 healer.... Sweeping Strikes + Whirlwind = Fun.