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Dual boxed team names
Since I will probably be dual boxing a few "teams" of alts, I've decided that I should probably give each pair of dual boxed characters a team name. It'll just make it easier for me when posting.
The first team is Nyquist and Zaley, and they'll be called Team DoubleD. Because one is a Dwarf and the other is a Dranei, hence, DoubleD. What else did you think it referred too?
The next team is Savik and Zerp, and they'll be called Team Ugly. Come on, one is Undead and they're not what I would call beautiful, and the other is a Blood Elf which as a male character, I just don't like the look of.
Even though not a dual boxed team, I'm going to give my main and his wind serpent pet a team as well. They'll be called Team DPS. That one should be obvious.
I've made a Teams page for future reference.
Full disclosure or TMI?
I dual box when I am running Nyquist and Zaley, or Savik and Zerp. I admit it and I have no problem telling people I do if they ask. However I am evaluating whether I should be the first to bring it up, or just wait until people notice and ask.
The reason this has come up was because a couple days ago I was looking to see if I could join a guild. I was actually looking for a raiding guild for Ziv, but I also thought about finding a leveling guild for Nyqist and Zaley.
When guilds are recruiting and I am interested in them, I ask a lot of question. I ask what kind of guild it is and what the long term goal of the guild is. I ask about rules and ranks, as well as their alt policy. I ask how many people are in the guild and the level ranges. During this time I usually tell them about my main and my in-game experience. Usually during this rather lengthy "interview" I am able to assess whether it may an guild I'm interested in or not.
The other day, I was speaking to the GM of a guild that was recruiting. I had gone through my usual suite of questions and was ready to ask for an invite. But before I did that I asked the GM how they felt about multi-boxing. The GM asked what that was and I told him one person controlling two accounts simultaneously. He replied, that he didn't really mind, but proceeded to ask about it.
After a long discussion about this, the GM seemed to have lost interest in inviting me. Even though I had explained that dual boxing was not against Blizzard's ToS or EULA, I think he was afraid of his guild being associated with a multi-boxer. I suppose it's expected for people to be ignorant of multi-boxers, which brings me to the question.
Full disclosure or not? Is bringing up that I multi-box too much information (TMI) or not?
Someone noticed
Early this morning while I was questing in Stranglethorn Vale, someone had noticed that I was dual boxing.
I was working on a quest in the Kurzen compound in the northeast gathering Jungle Remedy when someone asked if they could join the group. I let them join and we proceeded to go through the compound gathering the quest items. I had Zaley on auto follow and as I had Nyquist engage and tank the mobs, I pulled Zaley back to do any healing if needed;. After each dead mob, I put Zaley back on auto follow and we continued on.
When we were finished with the quest objective, the person who joined our group asked if I was one person playing two characters. I told him that I was, and he said he figured I might be because of the auto follow in between killing each mob. He actually thought it was pretty cool and wondered how I was doing it. I told him two accounts and two laptop computers.
I've grouped with people before but none had ever asked if I was dual boxing. Either they didn't know or just never mentioned it. I get asked to group on occasion especially if there is competition for limited quest objectives. I'm getting better with running the two independently during a fight but since I'm using two separate keyboards, I have to use auto follow.
Ding 29
Nyquist and Zaley dinged 29 today. Having dual-boxed these two from level 20 to 29 in Ashenvale and Elwynn Forest, I think I've finally started to get the hang of playing two different characters on two different computers. I'm not great at it yet, but I'm a little better at it than when I first began. I've learned a few things along the way and have had to adjust as both learned new talents, spells, and skills.
I'm thinking about having Nyquist and Zaley get some rested XP, so I've been contemplating either playing my main, Ziv, or maybe start another set of double bubbles - Horde side. I've only briefly played a Horde character and not for very long. It wasn't that I didn't like playing the Horde side, it was that I was still leveling my main, Ziv, so didn't really care to play an alt at that time. So this is actually a real good time to start on the Horde side and see what it's all about.
Alliance side rendezvous
Today I finally got Nyquist to level 20 and am moving him over to Auberdine to rendezvous with Zaley. Having individually leveled the two in their respective starting areas to level 20, it's time to bring them together and start this dual boxing foray that I've decided to myself into. I could have started doing this at a much earlier level or even from the very beginning, but honestly it didn't hit me to try dual boxing until Zaley was already at level 20. That is when I rolled up Nyquist. Besides, I wanted a Dranei priest and a Dwarf paladin.
