About

Background

I've been playing World of Warcraft since March of 2006. After spending some time with different class and race configurations, I finally settled on having an Alliance faction Night Elf Hunter, named Ziv. I leveled him to 49 until I had to take a work related hiatus from playing between June-October. I finally got him to 60 that December. When the Burning Crusade came out I immediately brought him to Outlands and finally reached level 70 in March, 2007. Since then he's practically done all the quests in the Outlands and has done some end game raiding through the 10-man Karazhan, and Zul'Aman, and has been ready to progress through the 25-man raids.

Though I would enjoy progressing through the 25-man raid content, my schedule is such that I can't during the prime raiding times and I have yet to find a guild that raids when I am able to devote the time to raiding. So in the meantime I settled into doing dailies, 5-man instances, and on occassion a few PVP battlegrounds. It started to get monotonous and the challenges of the normal game started to wane.

I've started up a few different alts to try something new, but it was hard for me to break away from my main and devote the time to leveling any of them. However, my favored alt was a level 19 twink Human holy priest (Mizkai) and playing Warsong Gulch with her helped break up the monotony of the daily grind. I've enjoyed playing a healing class and thought about leveling one to 70. I started with a Draenei priest (Zaley) and leveled in the Draenei starting area until level 20. I then wanted to try out a Paladin, so I rolled a Dwarf paladin (Nyquist) and got him to level 20 as well. I couldn't decide which of those two I wanted to take all the way to 70. I'd prefer to bring them both to 70 actually as I enjoyed what each class brought to the game. I knew it would take some time to level one all the way to 70 let alone two. I was thinking about doing the alt/rested leveling dance between the two, but then I got an idea. Can I level both at the same time?

Multi-boxing

My first experience with the concept of multi-boxing in WoW was a time I was in the Eye of the Storm battleground. I went to check out the type of defense a particular tower had, and upon getting there I saw five shaman, or was it one shaman? The reason for the confusion was because they all looked exactly alike, and all had what appeared to be the same name. At first I thought it was a glitch, but then I heard a 'crackle', saw a bolt of lightning, and I was dead. Welcome to multi-boxing.

The idea of multi-boxing is not new, and it's simple in concept, but somewhat tricky to implement effectively. Basically it's playing two or more accounts simultaneously. There are numerous web resources on multi-boxing (WoWWiki, Dual-Boxing.com, V-boxing), and there are multiple reasons why people do so. Mine are to level two more characters that I think I want to play in the end-game, as well as reinvigorate the gameplay and challenge in WoW.

The Blog

So this is really a platform for me to share my experiences with the World of Wardcraft and the challenges of dual boxing alts. It's also a means for me to express some ideas and on occasion some stream of thought rants.

Characters

See my Armory Profiles page

Tems

Since I'm dual-boxing two at once, it was only natural to create teams. See here as well as the Teams page.