Unless you are this guy....

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-juggles-over-30-warcraft-characters/1255554


Think you play too much World of Warcraft (http://videogames.yahoo.com/gamemain?cid=1990962391)?
Compared to "Prepared," you don't.
In a case of game addiction gone officially bananas, gaming blog Joystiq reports (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/12/one-wow-player-controls-36-characters-simultaneously/) on what is surely the biggest Warcraft fan of them all. Known only under the moniker "Prepared," the gamer plays a stunning 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers...simultaneously.


Here's what his setup looks like:

http://l.yimg.com/jh/content/p/2/1255557/screen001.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/jh/content/p/2/1255557/screen002.jpg

Must be single.....;)

2-boxing used to feel like a job and I stopped. I can't even imagine that, how can that be fun?

Heh, I was just going to post that.

Seriously, this is just....sad. What a sad individual he must be.

i call shenanigans, you cant have the same character screen loaded on that many computers.

They aren't the same character/account. Look closely.

I have a feeling that may be a job alright...a gold farming job.

Or simply the WoW equivalent of EQ's Sam Deathwalker (though Sam "only" 24-boxes, last time I checked).

Looks like he is in business.

You don't gather up that kind of gear for the pure love of playing the game.

I wonder how long it takes for him to max out levels for a new character?


Cheers,

Probably AE-powerlevels anything new to high 60s in a handful of hours, limited by instance resets. I must admit, there have been times I wished I could kick the other 24 dumbasses out of a raid and get it done right, but that never survived a shot of scotch. That guy is paying almost two thousand a month in account fees and electricity.

I bet what he's not showing is that he has them all botted, while he goes outside and enjoys the money they're making, 90% of the time.

He might be gliding them or whatever, but that seems like a huge setup investment for accounts he wouldn't even have to look at 90% of the time. Also, the odds of someone running dozens of instrumented accounts off the same network and not getting a group ban is not in his favor.

Whoever this wiseguy is, he has absolutely NOTHING on the botting abilities of the Croff-Gokuu-Ehrnam CH rotation. AMIRITE?!@

Dont forget Chansellus and Preecha!

I was thinking the exact same thing.

When I tried to explain CH rotations to my current guild they where astonished. The best reply I got was "And that was fun?"

I can't help but laugh.

CH rotations don't work on high end raid content now.

"And that was fun?"

They did have a point.

CH rotations don't work on high end raid content now.
Well, not by themselves. On some longer fights we still find it useful to have a ~3 cleric rotation supplemented by splashes (and a cleric on vie duty), particularly when some of those clerics are alts with relatively small mana pools.

It's still nothing like the old days, of course.

Complete Heal was one of the best single examples of the small minded design that made EQ it what it was. Well we've got big heal and bigger heal, what's after that? Hmm, I know, a total heal! Well damn, how would we even figure out in our spaghetti monster of code what the target's total HP was and pass that back to the spell check -- we wrote the heal code to modify current HP by a set value? Who cares, just have it do 10,0000, it's impossible for anyone to have that much.

And not only did the players accept that, we got used to it and built unintended tactics around it. That was the sort of game that happened only by accident.

Go go baby druid CH's!!

Complete Heal was one of the best single examples of the small minded design that made EQ it what it was. Well we've got big heal and bigger heal, what's after that? Hmm, I know, a total heal! Well damn, how would we even figure out in our spaghetti monster of code what the target's total HP was and pass that back to the spell check -- we wrote the heal code to modify current HP by a set value? Who cares, just have it do 10,0000, it's impossible for anyone to have that much.

And not only did the players accept that, we got used to it and built unintended tactics around it. That was the sort of game that happened only by accident.

What part of Everquest was actually played as intended? Bard's were designed to only sing one song at a time, but twisting was invented. Charm kiting, hell ... kiting of all kinds was unintentional, but it soon became the main way to solo. Monks feign death pulling was another, and the soothe line of spells / songs allowing people to soothe an entire wing of Bastion of Thunder and pull the named right through them to the group waiting in the safety of the zone line was another.