Team Howster - Multiboxing ICC Marrowgar  | read this item

Howster is back with another video, this time tackling the yet-to-be multiboxing elusive Icecrown Citadel.  Our first video covers Marrowgar!

A quote on his strategy for multiboxing ICC Marrowgar:

All dps and healers gets behind marrowgar and dps/heal like they should.. If they are too far back they get hit by the fire on the ground, so just a little closer than that. Once a while Marrowgar will target a random raid memeber and cast a bonespike on him. When he did this I target that bone spike with a macro and kill it.

After a while he starts to whirlwind on random raid members, meanwhile he also cast this fire things on the ground (in this video i tried to avoid the fire, but we found it easier to just stand still and just heal through it. I use my 3 shamans to chain heal when this happens and my druid healing the way he should). After the whirlwind its back to start with the bone spikes again..

Continue Reading

Looking for a US Multiboxing guild? Look no further!  | read this item

We’ve all seen it asked before:

“Awesome Rogue level 45, looking for guild that is interested in leveling, raiding, PVP, and Multiboxing”

Wait…  a Multiboxing guild?

If you haven’t heard already, Blackrock (US – Horde) has a guild <BUT MOM IM MULTIBOXING> which is very active and very much a Multiboxing friendly guild (and solo play friendly of course)!  The guild has been around for around a year and has seen literally hundreds of multiboxers, brand new to the whole scene, start new teams, ask questions, and learn everything there is to know.

Right now the guild has dozens of Druids logged in often at any time, lots of Shamans, Mages, Priests, Hunters, you name it.  As of writing this post there are 21 Druids across 5 teams logged in right now.

To sum it up:

• Server: Blackrock
• Faction: Horde
• Guild Leader: Timboxa
• Multiboxing Friendly?:     YES!
• Soloplay Friendly?:    YES!
• How to apply?:    Just send Timboxa a PM in-game, or PM Lsta, or Pawslavea, or Byriaan, or Stompera.   Any multiboxer is welcome to join.  Just create (or transfer) your team and say hello in a PM.  Alternatively you can do a “/who but mom im” and ask a few people for a ginvite!

Note: The guild has a guild bank that allows a new multiboxer the ability to withdraw some funds to help start their new team

Video: Ebony multiboxing Alterac Valley 5x Warlocks  | read this item

Our very own Ebony has released an amazing video of what it is like to Pwn Alterac Valley with 5x Warlocks.  She said that some of the wins are giving her 100,000 XP and primarily is being used as a method to level up to 70 and beyond.

The strategy looks to be ginormously fun.  I’ll summarize it for you:

• Step #1  -  Run towards enemy
• Step #2  -  Apply 592 million DOTs
• Step #3 -  Run towards next enemy
• Note:  In the event you should run into a large number of enemies, simply bust out 5 Infernals, and dominate them all.

Caution:  The video you are about to see is going Continue Reading

New 5 man Druid Team tonight @ 3pm CST!  | read this item

Hey all,

Just a heads up that I am yet again starting a new team, and this time I plan on sticking to it!

3pm CST tonight @ Multiboxing in World of Warcraft on Justin.tv

The goal is to create a 5 man druid team and roll them all the way into Cataclysm and have a blast.

The team should be great at PVE w/heroics with 1x Druid tanking, and 4x Druids DPSing/Healing.

The team should also be a blast at Battlegrounds/PVP due to massive amounts of starfire/moonfires/STARFALL and overall sneaking up on people in kitty form stealth and going boom boom on them.

A note: My first level 80 team was in fact boomkins, and my first team I created while developing Pwnboxer was actually a level 70 team (BC) of Boomkins. Overall they have always been my favorite to play so I’m really looking forward to this!

Video: Multiboxer Solo's Midsummer Event Boss  | read this item

Our very own Kiyas created a video of multiboxing the Midsummer event and had this to say about it:

Ahune The Frost Lord as you will all know is summoned in Slave Pens during the Midsummer Fire Festival.

Initially this boss took me four attempts to figure it out but after that normally I do it first attempt daily for the two emblems of frost and hoping to get the Ice Chip – Item – World of Warcraft for my Palidin… It can get a bit hectic on this fight the way I do it but thankfully I got a good tank some awesome dps and a really good Priest healer.

Firstly I set up my group near where Continue Reading

Multiboxing Retribution Paladins - Ramparts  | read this item

After over a week of gameplay and preparation, the 4x Paladin 1x Death Knight team has finally come together in Ramparts.  This new multiboxing team brings together a lot of potential on paper.  One such potential is Divine Storm.

Massive self healing through multiboxing the Divine Storm Skill:

On paper it would seem that it is quite possible to run instances, even heroics, without having to heal the tank of the group (bosses not counted) simply by having 4x Retribution Paladins using the Divine Storm skill.   When fully glyphed, this skill will heal your party members for 40% of the damage done.  Multiple this by 4 and Continue Reading

Pwnboxer Owner Live Chat - Bring Your Ideas  | read this item

RESCHEDULED!!!   Tim got sick    New date forthcoming!

For the first time we are going to do a general Pwnboxer Q+A to get everybody involved on where Pwnboxer is at in general, as well as some ideas you might have, or requests, for features.

Saturday 06/26/10 @ 3pm CST @ http://justin.tv/multiboxing

Bring any suggestions you have, bugs you encounter, and general thoughts about Pwnboxer to the stream.  No matter how crazy your idea is, I’d love to hear it.

The reason for this chat is that Pwnboxer, to me personally, has reached a state where I find it absolutely perfect for my every day multiboxing needs.  However, I just one person out of many, and Pwnboxer really is about the general multiboxing community as a whole, so having YOUR feedback on how Pwnboxer is for you is of utmost importance.

Everybody is welcome, including those who use Pwnboxer, those who do not, and everybody in between.

Update:  This has been rescheduled to 06/26/10 !

Tim's new multiboxed team: 4x Paladins 1x Death Knight  | read this item

Hey all, just a heads up that Tim has formed a new multiboxing team and will be broadcasting 100% of the gameplay live via Justin.tv.

The team consists of 4x Paladins (build unknown as of now) and 1x Deathknight.  This will be done on the Kel`Thezud server (US) as Horde.

Since the Paladins start at level 1, and the DK is 55, we will be joined by a guest member Pooksie, famous from her JTV live gaming stream seen here.

To watch this live multiboxing, just visit the multiboxing live video stream on Justin.tv/multiboxing.

BlizzCon Tickets On Sale Today!! (6/2 7pm Pacific)  | read this item

Just in case Wednesday, June 2 isn’t circled on your calendar, here’s a quick reminder that BlizzCon tickets will be going on sale today at 7 p.m. Pacific Time — keep your eye on the ticket sales page for the chance to get yours. If you are unable to purchase tickets, a second batch will go on sale June 5 at 10 a.m. Pacific time. And for those unable to attend the show, in-depth coverage of BlizzCon will also be offered by DIRECTV as a Pay Per View event, available both via satellite and a multi-channel Internet stream.

BlizzCon 2010 will take place October 22 and 23 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and tickets cost $150 USD each. For further information, check out the official BlizzCon site.

Click here to go to the BlizzCon 2010 ticket sales page.

Starcrafting.com SC2 Website  | read this item

The sister site to Multiboxing.com, Starcrafting.com, is now live!

This website will be about everything Starcraft 2, so if you are interested in that game, come swing by and say hello!  For current tools, the site features a Replay Sharing system, a video library system, and has several other unique items under development.

World of Warcraft Remote Auction House Beta Test  | read this item

The World of Warcraft Remote Auction House beta test is now open for business! The Remote Auction House is a new service in development that lets players access the World of Warcraft Auction House from the Armory website (http://us.wowarmory.com/auctionhouse/) or the Mobile Armory app for iPhone and iPod touch (here). Players can browse their characters’ local Auction Houses with the same search functionality available in the game, as well as see the real-time status of each of their current bids and auctions. Continue Reading

BlizzCon 2010 Tickets On Sale June 2 and June 5  | read this item

Tickets to this year’s BlizzCon gaming convention, being held on October 22 and 23 in Anaheim, California, will go on sale worldwide on Wednesday, June 2 at 7 p.m. Pacific time for $150 each, with a second block of tickets going on sale Saturday, June 5 at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Continue Reading

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.5 PTR is up!

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.5 PRT is up!  | read this item

Head on over to the World of Warcraft patch 3.3.5 PTR and check out the new “Onxia/Sartharion” style raid The Ruby Sanctum! MORE DRAGONS! RAWR!

Below you will find the PTR patch 3.3.5 notes. Please bear in mind these changes are not exhaustive and are subject to revision at any time during the 3.3.3 testing phase. When these notes are updated, we will attempt to highlight any sections that have been added or altered in this post for your reference. Please note that, due to the manner in which test realm patch updates are applied, some of the changes reflected in the PTR notes may not appear until the next test build is released. Continue Reading

World of Warcraft Cataclysm Profession Preview

read this item  | read this item

Check out the new bits of news about upcoming changes to professions in Cataclysm!

While the Cataclysm updates to many of the professions are still deep in development, we wanted to share some of the work that’s been going on, as well as a high-level look at any lessons learned or changes to their underlying philosophies during the design process. Please be aware that not all professions have the same extent of information available right now, but each is receiving the same love and attention as the next.

Take heed of these teasers as you look forward to your new rank of Illustrious Grand Master!

Please enjoy! Continue Reading

Starcraft 2 (SC2) Live Broadcast Tournament Tonight!  | read this item

As you may have noticed lately, the Starcraft 2 game is really taking hold with World of Warcraft gaming audience, and our Multiboxing website is no exception.

Tonight we are hosting a tournament at 8pm CST, sign-ups can be done in this forum thread.  The tournament is hosted on the Multiboxing Live video stream by Tim, and is organized largely by Lindline/Roshinko (big thanks!).   The tournament is looking to be immense as we have 20+ people already signed up.

If you are looking forward to playing Starcraft 2, or just seeing some Protoss, Terran, or Zerg in action, definitely stop by the video stream and tune in!

Video! 5x Hunters Vs. 5 man content: Deadmines  | read this item

Solomani is at it again with another multiboxing Hunter video, this time he is multiboxing Deadmines.    He has this to say about his team:

All 5x Hunters. No healers. Comments list any issues I had in the run. Will hopefully get ST up this weekend.

5x BM. Builds are similar but not identical. I found talents I normally wouldn’t take or find useful solo are worthwhile for 5x hunter (like the improved heal and any party booster talent). I toyed with the idea of mixing BM and Marks but it would just reduce efficiency too much IMO.

Take a look at the multiboxing Deadmines video Continue Reading

Video! 5x Hunters Vs. 5 man content: Wailing Caverns  | read this item

Solomani, one of our forum posts here on the Multiboxing Forums, has been creating some fantastic videos of his journey through World of Warcraft multiboxing Hunters!

Solomani said, “One thing to note I haven’t bought *anything* with these guys. All their kit are from drops or quests. That’s another part of my personal challenge – to resist pimping them out. The only thing I buy is food for the pets, repairs, ammo and the mounts.”

Here is a video of Wailing Caverns being multiboxed by 5 Hunters.

Continue Reading

Cataclysm Class Information Coming!  | read this item

Directly from the horses mouth:

Beginning Wednesday, April 7 we will begin releasing class previews containing an overview of some of the changes currently being planned for each of the 10 World of Warcraft classes. The type of information you can expect from these posts are a list of the new spells from 80-85, the new passive mastery bonuses for all talent trees, a brief outline of some of the talent changes we’re currently planning, and in some cases new low level spells for select classes.

These changes will by no means be comprehensive, and are subject to change between now and the launch of the expansion. It’s also important to understand that some classes are currently further along in the development process than others, and as a result the amount of information will vary from class to class. Please do not let this frustrate you should your class be amongst those which are on the “lighter” side of things, as all classes will receive the same level of design attention before the expansion is released. Additionally we’ll be providing more information for all classes, especially as we move into the beta phase. Continue Reading

World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.3 Notes  | read this item

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.3

PvP

• The amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill has been increased by 100% for characters of all levels. Since all Honor is awarded based on a conversion rate from Honorable Kills, this change will effectively double the amount of Honor received from Honorable Kills, or for completing Battleground and Wintergrasp objectives; however, the amount of experience gained from completing Battleground objectives and the amount of Honor rewarded for completing each Wintergrasp quest remain unchanged.
• Battlegrounds
  • The Random Battleground system has been added! Similar to the Random Dungeon system in the Dungeon Finder, players can now queue for a random Battleground. Continue Reading

Intel i7-980X Reviewed: Live video of Tim unboxing and setting up the I7-980X CPU!  | read this item

For your PC nuts out there, today we will be doing a special live video review of the newest, absolutely most monsterous gaming CPU on the market today:  The Intel I7-980X CPU.  This processor is the highest end desktop CPU that money can buy.  With 6 CPU cores, with a standard 3.3GHZ clockspeed, and fully overclockable, this CPU will melt your heart.

How will this CPU fare for multiboxing?  Our guess is that you could run 40+ World of Warcrafts on a single PC using this processor.

Previously Tim (the founder of this site as well as the owner of the Pwnboxer multiboxing software) was using the voraciously fast i7 975 Extreme Edition as his gaming CPU.  Don’t get us wrong, that processor is a beast.  However, if the 975EE is a beast, than the 980X is a solar system.  Yes, it is all that and a bag of black holes!

Tonight at approx. 4pm CST, Tim will be streaming live then full unboxing of this i7-980X CPU and will be installing it into his gaming system.  You can watch this stream live here:   Justin.tv/Multiboxing Continue Reading

Multiboxing Videos: Team Howster Multiboxes Naxxramas  | read this item

Team Howster is back again with another great video.

This time he is Multiboxing Noth the Plaguebringer which allows him to accomplish the weekly raid boss quest. So he gave it a shot with his team, and guess what?  Naxx on farm?  10 man Naxx is Plaguebringer VS a 5 man team.  Continue Reading

Video: 4x Priests 1x Paladin Multiboxing Ramparts  | read this item

Tim has a new team of multiboxed World of Warcraft characters:  4x Priests  (Discipline)  1x Pally (Protection)

The goal of this team is to do absolutely insane AOE damage in instance pulls while staying relatively unscathed.  Individually, a Priest using Holy Nova to DPS in an instanced would typically be laughed at while the other players click confirmation on the group kick option.  However, when four Priests are multiboxed together with a Protection Paladin, the end result is nothing less than amazing.

Below is a video of the carnaged wrecked in the first Burning Crusade instance:  Ramparts

Here is the general strategy and a 35 minute video: Continue Reading

Blizzard's Eyonix reviews the upcoming "Mastery" system  | read this item

Last week, we gave you an early look at the changes we’re making to the stat system in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and explained how these changes will ultimately provide players with more interesting gear choices and make stats easier to understand. Today we’d like to go into more detail about a brand-new feature that’s an integral part of this overhaul: the Mastery system, a set of new game mechanics designed to allow players to become better at what makes their chosen talent tree cool or unique. With this system, we want to accomplish three things: give players more freedom in how they allocate talent points, simplify some of the “kitchen sinky” talents that try to do too much at once, and add a new stat to high-level gear that makes you better at your chosen role. Continue Reading

Cataclysm Stat & System Changes  | read this item

As many of you know from panels at last year’s BlizzCon and posts here on the forums since then, Cataclysm will bring about major changes to familiar character stats such as Intellect, Armor Penetration, Defense, and others, ultimately designed to make the effects of stats more easily understandable and make gear choices more interesting. As these changes will have a significant impact on how stats work and relate to one another, today we wanted to offer you a closer look at exactly what’s in store and explain some of the rationale before Cataclysm arrives.

The most obvious question these changes raise is “Why are stats being changed, and why now?” As the game has matured, we’ve run into increasingly complex issues with the current stat system. Many stats are inherently confusing, and the way they interrelate can feel convoluted. Attack Power, for example, currently translates to damage, but so does Armor Penetration. Defense provides five different statistical benefits of varying utility. Mana regeneration involves understanding multiple stats and rules and often ends up being irrelevant anyway. In addition, the difference between a “good stat” for a class and a “bad stat” can be extreme. Some casters want Haste but not Crit; hunters want Armor Penetration but not Haste. There are other overarching issues, as well, such as Intellect not being very exciting for casters despite it being a core stat — and these are just a few examples. Continue Reading

Ualaa and his Amazing Alchemy Guide  | read this item

Introduction
While we can take a single toon and fly about gathering mineral or herbs, the same as any other one-boxer… and possibly even have a few toons doing the same at one time, switching between them. This is not really that much more efficient a means to make gold then we could do as single boxers.

Dailies are a decent method to compound our extra characters into more gold then a one-boxer makes, from doing the same thing as one character. It requires a route which is based off of either kills or drops where each toon can loot from every corpse. My current route takes 45 minutes on the first team and an hour on the other two teams, and makes 1100g in the process. But dailies are repetitive and boring, even if they are consistent. It is getting rather hard to make myself run the route each day. Continue Reading

Want 1000mbit/sec Internet Access for "t3h cheep"?   | read this item

Imagine playing WoW on 1000mb/sec fiber optic connection, rolling around with 9ms ping times.  Well guess what?  Google wants to give it to just me you.

Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. Continue Reading

Blizzard has a nifty little poll up about which character race/class combination people are most looking forward to.  The results might surprise you!

One big thing I was thinking about is Worgen PVP Warriors with their 70% sprint for 6 seconds.  This is going to be insanely powerful.  Thoughts?

The vote is constantly ongoing and can be seen here.

Blizzard changes Lich King weapon drops!  | read this item

Although this probably won’t affect too many of us in the near future, Blizzard is already tinkering with many of the stats supplied by the Lich King’s weapon drops. A community manager on the Korean site posted about upcoming changes to one Lich King-10 and four Lich King-25 weapons, and Boubouille’s posted a translation with help from user Locriani. A lot of raiders had been surprised at the itemization decisions, and as a raiding healer, I’ve seen a lot of commentary concerning the uninspiring presence of MP5 on the Royal Scepter of Terenas II. Blizzard’s specifically addressing these concerns. Continue Reading

World of Warcraft Patch 3.2.2 is Live!  | read this item

Dungeons & Raids

• Icecrown Citadel
  • Frostwing Halls, the final stronghold of the Scourge and their Lich King, has been added.
• Halls of Stone
  • Brann Bronzebeard has been getting into shape and now feels comfortable walking faster when escorted.
• The Forge of Souls
  • The Devourer of Souls will now cast Mirrored Souls less often.
  • The Spell Reflect ability has been altered on several creatures. It now has a cast time, only has 2 charges, and has a 75% chance of reflecting spells.
• The Nexus
  • Anomalus will now use the Create Rift ability only once, down from 3 times. Continue Reading

Breaking News - Fall of the Lich King Movie!  | read this item

Below is a movie of the what happens AFTER the Lich King is defeated!  This is a huge spoiler, but a definite must see.  The mightly Lich King, Arthas Menethil, is defeated, joined in spirit by his father, King Terenas.

Lich King Arthas:  Father, is it over?

King Terenas:  At long last, no king rules forever my son.

Lich King Arthas:  I see only darkness before me.

King Terenas:  …. There must always be a Lich King.

Continue Reading

World PVP Guide by Bergisst  | read this item

Bergisst wrote an excellent post today on World PVP general strategies.  If you are new to World of Warcraft and want to engage in world PVP, this is a good read.

World PvP: Player versus Player in the big wide World of Warcraft. It generally means fighting outside of battlegrounds and arena–brawling in enemy cities, or chasing players out of your towns, etc.

For me, World PvP means World Defense. I enjoy going around to anywhere that is under attack and driving the attackers away. For others, it can mean fighting anyone you come across on a PvP realm, or it can merely mean Wintergrasp, Venture Bay, Spirit Towers in Auchindoun etc. Continue Reading

Ghostcrawler to substantially change talent trees in Cataclysm  | read this item

Ghostcrawler, one of the Blizzard employees responsible for the current design as well as upcoming changes in World of Warcraft, had this to say recently on the forums:

1) We are changing talent trees, in some cases substantially. The major focus is pruning out boring but valuable talents that passively increase say damage or healing.

2) A secondary focus is to fix the clunky areas (e.g. warlocks having two conflicting range increasing talents). We’re not going to remove old favorites or radically change the focus of the trees. You will definitely have to rethink your builds however.

3) Because you earn passive bonuses just for spending points in the tree, those fun, niche or utility talents won’t seem as expensive as they do today. Continue Reading

Weekly fun WoW community links  | read this item

Here are some interesting links from the general World of Warcraft community which have been promoted by the EU official WoW website.  Check them out!

World of War have an interview up with World of Warcraft player: Adrianne Curry.
http://wow.incgamers.com/blog/comments/celebs-playing-world-of-warcraft-adrianne-curry-interview/

TheBurningCrusade.pl have some nice updates this week. They have just recently released their new talent calculator, and a translated version of the story of Invincible. Continue Reading

Update your Flash - Now!  | read this item

ATTENTION!  I have been told that there are multiple advertisements going around, disguised as harmless internet advertising, when in fact they are trojan embedded Flash files.  These specific flash advertisements were crafted specifically to key log World of Warcraft Accounts and may be disguised as advertisements for things OTHER than gold farming websites.  I’ve been told that these trojans are automatically injected into your PC as noted in this security bulletin released by Adobe a couple months ago.

If you haven’t already then you should update your Flash on your PC to version WIN 10,0,42,34 immediately!   To find your current flash version, visit Continue Reading

Night elf Mohawk is gone - finally!  | read this item

If you were like me, desperately clicking away the Nightelf Mohawk from each of your multiboxed teams due to ill will over the icky face, worry no more!  Blizzard has finally removed it from the game!

Ancilorn from Blizzard has stated:

You’ve pitied and you’ve been pitied, but the time has come for the Night Elf Mohawk to pack up his Mohawk Grenades and move on. You looked goooood while his visit lasted, Azeroth, but his work here is done…for now.

Blizzard speaks up on recent patch issues  | read this item

Blizzard put together an extensive list of issues in WoW that they recognize and are looking to patch.  One of them that I have feel repeated victim to is the Uldaman bugs whereas you cannot combine the 2 items required to open up one of the boss doors.   For new players who are in Uldaman for ~5 levels of their life, this can be extremely bothersome.

General Issues

• Logging out inside a battleground and logging back in after the BG is completed will cause characters to be unable to queue using the Looking for Dungeon System.
• Spamming the Auto Attack button causes the Continue Reading

Blizzard announces PVP Resilience Changes  | read this item

It was announced today that there will be a major change to resilience, which is being hotfixed into the game as we approach the new arena season. The change is expected to be in place for the duration of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion; which we take to mean it will not carry over into Cataclysm.

This change will “double the value of resilience in reducing damage done by players,” according to Bornakk. Players will see a 10% to 20% reduction in damage taken. However, this change will not affect critical strike chances or critical strike damage. If healing becomes too over powered with this change, Blizzard has a “PvP only solution” Continue Reading

Dual Multiboxing - Multiboxing Blackfathom Deeps 2x Priest 3x Hunters  | read this item

Tim and Rob’s Priest and Hunter team had a ball running through Blackfathom Deeps (BFD) on their team of hunters and priests.  The team consists of the following:

• Tim:  2x Priests – Holy Spec
• Rob:  3x Hunters – BM Spec (Pet spec’d for tanking)

The general strategy was to run in, raise hell with aggro, and have the pets tank everything while the Hunters DPS’d with multishot a bunch.  At the same time, the Priests would go nuts casting Holy Nova, both for DPS and for healing.

Check out the video below of the actual live run Continue Reading

Blizzard developer Q+A via Twitter!  | read this item

Today the Blizzard team consisting of Bornakk, Ghostcrawler, Aratil,  had a Q+A session via Twitter and the results are some really great insight onto things coming in the game.  Check this out!

Q. If damage and healing is too much per health ratio, then why don’t you have battlegrounds/arenas give a -30% damage/healing debuff?
A. We have been talking about solutions like that. It might feel a bit awkward, but it might also solve the problem and maybe it’s okay in the last season before an expansion to experiment a little bit.

Q. Is there talk of a fire shield spell for elemental shaman to use like water shield for restoration shaman?
A. Not at this time.

Q. Do you still have plans to implement guild housing?
A. Guild housing isn’t a priority. Aside from the huge development involved it gets people out of cities and into these private areas other players can’t see. We like cities to feel populated. But I’m not sure anyone expected WoW to be going as strong as it is after five years, so who knows in the future. Continue Reading

Blizzard to make resilience more important in Arena  | read this item

The Blizzard forums are typically a breeding ground for QQing of all sorts, but today I read a very interesting post, and an even more interesting response from Blizzard.

“This is just a question I’ve been wondering about and that is how has burst gotten to be so high? I’ve been watching some of the BC pvp vids and the damage seemed significant but never this crazy “global or be globaled” stuff we see currently. Were there any reasons or factors that contributed to Burst getting so high or is it just the natural trend of things?”

To which Blizzard responded (in 2 posts):

“We think everything is a little too intense right now, almost like playing the game on fast forward. Yes, damage can come in too quickly, but that is partially because healing is also so huge that without some amount of burst, it would seem as though nobody would ever die. It’s as if players are either at 100% health or 0% health, and very infrequently effective in between. Continue Reading

Multiboxing Stockades with 2 multiboxers  | read this item

A little over a week ago, Tim and Rob decide to build a new team of multiboxers with the intent to play together on the new team as much as possible.  The team is built around PVE and PVP, with PVP being more of the focus.  The team is highly specialized and consists of only two character classes.

Tim – 2x Priests, currently both Holy spec

Rob – 3x Hunters, currently both BM spec

The reasoning behind the team composition is that the BM pets should easily be able to tank with the hunters contributing the bulk of the groups DPS, while at the same time healing the pets through pet and hunter talents.  The dual priests will float around spamming Holy Nova Continue Reading

Blizzard Account Administration told not to restore hacked characters  | read this item

In a stunning revelation from a veteran account administrator at Blizzard, WoW.com has learned that account administrators are being told by Blizzard managers not to restore people’s characters and items after their account has been ransacked by gold sellers and keyloggers. Instead, account administrators are being told to give people a “care package” and get them to accept the package in lieu of total account restoration.

If the player does not accept this care package, they are then forced to go into a character restoration queue that is consistently several days to weeks long. According to sources familiar with the situation, this “care package policy” has been implemented in order to lighten the work load of those Blizzard employees who perform account restorations. Similar policies have existed at other times account compromises have been high, such as during the transition from Vanilla WoW to The Burning Crusade. Continue Reading

End of Arena Season 7  | read this item

If you’re like a lot of our level 80 multiboxers, you probably go in and lose your ten games for the week and then absorb your free points and enjoy reduced pvp gear honor costs.  Well, the end of season 7 could just be a couple short weeks away.  Blizzard announced yesterday that season 7 is set to end on January 19th.  As per the usual, we’ll get a new Vault of Archavon boss, a new set of PVP gear  (should be iLevel 277) and the current top gear available for stupid amounts of honor.  I suspect we’ll also get the new set of gear available for frost badges.

All in all, this is definitely business as usual for the end of the season.  If you’re saving up for a piece of gear right now, I’d suggest holding on to your honor and just splurging when the new season starts on the next tier of gear up.  Enjoy your PVPing.

Continue Reading

World of Warcraft hotfixes for January 5th  | read this item

Seems like Blizzard is trying to make up for not having any hotfixes this past week.  Some heroic nerfs and some raid nerfs.  Also, some item fixes.  Just a ton of hotfixes today.

Enjoy the read Hopefully you guys benefit from the fixes a lot.

Continue Reading

Massively.com MMO 2010 Predictions  | read this item

I’m a pretty big fan of Massively.com’s website and I thought their 2010 MMO prediction list was spot on in some areas. Check out what they have to say in the article below.

With 2009 wrapping up today and 2010 lurking creepily around the corner, we’re eager to release our predictions on what the next year may bring to the MMO scene. Even though we try to keep our news relatively neutral, it’s the editorials and opinion pieces that garner the most reaction from the readers. Positive or negative, we appreciate that. So for this last day of 2009, we honor it by giving our own opinions (both positive and negative) about how 2010 looks to us.

Follow along after the jump for a few paragraphs from Kyle Horner, Eliot Lefebvre, Seraphina Brennan and me. In addition to our ramblings, we’d love to hear from you as well. So drop us a comment to let us know what you predict for 2010.

Tim Reviews Roccat Valo - Super programmable keyboard  | read this item

A week ago I got my hands on the Roccat Valo keyboard.  This keyboard has more programmable keys than you can shake a stick at.  From a multiboxing standpoint, the more programmable keys, the better.  Having endless programmable keys is akin to having more HD space, or more RAM.  The more programmable keys you have, the more options open up for additional strategies and methods.

From the Roccat Website:

ILLUMINATED KEYS AND DISPLAY for improved key hit rate and vital in-game information
41 MACRO KEYS for ultra long macros with 500 keystrokes plus timing information stored directly on the keyboard
2MB INTERNAL MEMORY for storing 1 Profile-2-Go with 4 layers each including individual macros Continue Reading

Tim reviews Razer Naga MMOG mouse  | read this item

A standard mouse has 2, maybe 3 buttons.  A gaming mouse typically has 4-6 buttons.  But what if your mouse had 17 buttons?  Well, the Razer company was so kind as to ship me one of their Razer Naga gaming mice to review.  Yes folks, there is practically an entire keyboard on this mouse!  We are doing a full unboxing and review of their mouse, including all the materials it comes with, to the software setup and configuration and actual use.

The specifications of the Naga from the Razer website:

SpamThrottle for World of Warcraft  | read this item

I’ll occasionally be mentioning some rather great addons.  For the first of this series, I’m going to be telling you about SpamThrottle.  First, let me bring this all into context.

A lot of the multiboxers here play on the Blackrock-US server.  Its one of the oldest, most-crowded, most-competitive servers that Blizzard has.  There are raid PUGs forming for everything from old world content, to the weekly raid quests, to heroic farming, to even Trial of the Grand Crusader and the new Icecrown instances.   Until 3.3, the best place to find and build a PuG was the Trade channel.  Continue Reading

Blizzard is giving away Alienware...ware.  | read this item

For what I’m assuming is a total ripoff of one of our own contests (RIP multiboxing video contest), Blizzard is offering up a rather nice credit towards an Alienware desktop or notebook.  Of course, this isn’t about making a multiboxing video.  This is more towards the RP side of the World of Warcraft.  The movies themselves can be pretty much whatever you want as long as they are done in-game.  So, test out your movie making skills (again), and get a PC.

And If you don’t have time for movie-making, they’re offering a raffle for a i7 PC.

Continue Reading

Happy Holidays from omgMooter  | read this item

Recently, omgMooter got his early Christmas present from Multiboxing.com.  A Sony Playstation 3.  Lucky guy.  Well, assuming Tim is ever able to sort out getting it to him, he’ll be having a happy holiday.  Well, in return we got a cool little pic from him to celebrate the holidays and to celebrate multiboxing.  So, if you believe in Santa, then you should know that you can multibox Santa for uber amounts of gifts.

Thanks for the pic Mooter, and happy holidays.

Continue Reading

Because I love concept art  | read this item

For the 5 anniversary of WoW (aka 15 anniversary of Warcraft), Blizzard has been running a photo submission contest.  In it, you’d take a picture of yourself and in some way add either the Horde or the Alliance insignia.  Some of them are creative, some of them not so much.  But one thing they have in common is that they’re passionate about Warcraft.

So, choose your side!

Continue Reading

Why there are no Cross-Realm raids... yet.  | read this item

Let me preface this with what Blizzard’s viewpoints are on this.

Bornakk -

Doing this is a bit more complicated than the 5 player dungeons. For 5 player dungeons it’s not a big deal to allow the random heroics to skip lock outs and is not very hard to setup a group. We obviously can’t skip lockouts for raids and it just much more common for raids to not complete all of the content, so you could come back a few days later and find someone else cleared your instance. It’s definitely something that sounds good in theory but there are a lot of issues that we would have to figure out first.

I, for one, happen to agree with how Blizzard went about it.  Or rather, didn’t not go about it…?  Nevermind the failure of the english language.  Point is, I dont mind how Blizzard went about it.  I completely agree that a raid lockout is a whole different level of important.  You talking about a lockout that you where its not really feasible to have a “random raid” just ignore it.  Otherwise, it’d just be too speedy of a gear up.

However, judging from how well PuGs are performing in my own random dungeon groups… I really hope Blizzard doesn’t come up with a way to do this.

Multiboxing Halls of Reflection (HOR) Icecrown 5man  | read this item

Here is the second in a 3 part series of multiboxing Icecrown 5 man dungeons normal mode guides.  You can see our other multiboxing video guides here.   This time around we are doing Halls of Reflection (HoR). Our group consists of the following:

• 1x Druid Tank
• 3x Elemental Shaman
• 1x Restoration Shaman

Halls of Reflection (HoR) is essentially a single room with multiple waves of mobs before fighting 2 bosses, and ends with a run from the Lich King himself.

The fight starts out with Lady Sylvanas and yourselves in the very room with the Lich King’s sword, Frostmourne.  Uther the Lightbringer appears to still be bound to the sword and he warns Sylvanas to quickly exit before the Lich King comes.  There appears to be some foreshadowing when Uther mentions that there must always be a Lich King, and that the current Lich King is actually helping the people of world.  “Without the control of the Lich King, the scourge of the world would overrun…”

Multiple waves of elites will come at your team at once which, if killed quickly enough, will offer Continue Reading

World of Warcraft for Cheap  | read this item

The US side of things got their awesome deal the weekend of black friday.  Where WoW was selling for $5.  Now, its time for the EU side of things to get their turn.  This weekend only, the Blizzard online store is cutting you guys a deal.  Just remember that this is only available through their online store, and only available for EU subscribers.  So, those of you on the old world side of the Atlantic, get to multiboxing!

WoW-EU community site -

Weekend Deal: Gift World Of Warcraft For Only 9.99€ / £6.49

Get your holiday shopping done early and give the gift of Warcraft for only 9.99€ / £6.49. Just in time for this festive holiday season, we’re making both the boxed version and the digital download version of World of Warcraft Classic available for 9.99€ / £6.49, this weekend only when you purchase through the http://eu.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=210000091 or through your World of Warcraft http://www.wow-europe.com/account/trial-index.html. There’s never been a better time for the gift of World of Warcraft!

Multiboxing Pit of Saron - ICC 5-man  | read this item

Here is the first in a 3 part series of multiboxing Icecrown 5 man dungeons normal mode guides.   Our group consists of the following:

• 1x Druid Tank
• 3x Elemental Shaman
• 1x Restoration Shaman

Our gear isn’t too sophisticated, I’d say our average item level is somewhere around item level 219 average, maybe a bit lower.

The Strategy

The trash is really easy, but not if you aren’t paying enough attention.  You will see that we started out bad at the beginning by losing our tank due to pulling multiple groups at once.  Thanks to 4x Earth Elementals we ended up surviving.

Forgemaster Garfrost Continue Reading

Reviews: Merc Stealth Keyboard  | read this item

TheMuffinMan decided let us take a look at his gaming keyboard.  A rather nice review of a gaming peripheral.  He highlights what he loves about the keyboard.  And he has plenty of love for it.

TheMuffinMan -

I love using they keyboard for many reasons. The biggest thing I like about it is that so many keys are just within a twitch of a move of my fingertips or my thumb and RARELY require me (usually only when I am boxing a full group) to move my hand at all. If I had to have 1 thing I did not like about it, its that (to save room on the width of the keyboard because of the left extensino) their is no “group” of buttons for Insert/Delete/Home/End etc… you have to turn the num-lock off and use the num-pad for those functions. Kinda a pain when I am working on software, but I could care less while playing WoW. Continue Reading

WoW hotfixes December 17th  | read this item

These did come down last night, but I just now caught them.

12/17/09

• Everlasting Affliction can now refresh the duration of Corruption on a target when the Warlock casts Drain Soul.
• Sweeping Strikes will now only trigger once per whirlwind rotation of Bladestorm.
• Players will now receive appropriate credit for the Full House achievement.

Remember, these won’t go into effect until your realm restarts.

Winter Veil is Live  | read this item

On tuesday, all the festivities began.  Its that time of year again for lots of festive ambiguously-christian holiday celebrations.  Expect plenty of snowballs, snowmen, reindeer, and presents.  Of course you can’t forget that wonderful addition to Alterac Valley.  Snowballs that’ll make you enjoy the joy that can only be had by Fire Mages, Boomkin, and Elemental Shaman.  Watch them fly.

WoWhead has an awesome guide to get you from 0 to achievement as quickly as possible.  Enjoy the holidays.

Continue Reading

A Deeper understanding of the New Need/Greed System  | read this item

Like most times that new things have come up in WoW, there are certain areas of gray that require the player base to “use its best judgement”.  This has come up a lot with the new LFD loot system.  Yes, I realize this isn’t restricted to LFD, but it is where it shows up the most.  Many people are confused about certain situations about when to need or greed or now disenchant.

Blizzard has actually been pretty good about clarifying some things for us.  Granted, they’re not the best at making sure the information gets as far out as possible.  The forum-goers usually get the information first and it trickles down very grassrootsy to what I’d like to call the “have-nots” or non-forum-goers.

Take it away Bornakk -

Continue Reading

Blizzard hints at hidden Wintergrasp bonuses  | read this item

I know this system has been in place for a while now, they’ve actually hinted at it before a couple of times. This is actually the first time a Blizzard employee has actually started a thread on the topic. Judging from the amount of ‘wha?’ going on in the thread, its pretty obvious that there are still many people that aren’t aware of this particular mechanic. So, I’ll give you the gist of it.

When Blizzard first talked about Wintergrasp at BlizzCon ‘08, they knew the biggest question on peoples’ mind was “What if I’m seriously outnumbered?”. The answer to that was the Tenacity we all know and love. A buff recalculated at intervals that culminates in a buff to health, healing, and damage. Presumably, this would allow a single player to take on many opponents (or a multiboxer taking on an entire team) when their own team is seriously outnumbered. There are people on both the giving and receiving end of the buff that will point out the flaws and argue whether or not it even works as intended. However, Blizzard has only hinted at a far less quantitative buff that is in place in case a faction seriously “outmatches” another.

Continue Reading

WoW Hotfixes for December 15th, 2009  | read this item

Seems these are wonderfully (or annoyingly) common.  This time, they’re half reversing the drop rate change to the Battered Hilt.  Now, those of you that want a sparkly new sword like mine can more likely get it.  In addition, Quel’Delar is now Unique-equipped.  That didn’t make sense to me, because the questline is not repeatable (supposedly).  So, in theory, you should never have a second one that would conflict with the first one in the first place.  But I digress.

Among the other changes, is that you can now complete the “Perfect Run” of Naxxramas in any order you choose.  Maybe I missed something here, but couldn’t you do that before?  Probably a bug with doing the immortal run Saph/K’T first.

Blizzard is squashing bugs left and right.

Continue Reading

Blizzard Healer Discussion for Cataclysm  | read this item

Ghostcrawler has been busy in a rather length thread about healing in World of Warcraft now and into Cataclysm.  Sure a lot of it has been mostly rehashing on concepts that have been gone over time and again, but its always nice to be able to take a look into their heads.  Some of the things that have been discussed are mana management, downranking, and health vs healing vs inc damage.  The thread has been going for over a week so there is definitely a lot of reading to catch up on, so let me start you off here.

The general theory behind healing in Cataclysm is that you’ll no longer (see also less often) be spamming heals like a mad-man.  To accomplish this, Blizzard is making it so tanks won’t be one or even two-shotted.  At the same time, healers will not be able to one or even two-heal a tank from low to full health.  This will, of course, lessen the stress of healers to heal or die.  And at the same time, the efficiency of healing compared to mana pools will be significantly reduced, making not healing an important aspect of the healer’s job.  Sort of a pick the time and place of your heals.

Continue Reading

Guide to the new Icecrown 5-mans  | read this item

The final assault on the Lich King has begun and its up to you to secure victory for the forces of the Ashen Verdict. Sylvannas (or Jaina if youre one of THOSE people) leads you on a action-packed journey to Arthas’ guest house.

The Icecrown Citadel 5-man dungeons are the toughest challenges you’ll find outside a raid, and it doesnt disappoint. The new heroics push every bit of your skill and if you survive… well… good luck in the raid. You’re ready for it.

WoW.com gives us a look at the questline and dungeons that make up the stealth recon assault into the back halls of the citadel.

Continue Reading

3.3.0a Hits the Live Server  | read this item

If you haven’t played in a few days (does the daystar still burn?), you may have missed the mini-patch that came down the pipes.  What it actually does is anyone’s guess.  Supposedly, there are a few bug fixes.  But since Blizzard didn’t feel it necessary to tell us what is actually getting fixed, I’ll just have to make my own patch notes.

Continue Reading

Multiboxing softwares - Come one, come all  | read this item

Do you have a commercial or free multiboxing software that you’d like to make available to the public and support it on the official multiboxing.com website?  Then this is the story for you!  We are working on a program for other multiboxing softwares to be able to offer support, promote their software, get discussed, have guides, and more, all on our website here on multiboxing.com.

The goal is to allow commercial softwares to get specialized access to things like promoting their software on our front page, guide support, promoting their software on our forums, and more.  In addition, I’m working on a program for free authors to get the word out about their software as well. Not as diverse as the commercial softwares, but still use the site as a great outlet to communicate and promote their software.

If you are interested in creating your own software, or know somebody who already has, and would like to be supported on the multiboxing.com website, please Continue Reading

Just in case anybody has missed it (I sure did!), Blizzard released a new video to go along with the 3.3 Fall of the Lich King update!

Major update to Pwnboxer dual-boxing software  | read this item

Pwnboxer has been updated to today to version 02.01.1213.05.   As is the history of Pwnboxer, the software is constantly evolving with new multiboxing features for World of Warcraft dual-boxers and more.   This version includes a major update with the introduction of our Dockable Clickmapping.

What is Dockable Clickmapping?

This is an in-game grid that you can click with your mouse to perform 1-to-1 (1 mouse click = 1 keystroke) mouse-to-key mapping to all of your game windows.  This allows you to turn any mouse click on the in-game interface into an in-game keystroke sent to all your game windows.   It is extremely easy to use yet extremely powerful.  Tim, the author of Pwnboxer, has been testing this on various characters so far, including multiboxing up to 10 characters in World of Warcraft (9 Shaman and 1 Druid) at a single time, and can attest for the power of this new functionality.

For example, see the in-game interface below: Continue Reading

Looking at the new Dungeon Finder system.  | read this item

When 3.3 launched last week, it introduced a highly-streamlined way of getting into a instance group. Before you could only put your name in for 3 different dungeons. On top of that it was hard to slap together a group that was viable from the scraps that join the LFG queue.

Now, WoW does the heavy lifting for you. Itll slap together a viable group (assuming no one lied about their role) that is geared enough to run the content. Not only that, but the player pool is expanded to the battlegroup. Youll even get bonus loot from joining random dungeons.

Its a good time to PVE.

Continue Reading

Take a pic, Win a cup.  | read this item

Alright, its fair to say that Blizzard doesn’t have nearly as cool of contests as we here at multiboxing.com.  But really, how can you compete with such awesome giveaways as video cards and PS3s just for hitting your screencap key or drawing like a 1st grader.  But if you like your drinks in overly elaborate cups, then check out Blizzard’s new contest.  Its not the incredibly awesome tech gear you’ll find with our contests, but you can’t blame them for trying.

Continue Reading

Patch 3.3 and shamans, part 1  | read this item

WoW.com has an interesting article on Shamans, and we all know how the 3.3 patch changes can dramatically affect the most common multiboxing team of all.

Totem Talk is the column for shamans,. Matthew Rossi ran ICC twice this week and will probably run it on 10 man twice more, and yet managed to take possibly the worst screenshot of all time, which he shares with you above,. Can you find the three shamans, including himself, in it? He sure as heck couldn’t. But it’s got a skunk bear up front. That’s nice.

It’s been an interesting week all told. The new five mans and new raid are out (well, first four bosses of new raid, anyway… having both tanked and been melee DPS on Deathbringer Saurfang, I have to say, it’s an interesting mechanic but I’m already heartily sick of Blood Power, and I don’t look forward to healing it) and we’re seeing a couple of new mechanics and a new set of shorter cooldowns. I have to say, so far I really like the reduced cooldowns on our elemental totems. Now all they need is a pet bar, and not to die in two hits from any mob in sight. (I exaggerate slightly. Very slightly.) Continue Reading

The 96969 Rotation.  | read this item

Often times here at Multiboxing.com, we get into discussions where people come forth and confess that they’re completely clueless about something.  This, of course, is where we come some further discussions and some really great guides.  One such discussion led to both Tim and myself saying how much we didn’t know about “96969″.  That sparked not one, but two different looks at the rotation all put into a single thread.  Such wonderful things come from not knowing something.

And now a look a paladin tanking.

Continue Reading

Blizzard confirms: 3.3 is due today - Fall of the Lich King!  | read this item

Fall of the Lich King, the latest World of Warcraft content update, is coming! The heroes of the Horde and the Alliance have faced unimaginable horrors and suffered terrible losses in their desperate struggle against the Scourge. Now the time has come to break through the fortified gates of Icecrown Citadel and confront the Lich King in the frozen heart of his domain. Follow Jaina Proudmoore or Sylvanas Windrunner through the Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron, and Halls of Reflection in an attempt to subvert the Lich King’s army in a new multi-wing 5-player dungeon. Join the Ashen Verdict as they charge through the citadel’s main gate to take on the Scourge’s most powerful leaders and fearsome monstrosities in a new 10- and 25-player raid. Fall of the Lich King also introduces the cross-realm Dungeon Finder interface, new quest-tracking features designed to make it easier to find objectives, and much more.

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.3.0: Fall of the Lich King Continue Reading

omgMooter wins the PS3!  | read this item

omgMooter is the winner of the Playstation 3 in our Silly Art Contest today!  The contest is for the most funny, most silly, most skillful (or skill-less) drawing relating to multiboxing.  Out of many, many entries seen here in this tread, I went ahead and picked my favorite.   From there, my dog (Paws) picked the final winner!  A video of Paws picking the winner is coming soon!

A big congrats to him for winning the contest and the Playstation 3!  We hope to see some pictures of him owning face on it in the near future!  Check out this video for how we determined the winner of the contest:

Continue Reading

Game Informer's Interview with Tigole  | read this item

Game Informer recently sat down with Jeff Kaplan (aka Tigole) to discuss World of Warcraft.  Kaplan had been on the world design team for years before finally switching of to Blizzard’s as of yet unnamed next-gen MMO.  He talks about some of the history about the game’s development and where its looking to go in the future.

One excerpt of note though confirms an in-game cinematic for 3.3 ala Wrathgate.

Continue Reading

Multiboxing Guides  | read this item

Multiboxing.com is one of the best sources for guides about multiboxing.  But we’re not content at being one of the best.  We want to be the complete source for all things multiboxing.  We’re always on the look out for new guides and new ideas.  Which is why we have an entire section dedicated to it on our forums.

We have topics ranging from creating your accounts for your first multiboxing team all the way to overcoming the challenges of heroics when your team reaches it’s pinnacle.  From buying to selling to just plain making boatloads of gold.  It all here in our forums.  And thats where you come in!

Continue Reading

Blizzard extends their support hours.  | read this item

For any of you that may have had your accounts compromised (as I have) you’d probably have noticed that you got hit either late friday or early saturday.   Of course you would’ve had to wait until you could give Blizzard a call on monday morning.  And while you waited, you had no access to your account or been able to stop those pesky hackers from spamming around the community under your name.

Well, those days are closer to over.  Blizzard has extended their service hours to seven days a week.  Now, you can get your account back in a matter of hours, instead of days.  And best of all, no hours of busy signals on mondays.

Continue Reading

Ghostcrawler on Rogues  | read this item

Since Tim fired up a brand new duo of rogues, I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at what he’ll be walking into in the future.  Ghostcrawler recent made a lengthy post about what goes on in the minds of the design team when it comes to everyone’s favorite stunlocker.  Of course, you have to remember Cataclysm is far from final and what Blizzard “plans” and what they “do” sometimes can be quite different.  Enjoy the look into the state of the rogues.

Ghostcrawler:

Ultimately, we’d like for more talent trees to look like Subtlety. Trading utility A for utility B is an interesting decision. Trading utility A for more dps is not an interesting decision; the latter is always going to win.

Continue Reading

Silly art contest - Win a PS3 or Wii  | read this item

CONTEST ENDED:   SEE RESULTS HERE – http://multiboxing.com/world-of-warcraft/wow-game-news/omgmooter-wins-the-ps3/

Multiboxing.com is holding a new set of contests to replace our previous “Free PC Contest” due to a lot of user feedback.

To start, we are giving away either a Playstation 3 or a Nintendo Wii, whichever you want.  The contest is only for a few days long, and will end this weekend.

Contest Details:

Create a simple drawing in a simple art program related to multiboxing.  The drawing can be of any quality and sillyness and bad drawing skills are preferred, but not required.  We will be picking a single winner based upon the following criteria:

• How silly is the drawing?   Sillier is better. Continue Reading

Amazing guide to WoW 3.3 patch  | read this item

WoW.com has an amazing guide to the WoW 3.3 patch.  Below is a table of contents of sorts with links leading to some amazing, if not highly speculatory, information about the 3.3 patch.  Also, the 3.3 patch is rumored to be launching in approx. 1 week!

Patch 3.3 is the final major content patch for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Three new 5 man dungeons and a new 10/25 man raid will be introduced at Icecrown Citadel, along with a ton of other changes to the game. Continue Reading

Pwnboxer Updated Today!  | read this item

Tim has put up an update to Pwnboxer, his multiboxing software tool.  He’s fixed a few of the bugs, gave us a better chat channel, added mouse remapping, and more.  Be sure to grab it up!

12/01/09: Pwnboxer has been updated again! We have added the following features:

Continue Reading

New Info About Shadowmourne  | read this item

The guys over at MMO-Champion have done an update on the new legendary item from the 3.3 PTR.  Check out the super-sweet proc effects on the video.  Remember its geared towards 2-handed DPSers, so all of you hunters are out of luck.  And in addition it’ll be a couple months after 3.3 hits the live servers before we’ll see any of these floating around Dalaran, thanks to Blizzard’s wonderful idea of gating out the individual sections of the Icecrown Citadel.  Enjoy the show.

Shadowmourne – Legendary Axe

The end of the PTR is near and it’s time for a new preview of Continue Reading

Team Malaias describes his FTL Setup  | read this item

Team Malaias was kind enough to share with out how he utilizes what is being known as Focusless, Targetless, Leaderless (FTL) set up for his 5 man multiboxed team.  His team  consists of 5 World of Warcraft characters of the following names and classes:

1. Malaias – Druid Tank
2. Malaia – Elemental Shaman
3. Malaine – Elemental Shaman
4. Malaiah – Elemental Shaman
5. Malaena – Elemental Shaman

The Theory

The idea behind FTL (Focusless, targetless, leaderless) is to setup multiboxing in a way that you can transparently switch masters without having to change macros, play solo without worrying about the other characters and to not rely on focus or target for group actions.

A good article on these forums can be found here: Continue Reading

Click sequences and you - Multiboxing with efficiency  | read this item

Ualaa has once again impressed us with an amazing multiboxing guide.  This time he covers a method that can often result is achieving an absolute maximum amount of DPS efficiency, while also allowing the ability to perform a few macro sequences which you are not able to do inside a single macro alone.

Goal
We want to create a master macro, which can be spammed very quickly. Based on our spam speed, we want it to call our damage dealing spells in the order we specify, and to have them recast at the best possible time. We want all this to be accomplished from spamming a single button. Continue Reading

Multiboxing Money Guide - Make 1200+ gold in 1 hour  | read this item

Our very own Ualaa wrote up an amazing guide for making over 1200 gold in 1 hour on a 5 person multiboxed group!

Central Icecrown (264.6 gold)

• Take from Drosche (top): (1) Blood of the Chosen.
• Take from Absalan (roams): (2) Slaves to Saronite.
• Take from Thassarian (side): (3) That’s Abominable, (4) Neutralizing the Plague, (5) Drag and Drop, (6) Not a Bug, (7) No Rest for the Wicked.
• Take from Boltwrench (below): (8) The Solution Solution, (9) Retest Now.

• Fly to Valley of Lost Hope (63,51) and from Skybreaker Squad Leader, initiate (10) Assault by Ground. Finish the escort, get the last few kills for Blood of the Chosen, then enter the mine (57,57) for Slaves to Saronite. Return to the Valley and turn in Assault by Ground.

Southeastern Icecrown (243.3 gold) Continue Reading

Square One – A Beginners Multiboxer Guide to World of Warcraft  | read this item

1. Intro
a. Requirements

2. Glossary of useful terms

3. Pros and Cons of Boxxing

4. Methods of control
a. Generic Macros
b. Assist
c. Focus
d. NoFocus
e. FTL

5. Summary

So you want to box? Welcome to the club! It’s an exciting alternative method of gameplay that will introduce you to more challenges than you can imagine!

Continue Reading

Heroic Gundrak - Multiboxed by Howster  | read this item

Gundrak (also known as Gun’Drak) is the capital of the ice troll nation of Zul’Drak in eastern Northrend. The Drakkari tribe rule Zul’Drak from here, constantly battling the mighty forces of the Scourge.

Our very own Howster multiboxes Gundrak and has created for us a quick two and a half minute video.  His team looks to be 5 multiboxed characters, 1x Paladin Protection Spec, 1x Druid Restoration Spec, 3x Shamans Elemetal Spec.

His strategy for multiboxing this heroic looks very, very straightforward.  He simply stands still and uses the typical “tank and spank” strategy for all of the bosses.  For a Heroic instance in World of Warcraft, Gundrak is by far one of the most easy ones to do.

A little history about this instance:  Gundrak is an instance which contains the final boss for the ice trolls. This instance will show the Ice Trolls in all their glory, and teach us why they have been so successful against the Scourge. The story that emerges in the completely constructed zone, Zul’Drak, and the instance at the end of that zone Continue Reading

WTB Flash Designer!  | read this item

Just a heads up, our website is looking to hire somebody for a short time video/flash related project.  We have a $500 budget earmarked to a community member who has the right stuff to help us out in a little area.  We are looking for somebody who has specific knowledge of making small flash animation sequences using game footage, a slew of words, and can do video scene transitions.  In addition, you’d be somebody who can follow us around in-game and take some video footage of our work, or potentially use some pre-recorded video footage.

Requirements:

• Must know flash/shockwave
• Must have a US World of Warcraft account (you can use a trial) to record in-game footage
• Must have MSN Hotmail to chat about details online
• Must be able to do video scene transitions
• Must be able to overlay audio Continue Reading

Blizzard states Warcraft 4 is still years away  | read this item

Ausgamers.com had a great article about Blizzard and the state of their games:

Five years ago, Blizzard thought they were ready to launch their ground-breaking new game, the genre-defining World of Warcraft. They had twenty servers set up, with twenty more in reserve. The plan was, over the next year or so, to replace broken hardware and potentially start up new servers as needed – but that wasn’t something they’d have to worry about for a while.

In conversation with J. Allen Brack, who is currently Director of Production for World of Warcraft, he reveals that Blizzard had much less time than they thought – setting up all twenty reserve servers “very early on the first day”. Even at launch, the game was far, far more popular than anybody could have imagined, causing the developer to frantically try to source server-class hardware to expand the available resources.

Today, Brack explains that Blizzard have come a long way from their modest beginnings, writing and re-writing server code many times over. The company is now in a position where they’re implementing technology they once thought was impossible. One such impossible task, which has taken a year and a half to complete is the new looking for groups system to be implemented in the upcoming 3.3 patch. This “monstrous project” will see the introduction of cross-server instancing, enabling you to play with (or against) more people in your battle groups. Continue Reading

WoW Guild Leveling - Yup, it is coming in Cataclysm   | read this item

This may be old news for some, but it happens to be the first time I’ve heard about it.  Blizzard released a couple videos about guild leveling for Cataclysm.

Your guild will get experience for players earning rep, killing bosses, doing dailies, getting achievements, Arena and BG wins, crafting, leveling up, and more. The top 20 earners in the guild each week will have their contributions turned into XP. Previous contributions won’t factor into a particular week’s XP, so every member of the guild has the chance to be a top earner each week.

Guild experience, once accrued at the end of each week, will be converted into guild currency, which can be used to buy a myriad of items, including reagents, tabards, pets, profession recipes, heirlooms, and Guild Talent points.

Guild Talents will be things like a Mass Resurrection spell on a 30-minute cooldown, removal of reagents for buff spells, and increased gold drops in the world and instances. Guild leaders can respec guild talents, though the method and cost (if any) is currently unknown. Continue Reading

Multiboxing character formations  | read this item

Ever wondered how those multiboxers make their characters automatically spread apart, forming those neat “formations” with smooth, robotic-like ease?  It just so happens that these precise individual character movements, known as formations, are actually just a clever use of WoW’s built-in movement keys, such as left strafing, right strafing, and moving forwards and backwards.  Once you understand how it works, it is actually very easy to set up.

Our very own Ebony created this guide on how to do character formations in World of Warcraft with Pwnboxer’s key remapping features.  This guide should enable you to impress your entire server with your awesome control of your multiboxing group:

To start, this is what you will make them look like, Continue Reading

Hearthstone to... Tarren Mill?  | read this item

The upcoming 3.3 is introducing Kirin Tor rings which have the ability to teleport your character back to Dalaran every 30 minutes.

This means that, with the ring, you no longer have to tie your hearthstone to Lagaran, err I mean, Dalaran.  Maybe this will open up the potential for people to start hearthstoning to towns such as Tarren Mill or Southshore in case world PVP once again opens back up?  One can only hope!

Surprising no one, Bornakk confirmed recently that there’s a new set of Kirin Tor rings on the way for those with lots of disposable income in Patch 3.3. With an item level of 251, they’re a significant upgrade to the 226 ring you upgraded back when Ulduar came out. You should expect the upgrade process to cost about as much as the last one — that is, 1000 gold pre-faction discount.

Ualaa's Recruit-A-Friend guide to multiboxing  | read this item

You’ve heard about the Recruit-A-Friend program that Blizzard offers for World of Warcraft, right?  Well, do you also know that multiboxers have been using it to get level 300% faster from 1 – 60, as well as the ability to (over time) grant hundreds of free levels to your various characters?

You can RAF (Refer a Friend) from your account management page, for your account, on the world of warcraft main page.

I always suggest linking like this:
A – B – C – D – E

To form a chain like this, you would sent an RAF invite to yourself Continue Reading

Heroic Utgarde Keep - Multiboxed by Tim  | read this item

Tim launched into Utgarde Keep head-first. Diving into the deep end sporting no UI. The sheer power of elemental shamans showed its full force keeping the tank alive and dishing out a world of hurt. With only a severe lack of skinning skill keeping him from taking full advantage of piles of dragon bodies, he made quick work of pull after pull. Eventually, the UI came back as the pulls started looking like two and three at a time.

The first boss gave Tim little trouble as he wiped the floor with the Blood Prince. Unfortunately, the gear was as good as the fight was difficult, going only for a nice shard.

The next pulls (arguably the easiest in the instance) went by as well as can be expected. Eventually it came to the point that the pull was dead before even getting to the tank. A show of how incredibly powerful shaman can be. Continue Reading

Blizzard explains some upcoming changes in 3.3  | read this item

Blizzard is teasing us once again with reasonings behind balance changes, tank shortages, and general upcoming updates in 3.3 and Cataclysm.

Kirin’ Tor Rings in 3.3
Item level 251 versions are currently planned for patch 3.3. I’m not sure what the cost to upgrade is but it will probably be similar to previous upgrades. We are only upgrading the existing ring types, not providing a new one, so that means no tank version. (Source)

Tank Shortage
The “shortage” is caused by a lot of people not wanting to tank or not spending the time to gear up and tank – and if they don’t want to gear up at all then they probably don’t want to tank anyway or maybe don’t want to spend the time learning it.

I still think the new Dungeon System will help with this through the faster turnover rate and random heroic feature, but overall we can’t force people to play something they don’t want to play so there will likely always be a shortage of tanks or healers to some degree. Continue Reading

New devastating weapon in WoW - Mohawk Grenade  | read this item

It seems that World of Warcraft has introduced a new massive weapon to fight off evil, the Mohawk Grenade.   How this will impact multiboxers in WoW still remains a mystery.

Q. What is the Mohawk Grenade?
A. The Mohawk Grenade is Mr. T’s latest invention: an in-game item that, when hurled at another character, gives everyone within the blast radius an instant T-riffic haircut. Don’t worry, you and your friends will look gooooood.

Q. Where do I get it?
A. Quit your jibber-jabber and claim your Mohawk Grenades from any of the Night Elf Mohawk NPCs camped outside every starting zone. Continue Reading

Our live HD video broadcast - smashing all records  | read this item

Today we were recently featured on the front page of possibly the largest and most cutting edge live video streaming site in the world, Justin.tv.  Many of you guys know of our video stream of multiboxing that has been going on now for nearly 1/4 year.  But on Sunday, 11/15/09, nearly 30,000 more people found out about us.

Today we hit our record today of over 1,700 live viewers at any given time, over the course of many hours, who watched us at first get owned hardcore in Eye of the Storm, to move into a position of complete ownership in Isle of Conquest.  From there, we moved towards some ToC Continue Reading

Free decked out gaming PC contest  | read this item

Due to user demand, this has been replaced by this contest:  http://multiboxing.com/world-of-warcraft/wow-game-news/silly-art-contest-win-a-ps3-or-wii/

Shamaster wins the Geforce 250 GTS graphics card  | read this item

Shamaster was voted the winner of our Multiboxing Screenshot contest with his picture (see below) of a bunch of multiboxed shaman thunderstorming an enemy off a cliff to their death!   His prize for winning will be a Geforce 250 GTS 512M (or more) graphics card!

A close runner-up was Azzie with her 7 sinful ladies screenshot (multiboxing warlocks).

<– Winning Screenshot

Continue Reading