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What is Dual Boxing?

Dual boxing is playing two or more characters at one time. You've probably seen characters

running around in World of Warcraft following each other and you maybe had the hunch

that one person was playing both of them.

Here's another example. You've probably taken your higher level character into a low level

zone and saw a high level character just following around a low level character while it does

quests maybe helping or healing him when in trouble. It looks like a high level player is

helping a low level player and you are jealous that you don't have someone helping you, but

you won't be surprised to learn that it's not a someone, it's the same guy he's helping

playing both.

Or yet another example, how about the time you got into some PvP action with your level

80 or any character really and you beat 2 or as many as 4 players really easily, and you

went off to celebrate thinking you are a really good player. Well, I don't mean to spoil your

fun but you probably just killed one person playing 2-4 characters at a time which then

makes it really easy for you to pick all four of them off. Don't feel so hot now hey?

People use dual boxing for a ton of different reasons, from making gold doing quests and

farming, to soloing old world raid bosses or doing instances, to just plain old using them to

protect their low level alts. Either way, you'll be surprised to learn that a large portion of

the World of Warcraft player base is already dual boxing and that you are missing out.

So Blizzard recently claimed they had over 11.5 million subscribers, while it may be true

that there are 11.5 million accounts, I would say the player base is somewhere from half of

that to maybe 75%. At one point all by myself I had 5 accounts!

Why Should I Dual Box?

So why should you dual box?

The better question is why shouldn't you dual box. Yeah it costs extra money every month

and you may need a better computer than you currently have, but things can literally go 2x

as fast for you in WoW and enable you to do things that you wouldn't be able to do by

yourself.

Ever heard of the dragon called Onyxia? Well if you haven't, its a 40 man raid boss from

the original World of Warcraft. It used to take 40 or so level 60's to do it, but now with

Wrath of the Lich King guess how many you need to beat her? Well, it's been done by just

1 character, usually a Death Knight, but it does take awhile.

What I'm getting at is if you were playing 2 80s you could easily duo her, especially if one

was a healer. She drops a decent amount of gold and a bunch of epics and other things you

could sell, but it's mostly just for fun. Even better yet, play a third character that IS level

60 and let them get all the loot and use them as a twink in Battlegrounds or something.

There are no limits because you become your own group.

How about that alt you started that is having a hard time leveling up? Why not dual box

and power level yourself through instances. I often times take my level 80 and group with

my other characters and level them in Scarlet Monastery, Zul'Farrak, and more. The

experience is less per kill but the speed you're killing at makes the experience you get

unobtainable through a regular group.

You can also use your high level to just follow you around and protect you that way you

won't get corpse camped as easily. Sometimes I use my other 4 accounts that have level

80s on them and follow around just one of my low level character's in the 30s. Sure I've

been attacked before but most of the time I have enough characters to go through to win

and think of how many people are staying away from me compared to if I were just there

with only a level 30?

Here's an option that's popular too. Bring multiple characters with to do daily quests

together. Think of all the quests that require you to kill some enemies that count for the

entire group or that require you just to loot a few things. You could finish a daily quest

across 2 or more characters without much more effort but still get all the gold for doing

dailies.

What Do I Need To Dual Box?

Depending on how high you like your graphics settings will determine what type of

computer you need to dual box. Most likely though, if you have a computer that is running

WoW fine already then you can just turn off most of the graphics and run a second copy. To

run 2 copies of World of Warcraft with any amount of graphics on will require you to have a

much better computer.

My computer's specs that I've used to 4 box before are, 6GB of Ram DDR2 800mhz, 512MB

Geforce 8600GTS, and an AMD Dual Core Processor 4600+ @ 2.41GHZ.

Now if you don't know what all that means I will translate it for you. My computer is 2

years old and it's kind of okay, but its by far not the best computer out there, there are

already 9000 series graphics cards and even newer than that they've made it into the 100

series and 200 series at the time of this writing. So my graphics card is not even close to

the best, my processor is old it's only a dual core, and my ram is also not as fast as it could

be, although I have a lot, I usually dual box from a 32bit operating system so all of my ram

doesn't even get used. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say...

Anyone with 2GB of ram, a graphics card similar to mine, and a processor similar to mine

will be able to dual box, but like I said, no guarantees.

The other important factor is, you need at least 2 accounts , or as many accounts as you

want, but you need an account for each copy of WoW that you are going to open up. You

can't run 2 characters off the same account, that's not what this is about doing. So that's

another $15/mo subscription, but you'll be getting the most out of the time you spend on

WoW.

I prefer to run dual monitors too but it is perfectly acceptable to run it off one, I did it for

many years. I explain optimal setups below.

You will also want to be running WoW in Windowed Mode. See the next section if you don't

know what that means.

Windowed Mode

To dual box efficiently you'll want to run World of Warcraft in Windowed Mode, you can do it

in full screen but switching between screens can take longer and sometimes even a second

delay can get you killed depending on what you are doing. So keep WoW running in

Windowed Mode while you dual box and the switch will be almost instantly when you want

to switch between screens. Here is how you can put it into Windowed Mode.

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