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The old blog software is now gone for good!

I've successfully migrated all of my lovely old album over to some new album software built into a Drupal module.

In any case, it's back and functional! Enjoy drooling over my hardware rig!

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This question was asked on a World of Warcraft e-mail alias at work, and I've gotten quite a few comments about my response. Since many feel it's useful, I'm reposting it here as a reference. :)

"I've decided to do the whole recruit-a-friend(myself) thing, and am planning on 2-boxing a hunter and priest.

The question is how to effectively dual box different classes?"

...

The trick to separate classes (and indeed, separate roles) is to find as many abilities that are similar, and match them up.

Alternately, a good idea is to find a nice rotation and basically “faceroll” the other character by putting a /castsequence with that rotation on every button on their bar. However, I find this to be very unelegant and not nearly as flexible as the first.

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Do you have a good question you've been dying to ask me?

Well, it's time for an update.

The hunter group I had been leveling had been blessed with the Recruit-a-friend bonus, so having taken advantage of that up until level 60, I took my first steps into Outlands this weekend. I'm just a couple bubbles to 62, which sadly have to be grinded out since I ran out of quests -- yes, I did all of the collection quests including collecting 150 crashed zeppelin debris, 40 purified hellboar meats, and 60 buzzard wings.

I'm also re-leveling a bunch of NEW ghost saber cats. This will be the THIRD set of hunters that I've had to run around in darkshore collecting cat figurines for. I am completely nuts. They are about level 50 and under right now, and do not hold aggro whatsoever. Yet.

One should note that the Outlands are not exactly PvP-server friendly on weekends, and there were quite a few run-ins with horde. I dug my "mains" out, though Velani was still specced enh for raiding which isn't ideal, but I managed.

Speaking of enhancement...

In another epic encounter akin to my previous felmyst tanking goodness I once again pulled off an amazing string of dodges and resists (the particular tank for this mob had already died)...

There's a common misconception that your worth as a multiboxer is measured by the number of characters you can play at one time.

Well, and let me say this as a very satisfied part-time dualboxer...

Size isn't everything.

Sexual innuendo aside, I've been taking advantage of the recent Recruit-A-Friend (RAF) bonus to level some alts that, under normal circumstances, I couldn't level up without getting bored.

Yes, that's right -- I'm leveling up TWO characters at a time, instead of my normal 5.

What classes? Well, I've got a nice little water vendor Mage, and a big feathery Boomkin.

Don't worry, though. I have reasons for my choices....

....In any case, my duo is a perfect pair.

While I could have made an entire team of 5 to level with them, I'm finding quite a bit of joy in the ability to micro-manage their abilities. Dual-boxing is definitely a seperate experience from 5-boxing, particularly because you can actually reliably split your attention between each of the two characters. Unlike 5-boxing, where you have to admit that... hey... you just can't earth shock 5 different targets reliably -- dual-boxing allows you the complexity of maintaining and managing different cooldowns and abilities at the same time.

I'm very pleased with my mage+boomkin duo, and later on in their leveling career they'll likely be paired up with some other characters and 5-boxed from 60-70... But I still enjoy dual-boxing just as much as 5-boxing. Sure, there isn't as much of the pewpew dps "oomph" compared to 4-5 dps, but the fun with dual-boxing is in the challenge anyway.

Syro from dual-boxing.com made his own very well-made video and guide to multiboxing!

It was so well done I felt the video needed a spotlight. If you're looking to start multiboxing, Syro goes a bit more in-depth on his guide than I did on my video guide. Anyway, take a look and be sure to visit the rest of the multiboxing guides for more information. :)

Thanks Syro!

It was one of those "stupid things happening" days where half the raid was dead and Felmyst was at 1%....

Well, I can say in all honesty that I tried my best to get Blizzcon tickets over the past two days -- having made both vacation day arrangements at work months ago, as well as travel arrangements. Both Suvega and I had been lucky enough to have internet access at work, and even with Microsoft's blazing internet speeds was unable to interact with the Blizzard store website during the few periods of brief time where tickets were purchasable.

Furthermore, my own website was having some issues but I put it on the backburner until yes... 5 in the morning when I was unable to sleep. Someone naughty is eating up all of my webpage's memory. I'll probably sort it out further when I'm not bleary eyed and have gotten more sleep in my system, but for now a system reboot fixed it.

Anyway, read more into our personal experience with the Blizzcon ticket fiasco...

Yes, it's true!

There are additional benefits to referring a friend that apply only to new refer-a-friend trial accounts.

They include...

• Summons between referrals and referree's once an hour
• 3x experience gained (non-gray mobs/quests) when grouped with your referral
• Every 2 levels gained by your referral can be applied to give the referree's lower or equal leveled character a "free" level (up to level 60)
• 1 month free gametime when the referral pays for 1 month of gametime
• Zhevra mount when the referral pays for 2 months of gametime

*boggle!*

I wish I had made all of my accounts now instead of almost a year ago! Zhevra mount? Yes, please!

Does this mean Vyndree might soon be 10-boxing?? You'll have to wait and see....

... does anyone need a referral key? *hint hint, nudge nudge* ;)