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Thirty six?! Are you serious?

http://www.ripten.com/2008/10/10/wow-*****-has-36-accounts-raids-by-himself/

EDIT: forum is being mean so here's a substitute for now http://tinyurl.com/44q4dz

 

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From that I'd gather that it wasn't true. After all, how are you going to control all tanks, DPS'ers and healers all at once?

 

Argh dammit, I knew something would go wrong. The forum censours part of the link :/

As for tanks and stuff - he mostly has a bunch of shammies

I'll try to fix that somehow

 

He'd still need to have some tanking, others DPSing and even more healing. The thing is that raids and stuff need to be played by multiple people! You can't do it all yourself! I won't allow it!

You see what he's done though, right? He's taken a game that's heavily criticised for being antisocial and addictive, then he's removed the multiplayer component and bought thirty six times what he needs to play it! Now who ever said World of WarCraft wasn't antisocial and addictive?

 

try the new link

 

That's better. Well reading that actually does explain a bit...

• He's right in saying that some hobbies cost a lot more than that on a year to year basis, but that's not to say that this isn't at the higher end of the range.
  
  
• He seems to play legitimately, and doesn't seem to use anything illegal, though if he did I doubt he'd just announce that in a public article.
  
  
• He only own five accounts himself.
  
  
• He hates the Alliance which makes him awesome.
  
  
• He's married.
  
  
• I want his computers.

Still... Ouch.

 

You got it wrong I think. Bradster - the guy who posted the thing has five accounts and a wife. The guy who this thing is about (I think he's nickname is Prepared) does have 36 accounts

 

Holy ****!

 

36 accounts? Why? Without some major bot work you can't possibly keep that many characters active and playable. That's just crazy.

Unless some of them are just mules. And that's some expensive mules.

 

Surely they're not mules. You can make other characters as mules, so surely you don't need another account. If he does... I can't imagine how much stuff he's hoarding, not to mention how much it would all be worth.

I don't see why he'd need that many. Seriously. Join a hardcore raiding guild. Then you'll always have the numbers for when you're raiding.

 

His point seems to be that he doesn't want to rely on other people.

 

But it's that he doesn't want to rely on them to get the raid going. In other words, he doesn't want to rely on finding however many people the raid requires. Just joining a hardcore raiding guild would fix the problem anyway, especially when raiding is his secondary focus.

 

Yeah but since raiding IS his secondary focus, he'd still have trouble looking for people to help him achieve his primary goal. He wants to avoid that so he makes all these accounts. And since he has 30 toons he can play at once there's really no point in joining a guild, is there now?

Unless there are guilds dedicated to raiding capitals or something

 

But... But... That doesn't work! If he was in a guild then there's no point in having thirty-odd accounts, not the other way around!

Guilds often do raid capitals. A mate of mine said a couple of his guild members, one being a Warlock, ran into Stormwind, found and run to an unused house, obviously dying several times along the way, and from there they summoned the entirety of the guild into Stormwind. So funny.

 

wait, how can he even play an entire raid team at the same time?


the picture looks awesome

 

Playing by himself in an MMORPG... Antisocial at its best.

 

Ijff what people do is is use several computers (or I think they could use a single modified beefy computer) all linked to the same keboard and mouse so when they act with several characters at once instead of just one. Also current raids are 25 man so its not like the person with 36 account could actually raid with all of them at once.

 

If I still played, I'd want to be in his guild. He could do all the work for me.

 

I think there are also some forty man raids. I dunno if they're in the game now or will be introduced in Wrath, but that would mean he'd need even more accounts!!! Surely he can rely on being able to find four people who want to do a forty man raid... Surely...