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Originally Posted by Swish
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I never get the want/need to box.
You're logging onto a game with 1000+ people, to play 2-6 characters in a group by yourself. While I'm sure that prevents lost time LFG, why not play Baldur's Gate or something instead? Most of the fun in EQ is meeting other people and sharing some good times together.
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It adds a new depth to the game. And boxers meet people.
When I boxed that specific combo on Mac server I would always invite random people to my group for the last 2 slots, and plenty of times I sat my cleric or bard or Druid out of group in favor of someone else.
Reason I boxed were a few things.
1. I'm impatient / I do stupid stuff. I hate clearing trash so sometimes in a dungeon id train shit around snare the mob I want and egress Druid out, then tab to bard to tag the mob. People don't know what I'm thinking and often stuff happens too quickly for me to tell them or type it out. This leads to them doing stuff I don't want like... Tagging stuff I didn't want to kill or training the group etc. Because of that I did like being able to do challenging camps by myself with a few boxes.
2. Lots of people are douches. Just read the forums. There are plenty of good apples and plenty of bad. If you often find yourself being a dick and starting shit in OOC about camps or people being bad, I don't want to deal with you. Boxing allowed me to circumvent many of these people and not need to rely upon them. So should I happen to invite them once in the past, I know not to do it again in the future.
3. Challenge. The solo challenge that Loraen posted is a great example of what makes EQ awesome and better than baldurs gate or Morrowind. But currently, it is limited to 2 or 3 power classes, many with power clickies. Boxing allowed you to try more stuff, stuff that other people don't want to try or don't get the same level of fun out of it as you do. 5 boxing Dozekar at 65 was some good fun for example. And the only other people that wanted to help in such a fight all played DPS... Great if I couldn't box we'd be short the tank, slower and bard.
4. Goals. It gives you stuff to strive towards. If you have one toon who you max out in pre-raid gear you either start raiding (and nothing you do outside of raids will better your character if max level) or you start Alts. Boxing is just another version of Alts that make it easier to achieve more goals/challenges etc.
And for me personally, I liked having a tool for every scenario, a jack of all trades if you will. So I tried to get one of each class or archetype to max level so that in any raid or group I could swap to whatever was needed. I hate feeling useless in a group/raid situation. This way if we needed anything badly I could fill that void and be very useful to the task at hand.