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Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
He's the biggest nerd in the world
*DrugCheese rants*
that he managed to get all that hardware into his parent's basement.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
What's worse... he has both a job and a wife.
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
5k/year for a hobby actually isn't too bad when it comes to hobbies. The time he puts in is probably above and beyond most other hobbies though.
It's funny because I was just talking to a friend about a 'hobby' I and some friends do and he was floored at the cost. Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby lol...
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Female elves don't count as wives.
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these guys were relying on elemental shaman's wrath of air totem, which gave 3% crit chance. crit chance gives the chance to do double damage. prior to patch 3.0.2, all totems' buffs for a group stacked. 5 wrath of air totem was dropped, it would increase the crit chance by an additional 15%, for all group members for example. therefore all the shamans he plays in that group had very high crit rates, and when they all shot at something they all did massive double damage.
patch 3.0.2 made it so that buffs do not stack. so if 30 shamans drop wrath of air totems each, the group wide bonus will be only 3%. this will reduce their power approx to half in terms of firepower.
he is called a multiboxer, and this activity was called multiboxing. now they wont be able to do it like before anymore.
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What is this "wife" thingy you're referring to? A cool interface addon maybe! I'll go google it!
It was an alright add on, but after 2.0 was released, it broke and had all these nagging error messages and no ones bothered to maintain it since.
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Raids are parties of 6-40 people divided into 2-8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms raid and raiding primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and zones. If you're the party leader, you can convert your group into a raid group by accessing your "Social" Panel, selecting 'Raid' and choosing "Convert Group to Raid." From then on, anyone you invite will join your raid group (up to a maximum of 40).
Source, WoWWiki.
40-person: * Molten Core * Onyxia's Lair * Blackwing Lair * Temple of Ahn'Qiraj * Naxxramas
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Someone should consider pointing him at http://www.wowdetox.com/.
I'm not sure at which point a hobby becomes an addiction, but I think it's safe to say this guy is a bit beyond that.
"He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Duck Soup
Doesn't he realize he can virtualize his 36 accounts and 11 computers into a single WoWoW account.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
It's funny because I was just talking to a friend about a 'hobby' I and some friends do and he was floored at the cost. Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby lol...
By 'hobby' I assume you mean hookers. Hookers are a hobby now? Fuck stamp collecting, I'm doing that!
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
After checking it out, I must agree that it went on a downward spiral - the first year of releases was mostly fun (the internals were especially good!), then it all went to hell, as it's lua scripts started to over-check the db files for visual flaws, making the whole process sluggish. The 0.2.0 version (which was released two years after the first one) started showing all these nag-screens about your fishing/cooking/first-aid skills not being used at all (who the hell has time for that?). The interface got really cluttered around 0.4.2, and also the developers decided on a god-awful bright yellow design for it - you just couldn't look at it anymore without losing your eyeballs. I held myself tough for the 0.5.3 "Middle release", but after that, i just couldn't go on. I admit, i miss the entertainment features of this addon, but i simply will not tolerate all this trouble. I tried deinstalling it, but - for some unfathomed reason - it decided to take half of the other addons with it. My whole Gatherer database was split in half because of that stupid addon!
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It's not the download that's the problem in an MMO, it's the upload. I perused the original forum thread about this (linked somewhere here at /.) and one guy said he could get a max of 25 WoW accounts working properly on a 1.5Mb upload (any more than that lagged too much). So for 36, he's probably at about 2.0Mb upload, and that ain't cheap. Your typical 8Mb down /768Kb up cable connection ain't gonna cut it.
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You're being funny ... but you're right. The people who frequent escorts do call it that.
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