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		<title>WoW Whore Has 36 Accounts, Raids by Himself</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is perhaps the most shining example of obsession and geekiness I have ever seen, a fella by the name of Bradster has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers simultaneously. He mainly seems to be doing it because he doesn&#8217;t like to rely on so many other people to [...]]]></description>
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<p>In what is perhaps the most shining example of obsession and geekiness I have ever seen, a fella by the name of Bradster has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers <em>simultaneously</em>.  He mainly seems to be doing it because he doesn&#8217;t like to rely on so many other people to get a raid going, which includes attacking the Alliance capital cities, and on that front I can totally see where he&#8217;s coming from.</p>
<p>I hate those Alliance douchebags too, but I&#8217;m not about to drop $5711 per year like Bradster is.  The best way to get to them is to just live well, right? Well, Bradster doesn&#8217;t appear to be letting the Alliance off the hook so easily, as he plans on picking up 36 copies of Wrath of the Lich King on day one, spending around $1500, just so he can have a raid group of level 80 Shamans terrorizing Stormwind as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Read on to see how this crazy man manages to control all of these characters. <span id="more-7657"></span></p>
<p>From the Bradster himself:</p>
<blockquote><p>A lot have asked me, why create so many? The main reason is to invade Stormwind and Ironforge when they reach top level. I&#8217;m sure the Alliance will put up a big fight when that happens. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. If they don&#8217;t make level 70 before Wrath of the Lich King, then it will be at level 80. That is my main goal. That will probably happen after I&#8217;ve got some PvP gear from the battlegrounds. I&#8217;m also planning to do some 25 and 10 man raid instances but that is secondary to my PvP goal. Of course I&#8217;ll be doing arenas too to build up PvP gear but I&#8217;m not expecting to do that great there because I&#8217;m way behind in gear right now. I need to get to level 70 first, then level 80 and by then I will probably have all green gear while most others have been doing the battlegrounds and arenas.</p>
<p>It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I&#8217;m looking at it like it&#8217;s a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.</p>
<p>32 of my shaman are level 61. One shaman that I had before I started the 32 is at level 70 along with 8 other level 70 classes that I had. My mage, priest and druid are in the center of the circle of shaman in the pictures but they are kind of hard to see. I&#8217;ve also got some mages and priests that I&#8217;m currently working on that are level 23. Once they are at level 31.9, I will stop working on them, get 16 of them to level 60 with the recruit-a-friend bonus levels and work on the shaman again.</p>
<p>When Wrath of the Lich King is released, I plan to be at the store when it opens and will purchase 36 copies of it. With tax, it should be about $1500 for all of them. Then the shaman are on their way to level 80 along with the priest, druid and mage.</p>
<p>By the way, I have 9 level 80 shaman created on the Murmur PvP realm in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. I mainly tried it out to see how well my computers would work as they are. With the exception of one my desktop computers, I should be fine with the hardware that I have.</p>
<p>I use 3 addons in the game. CT_MapMod is used to give me locations for quests, etc. ClassIcons is another addon that I use to show the class of the target. It helps for PvP encounters. Then the last addon I use is SSPVP2 which is excellent for displaying timers and other things while in the battlegrounds.</p>
<p>For my keys to send to all instances of WoW on my 11 computers, I use Octopus 1.3.2. Maximizer in Octopus allows me to start up all WoW instances at the same time or any individual instance such as if a WoW instance has crashed. It also allows me to shutdown all of the computers at the same time.</p>
<p>Here is a picture of my computer set up:</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>Not shown to the right is another laptop which runs 3 copies that I just moved there. The keyboard on the right was moved to the top shelf there as I don&#8217;t really use that keyboard while playing. I have macros that set my main assist/cast/follow. Any of the eight screens to the front can be set to main assist/cast/follow as my mouse scrolls to them all using Octopus.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&amp;threadID=14611&amp;pageNo=1" target="_blank">Dual-Boxing.com</a></p>
<p><strong>*UPDATE:</strong> As some commenters have pointed out, Bradster is <em>not</em> the owner of Prepared and all of the 36 WoW accounts, he was just the guy that uploaded the links to the forum.  Bradster himself has only 5 WoW accounts.  Bradster is the one who is married, so we don&#8217;t really know anything about Prepared&#8217;s girl-touching status.  You may now continue to unabashedly flame.<br />
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