A frequent thing I'm seeing nowadays on Midgardsormr is the occurance of
2-boxing powerlevelers (PLs). One of my friends has already mentioned this on DV, for those of you who have an account (To be honest, I don't.), but for those like me who don't frequent FFXI forums, I feel I might as well bring it up on one of the few forums related to it I actually post on (albeit infrequently with large gaps inbetween, but).
Anyway, the problem here is this; people are bringing PLs to parties. Not just normal PLs. They seem to apparently be a second account of the player in question, and they are 'doing the party a favor' by multitasking in both the party and the outside high-level help. By and large am against PLs. But I can acknowledge when a PLed party is raking in experience at lower levels that other parties could not, so in most cases I won't have a problem as long as the party is comprised of competent/experienced players instead of newer or quite frankly idiotic players that need to learn their jobs, so that it doesn't end up boosting the latter group to higher levels before then.
This is usually not the case with 2-box PLers. More often than not, the player that is 2-boxing abandons or frequently neglects their position in the party to provide the 'outside help the party needs'. This frustrates me. I have heard of the rare few that can actually pull this off, but I have never been in a party with said individuals, and most of the things I hear from others are negative. To an extreme.
Like so. Just the other day, I heard from one of my good friends (though he may be experience-hungry) that someone had brought a 2-box PL... to a level 70s party. Not only should that be completely unnecessary, but the performance of the character actually in the party was mediocre at best. I have also heard from another party of his that someone in his party was 2-boxing... with a character in another party.
With above examples in mind, and the knowledge that there are some of you inhabiting different servers, my question to you is thus; what's your take on 2-box PLs OR 2-boxing in general, and what are some positive/negative examples you might have seen?
ADD/EDIT: So here's a detail I missed about the 2-box party-guy. He was playing THF in one party and RDM in the other. For those of you who don't know, those are both very demanding as far as attention and are very different from eachother as far as their place in a party.