I am not saying ban it, but there are changes that can be made to discourage using this for gathering. Multiboxing has totally ruined gathering professions as a viable option for single players to earn money. Seeing as /follow was disabled for battlegrounds, maybe it should be removed entirely, or disabled while gathering. Maybe individual resource nodes could despawn much faster, after one or 2 clicks, and increase the respawn rate of them but not in the same exact location.
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/follow isnt needed for multi boxing anymore you can set your mouse to be active to all open instances of wow running. So what you do on one happens on them all. Now granted I only have 5 toons that farm using this method ive seen allot more and I do understand this can be frustrating to those who just single play. My suggestion is just phase to a different shard
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No. Multi-boxing has almost zero impact on a gatherer. I made many millions of gold by gathering in BFA and in Legion. I saw plenty of multi-boxers: they had NO impact on my gathering.
A group of 4 or less? Same as 1 player – I can still get to the node and pick it up to 30 seconds after they do.
A group of 5 multiboxers can use up a node. BUT if I get to the node before that player, I pick it. For 14 years those were the rules for gathering: first player there picks.
Does multiboxing let him get to the node faster than me? No. In fact I am more agile going from node to node as a single player. I can “pick and move on” much faster than a multi-boxer.
So how is multiboxing “ruining” gathering? Competition, yes. If there are other players gathering, you make much less.
You must not have tried herbing in naz recently, its impossible due to multiboxing.
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Problem isn’t multiboxing at all. The problem is nobody is playing in the zone so the shard count is much much lower. The only people in the zone now are gatherers. Thus… you happen to be seeing all the multiboxers in all of NA sitting in there, rather than the (maybe) one that’s on your server. Not all of NA, of course, but you know what I mean. More than usual.
Blizz really don’t care about quality control as long as there’s money coming in. Multiboxers are more money. I hate indulging in tin-foil hat theories, but the only herb that is a must for every single current alch recipe is limited to one zone, which just happens to almost always be dominated by multiboxing druid herbalism teams. They could address this, but where’s the money in making sense when there’s tokens to be sold and multiboxers to buy multiple copies of the game?
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As soon as warlords started this multi tap bs started since they reneged on the promise no cross realm on current content it was one tap a node and that’s it.I would love to have only one server per realm but that’s gone -now a new problem popped up people exploiting multi tap nodes.Personally loved get to the node and that resource is gone but it would have to spawn faster to accommodate gawd knows how many servers at one time.
Multi boxing isn’t the issue, it’s the symptom. And it actually helps the solve issue.
The problems are:
- The way nodes work
- Packing battle groups into a single shards
- AH is designed in a very market manipulation friendly way.
What does this do? It allows one or two people to artificially inflate prices, which in turn encourages more people to farm for profit and speculation. Multi boxing just means some people are getting a lot more resources which should mean more downward pressure on prices, which should mean lower prices, which should mean less people farming for profit and speculation.
Blizzard probably wont police market manipulation, probably wont give servers their own shard, and given how problematic the last change was they probably shouldn’t be doing things to the AH like instituting buy offers and other things.
That means changing the nodes to handle the increase in demand from having multiple servers in the zone.
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Sadly, with how nodes currently work I don’t think this will ever be resolved. Multiboxing software as I recall work by emulating mouse and keyboard strokes. So the /follow command would still be useless. It would be as if the characters moved exactly the same on multiple clients.
Blizzard would have to take drastic steps to address this and I highly doubt they will. They make money off the multiple accounts that multi-boxers use.
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blizz needs to do something about multi-boxers . Heck on shard I am on they mite say same thing . There is at least 5 multi-boxers going at same time . Heck on a round there is so many of them they take turns going AFK .
Edit , That is 24/7 7 days a week
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I don’t get it. I see all of these multi-boxer threads that make it sound like the servers are full of them. I’m farming flowers a lot and never see any multi-boxers.
I farmed a ton of ore in Legion and never saw any, either.
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I only see them once in awhile. It’s almost always druids though. A large pack of druids lols.
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They are in Nazjatar, the only zone that has the zin herb needed for the best pots and flasks. I believe node multi-tap was intended for multiple players going after the same node, not for single player / multi-account multiboxers. Intended or not, it’s a boon for multi-boxers.
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You must not be farming in Nazjatar then, where the most important herb for BFA is made nearly impossible for normal players to farm due to multiboxing. I always see groups of 5 druids all following each other with similar names, and usually all Tauren. Just saw this again yesterday when I checked naz.
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Nope. I farm in Nazjatar frequently.
I’m not saying they’re not around. I just don’t ever see them.
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They can appear as one character, with all the identical druid models occupying the same space.
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All of this is anecdotal. Different times, server clusters and especially whether you play with war mode off or on will make a big difference in who you see out gathering.
And none of it matters. Blizzard has said every single time they’ve been asked that they are fine with multiboxers.
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Being fine with a jaywalker or two doesnt hurt anything. But when tens of thousand of people are constantly jaywalking, and bringing traffic to a hault, you expect the police to do something about it. Multiboxing has never been this prevelent and easy to abuse, to the point where it actually effects players negatively. So yes, Blizzard should take steps to do something about it.
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I never really truly understood their stance on this. They don’t like botters or automated botting programs, but are okay with multiboxers using automated bot software.
There are multiboxers that use legitimate keystroke mirror software and that’s fine in their eyes. However, I’m not talking about those folks. The ones I’m referring to are the multiboxers using automated botting software. It’s okay for one group but not the others? I just don’t get it really.
Either way, they just don’t care like I mentioned before. They get money from all those accounts anyways.
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Im watching a multi-boxer right now leveling. Just sitting there everything timed. It’s like multi-boxing OK, so automation is OK as long as I’m doing it on many accounts at once. Sort of like prostitution is illegal, unless you film it and sell the films of it!
By automation I don’t mean distributed keystrokes, there are no keystrokes here, it’s all timed, automatic. Easy to hide bots with multi-boxing.
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