I have 5 accounts (WoW1-WoW5) I use them to farm. 3 of them are in a Hivemind but I would love to make it all 5. I needed to pay gold for the 3 to get it because I couldn’t do it on my own since the banning of 3rd party programs. Now that I know how to do it, is it possible to alt tab the cat petting part? Is there any other part I couldn’t do by alt tabbing 5 windows?
Thx
Should be able to alt tab it all thinking of the steps. May be slow but doable. It’s cats then platform then jumping around if i remember right… right?
Excellent 
I haven’t tried it myself yet out of pure laziness, although my understanding is “yes, you can get the Hivemind all by yourself” based on a wowhead guide I read that mentioned something about boxing with the hivemind.
Yes. My husband multiboxxed back in the day and he got the hivemind by himself.
Yeah but back in the day you could use the 3rd party program multiboxers use and pet all cats at the same time, which was why this step was setup the way it was. Can’t use that any more or it is insta-ban.
So given that we can’t use the software anymore, is it possible to pet all 5 with alt-tab in the time allotment given? There is a set time they all have to finish in.
Something like this: The number is - 47259***
Cat1 - pet 4 times
alt tab
Cat 2 - Pet 4 times
alt tab
Cat 3 - 2 times
alt tab
Cat 4 - 4 times
alt tab
Cat 5 - 4 times
alt tab
Cat 2 - 3 times
alt tab
Cat 4 - 1 time
alt tab
Cat 5 - 5 times
***OR SOME VARIATION OF ABOVE
See my question and why that will take a lot longer than simultaneously petting them at the EXACT same time using the software?
Every other part of the quest I know I can do, but the cat petting part is my only question.
Yes, it’s possible to do the cat part without multiboxing software. I bound a key to Interact with Target so I didn’t have to worry about the cats that liked to move around. Then I alt tabbed between cats to pet them. My alt tabbing was fast enough to get done before the buff wore out.
For me, the hardest part was trying to kill the outside guys fast enough to get all the bars down.
In this case, you’d set up your first alt to do cat 9
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
5 4 3 2 1
4 3 2 1
2 1
Petting order is:
cat 9 three times
cat 7 once
cat 9 once
cat 7 once
cat 9
cat 7
cat 5
cat 9
cat 7
cat 5
cat 4
cat 9
cat 7
cat 5
cat 4
cat 2
You alt tab between alts for one pet each so you keep the timer going on the buff.
Forgot to add the last petting sequence which would be all the cats one last time. Hope that helps you. Having a hivemind for your group is awesome.
I got it using that. Cant do that now though. Near impossible. Dont see why Blizz removed boxing when it was something that less than 1% of the player population did and a boxer has never pushed a player out of an MMR and Blizz even lied about multiboxing saying it was banned also because of the mat gathering. An example they gave was how multiple druids all swooped down onto an herb and each got it. Outright lie. One toon gets it, it is gone for every toon there. Also, them claiming boxers were doing gathering quests and powerleveling in raid groups is another lie. You cant do those quests in a raid group. You want 20 herbs? Then 20 toons have to go to 20 different places and get all 20. Could take well over an hour to get enough to level up a proff that one single toon could do in less than 5 minutes.
There was also the lie that they were flooding the AH with WoW tokens. Those are battlenet bound so if one of your boxers gets one, it counts for all of them and you are still as limited as if only in one account. Only possible way you are ever, EVER going to be able to use your hivemind mount is if you multibox it. 100% impossible to get with the same group you got it with now as most players have unsubbed or are doing their own things.
Not a lie. They changed how gathering works a while back. Once a player harvests the node a timer starts - I think it’s 30 seconds - and up to 5 other players can also harvest before it disappears. It’s to prevent griefing where someone is fighting a mob to clear a node and another player picks it while they’re sill in combat.
Unfortunately this did lead to rampant multiboxing to farm resources.
Sorry, in Shadowlands you certainly have get a herb someone else has tapped.
No. I have actually multiboxed a lot in the past. And when a node is gone, its gone for Absolutely everyone.
And it was also bots doing the gathering, not actual multiboxers. I still see the bots. Flying around, always druids and hunters. There was 50+ hunters all in one area, all shooting at the same stuff, all doing the exact same motions over and over all moving in jerky movements.
You dont get 100% of it tough. It is botters, not boxers doing the herb farming there.
It used to be even a bot who was spamming Illidan server all day everyday in trade. Same exact guild those farming druids were in. All boosted toons from brand new accounts. I would see them going through the mountain there sometimes. Big difference between a botter and a boxer.
And getting Hivemind with a boxer means all 5 must be on in order to interreact. Really sucks that you cant just mount anyone else who has the same mount. I unsubed all my MB accounts. Other MMOs began to allow it right after Blizzard said they didnt.
Yea HM is possible if all 5 got it. You can just open up all 5 accounts and do a mix of keybindings and clicks to get it down. You can still make it near instant without running 3rd party hardware or software to do it. You can have the screens overlapping to the point to where you dont have to move your mouse/curser hardly at all.
No, you are wrong, I used to follow people around and farm herbs even after they tagged them.
Has crossed you mind, that the Botter was using the multiboxer software to bot more efficiantly?
I see just as many bots now with the ban in effect. A lot of them were doing multiple different actions that is not possible to do on a boxer.
Because they are not using boxxing software anymore? Blizzard can tell if you are using boxxing software, and from past posts, they will suspend you quite quickly for use them. Use your head… Botting authors are quite adaptive to detection, hence the never ending battle with them.
Well, except no. They very explicitly said it was not banned.
Yup, it quite clear here
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Saying no over and over on an Internet forum does not change reality. Go try it in Shadowlands zones. I’ll wait.