I will answer your Multiboxing questions

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So MB was brought up by a guy a few days ago. Then I posted on it, then I made a thread about it. Than another thread was made by another guy about it.

It is believed by many that it is against the rules…it is not So here is when it is and is NOT allowed.

It is allowed if you are the primary account owner of all of the accounts that are under your control

I know a Blizzard GM who multiboxes and he told me the rules so they go as follows:

You CANNOT multibox Diablo under any circumstance.

You CANNOT multibox StarCraft under any circumstance.

You can own multiple accounts for either one of those two games, but multiboxing for them is not allowed.

The only software that you are allowed to use for multiboxing is a key-broadcasting software

Every movement of every toon must be your movements only.

You are required to maintain control of your toons at all times: meaning ,if your toons get feared, MC’d or any other form of CC, you are required to get them back under your control and not have them scatted all around.

So here is when it is NOT ALLOWED:

If you have toons that your are multiboxing and one or more of them /follow you but do no other actions.

You also are NOT allowed to split your group in order to spawn camp an area.

You are NOT allowed to run multiple separate raids or dungeons or battlegrounds with them. Every toon must be in the same instance. (yes a certain guy who I will not named did try running multiple accounts to obtain a rare drop mount, banned)

So as to why some multiboxers HAVE been banned in the past while others have not? As a multiboxer, you are NOT allowed to cause server disruption. So in other words if you are multiboxing so many toons that it causes server lag, THAT is when the ToA has been broken. Even if it is by accident that you do cause server disruption, it is NOT allowed.

You are NOT allowed to stand over multiple NPCs with your multiboxer toons to include mailboxes.

You are NOT allowed to multibox in an effort to block an area while you are on PvP such as forcing someone to go THRU you in order to get to a raid or dungeon that they wish to enter.

I was told by the GM that I talked to a while ago that the ONLY time that you are allowed to split your multiboxing group is when you have logged into one or more accounts and your toons have been separated. So according to the GM, when that happens, your lead group must stay put and the toon or toons that you are trying to get to them must go to them. I was told by the GM that you are NOT ALLOWED to use your toons for two different tasks while they are in two separate locations. This also includes having one group active while the other inactive group has a pet or minion out for defense.

As he put it, if you want to get your group together and one or more is in Northrend for example, and the toon you want to bring to it is in a different zone, then you must not allow your Norhtrend group to do any actions apart from talking in responses. You are NOT allowed to start sperate conversations as a multiboxer and I will get to that later and you are only allowed to use one to talk a time.

According to the GM once your toons have gotten back in the same zone, and are all under your control, THEN you are allowed to do sperate actions with them such as one checking your mail or banks while the others sit still.

The reason why you are NOT allowed to start separate conversations using one or more accounts is due to the fact that it has been used for spam in the past for selling raids, PvP stuff and other things which is allowed if it is all self play and in game transactions only. That also goes for guild recruitment. If you are logged into multiple accounts, only one toon at a time is allowed to recruit for your guild. That also is why the splitting your group intentionally is prohibited.

So there was a certain mass multiboxer who got banned, (there are more than one who do mass mutliboxing)

The reason that he was banned was because he broke the TOA by splitting his raid group to do one or more separate tasks and also. he caused server lag.

You may have seen him do his raids… he had so many toons that 10 shamans would go to kill some people and 10 more would split off in another direction to kill some others… THAT was breaking the TOA as I was told by the GM I talked to about this.

Regarding myth that people mutliboxed to sell their account:
As told by the GM who I talked to.
As for merging accounts with different last last names, that is a near impossible thing to do, but if it is done, then it is irreversible and it cannot be undone under any circumstances. AND you are only allowed to do so if both parties contact Blizzard directly and only IF there is only one account under their name. You cannot trade your account for money or for favors. If a multiboxer attempts to split an account off in order to sell it, then their entire battle net account is subject to ban.

You are NOT able to split off or merge any accounts or move toons too or from any account that has an active ban, suspension or investigation going on.

Proven family members are able to gift their accounts away and according to the GM I talked to, that means no transactions of any kind are allowed that is why it is called gifting your account. You are allowed to take over the account of a deceased relative or spouse.

That is what I was told about multiboxing.

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…so this is a lot of false information. First, you CAN have your toons be on follow and not doing anything. You don’t HAVE to use any sort of program to multibox. I literally have two of my accounts follow my main account and that’s it. Including if I’m moving somewhere for roleplay. There is no program. I tab.

Also, the “multiple conversations” thing…? I tab between the accounts to roleplay two at once and hold muli conversations. Again, wrong.

Where exactly are you getting any of this is my question? Because there is so much inaccurate here it isn’t even funny.

I’ve also run different things at different times with my toons. No problems at all. I’m not playing both at the same time, but tabbing between them.

Your “I know a guy” means very little when it’s all a bunch of inaccuracies.

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I have multiboxed for years I have dozens of accounts and multiple battle.net accounts and have talked to numerus GMs on the matter.

You are only allowed to use key broadcasting software to make your toons interact. None of your toons are allowed to do actions that is automated by other software.

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So are you saying by use of the software ONLY then? Because I’ve been told that if you play more than one account at once, you’re a boxer regardless.

I use 0 programs. None. I tab. I assume therefore this only applies to those that use outside software.

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You and I both know who the person is and we also both know that it is against the rules to call players out by real name or player name on the forums.

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I don’t know who it is myself, sorry, I don’t really pay attention to what others do if I’m going to be honest.

Anyway, again, is a boxer only someone that uses the software then? I never get a clear answer. And do I not count since I play under 5 without it?

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Huh, fascinating. I don’t have any interest in multiboxing, but some of this stuff is pretty specific. Like, I’d’ve never imagined that splitting your group would be against the rules… seems you’d be entirely ineffective anyway trying to fight two unrelated battles at the same time.

I understand the Starcraft restriction, but I wonder why Diablo is off-limits.

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So I have a question about multiple accounts, but not necessarily multiboxing. I’m interested in possibly starting a second account just for more character slots and the ease of inviting my alts into my guild without needing the help of another person.

Recently, when farming a world boss mount there would be a multiboxer that I would occasionally run into and talk to. When the mount finally dropped for him, he got it on all 5 accounts. How does that work? If I have a second account linked to my bnet account would everything carry over? Mounts, pets, achievements, transmogs, allied race unlocks?

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Heh, yep. All of your accounts get your collections.

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I have never ever in my entire history meant a single multiboxer who does not know who this person is. He had 80+ accounts at one time went over 120.

he was on Darkspear last. he liked to bring alliance death. There is no way that you do not know who I am talking about. he has had more complaints about him on the forums than all the other players combined. he is known world wide because entire raid groups were made to stop him. He caused sever lag everywhere he went which made any form of game play around impossible when he would raid a capital city, most people would be disconnected or lagged until the battle was over.

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I’m not really sure if I count as one, like I said above. I only play 3 max and don’t use a program.

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You can have up to 8 WoW accounts under the same battle.net account. Anything that is battle.net wide would be shared under all the WoW accounts.

That means most pets, mounts and wardrobe too :wink:

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Well… that is another + for why I should start a second account…

Can you RAF yourself onto the same bnet account? I’m assuming no… it’ll have to be a different email which makes it a separate bnet account?

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You can send it to yourself :wink: Just send it to your own e-mail and use that to make the new WoW account under your battle.net. We recommend it often over in the CS forums.

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For me it’s kinda interesting that you point out Diablo/Starcraft don’t allow it.
But wow does? Maybe for starcraft it’s understandable, but someone could multibox the same way in Diablo than in WoW, I think. There might be a reasonable reasoning behind that that the WoW doesn’t believe in because, ah right, cash money money bling subscription damn competitive integrity.

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Oh my… I am seriously tempted now…

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No. not titles. You get achievements for them but not the PvP titles, not the PvP mounts either. If you break off an account, your gladiator or your High Warlord, your Grand marshal etc, CANNOT move that title from one account to another. So you cannot have two of them if you only earned it on one AND achievements are only shared across one single battlenet account. If you do not believe me, I can go in game, log into multiple battle net accounts that are all owned by me, all lined and yet ZERO progress is shared.

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*most, not PvP, yeah. But generally yes aside from that. If you can have it on an alt, you can have it on the other account. If you CANNOT use something on an alt, well, duh.

That should be kinda obvious.

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Ive RAF’d ,myself often in the past. I did that before toon level boosting was a thing so I would keep my toons on rested, put them in BoAs and then do a BG on CTA and then grant them lots of levels . RAF yourself if allowed.

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I have no real life friends.
I wanted the X-53.

I’ve raf’d myself twice? now lol

Also makes it nice for when you need help on a lower level alt. Ring of blood? BIG TOON TO THE RESCUE! Ampitheatre of Anguish? BIG TOON TO THE RESCUE! Need that dungeon for the quests and have been in queue for 2 hours? You get the point.

I have two screens. One WoW per. Extended desktop. I just mouse between then as needed lol Gets quite interesting trying to solo? Duo? Soluo? whatever tank/heal something at level.