I never said anything about hating AH stuff?
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Just so you are aware, ANYTHING that streamlines the multiboxing process could get you into trouble. Blizzard left a rather large door open for them for interpretation.
If they are going to ban multiboxing, they should ban all add-ons also.
No automation should be allowed.
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No. The addon itself is in a grey area and has the potential of getting banned or forced modified by Blizz. Not saying it will, but has the potential. It is just a matter of time.
As Blizz has stated, they want you to physically alt tab between clients and physically control the pointer. That is the point of the input broadcast change. Addons, macros, and âkeypad scriptsâ that assist in any fashion fall into that change can still lead you to getting a ban. While it might not be picked up by Warden, player reports will still happen.
This is the best advice.
wow that makes so much sense slowclap
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What if i have 5 accounts and use them to get transmog items from old dungeons and raids?
I would have the accounts linked so that what ever I get is account wide.
I could have a 5 man team of one plate wearer, mail wearer, clothy and leather wearer. Then one character for anything else.
Each account could be dedicated to an armor type.
This way no items that drop would be wasted, unless I already have that item.
As long as they arent automated and to do anything on another character you have to alt tab to that client that should be fine.
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When I think of manual multi-boxing, I think of multiple clients being alt tabbed where you manually control each action. This does not sound like that.
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The only legit way to multibox now is to basically manually alt tab and play each instance of wow as if its the only one.
The direction they chose was hamfisted and cost them likely tens of thousands of dollars in lost subscription revenue / box purchases annually. I know they lost thousands from me alone. Others who were buying 30-60 accounts they lost even more on.
All they really had to do was boost the number of concurrent accounts a battle net account could have, action (suspension) those multiboxing from different battle net accounts and then add scaling penalties for each concurrent session in the game.
Penalties would be:
- Found items go from BoE / tradeable to bind on account or BoA.
- PvP is disabled.
- Health and damage is nerfed.
The reason I say this is many of us in the multiboxing community played the game for the different gameplay. That and the coolness of operating a whole team. Having fun role playing and/or pushing our heads against the wall trying to beat content reserved for parties such as M+ and arena.
The irrational hatred of multiboxing should have been dealt with this way. Instead we got the phoned in approach. Par for the course.
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You can have all 5 in windowed mode, open at once. I do this with my tank having the largest window. Move mouse around quickly to activate each window. I far prefer this over swapping between each full screen account. I would hate constantly swapping between different viewpoints.
I do use an addon called followme2 in classic that makes my alts follow my tank around. This saves me time moving around but I donât think it falls under automated software whatsoever.
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Oh thatâs a good way about it.
I got the idea from this guy months ago, not long after the broadcasting ban was put into place. Cause I knew I wanted to multibox in TBC classic so I needed to find a legal way to attempt it.
How to Multibox without Input Broadcasting Software - Alt+Tab like a pro! | WoW Classic - YouTube
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The idea of windowed mode seems so basic, but I never thought about it lol
Itâs weird at first, looking at these smaller windowed versions. Itâs also awkward to control. So far in tbc my 5 man team is lvl 68. I can solo normal dungeons but it takes longer than regular groups. Some mechanics are extremely punishing for me. Anything that causes movement for my characters or the boss is the worst, because itâs so hard for me to reposition characters. Luckily the dungeon mechanics in tbc arenât overly complex or punishing.
I canât wait to finish boxing and get back to playing a full version single character.
Basically. Software enters many grey areas. That change on whims rather quickly.
When I dual box in classic its full manual. MIxed classes, mixed levelsâŚand its change 1 client 1 clicky. I have 2 accounts currently so I tried this for giggles.
Its real nice in dead classic spots where /who shows you are truly alone. Bring my 62 in to kill the 3 man quest for a say level 20.
Not going to keep this up. TBCC is not screaming this is my game for life. Things like this made a 2 account setup interesting to try though. Made for a decent experiment off and an over 3 weeks.
For smoother full manual no software to be more legit Iâd recommend mixing a high APM setup with low one APM. Get the low actions per minute char to do their thing that takes a bit. LIke a tank cd heavy sloggy as hell rotation. bounce back when things come up.
then manually go to the button spamming high APM dps char.
So long as one key stroke only controls one character at a time. No mirroring/broadcasting.
So one keystroke to make 5 characters mount. No.
One keystroke per client (so 5 presses or button), yes
In TBC my 5 man dungeon group has 2 BM hunters. 80% of damage is auto attacks. My third is the mage I used for boosting in vanilla. I made it arcane because arcane missile spam requires less attention from me. It still often stands there doing nothing if I need to focus on healing/tanking/movement. A third hunter would be optimal.
Iâve found it to be more efficient to quest. Dungeons are doable but they take longer and require much more focus from me, to avoid wipes. My concern is being seen reported by players. Iâm sure there has already been multiple reports but hopefully blizzard can see that Iâm doing nothing wrong. Iâm not using software. The nice thing about dungeons is they consume rested experience much faster because the mobs give much more experience.
Iâm confident the addon I use called Followme2 that makes my characters follow my tank when I type fme and stop following when I type sfme is completely legal. I always have to explain things to anyone I invite to my party cause they will see me typing fme and sfme every time I move.
Edit: You have to be careful using this addon. 90% of the time it works, but some times the characters will not stop following when you type sfme and instead they just keep running straight forward forever until you manually stop them. Iâve gotten way better at regaining control when that happens. Of course I use macros for it. /p fme and /p sfme. I wouldnât manually type any of that
I have two RL friends who use this method, with a slight twist, to control their main and 2 alts. If you running windows 10, you can set it so when you mouse over a window that window will become the active window for all key and mouse input. They then just run the two âaltsâ in windowed mode on a second monitor. When they need to take control of them they just have to mouse over the window they are set. Makes it easier than actually tabbing between them.
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well follow is in there so Iâd not see an issue. I use in game follow all the time in classic lol.
And yeah it was hunter on a rough night with tagging that had me try this out lol. Wasnât getting crap for xp in TBCCâŚlets go help the druid out since at least something would get done.
OOM or close againâŚauto, auto, autoâŚserpentâŚauto. The grand goal if I kept this up is druid would just heal the pet/hunter (on agro shifts) lol. And deal with healer threat mechanic as it came up
I looked at classic and went this is just like eve. get target lock press f1. ample time to bounce 2 clients each getting individual inputs. Dual boxed manually for years in eve. Those dual box skills carried over.