Yea, it is.
They stopped supporting HOTS competitively, not OW. OWL just ended, in a stadium that Blizzard built, for Blizzard esports. OW will also have the World Cup at blizzcon this year.
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You should have rolled 5 shamans of your own!
Totally the best and easiest way to cause’ turtles in AV. Almost never happened unless people were boxing. Silly non-boxers!
Too bad technology isn’t available for people who don’t box to be able to coordinate, choose targets and press buttons!
Also. Think I saw you in the YouTube video! You looked amazing!
Scroll up in your browser. All the way. Look for the word “ESPORTS”. Click on that word. Click on the Overwatch League icon, it’s the first one on the left. What else can I help you with today?
I’m just scratching my head, trying to puzzle out what kind of ‘unfair advantage’ I’m supposed to have by having my characters spread out over two accounts instead of one. I mean, I don’t pay Blizzard cash for either one, I’ve kept both afloat with gold-bought tokens for years now.
- When I multibox, I don’t have passthrough software (not principled, lazy) so I have the lead account that I’m playing, and the other account is dead weight on follow. Flipping back and forth between two windows works okay-ish, but not well enough to do both in any kind of instanced or PVP content. If I did PVP, my non-lead account is a sitting duck and free HKs for you. I don’t PVP.
- I only have two accounts. My massive, intimidating army is like…a hunter and a rogue, on a two-person mount, flying around doing world quests.
- Sometimes I RP characters on both accounts at the same time. Maybe this is an unfair RP advantage? I can bicker with someone, and no one gets mad about it OOC because it’s all me! I can be my own wingman! I can be in two places at once!
That must be it. I totally have an unfair RP advantage. Granted, it has taken years of practice just to not accidentally have one character say something that was meant for my other window and a whole year of typing classes in Jr. High definitely helped prepare me for it. Still! Smack me right on the wrist, man.
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This thread sucked last week when it was new. It certainly sucks now.
Multiboxers are lame. Don’t be lame, sir.
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More accurate to say welcome to WoW, as multiboxing is still allowed in Retail.
Not sure if it’s as common there. It would appear to be more popular in classic based off of all the forum posts about it.
This thread only started 3 days ago, It’s not from last week. You must be thinking about the other exact same question from a different thread last week.
I’m just surprised that someone just brought this one back instead of starting a new thread again. Seriously this question has popped up way too many times since Classic launch.
I just recently started a dual box setup for the first time in 14 years of playing. Hunter/Druid. Wasn’t hard to setup, and cost essentially just the sub for classic (was a starter edition account that I just put time on). Two accounts under my same name, both running on the same PC in different windows (I have a large ultra wide screen so both look nice).
Don’t have everything fully macro’d except for the basic farming rotation.
1 = /startattack and /cast !Autoshot +/petattack
2 = /claw + /Arcane shot
3 = /rip + /serpent sting (will trade out for Aimed shot later)
4 = /shred + /Multishot
F = hunter follows druid, G=druid follows hunter
Also have some /assist macros in there. The mouse moves from screen to screen really easily, so I can control either from either window. Mob in the hunter dead zone? just move him out and fire while the druid still does hit yellow attacks.
Mobs die in 2-5 seconds so there’s rarely a rotation, and we’re moving 30% faster all the time. However, multiple adds really do complicate matters quickly. Thankfully I can bear up, trap, root, etc. I will likely have less time between the druid and time combined than I did leveling this warrior. I’m doing it for the professions and to duo farm my warrior’s BiS (blackstone ring, savage gladiator chest, and HoJ). I’ll still keep the hunter around as a miner for the warrior, who can drop it and take up engineering.
I do think it’s an advantage very early on, but it’s not like I’m going to be able to two man anything relevant by phase 3. All of this can already be done with two alts and two other players. Not seeing the big deal. On a pvp server, I could see it, but I play on a PvE so leave me alone.
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This topic has came up so many times it’s spam or trolling at this point. Doesn’t matter how many times this is asked it always gets bites.
As far why would someone necro a thread instead of start a new one? Well they are infinite scroll now and a repeat topic is spam. Ofc blizz hasn’t given any clarity on it. Lol.
It could be that the OP hopped on an alt and bumped his own thread. The system allows that type of subversion here.
Hang out here long enough and their all either repeat topics or designed to get others arguing.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a youtube video.
Also ya that’s the solution to coordinate with other players, but in random pUgs it doesn’t always happen.
It’s allowed but frowned upon by the community as a whole
Who gives a crap what people frown upon. It’s allowed get over it.
Remember when you were wrong about this?
Per your own gorilla logic what you’re doing is 1 keypress = 3+ actions.
And remember how you admitted that your “other” characters are simply slaved to your “main”?
How many players play Wow? How may players are posting on these “boxer” forums? Since I’m too lazy to do the math, please calculate for me and supply the percentage of players against boxers.
no
1 keypress = 1 action per instance of WoW. That is the rule and that will likely remain the rule no matter what you think or say.
Yes the others are ‘slaves’ (kind of a weird way to put following and assisting but ok) to the lead character as a rule but it’s not a bad thing. 5 individually controlled characters have a huge advantage over 5 controlled by one person.
But, again, it’s 1 keypress = 1 action per 2+ instances of WoW.
And 5 characters controlled uniformly by one person has a huge advantage over 1 character controlled by one person.
And 5 characters controlled by 5 players don’t ?
So you’re saying its balanced that it takes 5 players to beat 1 player?
Typical pro boxer logic!
no I’m saying it’s balanced as it takes 5 (actually less against a multiboxer) CHARACTERS to defeat 5 CHARACTERS
Right. But its one player controlling 5 characters. Thats a fact. So you are indeed saying with that statement that you think its balanced that it takes 5 players (or 4, 3.5, whatever) to beat one player. Thats balanced?