Thats because focus targes and focus frames were not authentic and should not be included.
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Lmfao you sound like an entitled brat, if you want my honest opinion you should of been banned for using cheat software… You can’t be that much of a loss because I have no idea who you are as a “streamer”. Focus target should be disabled PERIOD, we don’t need multiboxers using cheat software in quest zones or battlegrounds etc…
How about you unsub on both accounts, goodbye! xD
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Give me /script then. Otherwise its not authentic…
This is such a niche thing to be this unbelievably butt hurt about
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Eloraell I give you props for trying to educate the ignorant (yes they are capable of learning but not willing to).
Your posts have help me decide TO multibox when Classic launches. I was gonna duo with a friend, but why not do a full group of 5? I would not even have to deal with these types of players in Classic.
Sad. Its ALWAYS PvPers arguing against multiboxing. Its like they dont realize this is an RPG and not a PvP game. RPGs since the Commodore games in the 80s had you control an entire party.
Heck multiboxers.
This is a good thing.
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To be clear… the point of this request is so that people can enjoy their style of gameplay without using “cheat software”.
Its got nothing to do with the PVP 5-man Mage team you hate, that is unaffected. Congratulations on failing to grasp the concept.
Hmm, it’s almost as if they don’t want a single person orchestrating several other avatars for gameplay reasons.
Else, you could literally have the raid leader /focus something and have all dps use a macro that casts/attacks on the current /focus target. That’s not interesting gameplay and I applaud them for removing this feature as it trivializes the game.
Now, if folks want to break the rules, that’s on them and those are their risks to take losing all their accounts.
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Classic team.
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To be clear, they have reimplemented the Main Assist target window. Almost like that’s exactly what they want to be happening because that’s exactly what we did in Vanilla.
False claim is false. The very reason for this request is to allow us to do what we did in Vanilla, without breaking the rules. Blizzard has always said that dualboxing is a legitimate activity and while they made a few concessions in Battlegrounds (something I have no interest in), even that has been overcome.
Nothing false about this. If you break the rules (whether related to this subject or something else, I mean, generically), you pay the consequences. That’s why they call them rules and if in this scenario you want to use a “cheat” as you said in your original post, then I guess that’s your risk to take.
So… completely ignoring the Main Assist change. Got it.
Sure. Which is why asking for them to revert a change back to its Vanilla simulacrum is to help people avoid being drawn into using the wrong tools. The people that everyone hates (as evidenced by this thread) are unaffected by this change or its reversion to Vanilla-style.
I was going to respond in a different response for this, but I’m aware they reverted the main assist changes.
They did indeed say folks can dual-box as long as the 1-button, 1-action rule was being followed.
However, that does not mean that Blizzard ever intended the game be played in a dual/tri/quad-box setup and they really don’t have any interest in supporting this type of gameplay mainly because it falls outside the norm and if anything is not helpful to gameplay in the slightest (see 5-man Elemental Shamans 1-shotting people).
Again, Classic Team.
Can you elaborate a little bit for me in what “Focus Unit” would do?
Thank you!
And yet, in Vanilla we could.
This is not an authentic change, this is not a required change, this is simply an oversight by people not thinking consequences through. I can guarantee that no developer at Blizzard thought “Lets remove Focus, it’ll stop multiboxing” because it won’t. It’ll hurt healers and CC, and prevent one small subsection of dualboxing.
I’m sure there’s some Multi-boxer out there with his 40 accounts just drooling to get into the game and target everyone who complained. And this change will do nothing to stop him.
I’m not in that boat, so if I can’t use 2 accounts legitimately, because they removed focus, I simply won’t have 2 accounts. And I know quite a few other raid healers who have said the same. So its actually a financial choice.
Imagine that. A retail player is threatening to unsub because the game not convenient enough for him/her. Say it isn’t so.
Am I correct that focus frames were not added until at least the TBC pre-patch and were NEVER part of vanilla?
Am I correct that the old infrastructure enabled scripted macros and third party add-ons to emulate the later added focus frames, but the modern infrastructure does not?
If I am correct in both cases, then it seems to me that “focus” would require either:
A) the modern infrastructure be changed to support those scripted macros and third party add-ons. This could have far reaching ramifications.
OR
B) a non vanilla change be made to Classic to add focus frames, which were a TBC feature. This would open a whole other can of worms and slippery slopes.
Are you really asking that they either change the modern infrastructure or add TBC elements to Classic in the name of convenience?
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Multi-boxing was against the ToS back in the day, so it makes sense that they don’t cater to your “Level multiple of the same class then sell the extras” playstyle.
No.
No. The later added in-built frames, were provided to replicate the functionality they had to disable, but still wanted people to have available.
That’s actually a lie. Or ignorance. There’s dozens of blue posts saying that multi-boxing is legitimate.
Are you saying that focus frames existed in vanilla without scripted macros or third party add-ons?
You said “Never part of Vanilla”. Focus frames were part of Vanilla, they just used the scripting system that was part of Vanilla.
You also said that the “Older” things emulated the “Newer” things. And I said, no, the newer things emulated the older things.
Blizzard literally provided a workaround to allow that style of unit targetting to continue, while securing their interface. If they didn’t want it to continue, they wouldn’t have.
You’re working in the wrong direction.
Vanilla had Focus capabilities, and Blizzard chose to continue supporting them when they made SecureFrames. That indicates approval, not disapproval.