I have a prot paladin, a fury warrior and a holy priest all in t5. Pala and warrior are on WoW1, and priest is on WoW2.I have a 2 Monitor setup, and i’m a bit used to control 2 characters at once manually.
I’m thinking about a easiest and fastest way to level up 2 chars at once when WOTLK begins. Judging by all those beta videos - palas and prot warriors can solo Utgarde. So, my guess is that i should spec priest to shadow (at least for Utgarde), but I wonder if paladin or warrior would be optimal for this method?
Maybe someone has tested something similar in beta? I would love to hear your thoughts
Have you even read my post?
“i’m a bit used to control 2 characters at once manually.”
I’m not using any third party software or even macros, so technically it’s not a multiboxing and i’m not violating any terms.
However, i’m currently running only as paladin or warrior + healer. It’s quite easy to deal damage or tank in one window, while healing yourself in other. I guess with shadowpriest it will be a bit harder
So when you say “at once” you actually mean “not at once”? Did I understand that correct now?
What you are actually saying is that you are playing 2 accounts, one by one, and switching between them. AKA not at once.
You are playing the characters at the same time, but the at once part is the important thing.
Switching between clients and playing different characters one by one is TECHNICALLY allowed.
Playing 2 characters, at once, is not allowed.
You can and will probably get banned for both though because people are gonna report you when they see you move around weird outside dungeons. And then you can appeal and explain that technically you wasn’t breaking the rules bla bla and hope that the Support gives a damn.
Whatever. Generally the term multiboxing refers to playing more than one account and using multiboxing tools to multiply actions.
Nonsense, Multiboxing and using 3rd party software to control the chars are 2 separate things.
Quote from Wkipedia, doesn’t mention using 3rd party software
Multi-boxing or multiboxing refers to playing as multiple [separate characters] concurrently in an [MMORPG]. This can either be achieved by using multiple separate machines to run the game or by running multiple separate instances of the game. Multiboxing is considered to be difficult to do well without practice, as it involves adapting to problems in real-time
Yep, exactly. By controlling characters at the same time I mean like you are pressing Greater Heal as a priest and while it’s casting you spend rage bar on warrior. Of course there is a bit of downtime, but i try to keep it to a minimum.
I’m running like that since 2019, haven’t had a single issue with Blizzard or any other players. Do you even play classic yourself? Because a lot of people are playing with 2 accounts at once, it’s weird that you haven’t noticed and there is nothing weird in moving using /follow.
And by the way, you can get banned even for nothing if a lot of people will report you at once. Their system is fully automated, and Support is outsourced and probably are some guys who never even played WoW themselves. so of course they don’t give a damn. And with a new social contract coming with WOTLK chances of getting banned like that are much bigger.
I will just repeat what I am saying. GENERALLY when PEOPLE in this game and this context talk about multiboxing they refer using software or hardware mechanisms mirror commands. We have all seen and talked about the multi-multiboxers with 10 shamans and whatnot oneshooting players and running dunegons. People GENERALLY doesn’t use the word multiBOXING to alt-tabbing with your bank alt etc.
Blizzard also say:
“automate or streamline multiboxing in any way may result in account penalties”.
What does that mean? Is alt-tabbing a way to streamline multoiboxing? Who knows. Maybe? This is what I am saying. You will probably get banned and then good luck explaining to the support that you are not streamlining your multioboxing when you farm instances.
I haven’t asked your opinion about penalties to my account. And i really don’t care, if they ban my account - than it’s time to move on
However, could you please clarify why do you think that I will be banned now, while I haven’t been banned for two expansions? I don’t see a logic in your posts.
Lets say that I am outrageously wrong. Nothing happens.
Lets say you are wrong. Some guy looses all his accounts.
I will just repeat this so be extra clear:
automate or streamline multiboxing
in any way
may result in account penalties
That means literally anything. If you are multiboxing, you may get banned. For anything because literally everything is streamlining multiboxing in some way. This is what I am saying. Automated ban from reports is not unlikekly and then try to explain that you was multiboxing in an instance without breaking the rules. Wouldn’t recommend it.
I asked you to take it up with Blizzard, obviously they are totally wrong, that must be why it’s on their official site, Blizzard are well known for posting all sorts of mis information and falsities in their ToS and EULA, aren’t they ?
Two accounts, two chars and two monitors. Sounds perfect.
GENERALLY (…) people don’t report two multiboxers. Even if they do and you get auto banned, just appeal and it will be resolved. If you haven’t done anything wrong, like using a 3rd party software.
I would however recommend easy macros to help make your life easier.
But I haven’t played 2 accounts at once in a long time.
I also used two monitors but both clients in windowed mode, so no alt tab needed, just scroll between the screens. Ez peasy
Oh and about the clueless troll Urongnob. You can’t teach logic to someone that doesn’t believe in logic.
Some people see a tiny chihuahua and call it a wolf.
Good luck, hope you get solid suggestions about the best class/spec combo
The thing is that just the other day I was reading a post on the US forum from a guy who got banned for playing several accounts at once. He claimed he was alt-tabbing. But whatever.
