Multiboxing - breaking cover!

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A lot of people dislike multiboxers. But, surprisingly, the same people think that multiboxers are some kind of elite, like a mix of advanced sysadmin and a great pianist. This is not true. Multiboxing is all-around 2 macros and 1 keybind!

The first macro is following:

/follow Main-Character-Name

It makes minions to obediently run for main.

The second macro is assisting

/assist Main-Character-Name

It makes minions pick up the main’s target.

Most probably you are already familiar with these macros. The third thing likely will be new. It is keybind “interact with target” (IWT).

This keybind does exactly the same as right-clicking. It opens a dialog with NPC, attacks target, etc. IWT is not assigned by default so casual players don’t use it usually. But multiboxers have to use it constantly.

The usability of IWT can be increased by enabling “click to move” option in WoW settings. If the character is out of interaction range, it will run to target and only then starts interacting.

Damage spells should be bound to the same key, so a single keypress causes all characters to fire. The most useful key for this is the mouse wheel - you can do damage by constantly spinning it.

And this is all! These 5 things are enough to start multiboxing. You bind minions to your main character by following. Then you give them a target by assist and begin damaging. Melee characters can be sent into the attack by IWT. IWT also used to loot dead targets… Profit! WoW is surprisingly suitable for multiboxing.

But, you may say, what about software? It is very complicated and needs a long setup! Well, it depends. If you want to run actual 10 ppl dungeons only by yourself - yes. This needs scripting languages like AutoHotKey or HotKeyNet and requires at least basic programming skills. Or you must use professional multiboxing software like IsBoxer, which is paid and requires setup. However, if all you want is leveling and farming, you can download one of the simple free broadcasters like Levelbuddy.

But multiboxing also requires a second account, isn’t it? No, it is not. You can play up to 8 characters on one account simultaneously. All you need is another WoW subscription, which is free until 20 lvl.

So, please, stop thinking that multiboxers are Atlas and titans of WoW. They are just unusual players who use some WoW features (which make multiboxing so easy) for fun and profit.

Now you can make your own judgment.

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multiboxing should be banned

no-one thinks that

thats more like it :laughing:

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People’s complaint about multi-boxxers is that they ruin the economy and a huge part of the gameplay fantasy, not that they exist.

You like being a herbalist? well tough luck there’s like 9148912481294 druids picking all the herbs and you won’t get any chance to herb.

You like farming via professions? well tough luck, the AH is bloated and loaded with stuff from multiboxxers, severely devaluing most professions.

It’s much more beneficial to farm raw gold than to compete in the AH by farming your own mats.

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Using these programs to reduplicate button presses or cause more button presses than one to go out at once is against the ToS!

Why multiboxers are getting a free pass for this **** I will never know.

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Exactly. So it is more safe to use already built programs like IsBoxer or Levelbuddy which respect TOS.

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Yeah what we DONT need is a guide on how to do this , you guys already ruin the game fine on your own , dont try and attract more multiboxers.

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It doesn’t.

Blizzard’s responses on multiboxing is that it is okay to have multiple instances of WoW running at once. The answer they link to says they don’t support any tools, which Levelbuddy is.

Where Levelbuddy breaks the ToS is with features like “Auto follow”, for instance. It is not allowed for a program to react to you pressing W into one application to then duplicate pressing a macro bound to, for instance, 1, on 9 other clients. That is pressing a secondary button automatically based on you pressing the first one. That is against the ToS.

But what do they care, right? Blizzard aren’t taking action in spite of their ToS. It’s pathetic.

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There’s multiboxers around these forums saying the complexity of multiboxing offsets the benefits and thus should be allowed.

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Never heard anybody say that.

Don’t think anybody believes that.

They’re some sort of disease that’s tolerated because they pay more than the average player.

Yeah, they’re saying that, but nobody believes it.

Obviously multiboxers defend multiboxing. But not even a multiboxer genuinely believes that what they’re doing is some sort of elite hacking skill. They’re just saying that.

It’s the same how they’re saying it’s not giving anybody an advantage. They don’t genuinely believe it’s not giving an advantage, they just say it to defend it.

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Think multiboxers are some kind of elites haha? Get real pls, they are far from that, and i have never seen any mb disliker discribe them as some kind of elite :slight_smile:

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They are not being reduplicated. Key presses in windows are only available to the active program unless another active program has permissions to listen to the key presses. The app using this probably just makes it so that every WoW window listens to this key press rather than just the active one. Thus 1 key press leads to 1 action in the client, and that’s not bannable.

The fact that 1 key press can yield 10 herb farms in 1 go though, that’s cheating imo, because it gives an unfair benefit to others who only get 1 herb farm per key press. Blizzard should make this a violation in their ToS.

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Key ‘W’ is not broadcasted by default. So when you press ‘W’, Levelbuddy broadcasts only macro keybind. One press - one broadcast. That’s why I think that prebuilt solutions are more safe. However this post is not about software - any software is viable if you understand what you are doing and following TOS.

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It’s true. IsBoxer has an addon that helps creating macros, binding key etc.

However, the main addon which every multiboxer use is EMA. This addon accepts and finalizes quests, accepting invites, interacts flight master, check following and so on.

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While you only need /follow, /focus, /assist focus, /assist etc to get the pure basics working, this is a gros oversimplification and it actually takes a very long time to finetune a setup. Infact, its an ongoing task that never ends. Prepare for a very rude awakening, when you later realize how much work is involved. Then later on as you add several computers etc.

When you said…
“But multiboxing also requires a second account, isn’t it? No, it is not. You can play up to 8 characters on one account simultaneously. All you need is another WoW subscription, which is free until 20 lvl”

This isnt entirely correct.
(though you can create trial accounts, and play untill lvl 20 on those).

But, if you want to play normally:
F.ex, if you have 1 battlenet account, that battlenet account can store max 8 wow accounts. Those max 8 games, will share mounts, pet, toys and such.
But, you will need to buy up to and incl the current expantion (subject to change) and add a subscription to each game. So if you plan to play a 8 man, you need to pay x 8 amount of money a solo player does.

So this can quickly turn expensive, not to mention the added costs if you need multiple computers, monitors, power outlets/fuses in the house, ups’es, airconditions etc etc etc etc.

My current setup is around 20.000 usd (and counting) + monthly subs + soon i have to upgrade to shadowlands on all… :confused:

While you can multibox on poorer hardware, its terrible to look at and with poor fps. Been there, never going back.

Also: if you plan to play a 10 man, you will need to have 2 battlenet accounts, as 1 only holds 8 wow accounts. The other 2 games, which are on battlenet account nr 2 (if you want), will need to get pathfinder… mounts… etc etc on its own… so as you can imagine: now you need a mountdrop on this second battlenet account too. So its much much more timeconsuming if you aim to get the same mountdrops etc on the second (or several more…as i have to) battlenet aswell.

Ive been multiboxing around 10 years now and ive seen many eeger players starting, but after a while they quit, as this is no joke + if you are dreaming that the gold will flow in without much effort… lets just say that if you werent able to get enough gold earlier to keep 1 account going, you are going to find that getting 4 more (if you have a 5man), can be a huge struggle.

The few i know that have continued to enjoy this playstyle (“mass multiboxers”), are all adult, semi / professionals and/or retired and have a decent income.

But, you may ask why i dont pay the subs with gold? Well, i save my gold in case i want to purchase something cool + i dont dare to do any mob farming etc, as they have cracked down on this insanely and with the very often “bot tests” they are doing, its very bothersome/tiresome to keep tabs on all the games. And if you happen to miss a test in time, that game get banned quickly. Its not worth it, to me, and as i can afford it, i pay subs with irl cash.

You can rest assure that if you see a multiboxer farming mobs “while standing still”, that they get “bot tested” every so often. And will get banned if found to be botting.

Over the years ive used keyclone, pwnboxer (discontinued i believe) and now currently using isboxer (used it for many many years).

And if you wonder if the sha of anger mount has dropped… im currently around 6300 kills in, and ive not gotten a single drop yet :confused:

And we can be like a great pianist: if you think controlling tank, offtank, healers, dpsers, clensing, decursing, remove poison, interupts, debuffs, moving individual characters in all kind of needed directions with pinpoint accuracy (and when swiftly needed), taunting correctly, spot healing etc etc, while keeping an eye on the bossmod timers… on hard content: its no joke and often encounters need a lot of custom macros to overcome aswell and a metric ton of custom weakauras. Very very few even bother or can make it happen. Sometimes an encounter is “this is impossible”, f.ex if you need to split the raid into two groups going in different directions (even corridors) and there are different tasks in each.

As you can imagine, it takes a very long time from start, with 5 characters, to master that content well, to 10 man, then 20 man and more. Many years in the making.

And if you wipe, there is noone else but yourself to blame :slight_smile:

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This guy gets it, yeah multiboxing might seem like an unfair advantage, but it’s such a pain in the a* to set up and control, I wouldn’t last a day.

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Questing is easy just put on follow & assist but raiding by yourself is harder than mythic in a guild.
Its allowed because its no difference than having friends or even 5 strangers attacking you at the same time in pvp, not because blizzard need mbox money,lol they make billions a month.

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It was such a paid. Now it’s several minutes deed.

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