Is dual-boxing in late-twenty Battlegrounds a horrible idea?

[khriskin]

I would love to learn to dual-box in the battlegrounds (not Warsong Gulch!), but I'm not sure how many people would descend upon me with sharpened knives for even trying

Comments

[hooves]

If you can do real dual-boxing, you can be a force to be reckoned with. Having another toon on follow with the occasional macro'd move is not real dual-boxing and nobody should subject their team to that.

AFAIK dual-boxing (actually dual boxing) is not against the ToS, but I think you do need some kind of program or something to pull it off.

That said, the 5-boxed DK squad that used to be on Arathor-H was a serious force to be reckoned with. That's five death grips, you were a goner really fast-- and I can't remember if they were all blood or frost but I swear they were blood, so great survivability on top of that. Dx

[khriskin]

(Whoops, didn't realize I didn't reply in the right place before-- sorry

[hooves]

Well it sounds like you are truly dual-boxing. A lot of folks THINK they are dual-boxing when in reality they just have two windows open and one toon on follow on the other.

Real dual-boxing usually has the two+ toons moving together, using the same move at the same time, et cetera.

How exactly are you dual-boxing? I have more than one account but I never tried dual-boxing for real before. I'm not quite sure to figure out how to do it, though. What kinds of macros are you making and how do you make them? And what is keyclone? An addon? Curious now.

Either way I love dualboxers in battlegrounds when they know what they're doing. The five-boxing DKs had a priest pocket healer with them and they won Tol Barad EVERY TIME. (We had like 15 people vs. those 6 and could NEVER beat them, was terrible.)

[khriskin]

I use Keyclone (one time cost of $20) but at least one of the popular ones is freeware, never really looked in it. I picked keyclone since it was the only program at the time specifically noted by WoW mods to be acceptable. Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but I think I'd have a heart attack if I was banned! :P *grin

[hooves]

I have to ask how and why you play WoW while walking on a treadmill. That sounds really different and interesting.

[khriskin]

I've had the treadmill for a while now, but wasn't really using it-- I saw a post on another WoW blog about doing mining and whatnot while walking and I figured I'd give it a try! :D

[thistle_chaser]

Wow, that's a great idea, walking while playing!

[khriskin]

World of Treadcraft = Fake Gym Membership! :D heh

Figured it was the only way I can rationalize paying for two subscriptions at once... ^_~;;

[salmastryon]

This is sorta funny because what you describe as "true" dual boxing. isn't. It is a form of multi-boxing, but it isn't the "true" way. Cloning or mulit boting is a relatively new form of multi-boxing as far as the history of multi-boxing in mmos goes

[khriskin]

"Cloning, in the sense of having another program that mirrors you commands over several different accounts is against the ToS."

No it isn't. I did my due diligence before I started this and Blizzard has explicitly said that the 'echoing' of keystrokes between game instances is allowed on multiple occasions.

What is not allowed is external programming or 'botting' where a single keystroke causes events that cannot be achieved through macros (timed delays, if/then logic not covered in macros, etc). I do not do that and am fine with banning people that do.

I would be more than happy to provide you with the links to the blue posts that support this, if you'd like.

[salmastryon]

I'd love to see those. I always like learning more. And if mistaken about things, I like to learn the correct answer so I don't spread misinformation.

[khriskin]

Not a problem! :D *puts on her Googling'hat

[penguinsane]

I've seen teams of five elemental shamans and it was just pure insanity. The burst those things cranked out was NUTS, on top of five fire elementals at the same time if they were in a tight spot. Similar with boomkins too, especially if you didn't see them in time and got five Starfires to the face.

I remember at the end of Wrath, people were cheesing 5v5s with an all-boomkin team... nothing survived long with five Starfalls and Typhoons everywhere, lol.

[hooves]

Oh man, I got pwnd with 5 moonfires at once and fell to a fast untimely death... That was in Isle of Conquest. We saw those five boomkins coming and abandoned ship fast.