Dual Boxing Programs L2g
Ive had a ticket open for a few days and it hasn't been answered yet so i'll just post my question in here. I'm currently using the recruit a friend system with a second account.
Tabbing in and out gets fairly annoying quite fast. I have been looking around and searching the forums but I have not been able too find anything that says if using software like keyclone or ISBoxer is 'legal'. All it does is just basically copy your key presses so I would think it would be fine. I just would like a answer before I get and start using a software (If it's not against the ToA) So if anyone would be able too lead me in the direction of a post about this topics legality that I may have missed I would be forever grateful. To elaborate on the reason why you'll never have Blizzard tell you that a third party program is 'legal' is that firstly they aren't always aware of what every program in the world does. Further even if they did know exactly what the program did and it was fine by the rules that wouldn't prevent the developer from changing something down the road making the software then do illegal actions.
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So if they said it was legal and then it was changed to do illegal actions it would create great confusion when people started getting actioned for using something a Blue had said was legal at one point. As stated above though as long as the program simply broadcasts key strokes it is fine as long as one keystroke equals one keystroke per wow client everything is good. 07:04 AMPosted by ^what he said. To elaborate on the reason why you'll never have Blizzard tell you that a third party program is 'legal' is that firstly they aren't always aware of what every program in the world does. Further even if they did know exactly what the program did and it was fine by the rules that wouldn't prevent the developer from changing something down the road making the software then do illegal actions.
So if they said it was legal and then it was changed to do illegal actions it would create great confusion when people started getting actioned for using something a Blue had said was legal at one point. As stated above though as long as the program simply broadcasts key strokes it is fine as long as one keystroke equals one keystroke per wow client everything is good. I appreciate all the quick responses.
Won't get me banned.:-)That part is less dependent on the specific software you use and more dependent on how you use it. The features that allow multicasting software to work are intrinsically capable of violating Blizzard's automation clauses.
It is your responsibility to know those clauses and not use the software in ways that violate those clauses. However, most of the informational sites about multi-boxing will tell you what not to do.
The important guidelines are: If you issue one keypress/mouseclick, each game client receives no more than one keypress/mouseclick. Modifying a keypress (setting up a button to issue a shift+f1 event on a single keypress, for example) is acceptable; but sending sequential kepresses/clicks is not. The distinction has to do with what specifically constitutes single/multiple hardware events (modifier keys are not considered discrete hardware events in this context). You are also not allowed to set your software up to issue any hardware events without you issuing an actual hardware event (you cannot set it to press a button every 5 minutes to keep you from logging out, for example), whether or not you are triggering a protected function with that event. This is because requiring a hardware event is oen of Blizzard's methods for preventing automation of certain functions (spellcasting, targeting, movement, posting auctions, etc.).
If you cannot automate it with an addon or macro; do not use your multiboxing software to automate it and you will be fine. 11:51 PMPosted by I wonder how people find threads like this and make this the only post in their posting history. There is a inverse correlation between posting comments and necro-ing old threads. But, while I'm here I might as well give my two cents. I leveled almost 25 characters to 80 using RaF on a macbook air without any dual boxing software installed at all.
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I just created two shortcuts, one to the wow.exe file and another to the launcher. I would run both programs and command+tab (alt+tab for windows) between the two. I even got so good at doing this that I could heal an entire dungeon group (getting compliments several times on how good my healing was) and also out dps 1 or 2 of the people in my group at the same time. It doesn't take any fancy software to dual box and I would recommend anyone try it because it cuts leveling time by an insane amount. It took me less than one month to get an entire realm full of 80's by following the pattern of leveling a pair of 80's and then leveling another set to 41 to grant the remaining 39 levels. My average leveling time to 80 was 24 hours of /played time and it took me around 8 hours to get to level 41.
The best part of this? Wotlk is essentially free if you buy the battle chest (which is marked down to $10 now) and I bought it during the Christmas special, so the grand total I paid for all these level 80's was $5. Just my two cents. Thank you for all of the helpful tips and hints on dual boxing. All y'alls advise really helped me. I recently did the RAF option and I'm currently just dual Boxing using the helium addon and macros which remarkably work well. I have already finished leveling a disc priest and tank druid to level 69 as heals and tank while running dungeons.
I read a post some where how some one did tank and heals while dungeon running and it intrigued me, so i thought I'd try it. It is very fun and I leveled the 2 toons to 69 in roughly 3 days of casual game time play. I have noticed though since I've started a different combo that the monk class is superb for tanking while dual boxing, however druid heals in combination is more challenging than when I was using my disc priest. Not sure if any of y'all run macro dual box tank heals.
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FYI if your running macro's and dual boxing heals and tank, you'll probably cap out near lvl 69 as the Northrend dungeons require more independent actions that make it more difficult to run both heals and tank. Let me know if yall have any other advise as to good boxing methods.