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Ageary
08-08-2008, 01:16 PM
Hey guys, Im dual boxing 2 accounts on one pc, works quite well, i just have two accounts open on my wide screen monitor. Anyway I use AHK with scripts from this site. One of them "assists" a player by pressing a hotkey you assign assist to, so for instance my mage presses 2 for fire ball, the other client is sent = for assist and 2 for wrath. Is this considered against TOS, as it is a form of automation ?

Thanks for your time.
Anozireth
08-08-2008, 01:23 PM
Well, that could very easily be accomplished by sending only one key to the second client and having it run an in-game macro of something like: /assist /cast Wrath

I don't think that should be a problem.
-silencer-
08-08-2008, 01:50 PM
One of them "assists" a player by pressing a hotkey you assign assist to, so for instance my mage presses 2 for fire ball, the other client is sent = for assist and 2 for wrath. Is this considered against TOS, as it is a form of automation ?
Yes. That's automation. If you can replicate the same cast sequence with *1* macro in-game, do it. If you're having 1 keypress send 2 keypress signals to the other instance of WoW, that's a huge risk for automation.
Just use this macro:
/assist <name/focus/Party1>
/cast Wrath
zanthor
08-08-2008, 01:51 PM
I agree I'd avoid it. Personally I do this exact thing with my x-keys, however if Blizzard asks how I'm accomplishing it, I simply point to the keycap that straddles two buttons. Bridging that functionality to software is a little gray...
Vyndree
08-08-2008, 01:58 PM
These GM quotes might also help you:

http://dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/GM_Conversations#Regarding_Delays_.26_Timers_in_ou t-of-game_Macros
http://dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/GM_Conversations#Defining_Automation
http://dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/GM_Conversations#Automation
Toned
08-08-2008, 04:10 PM
Make your hotkey like this:

Mage: Button 2= fire ball
Druid: Button 2 = ingame macro /assist mage /cast wrath, or /cast [target=mage-target] wrath, or ./cast [target=focustarget] wrath.

Either way your above isn't really automation. 1 Button press for 1 action. Your action on the druid is doable by 1 ingame macro. Just change your ingame macro a bit and you're fine.