Thick skin required when multiboxing

[cara]

A day for "I've reported you for cheating" had that a lot and "hey multiboxing and those 4 on follow are reported!" was an interesing one. Plus now ive moved into outland a small band of Horde 80's have decided im a good target, to the point of waiting half an hour to see if I will res, its cool having a lot of chars to play while they waste their game time ^^ .

Multiboxing is just too much fun to let these little moments ruin it, plus the pvp side is just a bonus because soon i get to fry them back .. 80 or not :D.

[Siaea]

There is absolutely nothing better than

a) Death gripping some (preferably non-fearing class) hapless player into a forest of fire nova totems, or
b) insta-gibbing someone with a gigantic ball of 4 lava bursts.

It really makes up for the haters when leveling :)

[Eloxy]

actualy the last weeks i almost didnt get any hate whispers at all :D
But i have gotten more and more gank partys grouping up and ganking...but then again thats when i grab the newspaper and head over to the toilet rofl ^^

[EaTCarbS]

I miss pvp servers ;(

[MultipleDamage]

I can't wait to start Multiboxing so I can screw things up.... I am def going on a PVP server

[Stealthy]

Don't get much hate on Mag, since boxing is pretty well known there. In fact, last night, as soon as I logged on I got an invite to a raid and a pst saying "hurry, WG will be over in 5 mins"...not from a guildie, or someone on my friends list - but just a guy who had been in WG with me over the last few nights. After the raid was over he even buffed my guys with individual MOTW's...I thought that was pretty cool.

Cheers,
S.

[DgtlSorcrs]

My experiences have been nearly universally positive. See other MBers every now and then and always give em a "greetings fellow MultiBoxer".

The closest thing I ever got to some hatin' was one day in Dalaran, there were a few other horde being bemused my three toons with very similar names all in the same guild.

Maybe I'm SLIGHTLY less obvious because I tend to run a pally, a priest, and a mage, so it's not the troop of identical toons a lot of folks see, or maybe it's just that folks don't care as much on Rexxar and/or PvE servers.

Whatever the case, I've had more than a few non-multiboxers stop and say hi or ask how I do it, or just (not blowing my own horn) marvel at how I can manage to tank/dps/heal all at once.

No idea how the Alli side is over there though. Never really had an issue on Spinebreaker (PvP) back before I transferred over (to run with a bunch of RL friends, and I hated PvP)

[Starbuck_Jones]

Its been a while since I got any hate whispers. And at level 64 was when I was able to blast my first 80 pk'er out of existence, it only got easier from then on.

[X-Ifist]

Only time i got hate mail where first time i hit AV in 60 whit my 4 locks.
Wiped out half the team with metamorphosis in the first min of the fight:P

[RobinGBrown]

I has somebody accuse me of cheating this week, said I was being 'obvious' by being in Booty Bay. I told him to report me and that it was all legal but the guy just wanted to argue so I said somthing like:

'as far as I can see you just want to have an argument so I'm going to ignore you'

/ignore solved the problem, no GM came to see me.

/ignore is your friend

[Herc130]

I got this in our general chat about someone explaining how to spot a botter:

1: If they have "AFK" tag up while moving..they are botters
2: If you send them a tell and they don't respond, they are botters
3: If 4 or 5 charcters are following behind one, they are botters
4: If they are casting all at the same time, then obviously they are using a third party program.

"If SoE would only listen to what I just said, we could catch botters 99% of the time and get rid of 95% of them easily"

But obvisously SoE doesn't have this guys incredible bot spotting abilities.

I replied:

1: Some boxers put AFK up to indicate they don't talk via that character. It's to help other players send tells to the right character.
2: Maybe they just don't like you and don't feel any obligation to prove anything to you.
3: /autofollow is not illegal
4: You can use a vetra multicaster which is kinda like a KVM, but instead of choosing between multiple computers to recive an input, all computers get the input (he replied I was speaking greek to him here...see, he didn't understand so obviously it's a hacker program...cause he has no idea how else it can be done)

[Tizer]

You even bothered to respond? :)

[jinx08]

I think the problem people have is that they can't grasp that there is one person playing multiple characters simultaniously. A lack of knowledge and understanding will more often than not sway them toward the possiblity of cheating.
I myself can hold my hands up and say that my first ever encounter with a boxer in AV, 5 locks, I thought the guy was cheating. A little research into what I was seeing and here I am now :) .

I almost always point them in the direction of this website. Unless of course they are complete morons. I've even got a few people to try it out themselves, through coming across me and wanting to know how I was doing what they were seeing! It not all bad!

[moog]

/ignore is your friend But the Automatic Goblin Therapist is so much more fun :0

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9780-AGT-AutomaticGoblinTherapist.html

[Osiris]

I use a wireless keyboard and 5 computers. Most people should be able to wrap their head around that.

[JoeWunsch]

I personally just ignore people who start in with me, the person saying whatever is more likely some zit-faced 14 year old.

Just let it roll off your back, besides after a while the server will have your back. If someone says something about me, more often than not someone else will defend me without me even having to say a word.

[Xinxo]

I honestly think it's how you represent yourself. On my server, I have more people defending me then hating on me. Actually I can't remember the last people who actually said something nasty to me. As soon as i come on, people ask for a WG invite. I do them everyday, and always seem to win, regardless if it is Off or Def games. People seem to lission and respec someone who can produce results I guess.

Regardless of the previous fact, the more you can educate people on how and why you do things, the more they will understand, and think it's cool what your doing and not some kinda of hack. Doing a star chain heal for them never hurts ither :D

[Eloxy]

I have more people defending me then hating on me
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I actualy think that boxing has become more accepted in the last half year. For the last month i had only one hate whisper. I think is due to more and more boxing vids on warcraft movies, and tube that make people see what we actualy do and that we are not some program. Especialy movies like ellay's opened up many eyes

Eloxy

[not5150]

I've had some interesting experiences this weekend because it's AV weekend.

Just finished an AV game, when I zoned in people began cheering and one guy said, "OMG the Shaman Pain Train has arrived"

Game starts and of course the horde go after Balinda. We get there too late and the horde are finishing up. I wait outside with my shaman and totem up the entrance.

Three other players are behind me. Orc warrior with shield comes out by himself (he must have been the tank).

Stops dead in his tracks when he sees my guys... starts turning around to run back in, but is hit in the back with 4 Chain Lightnings. He went down like a sack of potatoes.
I pop EM just in time for the remainder of their force to come out. About 4-5 guys and they run right into my group as I press Thunderstorm.

All four T-Storms connect and 3 die outright (low health from fighting Balinda) and the other two die from 4 flame shocks and 4 LBs.

This all happened in the space of ten seconds of so and after the dust settled, the three alliance behind me were laughing at the horde. I get whispers saying that was the best thing they've ever seen in AV. Another guy asks what programs I'm using. Of course, I point them all to this website.

So not too shabby this weekend.