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So I was super excited to finally start dual boxing. Always wanted to try it. I love pvp and realized after I had boxed a pair of mages to level 10, they took out /follow in bgs. Is there anyway around this at all? I'd be heartbroken if it was impossible.
Thanks in advance!
Just be careful blizzard are not that happy with are little our work round, Though i was not braking the rules am braking of what there calling "unfair play style in random play" (this would be in LFG/LFR randoms as well)
Half the tickets i have open are saying the follow was never to kill boxing in pvp. (why they added it back in arena) phone and customer support are saying the same thing, Some say it was to take us out as they was fed up with the support tickets on this. "The money we can save if they took the gm's times does not pay for your accounts anyway" (< i liked this one)
i was slapped with a full battle.net ban. (all blizzard games) i been fighting for this for months going from staff to staff to get my accounts back in the end they said i was not bracking any rules in the TOS/AUP. (but they can ban any player they like at any time for anything/nothing) manged to get very high end of customer support in pairs (that's not easy!) i now have all my games back and have was given game time that was lost. ( getting told there not doing it again.) they do not support boxing in anyway...... ( i would say they do with Battle.net supporting 8 wow's)
to be fair there very happy with the changes i can see follow never coming back!
They disabled following in Battlegrounds - so every workaround is clearly a try to exploid mechanics for Blizzard. When they say that it isn't allowed anymore to follow a char in the BGs then take it as a fact and every creative way to do it in other ways (like IWT on mount vendors etc.) can make your account get closed for exploiting the mechanics. You don't exploit the IWT mechanics - you exploit the disabled/forbidden follow mechanics.
I haven't heard of anything like that in the PVE content so I don't think you get in trouble when doing LFR/LFG as long as you do your job and don't annoy other players (i.e. standing around and doing nothing).
and for the "they support mbox because your b.net acc can handle 8 wow's":
when your child ain't old enough for his/her own b.net account you can create one in yours. I think that's why you can store multiple wow accs in one b.net acc.
I think that battle.net supporting 8 wows is the biggest reason for supporting multiboxing. I mean, what possible reason would 8 accounts be used for? I can see a regular player having 2, maybe 3 accounts, and a few hardcore having 4.
Wow looks to be on the end of it's cycle. It's got another expansion or two, but IMO, it's only downhill from here. The only saving grace is that Titan was pushed back, so they're gonna have to do something to keep up the subscriptions, so hopefully blizzcon 2013 reveals something interesting.
IMO, I don't believe in any way that Battle.Net and the magic 8 accounts has anything at all to do with us. I think it has to do with Blizzard wanting to have a central location for all Blizzard games including Diablo and Starcraft. I think it's convenient for families, as Asterix pointed out. The idea of Blizz sitting around saying "Hey, lets invest all this time and manpower to make it easier for the handful of multiboxers to log in by combining WoW accounts under a BattleNet account" just doesn't work for me.
On the other hand, I'm sure there's tons of people out there with mom or dad + a couple kids playing WoW, maybe a Diablo account and a SC account and you're already up to 5+ accounts on one BattleNet, nevermind whatever else Blizz will have coming down the pipe over the next 5-10 years.
Blizz has said from day 1 that they do not support multiboxing, they allow it. There's a pretty big difference between those two terms. Supporting multiboxing means they actively develop the game with us in mind, which they have never, ever done. Allowing multiboxing only means they aren't going to ban us for running several accounts at once, assuming we do nothing else to break the rules.
When I played D3 last year, it was on the same B.net account as my main WoW account. So I don't think they did it for different games/platforms. They can all share accounts.
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As far as I know, you can have only one D3 and SC2 account under a battle.net email address, whereas you can have up to eight WOW accounts. I don't think it has anything to do with multiboxing either.