Going nuts..

[Akoko]

It's most definitely legal to send two keypresses immediately at the press of one key, as long as there is no delay.

The whole "If I taped a bar across two or more keys it would be just like pressing one button" argument.

[Freddie]

It's most definitely legal to send two keypresses immediately at the press of one key, as long as there is no delay.

I don't agree. If your two sent keypresses perform a combination of actions in any single window that cannot be bound to a single key using WoW's in-game configuration, then they violate Blizzard's rules.

In other words, in any single WoW window, a hotkey is only allowed to perform a combination of actions that the same pressed key could trigger in that window using WoW's built-in key binding interface.

[Akoko]

I don't agree. If your two sent keypresses perform a combination of actions that cannot be bound to a single key using WoW's in-game configuration, then they violate Blizzard's rules.

Are you sure? I would expect that about half of this entire forum would be banned by now if that were true...

This can be done in-game with /click. For example I want to always spam Mangle and Thrash on cooldown with Mangle higher priority than Thrash, I can just make a macro:

/click BTButton1
/click BTButton2

I honestly don't see what's different than just spamming both '1' and '2' on my keyboard nonstop with a fat finger, or taping the two keys together.

From what I remember is that Blizzard only cares that each action is a direct and immediate result of a human keypress. Performing two actions from one keypress fits into that category and must be allowed unless they said otherwise recently.

[Freddie]

This can be done in-game with /click. For example I want to always spam Mangle and Thrash on cooldown with Mangle higher priority than Thrash, I can just make a macro:

/click BTButton1
/click BTButton2

If you can bind that macro to a single key press using WoW's built-in interface, then yes, it's legal to accomplish the same result with third-party software.

That's what I said above.

But if you cannot trigger a certain combination of actions in a single window with a single key press using WoW's built-in interface, then it's illegal to accomplish the same result with third-party software.

[Akoko]

If you can bind that macro to a single key press using WoW's built-in interface, then yes, it's legal to accomplish the same result with third-party software.

That's what I said above.

But if you cannot trigger a certain combination of actions in a single window with a single key press using WoW's built-in interface, then it's illegal to accomplish the same result with third-party software.

/click is part of WoW's built-in macro interface.

[Freddie]

/click is part of WoW's built-in macro interface.

Yes of course it is.

You keep telling me you can do something with the built-in interface.

Yes, yes, yes. If a single physical keystroke can trigger something in the game with the built-in interface, then it's legal to do the same thing with third-party software.

You seem to think I disagree with that statement, but in fact that's what I said from the beginning.

My point here is that the converse is also true..

Here's the converse:

If a single physical keystroke can't trigger some particular combination of actions in a single window using WoW's built-in interface, then it's illegal to trigger that particular combination of actions with a hotkey in a single window using third-party software.