Wrongful ban and a warning to those who box to farm

[Andreauk]

I see.. when I box Druids I do it spell for spell as if I was playing solo... same with everything I box. I never touch mixed classes anymore, so I don't need any kind of spell rotation macro.

I put in a ticket and asked about farming. My question:

I am a multiboxer, and have seen a few people I know receive 6 month bans for farming in the outdoor world.
I am about to reactivate my accounts and would not ever want to be banned myself ( I have boxed since the Burning Crusade) and my account means a lot to me.


My first question is this.. is farming the same spot a bannable offense? I was planning on farming for the Dune Scavenger mount (for personal use). Of the people I know that have had a 6 month ban have been boxing to farm.. I will avoid this if this is a cause of the ban.
Also I know there is a note on my account that I am a boxer and I am sure that I will be reported many times for boxing. I have never had contact or action taken against me for boxing in the past, but I must admit I am feeling a little nervous about boxing in this expansion. I use isboxer, and don't use any advanced features. All I use is the ability for 1 keypress one ability, and I only box 3 of the same class to use the abilities spell for spell.


Your feedback on this issue is appreciated.

The response:

[WOWBOX40]

Are all addons that you can download and use via good old curseclient (now named twitch client) 100% safe to use = no automation possible?

I mentioned earlier i had a couple experiences with a pet addon few years back, that atleast "felt" like i was cheating / automating a bit. I asked the author back then, but was told it was no worries. I removed it though. Didnt want to risk it getting a ban while im multiboxing.

The only softwares ive personally used, was software that came with keyboard(s) and also a playstation 4 bluetooth controller, you could assign keyboard buttons on it. Sadly all softwares spammed keypresses like mad when you holded down a key, and there was no option to make it stop. I even contacted the authors. So i obviously never used those while i played wow.
Just make double sure that you dont have any software running in the background and that you have uninstalled it. Sometimes programs can start up when you start the pc, and its there running, without you really realize it. So its a good idea to check all programs you have running and remove any you dont use or need.


Its a shame that sometimes, Blizzard do makes wrong bans, so their system of detection isnt flawless.
Luckily they unban those people, most of the time.

Wonder what kind of software/programs those people had running... wish we could get to know, to avoid it ourself.

/wishfull thinking sadly apparently

[WOWBOX40]

I see.. when I box Druids I do it spell for spell as if I was playing solo... same with everything I box. I never touch mixed classes anymore, so I don't need any kind of spell rotation macro.

I put in a ticket and asked about farming. My question:

I am a multiboxer, and have seen a few people I know receive 6 month bans for farming in the outdoor world.
I am about to reactivate my accounts and would not ever want to be banned myself ( I have boxed since the Burning Crusade) and my account means a lot to me.


My first question is this.. is farming the same spot a bannable offense? I was planning on farming for the Dune Scavenger mount (for personal use). Of the people I know that have had a 6 month ban have been boxing to farm.. I will avoid this if this is a cause of the ban.
Also I know there is a note on my account that I am a boxer and I am sure that I will be reported many times for boxing. I have never had contact or action taken against me for boxing in the past, but I must admit I am feeling a little nervous about boxing in this expansion. I use isboxer, and don't use any advanced features. All I use is the ability for 1 keypress one ability, and I only box 3 of the same class to use the abilities spell for spell.


Your feedback on this issue is appreciated.

The response:

He didnt say you actually had to be in front of the pc monitors either, incase they wanted to "bot check" you. So as long as you dont automate at all, you could be sitting at your neightbours house with a wireless keyboard, pressing buttons while watching a movie. And you dont have to come back to watch the monitors for many many hours.
Their "anti keypressing bot" detection software should be able to pick up if any unhuman keypresses are happening over time, i would assume.

Also, if some few people complain, thats no problem, its only a problem if "it distrups gameplay for a large number of players. "Large" number = dont know how many, but certainly not just from a few random complaints from angry jelous strangers passing by.

Nice to know i guess.

[Andreauk]

He didnt say you actually had to be in front of the pc monitors either, incase they wanted to "bot check" you. So as long as you dont automate at all, you could be sitting at your neightbours house with a wireless keyboard, pressing buttons while watching a movie. And you dont have to come back to watch the monitors for many many hours.
Their "anti keypressing bot" detection software should be able to pick up if any unhuman keypresses are happening over time, i would assume.

Also, if some few people complain, thats no problem, its only a problem if "it distrups gameplay for a large number of players. "Large" number = dont know how many, but certainly not just from a few random complaints from angry jelous strangers passing by.

Nice to know i guess.

I don't know but personally I would never not be at my screen when playing.. afk is fine as I would be doing nothing anyhow. The issue is when you are performing actions while not at your keyboard. They don't have to say but I feel it's a given that you should be at your keyboard while playing.

I dropped to 3 partly so people could still get tags on my stuff. I don't take any risks, my account is 11 years old now.