Programing Keys ... legit?

[peejosity]

Macros outside of wow aren't necessarily legit. Anything that doesn't have a delay in it should be fine, anything that does have a delay isn't.

The general rule is one action per keypress (per character). This isn't the end all on deciding what is ok and what isn't, but it is a good guideline.

This got me thinking, would a macro that does nothing for 3 seconds then cast a spell be ok? Not cast wait cast, just wait cast.

I thought they removed the delay ability in macro's?

Say you have 4 mages, and you want them to cast frost nova in sequence, char1, then char2 then char3 etc... this can be done with 1 macro...

I think its posted in the macro section where toon one has (might be spelt wrong or someting) /castsequence frost nova,,, then 2nd mage has /castsequence ,frostnova,, etc
Well it goes something like that anyway, much like the warlock type affliction macro's around... I don't use scripting anyways... I don't think its a good idea for this community to use it as the threads on official wow forums might one day rule to ban dual boxing... so maybe we all just play by the rules? ;P

-peej-

[Djarid]

Macros outside of wow aren't necessarily legit. Anything that doesn't have a delay in it should be fine, anything that does have a delay isn't.

The general rule is one action per keypress (per character). This isn't the end all on deciding what is ok and what isn't, but it is a good guideline.

This got me thinking, would a macro that does nothing for 3 seconds then cast a spell be ok? Not cast wait cast, just wait cast.

I thought they removed the delay ability in macro's?

Say you have 4 mages, and you want them to cast frost nova in sequence, char1, then char2 then char3 etc... this can be done with 1 macro...

I think its posted in the macro section where toon one has (might be spelt wrong or someting) /castsequence frost nova,,, then 2nd mage has /castsequence ,frostnova,, etc
Well it goes something like that anyway, much like the warlock type affliction macro's around... I don't use scripting anyways... I don't think its a good idea for this community to use it as the threads on official wow forums might one day rule to ban dual boxing... so maybe we all just play by the rules? ;P

-peej-

I hope we all do!

Scripting in WOW is completely legal! what do you think all the addons and macros are?

I don't know of any multiboxers that uses external macro tools for anything other than passing keypresses to multiple instances of wow on a 1 physical keypress to 1 logical keypress in each instance ratio.

[zanthor]

scripting inside of wow using the provided lua interfaces is fine (macros & addons)

Not necessarily. Pre 2.0 I had a UI mod that I guarantee I'd have been banned if they caught me using it. It was a 1 touch priest. Each time you stroked the button she checked a logic trap to see if she needed dispelled, if she needed heals, if anyone else needed dispelled, if anyone else needed healed, if she needed to mount/dismount/find a new follow target/drink/eat/etc. The fact is that I never ran her unattended, but I did sit and watch her play entire AV's without ever interacting with the game myself...

Just because you find a way to do something inside game mechanics doesn't mean it's legal. Use your head, Blizzard can ban you because they feel like it. That means dance on the line of what they want, and they'll overreact and ban you cold. If you stay well within what they want, then you are golden.

There ARE round robin solutions to allow casting spells in sequence that wouldn't violate the spirit of what they ask - Setup your G15 keyboard to send 12345 on successive keystrokes (Which it can do with the new beta drivers and suddenly I'm seeing the need to rewrite some mage setup on my boxing config) and have each mage frost nova in order...

[Djarid]

hmm gonna have to take a look at these beta drivers.

[Zaelar]

The one button heal macro doesn't work anymore. You won't be banned for using it, you'll just get an error message I assume.

I'm not talking about castsequence, I'm talking about an actual delay between button press and spell usage. Still only one spell per keypress, just not at the time of the keypress. Can't be done in wow, at least not that I know of, so it would have to be a delay function from an outside program. Not something I'm going to try, just curious about it. I'm going to assume it is something that wouldn't be detectable unless they specifically tried to detect the program with the delay macro, but also something that might get you banned.