more anti-boxing quests

[Catamer]

i've hated every guest that asks me to mount something. They eliminated focus and follow and assist for these quests and I really don't see how they improved the game by doing it?
Sometimes you can use inovative ideas to still multibox them like pull to the team and let one do all of the work.
I just did the Escape from Silverbrook and I hated it. I think it would have been cool to see 5 horsemen trying to escape, however Bliz seems to think otherwise.

Bliz seems to be going anti-boxing.

[zanthor]

i've hated every guest that asks me to mount something. They eliminated focus and follow and assist for these quests and I really don't see how they improved the game by doing it?
Sometimes you can use inovative ideas to still multibox them like pull to the team and let one do all of the work.
I just did the Escape from Silverbrook and I hated it. I think it would have been cool to see 5 horsemen trying to escape, however Bliz seems to think otherwise.

Bliz seems is going anti-boxing.

They aren't going anti-boxing, they simply aren't designing FOR multiboxing. The follow issues may or may not be a feature, the loss of focus is inconsequential as you can refocus.

The fact that the default UI has bugs in it related to possessions tells me that blizzard still hasn't polished this the way they want.

[DgtlSorcrs]

The best work-around I have found is to mount up my main in whatever "vehicle" and simply have the slaves follow that. I seems that follow stops working for a toon that IS mounted in a "vehicle" but seems to stay intact if the follower is not.

Once I got my cold weather flying, another tactic that has worked has been to mount up the main in whatever the quest vehicle is (like sitting on the shoulder of a titan) and having my two slaves mount their fliers and have one follow the other. Then, I just fly the two slaves manually (well, one manually, one on follow) to the area where I need to be, and then bring in the main. The fliers stay out of danger, yet get credit for the kills, leaving me to single-box the encounter with my main. Luckily, most of these "take over something and kill a bunch of stuff you couldn't while alone" vehicle-type quests seem to allow this "flying within range without participating" completion.

It's annoying, but it works. Hope that helps.

[Creazil]

Well, I would suggest everyone to make a single ticket and make Blizzard aware of this. Tell them, that you would like to see vehicles work like a normal character. So they'll be able to follow, focus, assist etc ..

Maybe you can make them aware of the "disappear" when we move into phased content aswell! I've done both, and it's most likely just a matter of the amount complaining before they change it - at least we can hope

[Svpernova09]

Well, I would suggest everyone to make a single ticket and make Blizzard aware of this. Tell them, that you would like to see vehicles work like a normal character. So they'll be able to follow, focus, assist etc ..

Maybe you can make them aware of the "disappear" when we move into phased content aswell! I've done both, and it's most likely just a matter of the amount complaining before they change it - at least we can hope

Don't bother the in-game GMs with this stuff, Post it in the suggestion forums in the EU/US forums. In game GMs have no control over this.

[Catamer]

I noticed the follow with non-mounted seems to work but this quest runs through water too deep for my alts not to dismount. maybe if I got them some draenei mounts they wouldn't have dismounted in the streams.

[Catamer]

i logged off before all of the alts had done the quest only to find out that those that had finished it without turning it in had failed and I had to do it all over again

[XeR0X]

What sometimes worked for me was as long as you leave your alts near the drop off the point/completion point they would all get credit for the quest being complete. There was only a couple that I had to manually control thru the whole thing, such as the one where your a mountain giant in Zul Drak. That was a bit of a pain. =)

[Vyndree]

they simply aren't designing FOR multiboxing.

As is the entire game, pretty much.

Multiboxing happens to work nicely, but I doubt they design quests and game mechanics around us specifically.




As for vehicles -- use the vehicle on your "main" and your followers will still follow/assist as normal. For vehicle quests that require alot of travel, set your alts down at the ending point and do the quest on your main -- most of the time you still get credit as long as you're present at the end.


EDIT: And Supernova has the right idea. The GMs have no say over game design or even bugs (though they have the power to get AROUND bugs if needed). Suggestions forums DO work, as evidenced by the whole RAF and the time in GMT without a timezone listed... thing.

[DgtlSorcrs]

Well, I would suggest everyone to make a single ticket and make Blizzard aware of this. Tell them, that you would like to see vehicles work like a normal character. So they'll be able to follow, focus, assist etc ..

Maybe you can make them aware of the "disappear" when we move into phased content aswell! I've done both, and it's most likely just a matter of the amount complaining before they change it - at least we can hope

As to the phasing lose follow - that is annoying, but I don't think they can fix it so readily... basically, when you phase, it's like you're in a completely different area (as far as the game is concerned) ... the fact that it overlays with the existing area doesn't matter.

Storm peaks REALLY sucks for this - the area around Dun Niffelm has like 4 or 5 phasing layers for various points along the quest lines there. To that end MAKE SURE YOUR TOONS ALL TURN IN AT SAME TIME. I've already had a case where I turned in on one early and then found that I was phased right out of being able to assist.