Quite a while back, a GM is quoted as saying Keyclone (in a much older form, that lacked half of the current features) was okay to box with at that point.
Since then, no GM has come out and said any boxing program is approved for use.
The defining factor for any system is whether it constitutes botting in some way or not.
The definition of botting boils down to: push something now, and in addition to something happening now a few seconds later something else happens, and after that another thing, etc... without any additional input beyond the first.
If you push a single key, and the action occurs while the key is held... for example a spread out mapped key, that sends Q+W to one toon, E+W to another toon, Q+S to a third toon and S+W to your last toon...
Each toon is doing an action (forward movement and sideways strafing) in direct response to your input that causes the action to occur as you're giving the input.
That is not botting, even if each toon receives two different keystrokes at once.
If you could press and release a key now.
And without further input from you, your characters each move apart.
Then a second later two more characters move further apart, while the original two stop moving.
And then they all start to /Dance...
You get the idea, multiple things happen is sequence but without additional user input... that constitutes botting.
If you push a key.
And the client receives nine inputs all at once, all as a direct result of pressing that key.
That is not botting.
Because each of those keys is directly caused by the pushing on the key.
Because of the Global Cooldown, only one spell with a casting time will fire off.
You might get Presence of Mind and another off of the GCD effect to fire off.
But in general, most of the extra keystrokes are wasted.
Conversely, if you can push a single key now.
And have each of your mages cast Polymorph at a different target.
And then have each of them run to maximum distance from target.
And turn to face the target.
Each of them then casts Fireball.
And waits for the Global Cooldown.
Then casts Presence of Mind + Pyroblast at the target.
And then Fireblasts the target after the next Global Cooldown...
All as a result of that first and only keystroke...
That is botting, because subsequent actions occur without direct input causing the action at the time that the action takes place.
If you have a mapped key, that causes a toon to Interact With Target (while Click to Move is enabled).
Your toon will run towards that target (or at least where it was, when the IWT is pressed).
That is a single action on your part.
And the movement is one ongoing action, much like Numlock = Continuous Run in Warcraft.
If you were to make the mapped key into a two-step key.
With an action on press and another on release.
The first is IWT.
And the second is "S", which is backwards movement to break follow (or IWT's movement).
The target is a Priest who has just done Psychic Fear in the midst of your team.
You press the hotkey, to have everyone on your team use their PvP trinket.
You press and hold the key, which starts the IWT/CTM towards the target.
You release the key, which executes the second step, or the "S" key to break the movement.
There is no botting here.
The Trinket was used to break the fear, as a result of a click.
The IWT was caused by your input at the time it occurred (pressing the key).
The backwards movement, which broke the IWT towards the Priest, occurred as a direct response to your input (the release of the key); this happened exactly when your input changed, and as a direct result of your new input (releasing the key you were holding).
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