Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[MiRai]

It's always hard to judge posts like this because of your join date and your total post count (referring to the member I've quoted below), so I have no idea if you've been successfully multiboxing raids since TBC or you just began multiboxing less than six months ago after MoP's release. I'll try not to be too harsh in this reply...

I think we got what we deserve.

While I can somewhat agree with this statement, I don't agree with your reasoning why.

It has become too easy and too efficient to multi box

I would never say that multiboxing is easy, but I would say that the bar has been lowered in order to break into multiboxing these days (beyond the pricetag) due to the community, the widespread of knowledge, and the public guides that are available. In fact, the most recently added feature in WoW which has immensely helped multiboxers was the implementation of Interact with Target -- And it's been almost 3 years since it was added in patch 3.1.

We pushed the limits too far. Software like isboxer allows to perform automated actions.

This is an argument commonly used on the WoW forums in threads that retaliate against multiboxers. Lax has a recent blog post that, I believe, does a good job defining what 'automation' really is (and how game companies view it).

You can spam the same button and it will trigger a different action each time. You don't even know exactly what action is gonna be done when you press your same button. Is it howling blast or obliterate? You don't need to know. Boxing like that requires no skills.

This paragraph is where you're getting your definition that multiboxing is "too easy", but I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate here (it's one of my favorite roles to play).

You're correct in saying that spamming keys takes no skill, but it also comes at a major DPS loss. Whether it's procs or positioning or whatever else, multiboxers just can't keep up and that's why we're at a constant disadvantage. When it comes to dealing with procs, multiboxers fall into one of these categories:

• Completely avoid proc-based talents and/or skills altogether
• Completely avoid classes that rely heavily on procs or positioning for good DPS
• Attempt to utilize procs, but not efficiently
• Able to utilize procs like a boss and maximizing DPS almost as well as a solo player

Which category do you believe most multiboxers fall into? Hint: It's not the bottom one.

Blizzard has made the game a little easier with every expansion -- whether it's class/ability consolidation or talents being dumbed down into what they are today -- and spamming abilities has become more forgiving over time. Did you play the game when healers had to be efficient with mana and use different ranks of each spell?

When we lost the comma-based macro system after WotLK and multiboxers had to actually begin playing their teams to an extent (crowd control lolwut?), our DPS numbers plummeted and many had to heavily "out gear" the content that was available in order to clear it. Cataclysm was a real eye-opener for many players that relied heavily on just mindlessly spamming keys.

However, don't get me wrong... there are those individuals who can multibox very efficiently, but it's most likely on a PvE level where scripted events can be overcome due to repetition. You seem to be stuck on the idea that being able to spam abilities means easy multiboxing. That's clearly not the case or else we'd be dominating Arena, RBGs, and current tier raid content.