Follow Question - Warcraft

[Fezgig]

I would like to get my 5 characters to all stand on top of one another instead of trailing behind the main in warcraft.

I was in a BG several years back and had a 5 boxing horde shaman one shot me. I could only tell there where multiple characters when he moved.

I have searched for variables to the /follow command and have come up empty, so I am turning to this community for help.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[MiRai]

There is no alternative. The /follow function is the only command used to move around in World of Warcraft (and most other MMOs). What you most likely saw was related to latency between the Shaman, the server, and yourself -- Something you don't notice nearly as much when you're multiboxing yourself.

[Ualaa]

You can stack your characters manually.
And with broadcast/repeater, over very short distances, you can move them that way.

The longer the distance, the more the slight variations are going to result in moving them apart.
This is the same for formations; you can create a mapped key to put them into a diamond anytime you want... but they're not going to cohesively move and retain the formation.

To illustrate:
Have one toon as the leader, with the others on follow.
Using only your W and S keys (forward and reverse), run through your team way forward 50 FT and then behind them 50 FT.
With each pass, and slight following, they get closer and closer to precisely the same facing.
You can place the lead on top of the followers if you like, or just leave her in front.
Enable broadcast/repeater, and only hold the W (forward) key down.
Unfortunately, even with a 100 forward/reverse passes to align the facing of everyone on the team, the formation is not going to hold.



There are variations on movement, but /Follow is the basis.
The slaves/followers follow the master/lead toon.
Once you get wherever, you can use a spread out key (to assume a formation) or reverse the main (to stack your toons).

You can also use multi-person vehicles, to move several toons together.

You can have a chain, but each is following behind one toon.

You can use Interact With Target, sometimes.
Not everything is a valid interact target.
But if you're a Druid and are using the Stag glyph for your Travel Form, you can interact (repeatedly... spam 2-3 times per second, as an alternative follow key) with target on the slaves.
Target: All without (w/o) current... Key: Your IWT keybind.

They're still basically trying to follow one target or move up to it.

[JohnGabriel]

He probably saw a path following botter not a boxer.

[rfarris]

A friend of mine at work told me about a "boxer" at work that was using /follow in a BG recently. He said he could see them following right behind each other throughout the BG, but weren't ever attacking anyone. I figure that since /follow doesn't work in WoW anymore, it was probably, as you say, a path following bot.

[ebony]

A friend of mine at work told me about a "boxer" at work that was using /follow in a BG recently. He said he could see them following right behind each other throughout the BG, but weren't ever attacking anyone. I figure that since /follow doesn't work in WoW anymore, it was probably, as you say, a path following bot.

sounds like a bot i have seen many as well doing this.


a boxer that weren't ever attacking does not sound like a boxer to me.................................normally we go all out


i am still boxing bg's not very much but 3 works ok with a 3 player mount and melee IWT & click to move will keep on a target. its not 100% and if its a hard game then it can get Massey very fast. stil winning a 60% of my games.