[BFA] World pvp

[isboxerscrub]

I'm pretty sure there's a better way to express your discontent. Can't really blame them for catering to the single player. Afterall, and as much as we boxers like to think we have huge numbers, it's the single player that keeps the game afloat.

I know multiboxers are and were a minority. Especially after that silent no follow in pvp patch. But thats the whole point. We are such a minority we are unnoticeable. The fact that blizzard kept and keeps going after us is hilarious. Harder than on the bots(i dont condone bots ya and blizz finally stepped their game up in wod on them.)Do you know how many people botted in Mop? It was literally the golden era for them from pve to pvp kickbots.reason why im saying this is that blizzard didnt do jack shit to the bots until another xpac and a half but removed follow from us, boxers. We, legit players were deemed more dangerous than the mass bots. Its literally happening in bfa all over again( new bots are being released but blizzard isnt going after them they are trying to fuck us).smh

[MiRai]

The fact that blizzard kept and keeps going after us is hilarious.

You say that they keep going after multiboxers, but other than the removal of follow from battlegrounds, five years ago, what else have they been doing to us since then that was seen as negative?

On the contrary, Legion was perhaps the best expansion for any multiboxer who just lazily dabbled in gathering or completing gold missions in their Order Halls. Multiboxers could easily make tens of millions of gold, if not hundreds of millions for those who got into it right at the start of the expansion, and on top of that, those who made that gold turned right around and paid for their subscriptions with it.

Harder than on the bots

This statement couldn't be further from the truth.

Blizzard was not only doing major banwaves every six months or so (from WoD through Legion), they've spent an incredible amount of money paying attorneys to sit in courts, halfway across the world from their US office, to fight lawsuits against bot makers. In addition to that, they even went as far as packing the executable file differently—something they've never done before—which did wonders for countering any major bots, and, for example, put a stop to HB and all related bots from their team for Blizzard games.

So, I find it incredibly difficult to believe that they're going harder on multiboxers than they are on those who are botting.


Finally, I'll ask that you cut the profanity and derogatory statements from your posts on this forum. Surely your thoughts and feelings can be conveyed in such a way that they do not require such language, as it's not only breaking the rules of this forum, but people generally don't like to read that on a public forum, and this isn't your personal blog.

[ebony]

You say that they keep going after multiboxers, but other than the removal of follow from battlegrounds, five years ago, what else have they been doing to us since then that was seen as negative?

follow in ashran was because of multiboxing (or though they did not say it they said we saw having follow was going to be a problem)

But really all they been aiming @ is pvp

Same thing with "WarMode" follow works but as soon as your in combat, then follow "dies"

The phasing is working though it does not phase you in the city, if in a party one does not have war-mode you can not see them.

you get 15% extra XP buff if in "warmode "

[MiRai]

follow in ashran was because of multiboxing (or though they did not say it they said we saw having follow was going to be a problem)

But really all they been aiming @ is pvp

Right, so one other thing in the last five years, and, as you point out, it was related to PvP.

Same thing with "WarMode" follow works but as soon as your in combat, then follow "dies"

We talked about this in Discord, but I'll just bring it up again for those who weren't there.

Blizzard could outright kill the follow command if you're in War Mode, but they didn't, and instead decided to dance around it. Why?

/discuss

[Peri Helion]

Blizzard could outright kill the follow command if you're in War Mode, but they didn't, and instead decided to dance around it. Why?

/discuss

If a multiboxer tag teams down an NPC or PVE, it isn’t directly “hurting” a real players experience? But 5 on 1 in the new PvP world would cause a huge outcry?

[tchallaaoc]

other than 'follow", anyway to coordinate movement? will broadcast click to move and interact with target work?

[UnknownsTM]

other than 'follow", anyway to coordinate movement? will broadcast click to move and interact with target work?

without follow a full melee team with either druid / shammy or monks healers would still work with the vendor pet method to group up but thats if they keep IWT on

broadcast click to move would be a massive pain in wpvp

[tchallaaoc]

full melee kitty w/ vendor pets. hmm... i like that sound of that. UnknownsTM or anyone else, mind sharing how the vendor pet iwt works and which vendor pets can be used?

Thanks!

[Wubsie]

full melee kitty w/ vendor pets. hmm... i like that sound of that. UnknownsTM or anyone else, mind sharing how the vendor pet iwt works and which vendor pets can be used?

Thanks!

Sure, the concept isn't too hard at all.

Basically, a few pets, namely the Ethereal Soul Trader and Alterac Brew Pup are interactable. The trader acts as any other vendor and the Pup gives you a drink when you interact with it. It is worth noting that once you receive the drink from the Brew Pup, it will seize to be interactable until the drink has been removed from your inventory one way or the other. The way we got around this issue was to have full bags so you could not receive the drink, and the pet would thus remain interactable.

So, since we know that Interact With Target sort of counts as a keybound click, we can use it in combination to having Click-To-Move enabled to send your characters walking towards any interactable target. If we do this with the pet, which should most commonly be right next to the character that has it pulled out, your other characters essentially be moving towards where that character is, creating the sudo-follow effect.

How you would choose to set it up is dependent on how your team functions, but often people would set the pet as focus and have a mapped key that would make their character target their focus (i.e. the pet) and use IWT. Alternatively I suppose a /target macro might work as well, which would leave your focus free to used for anything else you might need it for.


I will however point out that it is no outside the realm of possibility that the pet-follow will be nerfed in the WPVP phasings/areas, just like it was in Ashran and BGs later on, so it really it is not something you should count on being there as a given.