5-box leveling, balancing efficiency and "safety" ?

[Jabberie]

The definition of bad is the issue. What we think is fine is not always fine and vice versa. Confirmation bias etc.

[UFTA]

Ok so,
If I'm 5-boxing Classic from 1-60, I will undoubtedly be reported multiple times because:
A - Most non-boxers can't tell the difference between boxing and botting, and
B - Most players are already under the impression that boxing is against the ToS

But if I am using nothing but ISboxer and the ISboxer addon.....can I assume that GM's will be able to see this and not ban me erroneously??

[JohnGabriel]

Ok so,
If I'm 5-boxing Classic from 1-60, I will undoubtedly be reported multiple times because:
A - Most non-boxers can't tell the difference between boxing and botting, and
B - Most players are already under the impression that boxing is against the ToS

But if I am using nothing but ISboxer and the ISboxer addon.....can I assume that GM's will be able to see this and not ban me erroneously??

Well maybe I could put you at ease. I have been playing WoW since shortly after christmas 2006, I started 5 boxing and 10 boxing sometime during the following year.

The number of times I have been banned: 0

Thats with 10 to 11 years of 4 hours a day multiboxing. I took a 3 month break from WoW when I boxed Rift, but then back to WoW.

But if I am using nothing but ISboxer and the ISboxer addon.....can I assume that GM's will be able to see this and not ban me erroneously??

No. If that worked then all the botters would just install isboxer. If a GM investigates you they'll look at your actions.

Just follow the rules, statistically you'll be just fine. And 10 years from now when you've never been banned either you can look back on this post and see how silly it was to worry.

[UFTA]

Ok that's helpful/reassuring.
Do you get a lot of the nasty/ignorant whispers from other players?

[WOWBOX40]

If you used to cheat on other games, have trainers etc, (before you plan to play wow), may i suggest that you reformat your harddrive and reinstall the OS before you start boxing (warden, the "anti cheat software" gets installed when you install wow, it could detect your "old sins" hehe), if you happen to have some running accidently etc). Also try be vary of the content on any other harddrives connected to this pc. If it has a bunch of old "trainers" etc, remove those aswell.

Also, stay away from using "vpn", seems they dont like those and you can get flagged for a ban (though these seems to be easily "overriden" and you can get your accounts back). But probably safest to not have one when you play wow.

Be super critical of everything you install after this, like "software for keyboards" etc, as they can contain automation features, worst case scenario.

You can get some nasty whispers, but dont reply, just ignore them. They usually dont believe anything you will say anyway (and 99% will report you), so its a waste of time and effort. Though if they complain that you are tagging all the mobs in the area, and they cant complete their quest, let them get what they need, so they can be on their way (if not, gamemasters dont like it when/if you distrupt other players gameplay, could be a bannable offence if it goes too far for a longer periode of time).

Moral is: if you have to cheat in other games, do it on a different computer. And make sure it has never ever had any battlenet / wow installed on it before.

Good luck out there.

[Tin]

If you used to cheat on other games, have trainers etc, (before you plan to play wow), may i suggest that you reformat your harddrive and reinstall the OS before you start boxing (warden, the "anti cheat software" gets installed when you install wow, it could detect your "old sins" hehe), if you happen to have some running accidently etc). Also try be vary of the content on any other harddrives connected to this pc. If it has a bunch of old "trainers" etc, remove those aswell.

To a certain level, I would like to endorse the opinion - as most of this is comming from non trustworthy pages online and you never know what is comming with thouse programs and if they keep something running in computer memory. (my paranoia)

- I have a autoclicker that I use for minecraft fishing farm on a privat server - but would never dare to have it runnig when playing wow - nerver got a warning to have it on my computer. Warden will only tjek what interacting with wow.

- If you get nasty whispers, and you will - just reply with "nice day to you too" - be the nice guy.

[Purpleflavor]

Ok that's helpful/reassuring.
Do you get a lot of the nasty/ignorant whispers from other players?

it's a daily thing on my server ever since a few bad eggs multiboxed here during MoP. You can feel the hatred oozing through the message sometimes. Though i never bothered or even met most of these players, so i just shrug and move on. Don't let it get to you.