And yet another multiboxer is born

[EvilSqueegee]

I've been playing WoW almost since it's initial release, and I'd always found it frustrating that the strategically heavy content was always so team-based: I'ts been said that WoW is not rocket science, and while it's true... well, people are morons. I can't count the times I'd had the perfect solution to a wonky composition or the lack of a specific ability in a pull, and yet the run was called (or just consistantly wiped) because of some retard in the group who couldn't think his way out of a wet paper back if you gave him the explosives to do it with.

I got my shaman to 70, and decided it wasn't complex enough for my enjoyment. I switched to a druid, and involved myself as much as I could in the math behind the sheet. But eventually, you hit a gear plateu, and the math isn't getting you any farther... the game was starting to die out and get boring.

Enter my happenstance stumbling over a clip on youtube, wherein two people played ten characters in kara.

One thing leads to another, and I'm browsing dual-boxing.com, watching videos, and reading keyclone FAQ's during maintenance this week. I went out and grabbed 4 more battlechests, grabbed keyclone, and set to work. My 5box tauren shammy team (Plox, Plocks, Plawks, Plocs and Plokz) went from 1 to 15 in a night. Initially it was a little wonky, but I got the hang of it. I much prefer this setup to the usual single-toon playstyle - already downed all of RFC. To that end, (insert general thanks for the information compilations found on, and linked to on, this site, here.)

I do have a few questions, though - not technical ones, but more social ones. For the first few hours of play (1 through about 7) I picked up and lost several onlookers, fascinated with the 5 shamans following each other around, lining up and lightning bolting plainstriders. I got generally good responses from them - "Oh, sweet" "that's possibly the most amusing thing I've seen in years" etc.

And then I hit the barrens. I saw it coming, but that doesn't mean it's any less of an annoyance. In five minutes, I went from getting the occasional "wow, cool" to being blatently spamed/harassed in tells for botting and hacking and so forth. Most of the videos I've seen have quotes along the lines of "thanks for reporting me as a bot" and so forth - how often has this happened to some of the more experienced multiboxers here, and how have you learned to handle the situation/respond to it? Have you ever had an uninformed moron almost get you in undeserved trouble? Are there any pitfalls to be wary of, aside from the automation bits (which I'm not even sure I want to know how to do)?

Feedback would be appreciated. I'm enjoying this enough (and spent more than enough money) to rough it out and get used to it, but I'd prefer to not jump headfirst into things without at least hearing from the experience of others.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Welcome to the fold!

Don't let 'em get to you. Just keep the responses polite and if they keep it up, it's harassment. I generally try to respond politely and immediately /ignore the ones that say something that leads me to believe they refuse to be enlightened.

[Tdog]

1st off report yourself to the GM's notifying them that you are a multiboxer and are using keyclone. This should prevent alot of headaches with GM's msg'ing you asking you what you're using. Doesn't happen to me too much but sometimes even the GM's are noobs.

2ndly Just realize right off the bat as it seems you've already run into pre multiboxing that sadly there are quite a few...just stupid people... in this world. Constantly make assumptions, generalizations w/o actually having a clue wtf they are talking about and/or going off what someone else told them and accepting it as truth w/o even thinking to validate the info they were fed. The also go by the philosophy "I'm right, the world is wrong." You're not going to talk sense into these people so don't even waste your energy/time/paitence trying. Just put them on ignore on move on with your day. If they switch to alts and continue to harass you just report them to the GM and just ignore them mentally.

3rdly Multi-boxing, the act of controlling more than one character at a time, is completely legal as per Blizzard's ToS. Any automated program or even hardware if there is such a thing is not legal whatsoever. The important clarification between programs/hardware such as Keyclone, autohotkey, vetra vs. automated programs is that Keyclone and such will not do a damn thing whatsoever if you are not at your keyboard inputting commands manually. Automated programs will controll your character even if you go off to work all day.

[bornmx]

1st off report yourself to the GM's notifying them that you are a multiboxer and are using keyclone. This should prevent alot of headaches with GM's msg'ing you asking you what you're using.

Yes good thing to do, i did this a few days ago informing the GM's that i was 5-boxing. Informed them that i had read all the rules and things on the blizz forums about what is and is not against the rules. They were cool with it and said they added me to their records so for future reports they can handle it without talking to me.

[EvilSqueegee]

1st off report yourself to the GM's notifying them that you are a multiboxer and are using keyclone. This should prevent alot of headaches with GM's msg'ing you asking you what you're using. Doesn't happen to me too much but sometimes even the GM's are noobs.

Good idea. Soon as the rolling restart is up, I'll do just that. Thanks

[Ken]

When someone suddenly yells "reported!" or "I will report you!" or something like that, I usually respond in laughter and say "sure, go ahead!". The response is usually like "what? " because they think you actually care about the reports. If the response is negative again, I usually reply: "Whiners will be reported 4 times!" with all 4 characters at the same time. That usually scares them and makes them say "just kidding m8!". Then I start being friendly again.

[EvilSqueegee]

When someone suddenly yells "reported!" or "I will report you!" or something like that, I usually respond in laughter and say "sure, go ahead!". The response is usually like "what? " because they think you actually care about the reports. If the response is negative again, I usually reply: "Whiners will be reported 4 times!" with all 4 characters at the same time. That usually scares them and makes them say "just kidding m8!". Then I start being friendly again.

Roflmfao. That's epic.