In fact, I’m hopeful that this change in multiboxing will result in better addons for those of us who are just looking for a tool to /follow with. For those of us who want to have our main carry our alts through old raids to unlock transmog, the impact isn’t as dramatic. The multiboxing we’ve been seeing as of late has been a detriment to server economy, token values (multiboxers use the gold from their harvest to pay their subs), and even just the ability to complete a quest sometimes. While there has been the typical amount of hand-wringing and complaining about a Blizzard change, I feel this one does a good job of erring on the side of the player. This is the big no-no that Blizzard is trying to stop, because players now have access to software that allows them to simultaneously control a party of Druids that could gather an herb or Starfall an entire area at the press of a single button. I could’ve designated “5” as Flame Shock on my Shaman and Shadow Word: Pain on my Priest, and pressing 5 would have both characters attack the target simultaneously. What I didn’t do - and which was an option in the addon - was bind one key to an ability on both characters. To be honest, it was ungainly, and I ended up having to manually intervene more times than I wanted to, but the 300% bonus XP at the time was too much to ignore. When I was leveling via recruit-a-friend back in the Mists of Pandaria days, I used an addon (whose name escapes me) that basically let me have one character /follow the other so that they could both gain quest and kill experience as a group.

I feel like my own personal example best explains the distinction. If that seems like hairsplitting, well it kinda is, but it’s an important hair to split. Blizzard weighed in to clarify: multiboxing is not intrinsically a violation of the new policy, which was instead designed to eliminate the use of single input software while multiboxing. Automated multi boxing is now truly dead and gone which means most will stop doing it. For those who play regularly, the sight of a gang of Druids Starfalling or gathering had become way too prevalent of late, and while even I had multiboxed in the past for recruit-a-friend reasons, I was okay with sacrificing the ability to do so in the future if it meant fewer Moonkin squad encounters.īut the language in Blizzard’s announcement was a little confusing, and I retracted my premature declaration of death after giving it another perusal. If you want to have multiple instances of WoW open on different accounts, that has always been allowed provided you perform each action manually. When Blizzard first announced a policy update that put limits on multiboxing, even I thought it meant the end.

Dual boxing programs l22