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Multi Boxing in PvP.
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Poolie72
Title says it. Multi Boxing in pvp. Did Isle of conquest that other day. We took all the bases (alliance) and knocked the door down with no resistance at all and charged the throne room. Little did we know that the Horde side had 4-5 guys who were Multi Boxing.
Wham ! The multi boxes wiped us out. At a guess about 14 Shamen all the same. Casting chain lighting. All the horde were in the throne room and didn’t come out. No matter what we tried they wiped us out. Even though we had all the bases, our reinforcements were depleted. I quit at about 200 left. As the game was going nowhere.
I’ve reported Multi boxing before. Similar thing but in AV (probably the same guys).
The response from a GM went along the lines of this “Some see Multi boxing as a skill in itself, Blizzard see no wrong and will not be taking action. Thank you for your message, blah blah etc.”
Surely Multi boxing is going against the theme and nature of the game. Having 1 guy control 6-7 Chars at once …. Yeah that’s not cheating or an unfair advantage …..
Post by
Nathanyal
Multi-Boxing is legal. If you want to pay for 5 different accounts then you can multi-box as well. If you don't want to then learn how to handle multi-boxers. The GM's response is accurate, MB does take skill and practice to be able to do it correctly.
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Poolie72
Multi-Boxing is legal. If you want to pay for 5 different accounts then you can multi-box as well. If you don't want to then learn how to handle multi-boxers. The GM's response is accurate, MB does take skill and practice to be able to do it correctly.
MB is spoiling the game, that what its doing ... Might take some 'skill' getting the keyboard or system set up to work as one, but it's making a mockery of the game. Having 6 char all the same name by the way, so its not like your against 6 different ones is cheating and an un-fair advantage.
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wintermark
On my old low-population server, there was a shaman-boxer who had about 8 and would just live in Wintergrasp and completely destroy it, game and game again. On my side too. So it was convenient, but not terribly fulfilling.
And the trade spam HATE from all the level 1's who rolled just to scream at him.
As a 'boxer though, he loved the attention, he figuratively wallowed in it.
Post by
Azazel
Blizzard accepts it. There's not much you can do.
Post by
StrangerWifCandy
The trick is to attack them separately. The boxed characters rely on macro-management to operate, so if you get between the cracks and force them into a situation where even minute micro-management details are needed, such as hitting one with a sap, cheap shot a second, blind a third, redirect kidney a fourth, and kicking the fifth, makes it so the player will be smashing his buttons but his characters aren't responding the way he wants them to.
CCing them as they run past also screws them up, because the ones on autofollow get broken away from the pack, and he has to spend time to regroup, or just abandon them on the road. (Several times on my priest, I've discovered most multiboxers are dumb enough to attack their own characters when you mindcontrol one lulz)
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Poolie72
I'd fight in Pre-made's all day.
But Multi Boxers well that's different. With a pre-made yes its going to be hard but your not going to get 8 Chars hitting you all at once for an instant kill that's my hole point here.
The fact that they can target 1 person then all launch damage on that target with in spit second is where it's cheating or un-fair play.
Don't know how mutli boxing works but 'skill' nah it's cheating.
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Poolie72
I'd fight in Pre-made's all day.
But Multi Boxers well that's different. With a pre-made yes its going to be hard but your not going to get 8 Chars hitting you all at once for an instant kill that's my hole point here.
The fact that they can target 1 person then all launch damage on that target with in spit second is where it's cheating or un-fair play.
Don't know how mutli boxing works but 'skill' nah it's cheating.
If you're trying to take on eight people by yourself and expect to win, I don't really know what to tell you.
Particularly on IoC when you could just get a demo, glaive, siege engine, or hop into the gunship and gib any group of enemies, this map is probably the least of your problems.
That's my point it's like trying to take on 8 people at once .... If you run into a group of 8 different players on your own your going to die no question. but if it's say 8 v 8 .all those 8 players are very rarely going to target the same person and hit that person with their damage within a fraction of a second.
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