Ban self-boosting with multiboxxing

[Guunthar]

I've encountered a few multiboxxers using a 60 mage to boost their characters in the open world.

They take their weak warrior alts on follow and scoop every single mob up in the popular aoe spots and arcane explosion them all easily, without any risk, and to the detriment of regular players trying to level for the first time.

Is this the kind of behavior that the community approves of? I personally found it very discouraging and it slowed down my own leveling a lot while I tried to sneak in a few tags around the unkillable 60 mage waltzing through the zone taking almost 0 damage.

I'll be honest I already don't exactly agree with the current multiboxxing rules as is but I think this kind of leveling is taking things too far. It is harmful to the experience of new players and it feels antithetical to the spirit of the server.

I understand boosting itself isnt outright banned, but shouldn't boosting on turtle wow be an occasional thing you help a guildie with instead of a full 1-60 grind where your warrior alt doesn't need to hit a single mob?

Hopefully the devs can implement a level difference check like SOM but in the mean time I hope you can agree that this sort of thing has no place on turtle.

[Reploidrocsa]

True boosters don't party, they tag the mobs on the low lv char and the 60 kills it.

Jokes aside, iirc you can demand the person doing such activities to clear the area for you to finish the quest, and if he refuses you can take legal actions against him/her. But not 100% sure, would have to read the rules again

[Heine]

current rules allow 2 box activities without automation programms
(key sending is not an utomation)

this sort of thing has no place on turtle.

why ?

[Guunthar]

Boosting openly with no consequences? That is the issue at hand, not multiboxxing itself.

[Guunthar]

Having two similar level characters multiboxxing takes skill and the player has to consider their actions whereas a 60 mage with a 20 warrior mows down the entire zone without thinking and takes all the spawns from normal players.

[Heine]

They can implement a system where low lvl character has to do >50% mob's hp damage to recieve experience, i've seen this on other servers.
But please make it after i boost my priest xd

[Mac]

Yeah, it's pretty rude behavior, especially considering how crowded the server can be now and how they could easily AOE grind in an instance and disturb no one. I think maybe a new rule against this AOE boosting could be a good idea.

[Ugoboom]

True boosters don't party, they tag the mobs on the low lv char and the 60 kills it.

This right here, this is the bug that needs to be fixed. This isn't blizzlike at all

[Xudo]

They can implement a system where low lvl character has to do >50% mob's hp damage to recieve experience, i've seen this on other servers.
But please make it after i boost my priest xd

I believe this system already works for NPC guards.
I'd also add that this system should also work for reputation. This kind of boosting is not that obvious, but still possible.

[Geojak]

True boosters don't party, they tag the mobs on the low lv char and the 60 kills it.

This right here, this is the bug that needs to be fixed. This isn't blizzlike at all

i am not so sure.
back in 2006 i once boosted a hunter in burnist steppes killing the elite dragons on my raid warrior. we would not group up on purpose and he would get like 1.3k exp per kill. it was blizzlike.. at least at some point in time

[Element19090]

I've encountered a few multiboxxers using a 60 mage to boost their characters in the open world.

They take their weak warrior alts on follow and scoop every single mob up in the popular aoe spots and arcane explosion them all easily, without any risk, and to the detriment of regular players trying to level for the first time.

Is this the kind of behavior that the community approves of? I personally found it very discouraging and it slowed down my own leveling a lot while I tried to sneak in a few tags around the unkillable 60 mage waltzing through the zone taking almost 0 damage.

I'll be honest I already don't exactly agree with the current multiboxxing rules as is but I think this kind of leveling is taking things too far. It is harmful to the experience of new players and it feels antithetical to the spirit of the server.

I understand boosting itself isnt outright banned, but shouldn't boosting on turtle wow be an occasional thing you help a guildie with instead of a full 1-60 grind where your warrior alt doesn't need to hit a single mob?

Hopefully the devs can implement a level difference check like SOM but in the mean time I hope you can agree that this sort of thing has no place on turtle.

I have encountred this twice actually and i just asked if i could have an invite for the quest i needed done and they were polite enough to invite me so i can get the kills i needed. Actually made the quest easier and quicker. Have you tried just asking for an invite?

[Ugoboom]

i am not so sure.
back in 2006 i once boosted a hunter in burnist steppes killing the elite dragons on my raid warrior. we would not group up on purpose and he would get like 1.3k exp per kill. it was blizzlike.. at least at some point in time

Eh by 1.12 it was fixed, and it didn't show up in classic either. point is, blizz knew boosting was lame