I was browsing through the forums looking for some info regarding having multiple instances of wow running on one machine and saw a few different responses. I was wondering about the safety factors regarding having multiple instances of wow open. Right now my current setup is I play manually one instance and have a farming account run in another. (just got the farming account yesterday) I have multi monitor so I watch the bot as I play. Just wondering if this kind of practice raises any flags. Appreciate any and all responses. Thanks in advance for any input.
If they are both linked to the same Battle.net account it might raise little suspicion but not very much. If they are separate Battle.net accounts you should be fine.
Then you should be fine. The people who get caught for same IP are the people with like 30 accounts with the same IP those get auto-flagged haha.
most of the time yes but it can even be small users like me that get ip flagged. I once sold an account and it got 2 of my other accounts flagged and perma banned- than when I made 2 new accounts they got banned before they even hit 85. My guess was ip/hardware id checks. Since I have changed isp's and upgraded my computer parts(new mobo/has new NiCs/so different hardware ids) I have not gotten a single ban. To the op you can do both at the same time no problem.
Make sure you have a seperate folder for each Wow. Also makes sure your WTF folder is deleted/emptied on each one so when you start it up for the 1st time the only information in each folder will relate to whatever the wow account is and not both. And they do not ban by IP. That's one of those wonderful Botting Myths. Too many people have been banned and people using same IP haven't. Mac addresses are far more likely but still not very likely. Though no-one but blizz knows for sure
Ive used multiple accounts linked to my battlenet and others constantly on the same computer with and without HB. WAY before I knew about HB The only time you would really get flagged, would be the same ways any other account would be flagged really. Significant IP range changes, ie location is the only real one Id be worry about. I log in and out of all my accounts on the same box and multiple boxes in my house day in and day out for years with and without HB. Safe practice wins. Human nature and the SOMETIMES lucky gm that decides to watch a random farm spot are the cause of bans imho -_-
Just wondering, warden (or whatever WoW uses to detect bots nowadays) catches you if it detects HB while WoW is running right? So if you're botting 1 account and playing another at the same time (same computer), then won't warden detect HB and flag both accounts because both accounts have HB running in the background? What do you think?
If warden ever got used in a way that could detect HB, the "TripWire" would trip on the HB Authent servers and disconnect all HB's worldwide. But, if warden did do a scan, it would only report the Account that HB was running on, no others on that comp should be touched, as they were not actually in violation at the time of the scan. Long story short, you'll be just fine
