Just wondering if anyone duo boxes in this game?

[Blissa]

It's pretty common in MMORPG's for people to duo box. I use to do it in EQ, EQ2, and FFXI. I was just wondering if anyone duo boxes in this game and if so what classes?

[Wobi]

No one could dual-box any battle of consequence in this game even 10% effectively. I'm sure you could program some manner of heal bot (if you are interested in getting banned) but given the sheer amount of dodge mechanics in the game it would become apparent very quickly that someone was trying to pull double duty. The entire battle system is built on movement/positioning/timing to optimize effectiveness which would mean operating two controllers/keyboards simultaneously, which unless you have four arms I don't see it happening.

[Macka]

Yes people do, just not in a dungeon.

[Melithea]

Just earlier today I had someone in a Fate grind group claim to be dual-boxing. It was their excuse for dying. In a full Fate group.

Which says a lot about dual-boxing.

[Tupsi]

People run light dungeons on the same PC or PC+Laptop/PS3+Laptop(PC). No one will answer directly as it will get them banned, though. Most utilize bots though that, incidentally is tied with XIVAPP for notifications.

[Blissa]

Well I am not interested in botting, I just thought maybe duo boxing could be done for some kind of farming. Like running a tank/healer setup.

[Macka]

People run light dungeons on the same PC or PC+Laptop/PS3+Laptop(PC). No one will answer directly as it will get them banned, though. Most utilize bots though that, incidentally is tied with XIVAPP for notifications.

Why will someone get banned for multi boxing?

[Macka]

Well I am not interested in botting, I just thought maybe duo boxing could be done for some kind of farming. Like running a tank/healer setup.

You can and here is how http://support.jp.square-enix.com/fa...5&id=5382&la=1

[Ryios]

There is nothing to farm in this game of merrit. There is no market to milk.

About the only use I can see for it would be to mine two gold ore nodes at once but you can do that with alt characters. Just log your miner alts out on a node. Then when its time to mine it, log them in, mine it, log out, log in next one, mine it again.

In ffxi it was great because you could dual box a rdm and a tank and kill just about any NM in the open world. You could farm anything too.

There are no NM's in FFXIV and anything worth farming at all is worth 100gil at most and adding a 2nd character isn't going to speed it up any, I can clear all the mob camps in this game before they respawn by myself so no point.

[Mister-Wonderful]

No one could dual-box any battle of consequence in this game even 10% effectively. I'm sure you could program some manner of heal bot (if you are interested in getting banned) but given the sheer amount of dodge mechanics in the game it would become apparent very quickly that someone was trying to pull double duty. The entire battle system is built on movement/positioning/timing to optimize effectiveness which would mean operating two controllers/keyboards simultaneously, which unless you have four arms I don't see it happening.

2 characters on 1 controller, playing the same job like BLM for example, I can do at least 50%-80& effeciency, usually just missing procs. Not saying its easy, but much better than your 10% estimate .

I used to do 2 keyboards at once for 2 characters for blm in 1.0, it was much easier then due to long cooldowns for casts.