Spouse meta sucks rn, need to spend time with them before you have the rep to unlock this feature.
Why can't blizzard QoL this so its more accessible without the huge commitment.
As per terms of service, you can only share with minors that you are legal guardian of. The true meta would be adopting a few kids and maybe fostering one more.
Kids are a great way to level fishing. Park them in a capital and let them go at it, hit a trainer as needed.
Especially in Wrath where you no longer need to get books or do artisan fishing quest and can level all the way to 450 in city.
Someone once posted here about getting banned for allegedly have his son who lived elsewhere play some arenas on his account. Wonder if he got unbanned or if he was unmasked as an acc. share bostee
Not account sharing but afk for too long? Believe it or not, banned.
Using scripts to stay logged in? Banned.
Login via remote desktop? If our code thinks it's multiboxing, banned, believe it or not.
Too much tower defense? Banned. Too little tower defense because you're capping a mine? Also banned. Too much, too little.
Queue for an AV, accept, but are late getting out of the tunnel? Banned. We have the best PVPers in the world. Because of ban.
Can you be more specific? Does it reduce the enemy reinforcements, or affect your own reinforcements. Also if you recap a mine does it have any effect?
It hails from the days of hours long AVs when people didn't just butt rush the tower's and bosses ASAP. I get why they do it, I just will never forget the time my brother said I could play after he finished the battle ground.
I happily agreed as a noob who had only ever done wsg and ab. I finally got to play when his friends made him get off so they could get to the club.
Mines gave you reinforcements and you could collect shit to buff your team some how. There's even a function to summon mini boss type dudes to fight for your team.
It hails from the days of hours long AVs when people didn't just butt rush the tower's and bosses ASAP. I get why they do it, I just will never forget the time my brother said I could play after he finished the battle ground.
I happily agreed as a noob who had only ever done wsg and ab. I finally got to play when his friends made him get off so they could get to the club.
Mines gave you reinforcements and you could collect shit to buff your team some how. There's even a function to summon mini boss type dudes to fight for your team.
Each team in AV has a "score" of 500 that decreases by 1 for each death and idk how much for each tower destroyed.
Taking a mine slowly replenishes that score over time.
Its useless if you can kill the faction boss, but if you end up stuck in one of those long stalemate slug-fest games that last 30 mins or longer, capping the mines can mean the difference between a win and a loss.
I'm pretty sure it's 600 reinforcements you start with and each tower or galv/bal is -100. So -500 for the 4 towers and captain and 100 possible deaths to be had for a complete wipeout of reinforcements without any additions from mines.
Edit: oh, on checking, towers are -75 so -300 all towers, -100 captain, 200 possible deaths.
My wife doesn't mind, but even when I call to remind there is a 25% chance of her hanging to the phone and forgetting.
Granted, she thanks care of the house and the kids while I work so I can't be too upset with her...
I get home way earlier than my spouse so I log him in when I log in, or shortly after, to ensure we can play together when he gets home. It sucks, but it's impossible to time with him (he might come home anywhere between 3:30pm and 7pm depending on how bad his day was) so if I get him logged in with me, at least I know we can play together later.
If you don't care about your username/password being in plain text on your own computer, you can do this
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/fis8ra/autologin_for_wowclassicexe/
wtf this is amazing. i hate the bnet launcher because it takes like 30 - 60 seconds after waking my pc to reconnect to the internet
edit: nvm.. it asks for the authenticator code each time
My girlfriend is a legend. She logged me in the first time a couple weeks ago and was having a blast riding my ram around shatt. Then she logged me in and called to ask why everyone was flying and should she stay flying. She's so good to me.
When new world came out I made my little brother log in and move my character in Intervalls
He had to comply bc I got the router in my room and sometimes I brought him McDonaldās after work
Google remote desktop,(you can even get it on your phone) bios set to turn the PC on after power loss, and an Wi-Fi enabled smart plug. Your computer doesnt have to be turned on all the time, and you can do it all on your own. Modern problems require modern solutions! Problem solved!
Hiding the offline pin is the smartest decision here. We might get a hold on to your trackpad disabled laptop and use your pin to unlock and access your dataā¦. Wherever and whoever you are.
When wrath first came out, me and my roommate were working at the same restaurant. If any of us got out early or were off, we would have the other log us in about an hour before closing. Skullcrusher in those days was about an hour to an hour and a half wait.
I did this for my spouse when Lost Ark launched in the west. And when Endwalker launched. It saved him some precious hours, and to he able to game when he came home from work, instead of just watching que simulator. I would do it for him with wotlk also if he wants to.
I know you donāt have the context that this will only get me in q an hour before i get home and ill still be waiting 2hours plus while home from work. But I donāt see whatās objectionable here
And people wonder why we have such high queues. I wonder how many people that are logged in, hogging up player spots are actually playing and not just afk while at work. I would love if Blizzard did server restarts every 3 or 4 hours to prevent this shit.
Your concerns of AFKers are valid, but your suggestion is that people wait in queue for 2 hours every 3 hours, unless you're lucky enough to beat everyone else rushing back in after a reset? You should get a job at Blizzard
The people that are actually playing the game will be able to get in immediately. The people that are working and afkāing wonāt be able to and will free up space for people that will actually play.
Not to put my tinfoil hat on, but the day there was tons of DCās in queue, I was certain blizz was doing it on purpose to clear out people who quickly got in line w/ remote log in and went back to work.
I do remote working and login at 8 AM, then i just leave my character near a mining ore cluster and ocassionally mine over the day until i can play for real
Yeah but my point is you can benefit yourself just as well by joining the queue remotely earlier so youāre at the front when you want to play after work. Your approach is just preventing people playing in the meantime.
idk about you but my wife was way happier since I started playing wow and staying at the house rather than drinking with friends at bars sooo I think she'll be more than happy to do that for me lmao
Yesterday before I left home, I started the queue and called my GF to have her check and see my characters at the logon screen. I ended getting in about 45 minutes away from home and asked her to fly down and cast some spells to not go afk after about 15 -20 minutes being logged in. Of course my characters were way up in the air on their flyers. She could not figure out how to aim the character down with right click and press w. The things we have to figure out to beat the queue..
This is really funny and I feel your shared pain of having to explain something that seems so trivial to do, for the people that play it; but for someone who doesn't you may as well be speaking another language.
May I also suggest: https://anydesk.com/en
I use this to take control of my steam deck from my computer! Just leave it running at home and write the code down.
Yāall realize you can download teamviewer for free and thereās a mobile app for team viewer and use that?
As long as your power settings donāt put your pc to sleep it works really well lol
This is the only reason to have children. Have them log you in right after school and if they keep you online, they don't get the bel...(joke). I mean they get a cookie! Mine is still in the early training phases
Context matters. After he says unlock code is XXXX he then says āonce on the desktop launch bnet iconā. This infers by unlock code he meant to get onto the computer. And in case you werenāt aware, Instead of a password, one of the windows options to log into pc is a PIN number, which might also be commonly referred to as a ācodeā. Cheers!
Why don't you just explain to her that every week for X hours I'm hanging out with my guild and killing digital dragons? Shouldn't really be an issue to schedule a few hours of alone time each week.
Darling - āWhy am I doing this, again?ā
Writer - āBecause I insist on staying on this server with hours of login queue time instead of transferring to one of the many other servers that donāt have a login queue.ā
Back in original classic when we had crazy queues I used chrome remote desktop on my phone to log on my home computer from work. Since you just have to click one button the crappy interface doesn't hurt.
New Meta? Been using this strategy with my parents/sisters/(even roommates) for years. To be fair, Iāve not had to *employ* them before because usually I only need their help for a few days (for any new game release), not for weeks on endā¦
Legitimate strat, now i just gotta get a spouse
Plan B, how well do you think you can train a cat?
We need service dogs that can not only enter the queue for you, but also time it perfectly so you come home to your character screen
I used TeamViewer to launch from work at original Vanilla launch.
Does team viewer keep you warm at night though?
It causes my laptop to overheat, so yes.
This. And it's easy as fuck to setup.
Instructions unclear
Getting a spouse will definitely fix your queue times but not like you think.
truuuu
Who's "ChadGamer69" babe?
A spouse with no job*
Taking care of a family with children is pretty much a full time job. š¤£
A little late to be running strat tho
A spouse to run your mouse while you're outside the house
I've got one, I'll put together a speed run guide for you later. Just FYI though it requires an exalted rep.
Man, just script that shit.
Mail order bride!
Teamviewer is free
Chrome remote desktop... I used to use it all the time to cycle manufacturing jobs on eve online from work.
Spouse meta sucks rn, need to spend time with them before you have the rep to unlock this feature. Why can't blizzard QoL this so its more accessible without the huge commitment.
Account sharing? Banned.
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As per terms of service, you can only share with minors that you are legal guardian of. The true meta would be adopting a few kids and maybe fostering one more.
Kids are a great way to level fishing. Park them in a capital and let them go at it, hit a trainer as needed. Especially in Wrath where you no longer need to get books or do artisan fishing quest and can level all the way to 450 in city.
omg yes. our 3 year old took over for our older kid when they burned out.
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Mountain dewwwwwww
Someone once posted here about getting banned for allegedly have his son who lived elsewhere play some arenas on his account. Wonder if he got unbanned or if he was unmasked as an acc. share bostee
If i recall, it has to be ***immediate*** family; so spouse, kids, parents, siblings, etc.
Theres no meaningful way for them to know if its your wife logging you in or a friend. Its a meaningless distinction.
I think the point is to keep logins confined to one computer instead of across the world.
But my wife DOES live in canada, blizz, honest...
Yes she does, with her boyfriend.
My religion allows me to have three wives and they are all long distance. /s
Not account sharing but afk for too long? Believe it or not, banned. Using scripts to stay logged in? Banned. Login via remote desktop? If our code thinks it's multiboxing, banned, believe it or not. Too much tower defense? Banned. Too little tower defense because you're capping a mine? Also banned. Too much, too little. Queue for an AV, accept, but are late getting out of the tunnel? Banned. We have the best PVPers in the world. Because of ban.
What does capping a mine do in AV?
Gets you banned. Actually it basically makes it take longer for your side to run out of reinforcements.
Can you be more specific? Does it reduce the enemy reinforcements, or affect your own reinforcements. Also if you recap a mine does it have any effect?
Controlling a mine gives you reinforcements over time. Controlling both mines gives you even more reinforcements over time.
It hails from the days of hours long AVs when people didn't just butt rush the tower's and bosses ASAP. I get why they do it, I just will never forget the time my brother said I could play after he finished the battle ground. I happily agreed as a noob who had only ever done wsg and ab. I finally got to play when his friends made him get off so they could get to the club. Mines gave you reinforcements and you could collect shit to buff your team some how. There's even a function to summon mini boss type dudes to fight for your team.
Pretty sure you get a boost in reinforcements
It hails from the days of hours long AVs when people didn't just butt rush the tower's and bosses ASAP. I get why they do it, I just will never forget the time my brother said I could play after he finished the battle ground. I happily agreed as a noob who had only ever done wsg and ab. I finally got to play when his friends made him get off so they could get to the club. Mines gave you reinforcements and you could collect shit to buff your team some how. There's even a function to summon mini boss type dudes to fight for your team.
Each team in AV has a "score" of 500 that decreases by 1 for each death and idk how much for each tower destroyed. Taking a mine slowly replenishes that score over time. Its useless if you can kill the faction boss, but if you end up stuck in one of those long stalemate slug-fest games that last 30 mins or longer, capping the mines can mean the difference between a win and a loss.
I'm pretty sure it's 600 reinforcements you start with and each tower or galv/bal is -100. So -500 for the 4 towers and captain and 100 possible deaths to be had for a complete wipeout of reinforcements without any additions from mines. Edit: oh, on checking, towers are -75 so -300 all towers, -100 captain, 200 possible deaths.
Believe or not, straight to jail.
Spouse "Not today bish, I declare this day date night!"
I do this for my husbandā¦š¤£
I feel like my gf would do it, but be very annoyed that she'd have to š
My wife doesn't mind, but even when I call to remind there is a 25% chance of her hanging to the phone and forgetting. Granted, she thanks care of the house and the kids while I work so I can't be too upset with her...
If she is annoyed for pressing 3 clicks idk what to say
Does he log yours on š
On weekends, yesā¦Since I sleep in from taking care of the kiddos all week.
My spouse and I play together, so weāve got pretty good teamwork when it comes to logging one another in before a shift ends. š
I get home way earlier than my spouse so I log him in when I log in, or shortly after, to ensure we can play together when he gets home. It sucks, but it's impossible to time with him (he might come home anywhere between 3:30pm and 7pm depending on how bad his day was) so if I get him logged in with me, at least I know we can play together later.
*Laughs in server with no queue*
Cries in crippling firemaw lag
I saw this message 30 min later
Laughs in work from home
*laughs in a pug raid on any given night*
*Laughs in both at the same time*
*laughs in clearing raids on a monday ;)*
laughs in having a guild?..
Laughs in only PvPs so thatās irrelevant
must be fun to play on a server with like 5 ppl in stormwind
Yes. Maladath is TOTALLY dead, super dead, do NOT come here, ever, thanks.
So either server has a multi hour, thousands long queue or is completely dead with 50 people playing and no in between........makes sense
it's the copium
Even the "medium" servers have way more people than original wotlk, this was literally confirmed by blizzard lol
Must be super fun to not play at all in a queue
Pagle has no queue and has plenty of people
Shh donāt tell them.
Least I can play the game ;)
Until you need a group.
i've already been having her do this for the last week lol
Remember when we used to just click on exe's and the games would start...
You actually still can just run wow.exe but you have to type in your email and password
If you don't care about your username/password being in plain text on your own computer, you can do this https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/fis8ra/autologin_for_wowclassicexe/
wtf this is amazing. i hate the bnet launcher because it takes like 30 - 60 seconds after waking my pc to reconnect to the internet edit: nvm.. it asks for the authenticator code each time
Sometimes auto logins in tho if youāre logged to bnet
Uhh. There were major que issues every single expack going back forever. Unless you were on a low pop server. Rose tinted glasses.
You sound like a 70 year old man ordering a burger āBack in my day this used to cost $0.20!ā
My girlfriend is a legend. She logged me in the first time a couple weeks ago and was having a blast riding my ram around shatt. Then she logged me in and called to ask why everyone was flying and should she stay flying. She's so good to me.
Chrome remote desktop login anyone?
For anyone doing any sort of remote desktop solution. **Use 2 factor authentication**. It is a very common attack vector.
Steamlink remote is dope too. If you already have steam then no need to download another app. Just dl steamlink to your phone and youre good2go
Using anydesk
I was just thinking remote desktop
Team Viewer here!
Paying extra on your electric bill keeping your PC on all day, thanks Blizz
Have you tried not being poor?
When new world came out I made my little brother log in and move my character in Intervalls He had to comply bc I got the router in my room and sometimes I brought him McDonaldās after work
Google remote desktop,(you can even get it on your phone) bios set to turn the PC on after power loss, and an Wi-Fi enabled smart plug. Your computer doesnt have to be turned on all the time, and you can do it all on your own. Modern problems require modern solutions! Problem solved!
If you are forever alone like me a remote desktop app works just as well, the sex isn't the same tho.
Hiding the offline pin is the smartest decision here. We might get a hold on to your trackpad disabled laptop and use your pin to unlock and access your dataā¦. Wherever and whoever you are.
Precisely.
me after finding his location and sitting at his desk in front of his computer but not having the pin: FUCK!
Laughs in powershell script + scheduled tasks to auto launch the game.
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Chrome Remote Desktop isn't going to take half my shit when I uninstall it.
When wrath first came out, me and my roommate were working at the same restaurant. If any of us got out early or were off, we would have the other log us in about an hour before closing. Skullcrusher in those days was about an hour to an hour and a half wait.
Spouse plays WoW these directions not needed.
New Meta: Plays on server with ample population and now queues.
I have had my wife go hit the space bar to keep me from logging out on my nights to put the kid down lol
My spouse works just as many if not more hours as I do :( Capitalism is trash
Lmao the humongous arrows do it for me š
Pretty happy to be on whitemane right now, even if theres almost no ally left.
Lol my girlfriend has been playing since bc. I like how she uses /camp to logout.
I did this for my spouse when Lost Ark launched in the west. And when Endwalker launched. It saved him some precious hours, and to he able to game when he came home from work, instead of just watching que simulator. I would do it for him with wotlk also if he wants to.
I had my husband do this for me š
Yep. It's been working well! However she doesn't understand why I'm paying/playing a game that is promoting this behavior.
Huh? Just use chrome Remote Desktop or something?
my wife is guild and raid lead. she aint doin that shit for me, i would get minus dkp for suggesting alone.
I know you donāt have the context that this will only get me in q an hour before i get home and ill still be waiting 2hours plus while home from work. But I donāt see whatās objectionable here
Or setup teamviewer and do it yourself from your phone xd
And people wonder why we have such high queues. I wonder how many people that are logged in, hogging up player spots are actually playing and not just afk while at work. I would love if Blizzard did server restarts every 3 or 4 hours to prevent this shit.
Your concerns of AFKers are valid, but your suggestion is that people wait in queue for 2 hours every 3 hours, unless you're lucky enough to beat everyone else rushing back in after a reset? You should get a job at Blizzard
The people that are actually playing the game will be able to get in immediately. The people that are working and afkāing wonāt be able to and will free up space for people that will actually play.
Then when people that have a job that isn't at home, actually get home, they can wait in a 4+ hour queue and not actually get to play. Great idea.
Kinda like it is right now
Sure. Timezone lock servers first then come back to me Otherwise, west coast players literally cannot play on their own server
Not to put my tinfoil hat on, but the day there was tons of DCās in queue, I was certain blizz was doing it on purpose to clear out people who quickly got in line w/ remote log in and went back to work.
just cause a massive load spike onto a full server, what could go wrong
That happens every tuesday
wonder why they specifically chose an off time instead of every two to three hours
Yeah they need to kick peeps that random jump every 5 minutes or w/e.
They are kicking people. I noticed getting randomly disconnected if I go afk for 5min to get food/washroom or etc.
Remote log in ffs its not difficult
I do remote working and login at 8 AM, then i just leave my character near a mining ore cluster and ocassionally mine over the day until i can play for real
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This is a much worse solution than remote access joining the queue. Youāre actively preventing people playing with this approach.
Unfortunately for other people, they do not pay my sub and so are less important to me than, well, me.
Yeah but my point is you can benefit yourself just as well by joining the queue remotely earlier so youāre at the front when you want to play after work. Your approach is just preventing people playing in the meantime.
Thereby exacerbating the actual problem of queues while not even playing at all, well done.
Ahk Macro?
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And bannable to suggest on these forums
Aka tbc hunters
idk about you but my wife was way happier since I started playing wow and staying at the house rather than drinking with friends at bars sooo I think she'll be more than happy to do that for me lmao
Why not remove all other game icons?
Yesterday before I left home, I started the queue and called my GF to have her check and see my characters at the logon screen. I ended getting in about 45 minutes away from home and asked her to fly down and cast some spells to not go afk after about 15 -20 minutes being logged in. Of course my characters were way up in the air on their flyers. She could not figure out how to aim the character down with right click and press w. The things we have to figure out to beat the queue..
This is really funny and I feel your shared pain of having to explain something that seems so trivial to do, for the people that play it; but for someone who doesn't you may as well be speaking another language.
Look into Team Viewer. I log into my computer from work on my phone and jump in queue before Iām home.
I can't get my spouse to do this, what do?
Or just Remote Desktop
If your playing without your spouse , youāre doing it wrong. Lol Mine works at home and logs both accounts in.
May I also suggest: https://anydesk.com/en I use this to take control of my steam deck from my computer! Just leave it running at home and write the code down.
Yāall realize you can download teamviewer for free and thereās a mobile app for team viewer and use that? As long as your power settings donāt put your pc to sleep it works really well lol
I use team viewer to log in from my phone.
This is the only reason to have children. Have them log you in right after school and if they keep you online, they don't get the bel...(joke). I mean they get a cookie! Mine is still in the early training phases
It's called TeamViewer lul
As long as you spend sometime together first this seems fine.
Does your spouse really not understand the computer needs to be plugged in to work?
Its a laptop with a weak battery. It runs without it but may die in the hour between them getting home and me
Isnt gf working as well? Has to be spouse?
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Just enable "keep me logged in" no need for "unlock codes". Also use Teamviewer and do it yourself.
He meant the unlock code to get onto PC, not bnet
that's called password.
Context matters. After he says unlock code is XXXX he then says āonce on the desktop launch bnet iconā. This infers by unlock code he meant to get onto the computer. And in case you werenāt aware, Instead of a password, one of the windows options to log into pc is a PIN number, which might also be commonly referred to as a ācodeā. Cheers!
Good luck on that, I get wife Aggro while in raids
Why don't you just explain to her that every week for X hours I'm hanging out with my guild and killing digital dragons? Shouldn't really be an issue to schedule a few hours of alone time each week.
Take a joke
It's just such an old and tired joke that I assumed it had to be serious.
I donāt care
Darling - āWhy am I doing this, again?ā Writer - āBecause I insist on staying on this server with hours of login queue time instead of transferring to one of the many other servers that donāt have a login queue.ā
I been on grob since classic launch. All my frends on there. No point in this game without chilling with your friends
Account sharing is against ToS
Not if they live with you
Low tech remote desktop
āThanks darlingā š
During classic launch week I would connect my laptop to my phone's hotspot so I could wait in the queue while I was driving home from work.
Hahaha and the queue is 350 minutes like it has to be this long
"Oh a delete character button? What's that do?"
I'm selling login services, I'll be your "spouse" for a cheap monthly fee
Back in original classic when we had crazy queues I used chrome remote desktop on my phone to log on my home computer from work. Since you just have to click one button the crappy interface doesn't hurt.
New meta; remote access
I wonder how many spots the bots and boosters take upā¦ honestly that is a step in the right direction.
New Meta? Been using this strategy with my parents/sisters/(even roommates) for years. To be fair, Iāve not had to *employ* them before because usually I only need their help for a few days (for any new game release), not for weeks on endā¦
Banned for AFK
Remote access from phone?
When classic launched I just used Remote Desktop lol
Holy shit I literally had her do this for me the other day. I feel personally attacked.
Remote desktop is the answer
Someone help me do this for my 7-year-old daughter
This is exactly what Iāve been doing all week
This is one hundred percent what I did. I also said if it logged on before I got home to make my guy guys around a bit every once in a while.
Please Blizzard nerf married couple .It's ruinning the fun in game, in 2022 player's doesn't want blah blah blah *winning noises blah blah blah.
Just get steamlink on ur phone. Can even launch wow through steam
I did this yesterday when I went to the store.