I would like to take this opportunity to nominate Chris Cleary for the 2014 Anet Employee of the Year. My endorsement did not come easy, as I’ve been a fanboi of Gaile since the days of her GW1 LA trains, and her commitment to the GW2 player base is unparalleled. I’m also a huge fan of John Smith, with his dedication to providing a stable in-game economy for all of us to enjoy (and battling Entitlement since 2012).
I got to know GM Chris from his time running with us in TTS Wurm Raids. He’s a fair, but strict Anet representative, sharing his personal time outside of work to discuss the “do’s and don’t” of security issues with us in Team Speak (note – none of us use macros, we swear). He’s a genuinely nice guy that we all liked, but one thing recently happened that pushed our respect for him into the stratosphere:
9 Accounts, Manually Controlled, Ok, lets do some Bearbow math.
It’ll take you ~1 second to move between each client
1 second to initiate a command (assuming you only want 9 characters to do 1 skill and then auto attack)
Thats 18 seconds for 1 action across 9 accounts with 0 movement, so 3.3 (repeating of course) actions per minute per account.
Technically speaking, you could pull off a 3 Rapid Fires on your Bearbows per account per minute with 6 seconds to spare between switches. A normal Bearbow can do 7.5 Rapid Fires per minute, and throw in 2 Barrages (but that requires targeting, something you don’t have time to do), upping damage to equal roughly 9 Rapid Fires.
Your 9 Bearbows are roughly equal to 3 real Bearbows. It seems if you wanted to be effective, you should be multiboxing only 3 accounts rather than 9, if my Bearbow math is correct.
That is unless you are botting, or have keys bound to multiple clients, either way, that’s gonna fetch a ban…like it did
Truth be told, using bearbow math (an unproven system that may or may not lead to random photobombs…see below) isn’t always going to be exact. However, this player did not need to use bearbow math as they violated the laws of bearbow science and used a 3rd party program which is not allowed. Thats why they were banned, not because they were bad at bearbow math.
Greatest post by anyone in Anet since Chris Whiteside started the Raids CDI.
#BearbowMath
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