Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Just had my account and my girlfriends account banned.

Winchestor PvE

GhettoBooty PvE

Im certain they were banned for:

VI. Multiboxing


Transferring items between accounts;
Using professions, as long as no farming or material gathering is involved;
Crafting, enchanting, banking and/or for trading purposes that does not include the Auction House.
Portalling a second account only to and from major cities.
Playing simultaneously on both PvP and PvE realms. *Not restricted to major cities*


Sadly, my girlfriend has one arm, and the only way she can play effectively is if i escort her around while she quests. I ask the GM's be considerate of her disability. I promise not to participate in any future activities anymore if it means a ban on the accounts.

I want to first start off by saying that posting this makes feel really embarrassed. My boyfriend urged me to make this post to help our situation. However I do not think it will really help our situation, but I will attempt to clarify it.

Yes, I am a disabled gamer. I hate to even say that. I lost my right arm in a car accident a few years ago and I have not been the same since. Everything i do takes twice if not longer to do. I used to be an avid gamer before my accident however, since then, I have not been able to play games I used to play before. Prior to my boyfriend discovering Nostalrius I was bound to games like candy crush on my phone and tablet.

However, since I've started to play on Nostalrius, I have rediscovered my ability to play games. Im not saying im as good as I was before but with a little help I can enjoy it as much as I used to when I played almost 8 years ago. One of the best feelings I had recently was when a healer complimented my tanking skill in Scarlet Monastery. When I read the message I actually forgot for a second about my shortcomings and felt empowered.

I have read other account responses from Game Masters and noticed that the rule violation we broke was not quite unforgivable but, most of the responses consisted of, "make another account and dont break rules". However if that were to be the response I would ask the Game Masters to reconsider that because, it took me almost 2 months to reach level 52 with help, I'm playing a warrior, and have a major disadvantage compared to the average player. I honestly dont think I could invest that much time in another character after putting so much effort and frustration into my Warrior. There were many times when I couldn't even finish a simple kill quest because I would die over and over and over again. Not because I was a warrior but since my lack of reaction time was below average and I couldn't use abilities quick enough. Pulling an additional enemy was a gaureented death and sometimes if I died i would just graveyard rez and sit in Iron forge and want to cry because of how helpless and frustrated i felt sometimes.

I am not asking Nostalrius staff to make an exception for me, but to be considerate of my situation. I really hope the Game Masters investigating this matter find something that proves we are telling the truth. We had a Game Master pull us to GM Island but they let us go after they quickly realized it was me and my boyfriend playing together.

Lastly, I just want to say that, some people consider WoW a video game, others consider it a hobby, some even think its a complete waste of time, and for people like me, it is a form of therapy. I honestly haven't been this happy to play a game in years and I really hope I can continue but if I lose all the time and effort I put into my character it would break my heart. I spent almost a week leveling my mining skill, had gold saved for my epic mount, and even had my first epic waiting for me in my bank. My character is not just pixels on a screen, its an outlet for me to feel normal again.

Benevael wrote:That means you knew that you would need to change your style of play, as GMs apply this warning after speaking with players and making sure they know the rules.

Not to try and provoke anything this time, but I did not get a talk to a GM when I was warned, which later was confirmed as well. It can be a human error nonetheless.

I know this is little comfort, but perhaps you could use the option to click to move. It's a little known option and that way you can play entirely by mouse. If you and your bf decides to play again on the pve server, feel free to add me to your friend lists and I'll be more than happy to help you guys quest or do dungeons (Gaia, 60 Druid). Also I can wholeheartly recommend the guild I am in (Might and Magic). They're such a friendly bunch and discrimination of any kind is stricly forbidden. Hope you'll give Nost another chance.

All the best, Gaia

Edit: Oh and just one more suggestion. Warriors can be a tough cookie to level for anyone. I suppose Hunters would be the easiest, followed by Warlocks. If you really like to be a tanky warrior-type melee, then perhaps Paladin would fit the bill? Few attack skills to keep track of (they can kill mobs just fine, it's simply that much of their dps is passive) and a nice selection of heals and defensive abilities. A free level 40 mount is also a nice bonus to help speed up leveling.

Skimmed trough your posts and I'm sorry for your situation. Thought I would recommend you using an addon called supermacro for one handed play. For example see this thread on leveling a warlock one handed:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=17718

You could write similar code for any class / role as well of course, in a similar fashion. I'm sure its not too hard to figure out / get help / google. I once had a guildmate who had a Warrior tanking in BWL whilst multiboxing some other characters healing/dpsing (this was on another private server, where it was allowed), and he was quite often making much more threat than any other Warrior**... so I know that it's possible.

You could also take advantage of a so called "gaming mouse" with several buttons binded to some abilities / macros / supermacros as above. Just takes a little while getting used to.

Edit: **With one button, that is^^

What confuses me about this situation is that they clearly aren't multiboxing and any conversation with a GM ought to demonstrate that. How did they end up with a warning in the first place? How did they get banned the second time?

You should ofcourse apply the rules in a uniform manner. But that doesn't include banning non-multiboxers for multiboxing.

Tinkertown wrote:What confuses me about this situation is that they clearly aren't multiboxing and any conversation with a GM ought to demonstrate that. How did they end up with a warning in the first place? How did they get banned the second time?

You should ofcourse apply the rules in a uniform manner. But that doesn't include banning non-multiboxers for multiboxing.

You're right! Unless BF has been boosting her by playing both accounts at once, surely if she has been in control of her chars actions, that doesn't constitute multiboxing? Even if she's been on follow (as long as she herself has clicked to enable that option). Raises some concerns for certain - to what extend can players share an IP and play together? Or rather, what can you not do, compared to multiple IP friends? It needs clarifying and one would logically think the limit would be when you reach for the other persons keyboard to perform an action. That the system can't differentiate, shouldn't put them at fault. At the very least they deserve a proper review.

Also: if they are under the assumption, that being on follow is multiboxing, they might have plead guilty on wrong terms. Frankly I'm worried about ever hosting a LAN party, as I would have had planned for the summer, introducing my old guild mates from retail to Nostalrius.

How is this multiboxing? Me and my bf play together aswell, sometimes one of us needs a bio break and we put it on follow for max 1min. Is that considered multiboxing aswell? While other ingame friends can use it as long as they want.
Aslong there is two people playing their own account. I dont even get why they should change their gameplay if they are clearly 2 ppl wich the gm confirmed on the isle.

I'm glad I'm not the only one finding this weird.