Question: Running Multiple Accounts on Single PC

[Rockcrawler]

Here is my setup:

Accounts: 5
Computer: 1
WoW Installations: 1

I'm a casual botter (this means I don't bot anything in the game to make real currency). Why? Because I don't need the money. I bot instead of watching TV, reading, etc.

I've been running some public dungeon farming profiles (1 bot in a low level dungeon). Blizzard disconnects my session after about 2 runs now.

In order to prevent Blizzard from disconnecting me what should I do?

1) Partition my HD, install a copy of WoW in each partition, point 5 HB shortcuts to each of these WoW installations.
2) Run each bot off a separate computer?
3) Other ??? (you tell me)

Yes, I'm fully well aware that running public profiles on heavily botted dungeons can result in a ban.

I like seeing a high GPH. Running a 5 man team through MoP dungoens results in a far lower GPH than running a single toon through 1 lower level dungeon.

I like having gold on my toons to buy items off the AH (gems, enchants, etc). I'm not really into leveling professions.

 

[frosticus]

Blizzard disconnects my session after about 2 runs now.

are you sure its Blizz disconnecting you?

 

[Rockcrawler]

Yes, I'm pretty sure it is blizz.

I can start up all 5 bots and they can remain idle or run other profiles; however, as soon a one bot runs a popular public dungeon profile that session gets disconnected usually during the second run or upon leaving the dungeon on the second run.

I'm also getting disconnects when putting 3 or 4 bots on Timeless Isle to grind for coins.

 

[Raaz]

If you get dc'd while entering or leaving a dungeon turn on your framelock if you're not already using it.

 

[Frayman]

I doubt its Blizz disconnecting you. I have 2 accounts and 2 HB keys and run them together on 2 different laptops. Long story short is that the one laptop would always disconnect me after about 15 mins of running any profile, and If I remember right it was because of my net framework install being goofy and basically It needed a fresh install of all the required components try the helpdesk Honorbuddy:HelpDesk:"Clean installing" Honorbuddy - The Buddy Wiki

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Web Installer) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) from Official Microsoft Download Center
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-4FF2-B699-5E9B7962F9AE/VSU3/vcredist_x86.exe

hope it helps ..it did for me

 

[rlorfing]

I ran about 12 Wow accounts at once from 1 server a while back and this is how I did it.
1 Server
i7 3930k 12 cores 128Gb ram 2 gtx 680 gtx
VMWare 5.5

Each VM
12 Windows 7 64x 4 gb mem 45gb solid state (from a my 1tb of flash storage array)
video settings and drivers can be tricky HDX must be in use.
This gave me 12 different setups, 12 different machines with 12 different MAC addresses.
I also use hidemyass to mask my external IP which I used on about half of them.
https://www.hidemyass.com/
I used App-v to virtualize WOW and Honorbuddy. this ensured that all was exactly setup and running the same on all VMs.. this was very flexible to run in any environment...virtual apps running on virtual machines.
App-V for Windows