Multiboxing is allowed ?

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gilrad wrote:

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I don't believe this is worthwhile in the new leagues, because you mostly get IIR bonuses from having more characters on the team and boss drops are already mostly magic items, so the bonus doesn't help.

You're right that it's not worth it, but it's not worth it for different reasons:

Even going solo, with enough IIR killing a boss can fill the screen with rares. Pre-1.0 people would multibox to get even more rares, as well as using a dedicated culling strike character to maximize on IIQ and IIR. It was a lot of work and a lot of tab switching, from what videos I saw (I never actually bothered trying it out myself).

Now however, doing Dominus runs is so much easier and the loot is just slightly less time-efficient, I really don't see why anybody would bother multiboxing piety or vaal anymore.

Think of it this way:

Before, you would spend 5-10 minutes getting to piety, a few minutes juggling your multiple accounts, a minute or two killing piety while trying not to get your other accounts killed in the crossfire, and all for a screen full of rares and maybe a unique.

Now, you can spend 5 minutes or less getting to Dominus, kill him without bothering with multiple accounts (I imagine the blood rain is very unhealthy for them anyway), get a slightly smaller screen filled with rares and maybe a unique.

But the difference of volume of rares doesn't really matter in the long run, unless you blindly flip them for alts you're going to be spending the lion's share of your time making sure you aren't selling a high-quality rare.


I suppose if you're really gunning for a particular unique, you could stack IIR and multibox and see how many uniques you can get to drop consistently from a boss, but IIR and IIQ have diminishing returns if they get too high so you're probably not going to get that many more uniques than a guy who just aims for ~150 IIR ~100 IIQ and does everything solo.