A guide to IS Boxer (Long)

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6. Keymaps (Continued)


Example J - Managing Eclipse Procs
Let's say you have a Boomkin Druid on one of your teams. The Eclipse talent gives a very large boost to Starfire after receiving a Wrath crit, and a large boost to Wrath after a Starfire crit.

You can create two Click Castsequences. The first will be IS-MF-Wrath and the second will be IS-MF-Starfire. With the wow macro system, if one castsequence is identical to another, and it is called, the other will advance as well -- which means our timing will be perfect no matter when we switch from one to the other. When we see an Eclipse proc, we move from mashing button 1 to mashing button 2.

Pretty basic stuff so far.

Let's say you have two druids. Suddenly it is four combinations possible, so we'd need 1 = Wrath/Wrath, 2 = Wrath/Starfire, 3 = Starfire/Wrath and 4 = Starfire/Starfire. We'd also need to accurately mash the correct keys (1, 2, 3 or 4) based on procs which would occur regularly. Not so simple anymore, and I've not even mentioned 3 or more druids.

With IS Boxer it is very easy with even a full 5-box Moonkin team, thanks to the incredibly powerful Keymap system.... and we do not need 32 key combinations, and to pray we mash the right one depending on each of the Eclipse states.

Every druid gets their IS-MF-W spam key on 1.
They also get their IS-MF-SF spam key on 2.

Each druid gets their own copy of the following two generic keymaps.

I've called this Keymap Druid Wrath Spam.
This has a hotkey of 1 to activate.
The target is the druids name.
And the output key is 1.

I've called this Keymap Druid Starfire Spam.
This has a hotkey of 1 to activate.
The target is the druids name.
And the output key is 2.

Advanced - Example D shows how to modify Keymaps so they only apply to select teams. In this example, we are modifying the 1 key for the druid group, and would not want this modification to apply to our other teams.

Now we need a control type keymap, one per druid.
Each will need its own hotkey to activate.
Each will be two steps, because it is a toggle type effect.
I'm using G7, G8, G9, G10 and G11 as my hotkeys.

Druid 1 Eclipse Control Keymap.
Hotkey to activate is G7.
---Step 1---
Right clicked Actions and choose Key Map Action >> New Mapped Key State Action. I right click again and choose the same option.
The first one, I choose Druid 1 as the Target. I choose the FTL DPS Keys. I choose Druid Wrath Spam as the Mapped Key and On as the state.
The second one, I choose Druid 1 as the Target. I choose the FTL DPS Keys. I choose Druid Starfire Spam as the mapped Key and Off as the state.
---Step 2---
I do the reverse.
It turns the Wrath spam off and turns the Starfire spam on.

An addon like MSBT can be used to track procs on a per toon basis. Instead of setting Eclipse as the proc message for each druid, have the message for Druid 1 be Press G7 and the message for Druid 2 be Press G8 etc. Nolife demonstrates how to configure MSBT in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvt-cmKWWbY&hd=1

So now we spam 1... and have all of our druids spam away IS-MF-W.
When the addon announces "Press G7", we press our G7 key.
And continue to spam 1.
Which now sends 1 to every Druid except Druid 1, who receives the output of 2, when we mash 1.
As druids get procs, hit the G-key (or whatever hotkey) as the addon announces them.
We don't care which macro a druid starts on, since the Eclipse proc is telling us to cast the other spell type, which we now have an eclipse bonus with.


Example K - Click to Move (on Slaves only)
For those of us who want to have CTM enabled on the slaves, to facilitate having the slaves move closer to quest NPC's or Flight Masters automatically, but who do not like having it enabled on the active toon.

Create two Keymaps, in General Keymaps.

Keymap 1, "CTM Off".
Hotkey: Alt + Ctrl + ,
New Macro Action.
Target: Window (Current)
Key Combination: Control + Alt + ,
Display As (in Step): Checked; "Ctrl + Alt + Comma (CTM Off)"
In macro generator: /console AutoInteract 0

Keymap 2, "CTM On".
Hotkey: Alt + Ctrl + .
New Macro Action.
Target: Window (All w/o Current)
Key Combination: Control + Alt + .
Display As (in Step): Checked; "Ctrl + Alt + Period (CTM On)"
In macro generator: /console AutoInteract 1

Then modified the Follow/JambaMaster Keymap (Control Keymaps)
Added (twice) - Key Map Actions >> Do Mapped Key Action.
a) Window: Current, General, CTM Off.
b) Window: Current, General, CTM on.

Apply these two modifications to the Keymap which runs automatically on PiP switch.