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    Default Who do you drive from in instances?

    When in an instance, which character do you usually drive from?

    I've played a Paladin Tank since BC and I can't help but try and drive from my tank because I'm just used to being the MT, but I find that I'll get behind on healing or missing procs, or movement because they're just not in my view or I get distracted.

    My group is composed of : Paladin Tank, Frost Mage x 3 and Shaman Healer. I just started multi-boxing in Legion because my friends quit playing but I still wanted to do content (that wasn't LFR) without having to commit to a full time raiding guild.

    It's probably just a time/practice thing for me.

    I suppose that my goal is to be able to seamlessly switch from between my toons and still have things go off like I expect them to (i.e. tanks still tank/mitigate dmg, DPS still casts their rotation, Healer runs through their rotation).

    Thanks for your input. Looking forward to hearing what works for you :)

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    I just started a trinity team with 3 melee so I'll try to get used to lead with the healer and see the 4 four other ones as *pet*. I'm curious, how does it go for you with that team? It's pretty unusual!

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    In a tank/healer/3 DPS group I spend >99% of the time driving from the tank. I find I get much better aggro management that way. There is also always the issue of CTM/IWT potentially causing runaways if you play from the healer.

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    Personally, I like to drive from the tank because, like you, I've been a tank for most of my WoW career and it just feels more natural. However, I like to have the ability to lead from any character in the event that I need to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charly View Post
    I just started a trinity team with 3 melee so I'll try to get used to lead with the healer and see the 4 four other ones as *pet*. I'm curious, how does it go for you with that team? It's pretty unusual!
    It goes pretty well. Like I said I'm still new to multi-boxing and learning what works/doesn't.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alge View Post
    I find I get much better aggro management that way.
    I drive from my Paladin because I literally just -know- what to do since I've been playing him so long and can handle aggro like you said, much better.

    But managing the mages (esp. their procs) is something I'm refining. I think that instead of straight broadcasting keys to them, I need to figure out a good cast sequence or something that does reliably good damage that I can invoke via ISBoxer.

    The other thing that I have trouble with (and again I think it's just practice/refinement) is forgetting to heal on my Shaman. One of my best friends was my Main Heal for most of the expansions and I got so used to relying on him! Now I'm having to rethink about each fight (i.e. Ok how can I handle this mechanic? I should probably mitigate it and have a HoTs already rolling, etc.) and then having to remember to hit the buttons.

    I play left-handed (mouse in left hand) and use the NumPad for most of my keybinds. I had separate keybinds for my healer (to allow for greater control) but where they are placed requires me to move my hand off my mouse, which I find can really limit moving out of things for my tank, etc. So maybe something like clique or something else might work better. Just need to get a day to experiment.

    I've been checking out MiRai's setup video because the Tank/Healer combo is the same thing I'm running.

    It's interesting to see and hear what other people are doing and it helps me learn a lot.

    So thanks so much to everyone who has contributed so far.

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    bgarisn,

    I'm not sure if you are using the macro "/cast [@name] spell" for the Healing Rain spell, but this would be a good AoE Healing macro for your DPS characters to heal up from AoE damage. Personally I wasn't aware of the [@name} targeting option so I was not using many targeted area spells due to difficulty with mouse click target selection on the non-main characters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gomotron View Post
    bgarisn,

    I'm not sure if you are using the macro "/cast [@name] spell" for the Healing Rain spell, but this would be a good AoE Healing macro for your DPS characters to heal up from AoE damage. Personally I wasn't aware of the [@name] targeting option so I was not using many targeted area spells due to difficulty with mouse click target selection on the non-main characters.
    Yeah, I'm doing that. I wasn't aware of it either until someone (MiRai) pointed it out on here :-P

    My macro is simply the following, but I'm looking into perhaps expanding it via GSE macros (maybe):

    Code:
    #showtooltip
    /cast [@player] Healing Rain
    Appreciate the advice!

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