okely dokely neighbors! I posted this on another thread, and thought i should probably NOT bury it in someone elses thread cuz i think it deserves its own Hopefully someone can copy/paste this into the stickies somewhere if many people find this useful (though its really simple to set up if you've been boxing a while and understand the mechanics lol) Here goes: good luck have fun rawrawrawr!
PS this example uses the DEATHKNIGHT class for that is what i've most experience tho its fairly simple to use whatever else, the principals are the same


Here's what you need to do:

1. Set Up your toons as normal(i use a focus for leader system so i'll explain that way, i think this is the best way to do this as its REALLY hard to do it leaderlessly... im not gonna explain why but you'll have to trust me

2. Set up a bar with however many characters you have, have that many buttons on it for each toon so you can focus them on demand(that way you can focus any of your guys and use them as a leader i use my F9 thru F12 keys as they're easy access and out of the way so you dont accidentally press and change focus(that can be messy))

3. Set up your first skill in your rotation or whatever you pull with, Im using DK spells for this example (icy touch for everyone pretty much i would imagine) with a macro thats something like -->
/target focustarget
/cast icy touch
what this macro will do will be to lead off your damage dealing with auto targeting whatever your main/focus has targeted. ***(i dont do this however cuz if you want to sic your dks on something else with interact and want to use this skill then it auto targets what you're on and messes that up. What I do is to have a key (SHIFT+F) that does the /target focustarget that way i have to manually control the alts, forcing them to target and basically making them have a sticky target system till the mobs dead Once you get a feel for this system its only a matter of time that you'd do it this way.

******** a side note from this, the reason i use a separate key to force targeting is so that i can put each DK on a separate mob at the start of the fight for: Death grips, Interrupts, CC. This lets my tank tab target as well getting threat on everything while my dks stay on what needs to be cc'd gripped or interrupted, so i can still tank

4. okay i got side tracked there lol numba FOUR! WOOT!: now that you've deciphered how your alts are going to get their target you need to bind your key for interact with target(i use Z as its in a good spot and easily spammed, yet still out of the way. Looking back, i'd prefer to put it on my E key(but i use E for other stuff so i cant lol) so it can be more easily spammed (for pvp purposes and when stuff moves around faster you need to spam it more to stay in range) Either way, put this somewhere close to your dps rotation keys cuz you may very well need to hit it SEVERAL times per fight

5. OKAY so now that you've set up your melee keybinds dont forget to use your follow key, for when shtuff goes crazy and you need to fix a guy thats running off, or when the mob is dead and you gotta start the chase to the next one. Put this on a modifier and on a key close by but still out of the way i use F but i'd recommend using SHIFT F or SHIFT G... or if you have a mouse with extra buttons and you're not using them put BOTH interact with target on one key, and SHIFT + that key for follow.
(SIDE NOTE AGAIN!) JAMBA USERS!! **** MAKE DAMN SURE***** MAKE DAMN SURE ****** that you have auto follow strobing turned OFFFFF OFF OFFFFOFFOFFOFFOFF for this to work!

6. Make sure auto strobing in jamba is turned off! (if you use it)

7. Make sure CLICK TO MOVE IS ENABLED

8. Basic combat: oh goody! i see a mob! ROMG target it with main( on a side note, i usually leave my main character on a manual control system so that i dont interact with target on him i prefer it this way but at the same time its nice having to not have to do anything pretty much lol. If you do this, you'd have to unbind the interact with target key every time you change whoever is leading, this is strictly up to you how you do it tho, you could possibly just use a shift, alt, ctrl modifier for each different toon but then you'd have a lot of spamming going on tho manual control of each slave would be nice for this lol perhaps its possible since you have two slots you can keybind interact target with!) SO you see a mob, target with main, force your slaves to target with your main assist key, click interact with target keybind----> should lead to your guys all running toward the badguy to face smash em and stopping where the mob is, basically "clicking to move" to the spot where the mob was.

8 1/2. Sometimes the mob will move when they get agro on your main/slaves due to the way agro works, when you first interacted your toons were basically "clicked" to move to where that mob WAS... they will continue and stop at that point, so you may not be in range, just click your interact key one more time your slaves will turn and get in range, from there its just basic beatdown of mobs ie dps rotation(drop your diseases, spread them, aoe, dump runic power lol). I've grown accustom to setting up my pulling spell with chains of ice (with my target focustarget in that macro)o put the mob rooted, then interacting so my guys run over to it, this prevents this little out of range problem somewhat, but it doesnt work for bossfights andthose immune to the root effects

9. Well then, that covers basic melee run down with a focus based system... This is for people to have a break down of how to set up a melee team. hope it helps communitY! I LUVS JOO! <3
[align=center] :thumbup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 8o :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbup:
[/align]