Talk:Multiboxing 101 (5 Mage Tutorial)
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Maz 03:48, 21 May 2008 (PDT)
I suggest changing the section on creating characters to point out that the characters will appear in your parties in the reverse order in which they were created, so the sequence should be Curly, Mo, Minie, Meanie and Eenie.
Also, rather that have cast macros in this form:
/assist focus /cast Fireball
Why not have:
/cast [target=focustarget]Fireball
That way, you'll retain target for crowd control. If all of your damage spells are cast at focustarget but all of your CC is cast at target, you can set up targets at the start of the fight for sheeping yet retian DPS focus on whatever your lead is targetting.
Finally, I've set up my mages so that one always casts Frostbolt in place of Fireball. It has a slightly different cast time but it maintains the chill effect.
Yes, I'm aware that I do not cover alternate methods for targeting and CC. Thanks for reminding me; I'll go add that to the "Things Not Covered" list as I want this to be what I do as a specific example. Once people get this model working, then they can work on advanced targeting methods, for which many threads already exist. ;)
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Assist-FreeTargeting (--Ughmahedhurtz 08:25, 21 May 2008 (PDT))
Yes, I'm aware that I do not cover alternate methods for targeting and CC. I do this specifically because if I did that, the "If A, then the expected result is B" case list would grow to be huge and I intend this to be a KISS example of basic multibox play. Thanks for reminding me; I'll go add that to the "Things Not Covered" list. Once people get this model working, then they can work on advanced targeting methods, for which many threads already exist. ;)
Removed "this is page is not about" and added links
I removed "this page doesn't talk about x-y-z" because we can't list all the things you aren't talking about and because there is no useful information in that. If you still want to mention important topics, you could make a list with topics that is named something like "useful pages". Here you could place links to pages where people can go if they want to go further with their setup. Then again: this info is already on the frontpage, so it's just better to place links to these pages within the text that you have already. E.g. I have put a link to keyclone, hardware and octopus in your text (where you mentioned those)
Fair enough --Ughmahedhurtz 13:01, 23 May 2008 (PDT)
The main objective is to specifically not confuse people with links or distractions pointing to or explaining "advanced" topics. I wanted this to be a rigid example so people understand a few very basic principles of multiboxing theory. Having the things this did NOT explain was a way to clearly discourage people who are looking for something else from wasting their time reading the "wall o' text." The "This is not xxxxx" list is a common device in specifications or Statements of Work documents. I'm a little surprised that it would be confusing but no big deal. Might be worth adding some links at the end to forward people along to those "next steps" once they're done with the basics here.
Reply --ken_vh
"I'm a little surprised that it would be confusing but no big deal. Might be worth adding some links at the end to forward people along to those "next steps" once they're done with the basics here." It's more that it doesn't really add anything useful for the reader. People can look at the title overview in the box at the top of the page to see what is on the page and can then conclude what is not on it from that info. Adding links for "next steps" is a good way to go though for this kind of info, because then you can explain what is interesting for the reader and why it is so. That's valuable information :)
