Distribute Loot? & Getting Slaves to accept quests

[TheDrizzle]

Hello,

I am really new to Multi-boxing.

I got Keyclone today and set up some trial accounts and have been playing around with 3-Boxing.

I got all the assist/follow macros but i cant seem to figure out how to get my slaves to all accept a quest, and if I do figure that out, how would I go about doing quests where you need to collect a certain amout of items off a mob or in the world? I dont know how i could distribute the loot to the slaves.

Also,

I really want to 3 Box but I also REALLY dont want to pay $45 (plus upgrading both accounts to TBC/WotLK) a month for it either. I am thinking about Dual Boxing but it seems less productive and fun. I would love to be able to solo instances. Any encouraging words regarding duel boxing would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Lorune]

Try to search for Multiboxer V2 on the forum. it should be somewhere in the macro/addon section.

It allows u to autoaccept quests on all slaves.

To distrubute loot, i personally, just select the window i want to loot with and shift loot it. (i use FFA with my main checking loot first).

Collection quests pretty much same, i use my laptop first to collect, (i hold shift on my main PC and click with the wireless mouse.) And on the rest i just shift loot. Collection quests will always be a shitty thing to do unless they got a really high drop rate.

I am 5 boxing myself, so i cannot help u with the 3box/2box question really :p

[TheDrizzle]

thanks for the info, i will look into the Multiboxer V2, that sounds very helpful, i guess there is no way around the collection quests then. I am 3 boxing on my laptop so to keep the frame rate up i minimize all the slave windows so its a pain to have to loot on each toon. Oh well....

Is 5 boxing not horribly expensive for a game? thats $75 a month. But i guess its fine for some people.



Again thaanks for the info

[Otlecs]

Is 5 boxing not horribly expensive for a game? thats $75 a month. But i guess its fine for some people.
That question comes up alot, and it's a matter of perspective.

Some people make sacrifices / work extra hard to support their multi-box hobby, whereas I, and many others here, could lose that down the back of the sofa and not even notice.

[Lorune]

thanks for the info, i will look into the Multiboxer V2, that sounds very helpful, i guess there is no way around the collection quests then. I am 3 boxing on my laptop so to keep the frame rate up i minimize all the slave windows so its a pain to have to loot on each toon. Oh well....

Is 5 boxing not horribly expensive for a game? thats $75 a month. But i guess its fine for some people.



Again thaanks for the infoUse the maximizer from keyclone. to organise your windows nicely.

About the 5 boxing being expensive, as mentioned above some people got this money to spare. As him, i barely notice it on a monthly basis :)

[phetish]

Is 5 boxing not horribly expensive for a game? thats $75 a month. But i guess its fine for some people.

I run in to people in-game and they say the same thing - "you must be rolling in dough!"

But honestly, it's cheaper than a weekend in a bar... and it keeps me out of the bar, so i don't mind :)

As far as loot - I set my main as the loot master and set it so that only corpses with greens or better sparkle. Any greens get distributed by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate slave. I am boosting, so my focus is on xp not gold.

hope that helps...

[TheDrizzle]

thanks for the responses...

however i am a college student and cannot really spend that kind of cash, it hurts even thinking about paying for 3 boxing.



About the loot. I was mainly thinking about the collection quests but i guess ill just use the maximizer to solve that problem.

If anyone has any good 3 boxing stories about soloing instances feel free to share them.



thanks

[NoobShammy]

As far as loot - I set my main as the loot master and set it so that only corpses with greens or better sparkle. Any greens get distributed by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate slave. I am boosting, so my focus is on xp not gold.

Ok call me retarded but is this an ingame option to make only dead mobs with green+ loot sparkle??

[phetish]

from the Wow API - http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SetLootThreshold

/script SetLootThreshold(2)
0 - Poor 1 - Common 2 - Uncommon 3 - Rare 4 - Epic 5 - Legendary 6 - Artifact
Settings below 2 or above 6 will cause errors.

mobs holding loot below the threshold will not be lootable. Mobs holding loot at or above the threshold will sparkle :)