Amateur 2 boxing question

[Macallen]

I don't 2 box often, but I want to lvl 2 toon to 80 so I'm getting into it. Before, I just had one on auto follow and they were useless, but I'd like to actually use my 2nd toon now. My primary is a well-geared beast master hunter, and my secondary is a well-geared resto shaman.

In an "ideal world", I'd have my hunter on my primary box and my shaman on my less-powerful laptop. I'd have buttons/macros on my hunter's box that sent /tells to my shaman to command her to do things like cast buffs, heals, and drop totems as well as follow or stop following.

I looked at Multibox and (from what I can understand), it sends commands to both systems, which isn't (I don't think) what I want. I want to have both boxes in front of me but only have to type on one keyboard.

Is this possible, or am I smoking something crazy?

[ElectronDF]

A key broadcaster send keys, not commands, not tells, not anything other than keys to other computers (or windows on same computer). So you push '1' and 1 gets sent to the other alts. They can have anything they want on the '1' hotbar. You probably want the shammy to put down totems and then to heal as your 2 most important things. Sure, you can have him attack if you want, but that is probably messy with a hunter. The most important things to remember is boxing is not really easy (or it can get hard) and start small and work your way up. First make a macro that heals your pet or you. You can focus your main then use something like:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell
That would heal whoever has aggro, no matter who it is. Then work on figuring out other parts and add them one at a time. It makes it easier to fix if things don't work if you only change a few things at a time.
Good luck.

[Macallen]

A key broadcaster send keys, not commands, not tells, not anything other than keys to other computers (or windows on same computer). So you push '1' and 1 gets sent to the other alts. They can have anything they want on the '1' hotbar. You probably want the shammy to put down totems and then to heal as your 2 most important things. Sure, you can have him attack if you want, but that is probably messy with a hunter. The most important things to remember is boxing is not really easy (or it can get hard) and start small and work your way up. First make a macro that heals your pet or you. You can focus your main then use something like:


#showtooltip

/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell

That would heal whoever has aggro, no matter who it is. Then work on figuring out other parts and add them one at a time. It makes it easier to fix if things don't work if you only change a few things at a time.

Good luck.It doesn't broadcast to both? That's what I thought it meant, so I press 1 and 1 is pressed on both systems. Is that not what they do? That seemed odd to me, as I'd have to set up non-overlapping keys on both systems so I could do things on my hunter while my shaman wasn't burning out her mana dropping totem after totem.

[Airlan]

I don't 2 box often, but I want to lvl 2 toon to 80 so I'm getting into it. Before, I just had one on auto follow and they were useless, but I'd like to actually use my 2nd toon now. My primary is a well-geared beast master hunter, and my secondary is a well-geared resto shaman.

In an "ideal world", I'd have my hunter on my primary box and my shaman on my less-powerful laptop. I'd have buttons/macros on my hunter's box that sent /tells to my shaman to command her to do things like cast buffs, heals, and drop totems as well as follow or stop following.

I looked at Multibox and (from what I can understand), it sends commands to both systems, which isn't (I don't think) what I want. I want to have both boxes in front of me but only have to type on one keyboard.

Is this possible, or am I smoking something crazy?

I just found this site off of google and I found this post, pretty funny I am trying to learn a solid way to dual-box my Hunter with a Resto Druid for raids, and then for 70 to 80 when LK hits.

My goal: Be able to dps on my hunter, while my druid will spam Wild Growth, or roll HoTs on my hunter/the main tank; while only pressing keys on my hunter. Possible?

Hopefully someone comes in here and educates us!

[Turenn]

Seriously, go read the Wiki and the support forum.

[davedontmind]

My goal: Be able to dps on my hunter, while my druid will spam Wild Growth, or roll HoTs on my hunter/the main tank; while only pressing keys on my hunter. Possible?

Hopefully someone comes in here and educates us!It's all in the wiki and in these forums (use that search box up there ^)

But for a quick over-view, here's a simplified way of doing it:

1) get a keyboard multiplexer (I favour keyclone) - this will broadcast keystrokes, so when you press a key, all running copies of WoW see that keypress
2) on your hunter, set up a "do dps" macro, bind it to a key, e.g. /castsequence auto shot, steady shot, multi shot, arcane shot, (whatever, i'm no hunter expert)
3) on your druid/shaman/whatever set up a "do dps" macro, bind it to the same key, e.g. /assist myhunter /cast lightning bolt
4) spam that key, both toons do dps on the hunter's target

You can then bind some heals to keys on your healer, but leave those keys unassigned on your hunter.
Then you can progress to making things more flexible by using focus or target options in your macros. It's all in the wiki.

The trick is to start small, read the wiki, add more flexibility/complexity, read the wiki, and build it up gradually. Then read the wiki.
If you get stuck, post in the support forum. But make sure you've read the wiki first!

[Killefitt]

When playing 2 different classes like this I like to choose some keys I dont normally use on my main, like the numberpad keys, and bind these keys to some things the follower can do on command. THe druid would have his 0 to + keys bound to the number pad keys. They would all be macros like

/assist focus
/cast Moonfire

or

/target focus
/cast Rejuvinate

This way I can play my main normally, then hit the numberpad for those helper abilities. I also have the tilde key as a /follow focus macro because that gets broken a lot. THen all these keys can get sent to both wows, but they might not do anything on your main, just the helper. Focus could be your pet, or a tank if you ever play with someone else.

But thats just how I do it, everyone has quite different setups and preferences!

Kille