New to Multiboxing and unsure how to start

[Whø]

hey,
I am new to multi-boxing and would like to try it, however I don't know how to start. First of all I would like to download the program, hopefully one that would allow me to run two versions of W.o.W. on the same computer. It would also be nice to get one that doesn't have to be unzipped because I dont have winzip. Further directions would be nice aswell, I'll probably use my account and a trial to see if I like multi-boxing to begin with and might upgrade the second account.


P.S. I don't know much about programming or other things too advance, although I will see if I can understand most of what is said.

[jdpatt]

If you're looking to get your feet wet and see if you like it, without a huge investment of your time and money, I'd recommend WinEQ. You can get the basic software for free, or the upgraded, "Pro" version for a little more money. It's easy to use, well supported, and should get you up and running in less than an hour.

http://www.lavishsoft.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=4

[Wilbur]

Firstly. Wrong forum.

Secondly. WinEQ does not broadcast keys. Try using Octopus.

[Chinoy]

KeyClone is all you need brother man

[Ualaa]

I'd recommend the addon Jamba, found in the macro/addon forum of this site.
You can use a few different programs for your key broadcasting, Octopus and Keyclone seem to be the most popular. I'd recommend Keyclone between the two, but it costs $20.

The wiki and stickies are a great place to start.

You'll need to decide upon an assist method for the slave account.
Your basic options are:
-- Assist by toon name
-- Assist your focus
-- Assist party leader
-- The FTL assist system

The first is simplest, the last is most complex in terms of setting up, but also its more powerful once set up.

If you always run toon A as leader and toon B as slave, and never switch which toon is in the active window, then Assist by name is a decent option.
If you will switch which window is the active picture in picture, then you'll want one of the latter three assist methods.

Assist by focus, means all toons make the new active toon their focus.
Spells/Abilities are like this /cast [target=focustarget] spell name.

Assist by party leader uses paging, to keep focus free.
Your syntax is /cast [target=party1target] spell name.
For this system, your leader switch macro will put the new leader on page 2 (action bars, like Shift 2 in wow) and the slaves on page 1.
Page 2 has the same spells/macro's as page 1, but without assist. Page 1 has each macro with assist party 1.
So the master casts normally and the slaves assist the leader.

The FTL system is a serious pain to set up. But if you can get it working (and there's good instructions/explanations in its thread), it is the most powerful assist method.
It uses keystrings in keyclone, where you assist the active toon, based on which toon is active.
As in you just cast your spells normally, and keyclone tells the other windows to assist your main window toon.
A lot of set up to get it working, but this is the ideal system once set up, as you have focus free and don't need to mess around with paging.



Your macro's will use a combination of /cast, /castsequence and include the "," in sequences for pauses.
There are a ton of macro's people use to great effect, regardless of their assist method.

Using the same class for each toon is simplest as far as macro's go.
Using a more diverse mix of classes makes the set up harder, but gives you more flexibility.
Half the challenge, and fun, is setting up the system to work well in game.

[eqjoe]

Check out HotKeyNet. It is the only free and fully functional multi-box multi-system solution there is.

-j

[slongz]

Easy way to get started you can run 2 on 1 puter with no soft its just a pain click the wow button 2 times.

Id suggest as others using keyclone its very easy to setup then jamba that will get you goin .

A few macros if your brand new look up some of the video's thats on this site (they helped me)

depending on your toons you will need a follow/mount/assist/heal

rest you can get by with or without.

[spannah]

not really related to multiboxing, but 7-zip ('http://www.7-zip.org/') is a really good free zip/unzip program.

[horiziel]

To run 2 versions on one computer you need: 2 subscriptions and 2 registered copies of wow (one for each account). You dont need to install wow twice, and can run both instances from the same folder.

If you are only running 2 accounts i dont think you need to worry about keyclone in the beginning, you could just keep both versions in windowed mode and alt-tab between them. Its a nice program though, so if you have the $20 to spare it can be quite fun to tinker around with.