Confused on where to begin

[adamb10]

Hi,

First off Im new to this forum and looked on the wiki and the various guides but Im still confused on where to begin.

Basically I'm gonna do RAF in WoW with myself. I wanna roll a Shaman and a mage. My computer is fully capable of running 2 wow clients but I have a laptop that can run WoW if necessary. Anyway I need someone to point me in the right direction to dual box., ideally it would be free to do. :P

Thanks!

[welwyn]

for something extra to look into, you first want to find a keybroadcasting system. if on 1 pc then you will need a software option. if you want it free try looking into AutoHotKey http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/AutoHotKey

I cant really give any specific answers here though as its such an open question. however feel free to come back ( preferably to this thread so as not to make too many on the forums) and ask more questions once you checked out that link and some of the other free keybroadcasters.

[algol]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Guides#Basic_Start-up_Guides

[Ualaa]

With a two-box setup, both on the same computer, you're going the software route.
Hotkeynet works for many, I personally use Keyclone and recommend that; either will work for you.
I highly recommend Jamba addon, with the thread by Jafula in the macro/addon forum.

You're going to need to choose an assist method.
With two toons, you can have one as primary and one as secondary, then have the secondary always just Line1 /assist Primary and Line2 /cast Spell.
If you want to change which toon is primary so they can both be primary or secondary (more important as you add more toons to box), your basic options are Focus Based or Leadership based assisting.

With focus based, each toon has a focus key per toon. So macro 1 will read.. /Focus Shaman'sName and macro 2 will read.. /Focus Mage'sName.
Both toons will have both macro's and on the same keybind. So if you press the Focus Shaman macro key, they both click that macro.
Then all your spells or castsequences are either: Line1 /assist focus -and- Line2 /cast Spell --or-- /cast [target=focustarget] Spell.
The first will have your slave target the masters target and then cast. The second will not even target anything but it will still cast at the master's target.
The second is probably better for pvp, as you don't broadcast what you're targeting.
The first with target is good for pve, as your background toon can have a macro to targetlastenemy and then skin the target, while your main can herb/mine for all gathering skills covered.

With Leadership based assist, you're essentially taking advantage of paging.
You have assist macro's the same as focus, except they're two line macro's. Line1 /script PromoteToLeader("MageName") -and- Line2 /changeactionbar #.
On the mage's macro when the mage is becoming leader the # is 2, for action bar 2. Same thing for the shaman's macro when the shaman is becoming leader, this is also 2.
On macro's where any of the other toons are becoming leader, the # is 1, for action bar 1.
On bar 1, you have the same spells/abilities as bar 2, but they're all macro's where Line1 reads: /assist [target=party1] -and- Line2 is either /cast Spell or /castsequence Spell 1, Spell 2.
On bar 2, you have the same spells/abilities as bar 1, but they're straight spells or castsequences without any form of assist.
So whichever toon is lead casts normally and all the slaves assist that toon.
The reason for the paging, is the leader sees the 2nd toon in group (Press F2 on party leader) as the party1 toon. Everyone else (not the leader presses F2 [party1] and gets the party leader.

[adamb10]

I'm currently dual boxing the cheap way (put mage on follow and have my mage kill stuff). I looked at keyclone and I dont really wanna pay $20 for a program I'll maybe use for 1 month and then never again. Autohotkey also seemed a bit confusing to configure with the scripts.

I got Octopus to run somewhat, it mapped the keys I pressed but not the cursor.

[spannah]

As far as I know there is no software solution to "map" the "cursor". I want your mouse to behave the same for both accounts, you will need two computers.