bbj
12-13-2007, 05:48 PM
Greetings Everyone.
I have a 70 druid and a few bagmen on Twilights Hammer (EU)( Horde )
I recently received a fellow Guildies account ( RL overtook him ) and ive starting getting setup to dualbox. I'll be running on a single PC with 2x 19" LG LCD screens. I already have a WOW Zboard ( not the TBC one ) and a fang.
Keyclone is setup and configured with desktop running in horzontal span ( MSI Nvidia 7950GT I still need to bring video settings down a tad ( theyre both running full tilt right now ) The screen that has focus is hovering at 40FPS while the other drops down to about 15-20 FPS. As soon as switch focus the values swap. I'll be upping my 2.4 Core2Duo to a Quad core next week ( gotta wait for crhistmas Bonus )
Anyway, on to the controls. Ive always been a pointy-clicky player, and the switch to keybinding is not easy but its getting there.
The Z-board has 2 layouts. the emote button switched between them. Ive setup keyclone not to let pass any of the normal A-z keys so that i can still type messages to guildies without my toon wanting to take on the world on his own.
What i was thinking of doing was to use layout2 ( it only uses the F-keys for emotes right now ) and bind each key to its ALT-(key) equivalent and then to use CT-mod Bars 6,7,8 to bind all of these buttons. Bars 1-5 belong to wow and i wanna keep en unchanged for when i instance run with the guild. I can then add all my macros to those button using one line on the keyboard line ( qwer.....)for offensive and the other for defensive with the last for actions ( follow, assist, etc ). the other account has a 3 piece Tier-4 Priest
this way i can also setup my "boxing wow's" to have as few bars as possible ( hide all but 6-8 )
I was thinking of printing new button images. a friend of mine has an alps printer for making decals. Some clearcote over that to prevent it from rubbing off too quickly and it should look quite cool
the fang will get used for all the bottons that i wont have on layout 2 ( like shift-B, M, V, x,z,f,, etc )
I have a master copy of wow that get used for updating addons and patches and then robocopy syncs that with my boxing installations ( all except the WTF folders )
some suggestions i have
1) form a guild and buy as many vault slots as you can. This will save you postage in the long run ( very long run ) as deposits and withdrawels dont cost anything and its instant.
2) if youre running gatherer, switch off the broadcasting to guild option. it creates a ton of traffic. ( im in South Africa and my ave ping is 500ms )
3) Normally when im out in the field i have a bagman near a mailbox. Anything that drops in the field gets sent to the bagman who either dumps the stuff on the AH or sticks it in the vault. I have 2 toons with their own bags and bank maxxed with leathers, hence the need for the vault. The mailbox has a hard limit of 300 items in the queue, so if youre using the mail to store stuff keep this in mind.
4) learn to use focus macros.
once i have all of this down, i'll consider going 3 or even 4 box
John
I have a 70 druid and a few bagmen on Twilights Hammer (EU)( Horde )
I recently received a fellow Guildies account ( RL overtook him ) and ive starting getting setup to dualbox. I'll be running on a single PC with 2x 19" LG LCD screens. I already have a WOW Zboard ( not the TBC one ) and a fang.
Keyclone is setup and configured with desktop running in horzontal span ( MSI Nvidia 7950GT I still need to bring video settings down a tad ( theyre both running full tilt right now ) The screen that has focus is hovering at 40FPS while the other drops down to about 15-20 FPS. As soon as switch focus the values swap. I'll be upping my 2.4 Core2Duo to a Quad core next week ( gotta wait for crhistmas Bonus )
Anyway, on to the controls. Ive always been a pointy-clicky player, and the switch to keybinding is not easy but its getting there.
The Z-board has 2 layouts. the emote button switched between them. Ive setup keyclone not to let pass any of the normal A-z keys so that i can still type messages to guildies without my toon wanting to take on the world on his own.
What i was thinking of doing was to use layout2 ( it only uses the F-keys for emotes right now ) and bind each key to its ALT-(key) equivalent and then to use CT-mod Bars 6,7,8 to bind all of these buttons. Bars 1-5 belong to wow and i wanna keep en unchanged for when i instance run with the guild. I can then add all my macros to those button using one line on the keyboard line ( qwer.....)for offensive and the other for defensive with the last for actions ( follow, assist, etc ). the other account has a 3 piece Tier-4 Priest
this way i can also setup my "boxing wow's" to have as few bars as possible ( hide all but 6-8 )
I was thinking of printing new button images. a friend of mine has an alps printer for making decals. Some clearcote over that to prevent it from rubbing off too quickly and it should look quite cool
the fang will get used for all the bottons that i wont have on layout 2 ( like shift-B, M, V, x,z,f,, etc )
I have a master copy of wow that get used for updating addons and patches and then robocopy syncs that with my boxing installations ( all except the WTF folders )
some suggestions i have
1) form a guild and buy as many vault slots as you can. This will save you postage in the long run ( very long run ) as deposits and withdrawels dont cost anything and its instant.
2) if youre running gatherer, switch off the broadcasting to guild option. it creates a ton of traffic. ( im in South Africa and my ave ping is 500ms )
3) Normally when im out in the field i have a bagman near a mailbox. Anything that drops in the field gets sent to the bagman who either dumps the stuff on the AH or sticks it in the vault. I have 2 toons with their own bags and bank maxxed with leathers, hence the need for the vault. The mailbox has a hard limit of 300 items in the queue, so if youre using the mail to store stuff keep this in mind.
4) learn to use focus macros.
once i have all of this down, i'll consider going 3 or even 4 box
John