4x DK - Keeping within melee range

[musixman]

Hey,

So i'm rolling 4 shaman's @ am at lvl 63 and am doing great... so I tried to rolling 4 DK & I freaking suck at it LOL.

How the hell do you keep you crew in Melee attack in range? I'm running Keyclone & your basic assist follow macro's, double mouse click for movement, keyboard 1-9 for attack's spells.

I would really appreciate your help I can't seem to figure out how to do this right.

Thanks,
Musix

[Interr-Raciall]

With my very little experience with boxing DK's..

I had the second DK do the grab and then I just turned around with the front one and started destroying the target. But I didn't get far with it so I'm not sure how much that actually works out.

[musixman]

Interr,

Ya that makes sense.

I've got my guys on follow @ they always seem to be out of range to swing at the target even when I grab'em.

[Lax]

Run past the mob a little bit and turn around. I play a holy paladin and 4 DK most of the time, that's pretty much it. If I need to reposition during combat i just hit my follow key again and move a little.

Something else you can do is enable Click to Move, and use the Interact with Target keybind, which will make you move to the mob and attack it

[jimbobobb]

Something else you can do is enable Click to Move, and use the Interact with Target keybind, which will make you move to the mob and attack itTHIS

Doing anything else is just silly and a waste of time/effort.

Go into keybindings. Find the 'interact with target' keybind. Bind it to a key. (for instance mine is backspace) GO into options, and enable 'click to move' on all of your slaves. Make a /assist macro - bind it to a key (for instance mine is the '-' key which is right next to backspace.

1: target a mob on your main
2: hit your assist
3: hit your interact with target keybind
4: profit

And no, you cannnot put this all in one macro - interact with target can only be a keybind, not a macro option. Has to be two button presses. But whatever it's amazing, and every multi boxer should be using this all the time, especially in conjunction with jamba for opening up quest givers, selling, repairing, etc etc.

[lans83]

Something else you can do is enable Click to Move, and use the Interact with Target keybind, which will make you move to the mob and attack itTHIS

Doing anything else is just silly and a waste of time/effort.

Go into keybindings. Find the 'interact with target' keybind. Bind it to a key. (for instance mine is backspace) GO into options, and enable 'click to move' on all of your slaves. Make a /assist macro - bind it to a key (for instance mine is the '-' key which is right next to backspace.

1: target a mob on your main
2: hit your assist
3: hit your interact with target keybind
4: profit

And no, you cannnot put this all in one macro - interact with target can only be a keybind, not a macro option. Has to be two button presses. But whatever it's amazing, and every multi boxer should be using this all the time, especially in conjunction with jamba for opening up quest givers, selling, repairing, etc etc.


I do this with my Pally team, but I have my "Interact with target" button set to Tab on slaves, not main, E key on slaves have the "/assist focus" macro bound to it. I allow E to be passed to all accounts and Q on roundrobin, but that I use for Hammer of Justice for controlled stunning. I have the ` (console key next to 1) scripted to "Turnoraction" for 'click on ground' AoE spells like Blizzard for mages or Volley for hunters. I also use Jamba, which I suggest every multiboxer do. I have two macros to both turn on and turn off follow strobing. They are:
/jamba-follow strobeoff all
/jamba-follow strobeonme all

If you turn it off and want your team to stay put or stop following you, make sure you manually move them backwards. I have the 'stroboff' macro set to my Down Arrow key and that same key keybound on all slaves to move backwards. My main does not move when I hit that key. The strobing allows Jamba to continually fast the /follow command every second, but this can be adjusted. I don't suggest changing from the default 1 second tho. This will ensure your team stays within a 5-6 yard radius of you at all times as long as you're not manually moving them around by other means. So if you accidentally target someone with them and hit the 'Interact with Target' key, they don't go running to it if you don't want them to if you have the 'Click to move' option turned on. I also have 'Auto attack on Assist' turned on, but only for my melee groups. Make sure you don't turn this on if you run ranged/casters. All of my attack spells on slaves also have their own macros that have '/assist focus' on the first line, then the '/cast spell' on the second line. This insures that my team is always targeting what I want them to target. If I don't want them to target it, I just left click my own spells with my mouse and let them Auto attack their own targets. In most cases, by the time I switch targets, the original is about 10%-20% from dieing anyway. That's where DoTs and Consecration or other AoE spells take them down. I'll create a post soon enough about my setup with screenshots and macro list, but I really don't do anything too complex.

[musixman]

Jimbob & Lans,

This is exactly what I needed to know thank's so much for spending the time to explain it to me. I followed what your advice and now i'm killing it :)

Lans - I use Jamba aswell and it's sick! But I didn't know about the strobe command i've added that macro to all my guys.

I keep ya updated the next step for me is to learn how to mix in different classes :)

Thanks Again,
Musix

[terraforma]

Lans83, would you mind posting your script for the ground target aoe spells? searched this site and a general google search, but could not find anything on it, thanks in advance

[MarkHR]

This is what works for me with 5x shaman



Use follow/assist macro (make sure "attack on assist" is checked in preferences)

keybind "interact with target"

Select target on main, run assist macro on alts, press keybind as necessary (if mob moves during melee)



You can also use the follow/assist macro with the keybind to simplify corpse autolooting on alts

[terraforma]

yea, but that will not cast any groundtarget spells tho ;)

[Ualaa]

I use keyclone, for ground target spells you need some form of mouse broadcasting.

If you use Keyclone, open it, click on Set Up.
Go to the General options by clicking General on the left.
About half way down on the right you have an option.... "pass mouse click hotkey".
There is a box, click in it and pick a hotkey.
I have distinguish left/right mouse click and focus follows mouse both checked.

My particular key is F7. It can be anything that you like.
You'll want to make sure its not bound to anything within warcraft, so clicking it doesn't do anything else.

The slaves need to be the same aspect ratio as the main.
Press F7 (your hotkey actually), then Z (or whatever keybind your Blizzard is on).
Now click on the screen where you want it.
Your slaves will click on the same relative position in their windows.
Since they should be following the main, the click will be slightly behind but almost in the same position.
It helps to have the slaves at the same camera distance as the main, and using the same view option.
When you're done, hit F7 again (your hotkey) to disable Mouse Broadcasting.

Hope this helps some.
Each of the programs Hot Key Net, Inner Space, Octopus, Keyclone etc has some form of mouse broadcasting, I believe.

[terraforma]

I have tried that, but it´s too uncertain where it lands, aspect ratio correct or not, slightest camera angle or terrain difference puts it off by a mile most of the time, thats why I asked for his /script macro thingie.

Thanks tho for the suggestion, it is just not for me :)