Tracker Stacker

[Dzonatan]

A funny name for a thread but read on to get the point.
Since I 5 multibox with my pallies I find it increasingly difrficult to have enough money for all my needs. So I can down to an conclusion it would be wise to utilize the 10 proffesion slots I have and further increase my pleasure from the game

Main:
Fishing + Cooking for Buff food.
First Aid - for healing usefull once in a while.
Enchant,Tailoring - to disenchant useless greens I tend to find (pity you can DE your slave quests rewards), use the found cloth for bags, shirts and making greens for DE.
Second:
Minning, Blacksmithing - for some greens with might be usefull for Pallies.
Third:
Herb, Alchemy- for Buff Elixirs
Fourth:
JC, Eng - the 2nd char might provide this one with neccesary ores for various gadgets and jewelry.
Fifth:
Ins, Skin - this one would gather skins from possible mobs and provided with herbs for pigments by third char make Glyphs for all pallies.

The point of this thread is for the 2nd and 3rd char. Is there some kind of addon with displays both tracks (find herb from 3rd and find minerals from 2nd) into one Minimap (lets say my main). Im familiar with gatherer addon but im not sure if it has this function.

[Fef]

I don't think it is possible to display the actual track on a character without the corresponding gathering skill.

I will be very pleased if I am wrong, though, since I don't always drive my gatherer on the main window, and even when I do, he is often a miner/herbalist, so I miss some stuff.

[midnightrain]

Not sure you always drive with your main, but I would be tempted to put mining/engineering there, given the list provided. Mining so that the minimap tracker works, and engineering as quite a few of the gadgets are really only useful to a character you'll actively driving.

[RdrckSmith]

I've not found anything that lets you display more than one type of tracking on a single minimap (and I've been looking since back in my solo-boxing days of WoW when I wanted both mining and herbalism). Instead, I tend to put both mining and herbalism on my main (I've found it makes it much easier for the gathering to not have to click in one of the slaves' screens) and then train my third of four slaves in one of either herbalism or mining. That way I can set my main to have, for example, Find Minerals always on the minimap while the slave (whose screen sits in the position where I've found it's quickest and easiest for my eyes to flicker over to that slaves minimap) has Find Herbs always turned on. I put the GatherMate add-on on my main and keep it displaying both minerals and herbs so that if I see that there are some little green circles on the minimap I can take a quick glance over at the slave's minimap to see if there are any gold dots that I should go visit.

It's maybe not the ideal solution, and yes you do lose one of the 10 profession slots for having to "double-train" a gathering profession but I didn't want engineering anyway...maybe. :)

[Dzonatan]

Thank you for the usefull posts and I think I'll use Smith trick.

[Taliesin]

I don't know if anyone else saw it, but there was a period from around Sept-Oct last year where my rogue could track both mines and herbs at the same time. I just had to switch tracking modes and the previous one stayed on while the other was active. It stopped working around the time when the expansion came out. Never had any idea why that worked or why it stopped. It worked for a month or two, so it didn't seem to be just a fluke glitch, I thought it was a hidden "buff" to tracking. Heh.

[Redbeard]

Dont have an answer to your question but wanted to pass on a thought that I found helpful when reading about this in the past:

As a multiboxer, you have a really great opportunity to completely destroy dailies and make immense money through those means. When running multiple characters, I really think its more worthwhile to just do dailies etc (even run dungeons and DE stuff for materials to sell). Ive chosen to just go with non gathering professions on each of my chars and then just AH for stuff.

What I just said is totally irreleveant if you a) enjoy gathering and want to do it regardless of difficulties b) dont want to AH for materials , just wanted to pass the thought along.

Have a great day and good luck to you.

[midnightrain]

I have a setup very similar to RdrckSmith but I'm not sure I get the part about doubling up on the gathering profession. With most gather apps it's possible to force potential node locations "on" even if you don't possess the skill, so I have mining on my main, and herbing on an alt (which i do have to keep an eye on for yellow dots - thanks for the Mappy suggestion Fursphere.)

[Ualaa]

#show
/castsequence Find Minerals, Find Herbs

Or whatever the exact spelling and names are.
Click it as a toggle.

Not sure if this would work better:

#show
/castsequence !Find Minerals, !Find Herbs

Or maybe:

#show
/cast !Find Minerals
/cast !Find Herbs

[RdrckSmith]

...I'm not sure I get the part about doubling up on the gathering profession. ...
For whatever reason, I found that I had very little success and/or comfort having to mouseover and perform the gathering action on one of the slave's windows. So, I have both mining and herbalism on my main (oh, if only the nodes could be targetted so that we could make a macro like for skinning!). That means I have a redundant level 1 gathering skill on one slave toon. Not a huge deal, since I tend to get easily distracted and make several teams of five with different class combos so that I can also get other tradeskills, but not the most efficient use of 10 tradeskill slots on one team.

[Dzonatan]

Dont have an answer to your question but wanted to pass on a thought that I found helpful when reading about this in the past:

As a multiboxer, you have a really great opportunity to completely destroy dailies and make immense money through those means. When running multiple characters, I really think its more worthwhile to just do dailies etc (even run dungeons and DE stuff for materials to sell). Ive chosen to just go with non gathering professions on each of my chars and then just AH for stuff.

What I just said is totally irreleveant if you a) enjoy gathering and want to do it regardless of difficulties b) dont want to AH for materials , just wanted to pass the thought along.

Have a great day and good luck to you.
This is bassicly what I decided to do. I camed down to conclusion that wondering around nods and keep switching trackers around my characters isnt my game.

For that I came down to an diffrent strategy and use only 3 out of 10 possible proffesions slots.

Main:
Enchanting
Minning

Second:
BlackSmith

Minning + Smithing to be able to make lots of usefull greens I might use or disenchant, and I also plan to do Instances and that means even more disenchants and precious enchant materials that tend to be expensive (Especially Ilusion Dust).

[Ualaa]

Look into Tailoring, if you're interested in greens.

It uses cloth, which drops off of any humanoid type mob, so does not require its own gathering skill.

As far as producing items specifically to DE, tailoring is one of the best.
Once you get to Northrend, there's a chance to receive extra cloth as a Tailor.

It might be worthwhile going Tailor + Mining or Herbalism on the main.
The other gathering skill on a slave with Mappy so its readily visible.

Enchanting can be on any toon, the ring enchants is ok, but its mainly for DEing rewards, where the mats sell for more then vendoring the item, maybe 75% of the time.

Currently, Jewelcrafting then Blacksmithing (extra sockets) then Inscription (stronger shoulder enchants) are the most bonuses over other professions. In 3.2, Blizz is supposed to balance this, so the bonuses from professions are relatively close. Still, each class has their own needs so one will likely be at least slightly better then another, as far as an individual class is concerned.

[Normak]

i agree with everyone so far, best would be to have map up for slaves with "Find" whatever on and try to keep and eye on it OR run a /cast sequence macro which could be very tiresome.

This isnt a fix but a work around. why not use addon "Gatherer" i think its call. what it does is marks off every node you have come into contact with, on your map. Regardless of what profession you are.

[Tasty]

Tad offtopic I realise, but has anyone else picked up tailoring on an alt only to realise thei huge ass mistake? You have to loot using that alt to get extra frostweave off corpses lol :/

/palmface

[lans83]

#show
/castsequence Find Minerals, Find Herbs

My Shaman team is the only one's I've started from scratch with once I got into Multiboxing, so just about all other toons on my main account have crafting/gathering profession, so for my Shaman team, I decided to have my main take on both Mining/Herb. Alts have LW/Skining on one, and so far only JC on another. No need for Inscription and Enchanting again since I got these up pretty high already on my main Priest and Mage. Might take on Enchanting solely for disenchanting useless BoP gear from instances once I get high enough. But anyway, I use this on my main Shaman and it works pretty well for me. I just spam it when not in combat as I travel around. Beware that they both are on the same global cooldown as your spells. Grab a 'Gatherer' addon such as the one for Cartographer and you can track all nodes better.


Tad offtopic I realise, but has anyone else picked up tailoring on an alt only to realise thei huge ass mistake? You have to loot using that alt to get extra frostweave off corpses lol :/

/palmface

I haven't gotten into Northrend yet with my mage who has the highest skill in tailoring, but just about how much of an increase in cloth drops is this? the 20 slot bags go for quite a bit of gold on my server and I would love to take advantage of farming with him instead of my hunter that's got Mining/Skinning instead. My mage that has tailoring happens to be on the same account as this hunter, so unless I do a character transfer, which I'm not, I won't be able to run them two together.

[Ualaa]

I investigated the addon MAPPY, which Furosphere recommends in this thread.

I am extremely pleased with this addon, thank you Furosphere for your suggestion.
My team leader is a skinner/enchanter (thinking of going Tailoring/Enchanting for extra cloth).
I have one slave with herbs/inscription and another with mining/skinning (moved from another team to this one).

It is extremely easy to see herbs and ore on the slaves window.
I have their minimaps slightly larger on their windows then my main's mini-map on the active window.
Mappy strobes ore/herbs in a bright yellow/blue pattern which is super easy to see.

[Pocalypse]

Tad offtopic I realise, but has anyone else picked up tailoring on an alt only to realise thei huge ass mistake? You have to loot using that alt to get extra frostweave off corpses lol :/

/palmface
Yes, my healer, which I've always placed on the bottom right quarter of my second monitor (ie farthest away from me), is my tailor. I very quickly decided to just ignore any extra cloth drops.

Only exception to this is when I pull 10+ mobs and kill them in the same location, I quickly check with the tailor after the fight for any extra cloth.
Also, for those mobs that can both drop extra cloth and are skinnable, you have to loot the cloth before you can skin them, which is both annoying and good I guess.

[F9thRet]

Carbonite, might help you here. I have one toon I Mine/Herb on. What I do is import my gatherer info to the carbon map, right click on it, and choose show.

It will show all herbs and mines in an area.

Stephen

edit for spelling, kinda hard to do while eating and fighting back a puppy trying to steal my pizza.