In Game Techniques

[Micah]

What techniques do others use to minimize the effort necessary to multibox? What kinds of macros do you use, how do you deal with quest givers and looting, etc?

I'll start with a simple one, the new /castsequence.
For dual-boxing say, hunter and paladin you would put the hunter on follow and primarily control the paladin. When you get within bow range of the creep you would stop your hunter from following, send your pet in and continue running in with the Paladin. On the hunter you would have a macro like:

/castsequence reset=target Aimed Shot, Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot

Put that on an action button and just spam in the whole fight while you actually play the paladin. This will have your hunter do those actions in order and when you change targets it will reset back to the beginning of the sequence.

[Los]

im currently trying out these macro's and it works ok enough. Wanting the druid to tank and the priest to primarly heal and do some dmg.

They are both still level 5, thats why the ranks are so low ;)

macros only on priest right now;

1: cast
/target duob
/assist
/cast smite
/target duob
/follow

2: dot
/target duob
/assist
/cast Shadow Word: Pain(Rank 1)
/target duob
/follow

3: heal
/target duob
/cast Lesser Heal(Rank 2)
/follow

4: follow
/target DuoB
/follow

still toying around and would love to try and make me my own broadcaster (I\m a programmer in the daytime). But to reluctant till now.

[Ellay]

your macro's are a bit lengthy:


1: cast
/target duob
/assist
/cast smite
/target duob
/follow

Try this

/Assist Duob
/cast Smite
/follow Duob

all done :)

[Los]

your macro's are a bit lengthy:


1: cast
/target duob
/assist
/cast smite
/target duob
/follow

Try this

/Assist Duob
/cast Smite
/follow Duob

all done :)

Hmm idd you're right, was fooling around with them. Getting used to the new macro's =)

[Micah]

Assuming Duob is the party leader:

/cast [target=party1target] Smite
/follow Duob

Edit: The original one I gave wouldn't actually work. :p

[Ellay]

To answer the original question, for looting I set it to free for all, and just have the 'main' loot. If I get too much stuff I can unload it to another character easily.

For quest givers most quests are able to be 'shared' which simplifies it a bit. The worst part is going on collect quests and having to round up triple of the items necessary. In the end it's worth it though :)

My setup for my mages is simple, I have a /follow Ellay macro for the other 2. All offensive spells have /assist Ellay before the spell.

If in PvP and Ellay dies, I simply push a button and my second mage becomes the main while the 3rd follows, with all the /assist keys transitioning to her.

Lastly if only 1 is alive they do have their own action bar where they assist no one :)

[Micah]

I really like the hotkey to change who the "leader" is. How do you do that? Change party leader and base everything off that or do you have multiple action bars setup for it?

[ocaTwins]

I suppose it would be fairly easy to have the "leading char" set as the focus. So you always follow and assist the focus and in case the current focus dies, you simply set the leader to another char by on simple command.

[Micah]

That is what I was thinking of doing as well. The problem is, the character that is now leader would need new action buttons because unfortunately "party1" is the leader for everyone except the leader. "party1" for the leader is someone else. :( Perhaps a second row of action buttons for each character that don't rely on "party1"...

The focus idea is a good one, unfortunately I use the focus feature liberally so I'm not sure how much it would work for me. Though, perhaps I could alter my macro setup to free up the focus and rely more on second tier targeting (focustarget, focustargettarget, etc.)

[Buruan]

is there a command to stop following?

This way I can run my guys to certain spot, stop the follow, and then use my main account to pull to that area.

I have most keys unbound on the secon machine to not screw up my movement, so these keys wont work.

I havent figured this one out yet.

Anyone?

[ocaTwins]

Currently there is no alternative to hitting a movement key really quick. I have been searching for it for a while too, but I guess, that's not what Blizzard wants you to be able to do.

[Steph]

is there a command to stop following?

This way I can run my guys to certain spot, stop the follow, and then use my main account to pull to that area.

I have most keys unbound on the secon machine to not screw up my movement, so these keys wont work.

I havent figured this one out yet.

Anyone?

I use WASD & co to move the primary account's character. I removed these mappings from the secondary systems. I use the arrow keys to move the secondary characters and removed the bindings for them on the primary pc.

I also have two keys to scatter and unscatter the group. I use numpad 0 and period for that. Num0 is bound on secondary 1 to forward, on seconday 2 to backward, on 3 strafe right on 4 strafe left. That makes my chars step neatly apart as seen in the video. The corresponding opposed movement directions are bound to the second key.

[Buruan]

Thanks.

Steph, that is pure genuis!!!!
I will implement that today.