Questgiver/vendor help

[Kich]

Hi all

Just getting into this multibox business finding wow fun again:) Im currently running a 5 man grp which I have got running pretty smooth. Im looking to save myself a little time trying to get my slaves to talk to a quest giver/vendor? Im having to click on their screens and do it my self. Im running jamba (great addon) Surely im missing something real small just cant seem to find the little sod! any help would be greatly recieved.

Thanks

[Heavyd]

Turn on click-to-move, bind 'interact with target' to a key, target NPC, click IWT key, and you're done. You can also loot this way.

[OzPhoenix]

I just use mouse broadcasting myself. My pause/break key switches that one and hey presto a mouse hanging over the vendor on all 5 screens.

Since I loot only from my primary, the only reason the followers need to vendor is to sell quest items occasionally or repair, which Jamab handles.

I occasionally top up drinks, but that works well with mouse broadcaster too.

[Kich]

Great stuff thanks peeps all done now :)

[Ualaa]

Click to Move + Interact With Target, is the way to go.
Combine this with the Jamba addon, and you're set.

Target with the active window.
Hit your assist, so they're all now targeting whatever the main had.
Click your Interact With Target key.
If they're in range, they "use" the target, which means opens the quest giver, attacks the hostile, loots the corpse, skins the corpse etc.
If they're out of range, because of the CTM, they move into range.
You might need to spam it a few times, but this one key will get the job done.

With Jamba, if you select an option (a quest, a flightpath point, etc), then the slaves will select the same option if the window is open for them too.
This makes everything so much better.

[OzPhoenix]

There must be something I'm missing about this - because it seems to me that mouse broadcasting is just simply easier.

Let's say I wanna take a flight path. I ride up to the flight master (me and my four followers), hit my mouse broadcast key (scroll lock), click on the flight master, select the path. Since I turned mouse broadcasting on, that meant that all four followers also clicked on the flight master, and then selected the same flight destination as my main. Didn't even need Jamba to help in that respect.

Soon as I'm on the bats, I hit scroll lock again to turn off mouse broadcasting.

I must admit, I'm still not using IWT, since I haven't had a need to use it yet. For combat, my W key is key-mapped to a "all but current window" mapping in ISBoxer, so if I'm fighting something and the rets are out of combat range, I just hit W once or twice to move 'em in.

I know I'm not 80 yet (hit 60 today though...woot) but especially for vendor inter-action, mouse broadcasting strikes me as less complicated.

PS: To be sure, I do plan on implementing IWT for Heroics at 80, since occasionally just using W can be a problem if the rets aren't all in the same place. But even them, follow strobe makes any Ret that move too far in turn around because he wants to face my prot due to following, and therefore is per force, facing the mob my prot is attacking.

[thefunk]

mouse broadcasting is a option if you don't have click to move on. But if you do, and one of your toons isn't aligned when you click the NPC he'll do a runner, which is where IWT comes into play.

[OzPhoenix]

mouse broadcasting is a option if you don't have click to move on. But if you do, and one of your toons isn't aligned when you click the NPC he'll do a runner, which is where IWT comes into play.

True - didn't think of that, as I don't use click to move either.

Perhaps my lack of need for CTM/IWT is related to the fact that I'm using all-Paladins, but so far my dungeon running/questing hasn't even come close to needing to implement CTM or IWT.

[Ualaa]

I've found for game elements, such as talent selection, flight path selection, confirming a new inn as your home, clicking a window closed etc... mouse broadcasting is an exceptional approach.

But for things like clicking a portal, targeting an npc etc, basically anything that can move about and is not in precisely the same position on every screen... CTM and IWT is superior.

Once the target has been selected and the window is open (inn keeper, flight master, quest giver, etc), you could have Jamba have the slaves copy you, or simply mouse broadcast for equal effect. The screens are in the same relative position, and each item within the window is exactly the same.

I've used mouse broadcasting to configure addons across five accounts at once, and end up with exactly the same options on all toons.