Lead dies - How to switch assist?

[celticlad94]

Hey I am currently looking for help to edit my macros, I took some time off from multiboxing but want to get back into it, i'm sitting with my shamans at the moment using /assist CharA macros.

When he dies I use buttons to switch main screen but is there a macro I can use which will allow the other clones to now assist Char B?

[Solon]

Many ways, you could use FTL http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=10968
You could macro an action bar switch http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Assist_using_Pages
Assist without focus http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Assist_without_focus
Focus Live toon http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Focus_Live_toon
Focus with modifiers http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Focus_with_modifiers
Assist via party assignment or focus http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Assist_via_Party_assignment_or_Focus

I personally use a /focus (toonname) on my window swap keys, and /assist focus.

[Shodokan]

Just use ISboxer.

[Ualaa]

If you're using a party leader system, then switch to another window and have the new toon the leader on the switch.
Ditto for a Focus based approach.

With FTL, switch to any window, and the others assist based on where the command came from.

IS Boxer is the only software program, which does FTL for you.
You can drag Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Frostbolt and Shadow Bolt to button 1, on four toons.
No matter which one you are on, when you press 1, the other three auto assist you and all cast the spell on "1".
You can switch toons and within a second (double your latency actually; all boxing hardware or software has this same latency issue), the others know who to assist.
And this is straight spells from the spell book, no macro.

[Lax]

You can switch toons and within a second (double your latency actually; all boxing hardware or software has this same latency issue), the others know who to assist.
it's actually that amount of time after you select a target that /assist knows who to target. switching toons isn't the issue :)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Step 1: Panic!

[Jafula]

Step 1: Panic!

LOL :-)

Pure Win!

+1 for ISBoxer

[OzPhoenix]

Before I switched to an FTL setup (which is THE way to go I reckon), I had a macro to elect a new focus along the lines of:

/clearfocus
/focus [target=toon1, exists, nodead][target=toon2, exists, nodead] (repeated for however many toons your boxing)

This was bound to a hotkey on all the toons, and if my leader died, I'd press the key, making the next toon in line the new focus.

Still, that said, go FTL - you'll never look back.

[celticlad94]

It just seems like a big change and I wouldn't know how to adapt from my current play to a FTL play.

[OzPhoenix]

It just seems like a big change and I wouldn't know how to adapt from my current play to a FTL play.

Without knowing your particulars to be sure, all I can suggest is that time spent in setting your team up properly will directly translate into your teams success.

If you're 5 boxing and looking to do your own Heroics, basic setups aren't going to cut it really. If you're planning on concentrating on PvP, then a /focus based setup will be a real drawback too.

How many toons are you boxing? What's the end-goals for the team?

[celticlad94]

3 Boxing: the goal is just to get them to 80 before Cata and then 85 upon cataclysm release at which point I hope to pvp with them :)

[OzPhoenix]

3 Boxing: the goal is just to get them to 80 before Cata and then 85 upon cataclysm release at which point I hope to pvp with them :)

Well, I'd still recommend an FTL setup, especially as you're saying an end-game goal for the team is PvP.

The best way that I've personally found to do that, is by subscribing to Innerspace/ISBoxer (see the link top of the page) and also installing Jamba (an extremely useful add-on for multiboxers - kudos to J for it).

Yes, it'll be a learning curve (my only negative comment about IS would be the relative lack of documentation for such a powerful piece of software), but if you're serious about PvP, you'll want an FTL setup with strobing follow (Jamba provides this).

Jamba's free and ISBoxer is $36US per year for subs, which if you're 3 boxing is less than 1 months subs on your WoW accounts. What it allows you to easily do (by which I mean, other systems may allow you to do the following, but not so easily I've found):

1. An FTL setup - meaning the moment you swap between characters (and the screen swapping in IS is almost instantaenous) the character you swapped into is now "the leader".

2. Strobed following - meaning if you just got fear bombed, the moment the fear wears off, your follower toons are already running back to your main (assuming they didn't run out of range altogether).

3. (Once you've invested the time nutting it out) A piece of software (ISBoxer) that gives you an incredibly powerful way to make and assign both conditional and unconditional actions to your team without ever having to make name or toon specific macros.

4. A setup that allows you to play the toons as a team, or individually without having to change anything on any one of them (and the virtualised config files that ISBoxer can use also makes it easier to sub in other toons into a team meaning more functionality for all your alts as well).

It's not dead easy to setup, but it's not rocket science either, and you'll get out of it a much better playing experience and be far more effective in what you do as well.

[Slimjim19]

It seems like a lot of work to switch, but its not as bad as it sounds.

You can be up and running with basics in a few minutes. Then as you look to add functionality, pick another section of Ualaa's guide. Before long, you will have your whole team tweaked.

[celticlad94]

Nice, well unfortunately I can't invest in IS as cheap as it is at the moment as I am going on holiday next month and am saving some money, but upon my return I will gladly try it out :) The instantaneous swapping sounds great, as keyclone as a second delay.

[Dooz]

Time is money friend!