War + 3 Locks + Priest looking for some extra help

[Cypress]

Hey there,
I am new to multi-boxing and I am actually fairly new to WoW as well. I was hoping I can get some tips on how to mange.
I found very useful information on this forum, but I may need some extra help implementing it on my set up. I am welcome to any ideas/tips on all aspects (team, tree, macros etc...)

Here is what I got.

Team
1x Warrior : Prtotection lvl 30
3x Warlocks : Destruction lvl 30
1x Priest : Holy lvl 30


Software :
Keyclone (thinking of trying ISBoxer ),

Add ons
Jamba (not sure if I need I was using it for auto quest accepting but now that is not working)
Carbonite
Bartender4

Key binds ( I probably need help here)


War Lock Priest
~ Taunt
1 Auto Atk Sent pet + cast sequence dot
2 SB/Revenge
3 ThunderClap/Cleave
4 Heroic Strike
F1 heal party1
F2 heal party2
F3 heal party3
F4 heal Party4
F5 heal self

And some other to use self buff, drink water, follow warrior, spread out, and invite to group

It works great as long as I dont have to heal very often And mobs come in one at time AND my warrior keeps arggo.
Doesn;t happen very often. I am new to close range toon and most of the time my warrior is sitting doing nothing, or one of my locks is not doting. Fun part is when noone is hitting my warrior and there are 3 mobs on my casters :) I freak out and start pressing random keys to try to get argo back. So my biggest problems are:

1 How to move this little army effectively? Mainly how do I ensure that my casters are casting and my warrior is pissing people off?
I tried using point to click and interact with target but my toons just run around like chickens. Brinking more people to the party and whooops they got to me healer ... few seconds later I am looking at 5 grayed blued screen with and angel on the side

2 How to make sure that pets attack my warrior target?
I got into so much trouble when an imp decides to pull 3-4 more mobs.

3. What talents should I choose?
I just went on http://www.wowpopular.com/ and I am following build 1 for each of the class and tree I mentioned
lock http://www.wowhead.com/talent#IZcr0h0hZVbGVdcuVsAfct
war http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LAM00fZhbZMItrx0zidIzsGo
priest http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuZcxtcc0qih0euAo

4 Got any tips on how I keep argo and rage on my fluffily Taurent warrior ?


I know those questions have been answered probably a dozen times somehow I wasn't able to get it:confused:confused: I appreciate any posting

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Step 1: reroll tank to paladin. I'm only half-joking here. Warriors are heavy micro-management tanks. Paladins are easy-mode AoE tanks and can rez your healer/dps if they die on accident. If you really want your warrior, then be prepared to experiment and be frustrated at times.

The easiest route is setting up a single-button spam key that will:

castsequence your warrior attacks, weighted for AoE threat with enough single-target stuff to keep boss aggro,
spam your DoTs castsequence, and
occasionally cast renew and maybe a flash heal or bubble on the tank.


The way I set my group up was basically like this:

Paladin tank is set up with a normal 969 castsequence rotation with AoE threat generation front-loaded. (search forums for 969 macros) I bound this macro to two keys, V and G.
DPS are set up with a normal castsequence DPS rotation. Same macro bound to V and G.
Healer is set up with a comma-delayed HoT rotation to just keep a few hots rolling on him to soak up the little damage he does take in most fights and remain mana-efficient on the healer. This key is bound to V.
Healer also has a straight castsequence with all the big heals only for situations where I get a lot of incoming damage (King Dred in heroic DTK, as an example). This is bound to my G key.


So basically, the tank and DPS always do the same thing. The healer has a regular and an OH SHIT key. This way, all I have to do is start out with the normal DPS button (V) and if things get rough on the tank or I need a spot of heals or sustained heals, I just switch to my OH SHIT key (G) and continue facerolling.

For your petattack macro on the locks, start with this:


<whatever your current targeting command is>
/stopmacro [noharm][dead]
/petattack

The problem with pets is that the /petattack will automatically pick the nearest target if you don't have one selected. This is bad and causes wipes as you have noticed. ;)

[Cypress]

Thx man,

I have messed up so many times and died so I am not worried if I don't get the war tanking right away, i did lvl him to 30 tho so I have a bit of experience, with paly i kno nothing. I looked up 969 rotation basically has to do with skills having 9s cool down or 6 sec cool down I still did not quite understood ur set up tho. Let me see if I can make something similar. I am liking using keys :D


V Rotates ThunderClap/Cleave on war (Any AOE tanking skills I get )
Immolate, Corruption and Curse of Agony on Locks (Any DOT i get)
Flash heal from priest to tank (some small heal)

G Rotates ShieldBash/Revenge/ Taunt on war (single target tanking )
Shadowbolt on Locks (some slow but good damage spells)
Some major heal to tank (heavy duty patching of my tank)

I looks kinna weird to me but I wil try it out, see what comes up
I have the DOT and pet macro together, r u suggesting spitting them up ?
Looks like u got some pretty interesting set up. I am used to all the skill be top left on keyboard, not bottom middle. So in a regular fight do u just do something like v-v-v-g-v-v-g-v-v-v-g and thats it ?

P.s. no idea what comma-delayed HoT rotation is i need to look that up but I am heaving a headache right now from all ths :_

[lightstriker]

Commas-delayed rotations are a part of /click squences. Theres a lot about it in the Macro and Addon section.

You should seperate your tank and dps spam buttons. You have to do a tank rotation to build up threat/aggro then dps. Do V for tank /click sequence, z x c for taunt and other threat builder that you cant fit into a squance. I do R for my dps /click sequence, q w e for long CD spells. The seperation also slows your spam rate, reducing the number of comas. T or B is my tank healing, right next to R and V. Your F keys for party heals are fine.

1. don't use Interact with a caster group on mobs. Use it on NPC venders.

2. Just have the Locks /assist tank and press whatever your pet attack buttons are.

3 tanks are protection talent. Locks are personal preference. Priests are holy or Disc. Disc has a talent call Soul Warding that reduces PW: Shield to an instanc cast. You can bubble your whole team in about 7.5 secs depending on latency and GCD. If you don't put the 51 in Holy. So you can have 21 Disc and 50 Holy.

4 do a Tank threat rotation before starting dps.