Considering Running War Tank / Priest Healer on 1 Pc.. suggestions please

[dariuslloyd]

Hey there, I've been considering trying this for a while but before I pay for a second account and the cost of transferring my priest, I wanted to get some suggestions. What I would like to do is control 2 toons on one PC. I know my PC is more than capable of doing this and I have already tested it as such using a second account from a second WoW directory with that one all on lowest settings. FPS of primary character is barely affected and second character runs fine. I am prepared to purchase the keyclone software and would use that and macros for many operations and I would have no problem configuring that. I also do not want to run two smaller windows on the same monitor, though I could potentially do that. I would rather have one instance of WoW behind the other with the main character played at normal size.

I do have extensive multi-character playing in EverQuest and I was a main tank as well as a bard, main puller and MT group twister (odd combo for anyone who is familiar) and back then I simply did everything via lots of fast alt tabbing. I do not see that method being realistic in World of Warcraft. I do have great multitasking ability in real life and that is why this presents an opportunity to have more fun and more stuff to do, I just want to make sure I can actually do it logistically.

What I am curious about is the actual feasibility of playing a tank and a healer. I do have extensive experience playing both, however not at the same time.

The tank obviously is constantly pushing buttons and adjusting positions, changing targets, and other things. Clearly, playing a tank this would be the 'main'. However, I want to be able to be a capable healer as well with the priest and in the past I always have used click healing for raiding and such.

Is there any possible way to activate healing commands via mouse clicks from the warrior account? I know that there is software available to pass key commands (keyclone obviously among others), is there such software for passing mouse click and key combinations? If there was, it would seem feasible to use two exact same UI layouts and simply key+clicking from the warrior account would pass to the priest running behind.

If there are no mouse click solutions, does anyone have experience with playing a healer and main tank that can offer their opinions tips and suggestions? I would love to hear them. I am interested in playing the healer in groups larger than 5 mans as well, most commonly 10 man but occasionally 25 mans and would like to be able to actively heal those larger groups.

Thank you in advance, any and all suggestions, ideas, tips, anecdotes are more than welcome.

[Kedash00]

I ran a warrior and priest up till lvl 70 on one pc, i just recently got keyclone about a month ago which would have made it alot easier... The best way to do this is either put your bars with the warrior set up and have the priest use a modifier (control+1 etc..) to heal with or use the PiP in keyclone or even just use half and half with your bar setup, i use it that way on my lock and priest for 2v2, but for instances you might want to get a different class setup as they both require micro managment...

Just my opinion though, alt tabbing sucked for leveling and i couldn't do it for instances at all i had to do one or the other.

[dariuslloyd]

Regarding keyclone and the PiP feature; does this mean I could play the warrior full screen and then maybe use a chunk of unused space in say the upper right hand corner and have a mini screen for the priest right inside the full screen warrior? That would be cool. And if that works, when you move the mouse to the PiP of the priest, does it instantly recognize that as the active window or do you have to click inside it first? If it does, I suppose you could use click casting for heals and just drag the mouse to that window and click to heal right away.

[tooboxinit]

i do the same thing, here is my setup. G15 keyboard and a N52 gamepad. i use keyclone. basically just unbind all the priests 1 through = buttons and rebind them to the F kleys, unbind the warriors F keys. now you have all your warriors macros on 1 through = and all the priests on the F keys just above it. Then i have rightbar1 and rightbar 2 in wow interface loaded with all my party heals and buffs and bound to N52 keys which i keep right next to my keyboard and turned sideways and my 6 G KEYS on the G15 keyboard are hotkeyed as my priests party member target keys and push to talk. so basically i just watch my warriors screen and play and watch my partys lifebards and without having toi switch screens or move my mouse i just hit a G key to target the party member i want and hit a N52 key to toss them a quick heal or bubble or scooby snack. I also use pitbull unitframes with party members targets on so i can watch my warriors screen and always know if my priest is targeting the correct mob or party member to heal. this takes time to get used to but man is it efficient. Also on another note, consider getting a dual monitor output video card and a second monitor. I use a radeon 3750 and run one wow instance on a 32" tv and the second on a 17" monitor just below the tv. works awsome, i can also 5 box with 4 games on the tv but dont have the cashflow for 5 accounts. if you got the spare cash i would get aq dual input video card and a second monitor, its the only way to box (you could get a card for under 200 dollars that would run both wows like mint)

[dariuslloyd]

Are you able to handle healing in raids at all? 10 and 25 man groups?

[tooboxinit]

Never tried it i dont raid. I used to raid MC and BWL and naxx all week long, ruined the game for me and i quit. Now i just do simple 1-2 hour endgame instances and pvp and enjoy the game in a non-repetative fashion. I also alternate between 3 sets of 2 chars at a time and a main char so i never get bored for long. i got a druid hunter team, warrior priest, mage lock. then a solo shammy, i may pair a rogue and pally later but not yet. I bind ASDW to move one char and the arrow keys to the other so i can pretty easily run 2 melee chars at once. the healing setup would work for YOUR group of the raid, not an entire raid, at least not the way i use it. but you can always just target 1 of 25 raiders with your warrior then hit your assist macro then hit heal and your priest can constantly heal whatever you want and switch back to your mob instantly. its fast if you are fast.

[Tdog]

I'd probably consider using 1-= for your warrior and F1-F12 for your priest. That's what I did for my 70 paladin and everything else I carebeared leveled up.

[dariuslloyd]

That's exactly what I was thinking of doing keybind wise. Then I figured if I needed to tank anything with duration, I could simply make the priest the main and the warrior the alt for that fight. That would let me concentrate on raid healing via click addons and I can just bash a couple macros to maintain the warriors move set. A simple cast sequence shielslam, revenge, devastate, devastate macro, a shield block and a heroic strike key would suffice for most tank and spank fights. Or I suppose I could just make myself the main tank healer and let the other healers worry about healing beyond that. That is probably the most logical solution.

Aside from this PvE stuff. Could anyone shed some light on PvP viability using a melee and healer toon?

PS I tried boxing 4 mages at the same time using trial accounts. That seems infinitely trivial compared to using different classes. Very fun though!