Who do you drive from in instances?

[bgarisn]

When in an instance, which character do you usually drive from?

I've played a Paladin Tank since BC and I can't help but try and drive from my tank because I'm just used to being the MT, but I find that I'll get behind on healing or missing procs, or movement because they're just not in my view or I get distracted.

My group is composed of : Paladin Tank, Frost Mage x 3 and Shaman Healer. I just started multi-boxing in Legion because my friends quit playing but I still wanted to do content (that wasn't LFR) without having to commit to a full time raiding guild.

It's probably just a time/practice thing for me.

I suppose that my goal is to be able to seamlessly switch from between my toons and still have things go off like I expect them to (i.e. tanks still tank/mitigate dmg, DPS still casts their rotation, Healer runs through their rotation).

Thanks for your input. Looking forward to hearing what works for you :)

[charly]

I just started a trinity team with 3 melee so I'll try to get used to lead with the healer and see the 4 four other ones as *pet*. I'm curious, how does it go for you with that team? It's pretty unusual!

[Alge]

In a tank/healer/3 DPS group I spend >99% of the time driving from the tank. I find I get much better aggro management that way. There is also always the issue of CTM/IWT potentially causing runaways if you play from the healer.

[MiRai]

Personally, I like to drive from the tank because, like you, I've been a tank for most of my WoW career and it just feels more natural. However, I like to have the ability to lead from any character in the event that I need to.

[bgarisn]

I just started a trinity team with 3 melee so I'll try to get used to lead with the healer and see the 4 four other ones as *pet*. I'm curious, how does it go for you with that team? It's pretty unusual!

It goes pretty well. Like I said I'm still new to multi-boxing and learning what works/doesn't.


I find I get much better aggro management that way.

I drive from my Paladin because I literally just -know- what to do since I've been playing him so long and can handle aggro like you said, much better.

But managing the mages (esp. their procs) is something I'm refining. I think that instead of straight broadcasting keys to them, I need to figure out a good cast sequence or something that does reliably good damage that I can invoke via ISBoxer.

The other thing that I have trouble with (and again I think it's just practice/refinement) is forgetting to heal on my Shaman. One of my best friends was my Main Heal for most of the expansions and I got so used to relying on him! Now I'm having to rethink about each fight (i.e. Ok how can I handle this mechanic? I should probably mitigate it and have a HoTs already rolling, etc.) and then having to remember to hit the buttons.

I play left-handed (mouse in left hand) and use the NumPad for most of my keybinds. I had separate keybinds for my healer (to allow for greater control) but where they are placed requires me to move my hand off my mouse, which I find can really limit moving out of things for my tank, etc. So maybe something like clique or something else might work better. Just need to get a day to experiment.

I've been checking out MiRai's setup video (http://www.dual-boxing.com/commons/video/522-Multiboxing%E2%80%94MiRai+%26+Svpernova+2%2B3%E2%8 0%94Setup+Overview+%28Paladin-Shaman%29) because the Tank/Healer combo is the same thing I'm running.

It's interesting to see and hear what other people are doing and it helps me learn a lot.

So thanks so much to everyone who has contributed so far.

[Gomotron]

bgarisn,

I'm not sure if you are using the macro "/cast [@name] spell" for the Healing Rain spell, but this would be a good AoE Healing macro for your DPS characters to heal up from AoE damage. Personally I wasn't aware of the [@name} targeting option so I was not using many targeted area spells due to difficulty with mouse click target selection on the non-main characters.

[bgarisn]

bgarisn,

I'm not sure if you are using the macro "/cast [@name] spell" for the Healing Rain spell, but this would be a good AoE Healing macro for your DPS characters to heal up from AoE damage. Personally I wasn't aware of the [@name] targeting option so I was not using many targeted area spells due to difficulty with mouse click target selection on the non-main characters.

Yeah, I'm doing that. I wasn't aware of it either until someone (MiRai) pointed it out on here (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/53380-ISBoxer-targeted-spells?p=410260&viewfull=1#post410260) :-P

My macro is simply the following, but I'm looking into perhaps expanding it via GSE macros (maybe):



#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Healing Rain


Appreciate the advice!