New 5 Boxer - Few Questions

[rbaldwin7]

First off. Hello everyone glad to join you! I have just bought 4 more accounts, set up 5 WoW accounts on one computer with Keyclone, and have begun to level. I have been using basic macros and addons and am having a few problems.

Question1: Is there an addon that allows you to view casting bars/totem timers of other party members WHILE ON YOUR MAIN.

Question 2: When my tank dies I am pretty much helpless and then just wipe. I use the quick switch PIP in Keyclone, but that only allows me control of 1 character at a time. Is there a way to quickly switch to a 2nd main to keep fighting?

More Questions to come...

All help is greatly appreciated and I plan to use this information to help the community!

[Khazrael]

Hello, and welcome! You'll find the community around here is quite great, and very supportive with tons of information. I'll take a stab at your questions.

1) As far as casting bars, yes there is Party Casting Bars which is an Addon built into the Cosmos package. You can download it and turn off everything else (except dependencies of course) if you like. I'm not sure about for totems though.

2) You will need to set up your macros such that if the tank dies, they will begin operating on your next character in line. Most of this is done by manual targeting of names IE: [target=character1,nodead][target=character2,nodead]etc and the like. I've been meaning to set this up myself, so my syntax might be incorrect, but I'm pretty sure the principal is correct.

Hope any of this helps, keep shooting the questions and I'll see if I can help you out :).

[thinus]

Question1: Is there an addon that allows you to view casting bars/totem timers of other party members WHILE ON YOUR MAIN.

X-Perl unitframes shows casting bars on portraits.



Question 2: When my tank dies I am pretty much helpless and then just wipe. I use the quick switch PIP in Keyclone, but that only allows me control of 1 character at a time. Is there a way to quickly switch to a 2nd main to keep fighting?

The most widely used technique is to macro all your abilities to use your focustarget. Switching mains becomes a simple matter of switching your focus. This is quite a common question and widely debated, just do a search for "switching main".

[Moxy]

Welcome. :)

As a little addition to the above, I have found what works best for me is to have my focus set with my /follow button. So the macro /follows focus, and then goes through and checks if my main is alive: if he is, he gets set as my focus. If not- toon #2 does. Just makes the transition easy- all I have to do is hit the follow key if he drops, and I'm up an running.

[rbaldwin7]

Thank you all very much.

@Khazrael: Thank you, I tried it but I found X-Perl to be more suiting to me.

@thinus: X-Perl unitframes is awesome and shows the casting bars of my alts along with many other things. It does not show the times on my totems though.

@Moxy/Everyone: Could you post that macro or maybe a little more information on that please. I have looked through countless macro threads but have not quite found anything like this.

Question 1: Does anyone know of an addon that will show the totem times of my alts while I am on my main (which is a paladin).

[Dawnstone]

/cast [Target=FocusTarget] SpellNameHere()

and have a key for all that does something like for all the other boxes


/focus [nomod] PaladinsName
/focus [mod] BackupTankOrEmergancyPlayer

As long as the paladin is the focus, they'll use his target to cast their spell on.
If he dies, you hit a mod (Ctrl, Alt, or Shift) and the focus button, which will re-focus to the character specified - in which case all the players will now use this focus as their "assist".