synfin
06-13-2008, 11:03 PM
I am a new multiboxer and I've been helped a great deal by this forum. Appreciate all the great information here. Decided its time to contribute some useful hints that I've used to overcome some problems, didn't see them covered elsewhere in the forum. Hopefully more to come once I get more used to this multiboxing thing.
I had two problems I wanted to solve. First, I wanted to be able to play each character in unison, or separately as needed, using the same set of buttons. Decided that a full-on macro setup was the way to go. This brought me to my second problem, which is the 18+18 macro limit and the 256 character limit. Solved both in the following way.
I know some do not like to use "focus" for your main/alt targeting. For me it provides the greatest flexibility. This may not help much if you don't like to use focus.
Switched to Trinity Bars 2.0 for my action bars. A little cumbersome, but oh-so configurable. Built-in macros allow you to define separate macros for each button if you wanted. No limit to the number of macros, and a 1024 character limit for each macro. Whee! Used the following macro recipe for all my spells and abilities that involve a target of some kind (totems don't need targets, for example).
This macro will first try to cast a spell on your mouseover target. If there is none, it will cast the spell on your focus target. If you have no focus target (if you're soloing, for example) it will cast the spell on your target. This allows you to solo, cast on your main's target, split alt casting if targeting separately, or quick correct with a mouseover if need be. I use this template for all my spells.
#showtooltip Spell Name
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name;
[target=focustarget,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name;
[target=target,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name
Hope this is helpful to someone. Please feel free to chime in if there are some tweaks I should be considering! :)
I had two problems I wanted to solve. First, I wanted to be able to play each character in unison, or separately as needed, using the same set of buttons. Decided that a full-on macro setup was the way to go. This brought me to my second problem, which is the 18+18 macro limit and the 256 character limit. Solved both in the following way.
I know some do not like to use "focus" for your main/alt targeting. For me it provides the greatest flexibility. This may not help much if you don't like to use focus.
Switched to Trinity Bars 2.0 for my action bars. A little cumbersome, but oh-so configurable. Built-in macros allow you to define separate macros for each button if you wanted. No limit to the number of macros, and a 1024 character limit for each macro. Whee! Used the following macro recipe for all my spells and abilities that involve a target of some kind (totems don't need targets, for example).
This macro will first try to cast a spell on your mouseover target. If there is none, it will cast the spell on your focus target. If you have no focus target (if you're soloing, for example) it will cast the spell on your target. This allows you to solo, cast on your main's target, split alt casting if targeting separately, or quick correct with a mouseover if need be. I use this template for all my spells.
#showtooltip Spell Name
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name;
[target=focustarget,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name;
[target=target,exists,harm,nodead] Spell Name
Hope this is helpful to someone. Please feel free to chime in if there are some tweaks I should be considering! :)