Leaderless for the mentally challenged (Using focus)
Since I started multiboxing 8 weeks ago I've been really warry of putting all the work into making my setup leaderless. All my ganking (and getting ganked) in WotLK forced my hand tonight. I was tired of the fight being over b/c they killed my main. Plus, I figured collection quests would be nicer if I could do them from my main monitor.
For those of you that don't know, a leaderless setup means that no matter what character you're controlling, all of your other characters will do what he does.
I've been looking for a no-nonsense "heres what you do" style guide but all I found was the FTL set up, and coming from someone with minimal programming expierience that was too much of a headache.
The purpose of this guide is to give you a VERY simple and easy to set up your clients to use a Focus-based leaderless setup. After giving the instructions on how to set it up, I'll copy/paste the macros used as a reference.
I'm running 5 clients on one PC with two monitors (Four on my left, 1 on my right) I use keyclone to transmit keystrokes.
First:
Before anything else you need to set up PiP in keyclone. All you do is click on the window, then in the "PiP" box select the key you want to use to switch.
I'm using F5-F9 as my client switch keys. When I press F7 (for example) my character Nachtkindor switches from his 1/4 size box on the left monitor to my main monitor on the right, while my character Nachtkinder does the reverse.
Inside of WoW you need to set up 5 macros on each client. At a minimum they need to look like this:
1: /focus toon1
2: /focus toon2
etc.
When I press F7, in addition to the PiP change, every character sets Nachtkindor as their focus. Also, I have a /promote thrown in each one just for simplicity reasons.
Now, all you need to do is replace each target spell on your character with the following macro:
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Chain Lightning
As long as your properly set the character you're controlling as the focus, your other toons will always do what he does.
Here is my macro list from my wtf folder. If you open up your macro-cache file, you can copy and paste these into there to save some time. Obviously you'll want to change my characters' names where it applies.
MACRO 21 "A" Spell_BrokenHeart
/focus Nachtkindar
/promote Nachtkindar
END
MACRO 15 "CH" Spell_Nature_HealingWaveGreater
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Chain Heal
END
MACRO 9 "CL" Spell_Nature_LightningBolt
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Chain Lightning
END
MACRO 22 "E" Spell_BrokenHeart
/focus Nachtkinder
/promote nachtkinder
END
MACRO 5 "EM" Spell_Nature_WispHeal
#showtooltip
/cast Elemental Mastery
/use 13
END
MACRO 12 "ES" Spell_Shaman_ImprovedEarthShield
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Earth Shock
END
MACRO 1 "Follow" Spell_Shadow_AuraOfDarkness
/target [target=focus]
/follow
END
MACRO 14 "FRS" Spell_Frost_FrostShock
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Frost Shock
END
MACRO 10 "FS" Spell_Fire_FlameShock
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast [assist=focus] Flame Shock
END
MACRO 18 "GofN" Spell_Holy_SummonLightwell
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Gift of the Naaru
END
MACRO 17 "HW" Spell_Nature_MagicImmunity
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Healing Wave
END
MACRO 23 "I" Spell_BrokenHeart
/focus Nachtkindir
/promote nachtkindir
END
MACRO 2 "Invite" Ability_BullRush
/invite nachtkindar
/invite nachtkindir
/invite nachtkindor
/invite nachtkindur
/invite nachtkinder
END
MACRO 11 "LB" Spell_Fire_FireBolt02
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast [assist=focus] Lava Burst
END
MACRO 3 "LB" Spell_Nature_Lightning
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Lightning Bolt
END
MACRO 16 "LHW" Spell_Nature_HealingWaveLesser
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Lesser Healing Wave
END
MACRO 24 "O" Spell_BrokenHeart
/focus Nachtkindor
/promote nachtkindor
END
MACRO 19 "Purge" Spell_Shadow_Teleport
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Purge
END
MACRO 8 "Rez" Ability_CheapShot
/script RepopMe()
/script RetrieveCorpse()
END
MACRO 25 "u" Spell_BrokenHeart
/focus Nachtkindur
/promote nachtkindur
END
MACRO 13 "WS" Spell_Holy_PurifyingPower
#showtooltip
/target {target=focus]
/assist
/cast Wind Shock
END
