How do you blizzard (or other AEs) with your mage?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for it, but here goes:

I'm debating replacing one of my elemental shamans with my level 70 mage (well, level him to 80 solo / boost first obvioulsy) for the simple reason that I'm considering him for a main switch.

Now, one of the benefits of a mage is his AE ability, but how do you guys control that when 5 boxing? I mean arcane explotion is easy enough, but would require him to be in the middle of things - which is not always desirable - so I guess - how do you ground target?

cheers!

I wrote my own program, AOEMouse, which broadcasts my mouse location to the alt computers when you hit the Hotkey, and stops when you click the mouse.

I'm full hardware though. Not sure about people using one machine.

How to use Targetable AoE's multiboxing with in game macro's (no addons or programs needed)!

I just got ground-based AOE targetting figured out on my group of 1xpally,1xPriest, and 3xFrost Mage - and it's very very good.

I use hotkeynet (free, and awesome, btw) to control both the keyboard command that tells all 3 mages to cast blizzard (or flamestrike or whatever), and the mouse click that tells them exactly where to place it.

I use the ~ key as my modifier, and simply hold it down and click in the middle of my screen to send the "mouse-click" to the relative coordinates on the screens of my 3 mages. It works great! (see http://www.hotkeynet.com/ref/clickmouse.html ). There more that you can do with hotkeynet, but i'm only using the basics =)

The key to getting this working effectively (no matter what software you're using), is to have the view set correctly on all your clones - i use 100% top-down view and zoomed out (not at an angle).

I used to have arcane-explosion+consecrate+holy-nova all mapped to a button that I would spam, but the 3x mage blizzard is much faster, and SO much more mana efficient.

Let me know if you're interested, and I'll send you the hotkeynet script I use.

i mouse over to my druid's window and manually select it. this after my pally or bear druid gets everyone into a bunch. i can still attack (swipe/maul or hammer/shield) with my tank from my slave's window as im placing my hurricane.

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As full-hardware, I approve this message. :)

You don't even have to bind a key to mouseclick unless you want to -- if you've got mouse multiplexing then you can simply SetView() in order to get all the screens in-line for the mouse position and direct/click manually. I can actually reliably hit near the same spot away from my characters if I want to Volley or whatnot. So, people with mouse multiplexing can cast aoes dynamically on any point with relative reliability.

If you don't have mouse multiplexing, your screens are different resolutions, etc, you can at least use the mouseclick keybinding to cast the AoE directly above your characters or however you pre-position it.

I use setview and wireless mice.

i didn't like setview because the api only accepts 1-5 as arguments, and none of them give me the zoomed out view i needed for ground-targeted AOE. Is there any other software option beside manual?

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i didn't like setview because the api only accepts 1-5 as arguments, and none of them give me the zoomed out view i needed for ground-targeted AOE. Is there any other software option beside manual?

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The trick here is to first save the view you want to one of the 5.

You can't use 1 but you can tell 2-5 how far and what not to be out.

SET cameraDistanceMax "25"
SET cameraDistanceMaxFactor "2"
SET cameraPitchA "19.0"
SET cameraYawA "0"
SET cameraDistanceA "20"
SET cameraPitchB "80.0"
SET cameraYawB "0"
SET cameraDistanceB "20"