Fishing on two or more accounts at same time..
Is it possible to multi-box fishing? anybody tried?
Seems to me that clicking the bobber on multiple screen would be a bitch.. as you wont hear the sounds etc.
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Fishing on two or more accounts at same time..
Is it possible to multi-box fishing? anybody tried?
Seems to me that clicking the bobber on multiple screen would be a bitch.. as you wont hear the sounds etc.
Strange I just discussed that topic with a friend today. Yes I do that on almost a daily basis. I just had to set up a different "fishing" key for each character and I was done. I park my 2 characters side by side and start fishing. Since I can see the two floats on my main screen, it's easy enough to tell which one has caught something when i hear the sound. I guess it might become a pretty difficult game if you try to fish with 3 or more characters at the same because a new fish will be caught every 2 seconds or so :P Using 2 accounts it's quite easy.
While you can fish side by side using single mouse clicks on each client, you cannot "multibox" fishing effectively the way you can spells, where you press a button and all 2-5 perform the action at once.
I used to do the fishing dailies on all 5 of my fishers. It's pretty easy, you just sorta watch for what bobber goes off and click on it - then watch the others. Once the timer is up just use your macro to cast your line on all guys again. I usually could get an average of 3 catches per cast. So it's 3x as fast as a single guy.
I hate fishing so much I can't imagine mboxing it.... my hat's off to you guys who do it.
I'd imagine if you disabled Click To Move, you could just turn mouse broadcasting on.
Apply the Lure to the fishing rod, by having it (or the hotkey) in the same place on each toon.
Have everyone cast their lines on a single keystroke.
And then just watch for the bobber and click whichever one moves.
Kind of like whack the mole, except click the bobber.
Wow fishing is boring for me.
I've got a maximum skill fisher, primarily because I was leveling cooking.
But you can make decent gold on fishing, and 5x is probably more then decent.
IS Boxer Specific comments;Quote:
Originally Posted by Ualaa
So perhaps have all normal boxer stuff off, have mouse broacasting on whole of screen ensure all screen run a same res, and then as you say use one button to cast, then just use the primary screen to click the bobbers lol.. damn bet that would be pretty hectic with 5 accounts lol.
i might try this i use alot of buff food boxing, and also fish on my server are worth quite a bit. top end fish go for around 1.5g each.
So some rough math,
5 fisherman, 5 fish every roughyl every 20 seconds (assuming perfect catch rate)
thats 15 fish every minute, and 900 fish an hour lol. so at an average of 1.3g per fish (depending on server) thats 1170g an hour lol.
Well the CTM off, would not matter which software you are using.
You'll not want the toon to run into the water.
Also, you could run a free HKN script for the mouse broadcasting.
But I'm speaking from the point of view of real time accurate mouse broadcasting on each client.
So pretty much ISBoxer of HKN, as far as I can tell.
There might be others out there that are accurate and usable in real time too.
Which fish are worth 1.3g each?
I've always done fishing in Wailing Caverns for the Deviate fish which make the Deviate Delight.
I did some fishing x5 just clicking around the windows manually and could get all 5 quite a few times having cast all 5 at the same time.
After you /cast fish there are only two different points in time at which the bobber will splash, so I usually got 2 of them on one of the times and 3 on the other, which made it manageable to get them all in time, but it got harder if 4 or 5 got the same timeframe.
I figure using an addon to make you recast fishing by rightclicking (or double) after you click the bobber on each one, you could have them not be synced so it would be a lot more manageable and more like whack a mole or even a nearly set sequence.
But yeah, got my 5 shamans to (at least) 150 fishing in one sitting once, haven't tried it since though since dailies make just as much money and doesn't depend on prices. And I hardly have time to even do dailies personally anyway.
Fishing on 5 at once, would be an interesting short video on the power of mouse broadcasting and boxing in general.
But its probably not worth the time and effort, compared to what we can do as boxers. Plus as a commodity, the more we farm it, the less valuable each item becomes. With dailies, it is purely gold rewards from the npc's. And with cooldown items, you're less likely to impact the market negatively with 20 or 50 items per day, compared to say 5000 fish per day.