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With the priority method being used, do you have to place the abilities on keys in game or can I make one isboxer key with no steps but all abilities crammed onto it?
i.e.
/cast 1
/cast 2, 2, 3, 2
/cast 4, 5
or does it have to be on actual hotkeys in WoW?
You're probably best off with a single spam mapped key.
This would call other mapped keys.
The benefit of calling other mapped keys, is that each would be separate... so if your wow keybinds were Alt + F9, Shift + F9, Ctrl + F9, Alt & Ctrl + F9 etc... each would fire off, but if they were straight keybinds each sent on the same step then wow will confuse Alt + F9, Ctrl + F9 and Alt & Ctrl + F9.
The process would be:
a) Create a mapped key, for each ability you would like to fire off.
- No Hot Key, these will be called by our "spam" mapped key.
- Right click actions > Keystroke Actions > New Keystroke Action
- Target gets set to Current Window (The spam key will tell a given target to use this ability).
- Key Combination gets set to whatever keybind you're using in game for that ability
(You can make your macros in IS Boxer, and then use Keystroke Actions > Named World of Warcraft Macro Action... rather than sending keybinds to the game... See: http://isboxer.com/wiki/Game_Helpers...?title=Special )
b) Repeat for each ability, that you'd like to fire off.
c) Create your master (spammed) mapped key.
- Easiest will be, right click on DPS 1 (in the Key Map: FTL DPS Keys) and select Make Copy.
- Edit the copy.
- Change the hot key to whatever you'll want to spam.
- Delete the "1 > All".
- Right click on Actions > Key Map Actions > New Do Mapped Key Action.
- Select the Key Map, and your first mapped key that you'd like to be called by the Spam mapped key.
- Right click on the first one and Copy Action to Clipboard.
- Then paste as many times as you have actions defined in A/B (immediately above), possibly with extras of the same action if you want to weight the odds of something firing off.
If you have multiple classes on the same team, just have the target set for each ability.
Example: Do Mapped Key > Obliterate > Target (an ATG): Frost DK
Example: Do Mapped Key > Frost Strike > Target: Frost DK
Example: Do Mapped Key > Crusader Strike > Target: Ret Paladin
Example: Do Mapped Key > Judgement > Target: Ret Paladin
Example: Do Mapped Key > Inquisition > Target: Ret Paladin
Because each of the actual abilities only fires off for Current Window, in other words is only activated by whatever target/ATG the the Spam key points to... there are no conflicts.
You can include IWT to your Melee Toons.
You could go with two steps, executing on Press or Release... and have your main ability on Step 1 and every other ability on Step 2.
ISBoxer cant change macros in combat right? So you have to use a mapped key in IsBoxer and keybinds in WoW as Ualaa described.
You can have multiple spam mapped keys set up, each targeting an Action Target Group.
I did this with two of the Elemental Shamans, back when I was running 1x Prot Paladin, 1x Demo Warlock, 2x Elemental Shaman and 1x Elemental/Resto Shaman.
The dual-spec shaman was always in the Healer (Action Target Group), but the other two Shaman were the target of a toggle mapped key.
Essentially the group had two modes:
a) 1x Prot Pally, 1x Demo Warlock, 3x Elemental Shaman
b) 1x Prot Pally, 1x Demo Warlock, 2x Elemental Shaman, 1x Resto Shaman
My Repeater Region broadcast the clicks to the Healer ATG.
My DPS Spam mapped key, used another ATG as the target.
When I changed the dual-spec shaman to Resto mode, my toggle would move them out of the DPS ATG and would move the other two shaman out of the Healer ATG.
When I changed the dual-spec shaman to Elemental mode, the toggle would move them into the DPS ATG and would move the other two shaman into the Healer ATG.
The only caveat, at the time I needed to have at least one character in each of the ATGs when the team was launched, for IS Boxer to recognize the ATG.
So the default was two Shaman in the DPS ATG and one Shaman in the Healer ATG initially at the point of team lauch, irregardless of the actual in-game spec of the dual-spec shaman.
You can have multiple spam keys set up for a team too.
My Holy Paladin team has two mapped keys, both with the hot key: 1.
By default the first (DPS Mode) is enabled, and the second (Heal Mode) is disabled (via an option under Advanced).
I use two mapped keys to toggle into each mode.
The first has a hot key (Control + Left Click, one way & Control + Right Click, the other way).
That runs the other mapped key, which targets the entire group of Paladins but with Round-Robin checked.
The second mapped key for toggles enables one of the two spam keys and disables the other, for the current window.
If I didn't need them to round-robin (have one change at a time), I could do away with the first mapped key that calls the second.
In practice, if I Control + Left Click on a grid frame, one Paladin disables DPS and enables HEAL mode and sets that frame to their focus.
They then run the same pair of @focus macros as the Paladin healer on the DK Manifesto.
When I Control + Right Click anywhere, the focus is cleared and because the ATG is the same the Paladins leave HEAL mode for DPS mode in the same order.
While Warcraft won't accept macro changes from the IS Boxer addon (without a reload), you can freely activate and/or deactivate a mapped key (or pair of opposite mapped keys) in or out of combat.
You can also add/remove characters from an ATG while in combat.
Ok thanks Ualaa!