Hi all,
I'm sure this is common knowledge, but I wanted to share a trick I use for mounting and the way I've adapted it for Draenor.
For mounting I had originally just used a macro like this (with an accompanying Mapped Key that simply calls the macro):
Code:/cast [noflyable] Armored Brown Bear; [flyable] X-53 Touring Rocket
That mounts on my trusty ground mount if the area doesn't allow flying, or mounts on the Touring Rocket if it does.
The problem with that approach is it just toggles mounts. So if one toon is mounted, and 4 aren't, broadcasting that macro will cause 4 to mount and one to dismount.
What I did was to change the mount macro to this:
Code:/cast [nomounted,noflyable] Armored Brown Bear; [nomounted,flyable] X-53 Touring Rocket
This macro ONLY runs the cast command when the toon isn't mounted, so in the above scenario, one toon stays mounted and the other 4 mount up!
In order to dismount, I have an additional dismount macro set up in ISBoxer (and accompanying Mapped Key) that is simply:
I use a G13 keypad and a mouse with a thumb button that I have mapped to ALT.Code:/dismount [mounted]
So to mount, I just press the hotkey button on the G13 keypad and that causes all the toons to mount. To dismount, I hold the side thumb button (ALT) on the mouse and press the same button on the G13 keypad and all the toons dismount.
This approach works great and I've been using it for years. However I've run into a problem in Draenor whereby the [flyable] / [noflyable] mechanic doesn't work. It thinks Draenor is flyable, even though we can't (yet) fly there so I always mount on the touring rocket as a ground mount which I find irritating.
So to fix for this, I created a new Macro named "Mount (Draenor)" (and again accompanying Mapped Key) that only mounts on the ground mount as follows (I'm using the Water Strider in Draenor):
Code:/cast [nomounted] Azure Water Strider
this Mapped Key has the exact same HotKey as the regular Mount Mapped Key. But it's initial state is disabled.
To enable this I have another Mapped Key named "Draenor Mount Toggle" that has two steps. The first turns the Draenor Mount on and the regular Mount off. The second step turns the regular Mount back on and turns the Draenor Mount off.
I've attached a file that contains the Key Map and the Macro set I'm using for this. To use this, you'll just need to import each into ISBoxer, configure your character set to include the macro set and the keymap and change the hotkeys to match your setup.
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Hope this helps someone. Let me know if you have any troubles with this.
Thanks,
Max
