Would really like to hear and learn from those that can 4-5 box. :D
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Would really like to hear and learn from those that can 4-5 box. :D
Plenty of people here 5 box or more, and multiple classes. It's not hard to get 5 characters set up to follow and attack the leader's target. The only challenge is trying to add in more control over what they're all doing, meaning adding in more spells and more complicated rotations and different sets of rotations. Once you get a feel for that, the only limit is really money.
I wouldn't call myself a pro but if you have questions can you be a little more specific?
I just want to know how you marco manage? Do mix some or all the classes spell into a marco or do you get more X keys to to the spells?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Hatred',index.php?page=Thread&postID=149488#post1 49488
I have a main assist and follow key.
Then I have “3” bound on all slaves for their DPS castseqeunces. I spam this key during a long fight.
I also have “Shift+3” bound on all slaves with pure DPS (no debuffs or DoTs) to take out trash mobs.
Other than that, I use an addon called SmartBuff to keep everyone fully buffed. The activation key is set to my backspace key and I just hit it from time to time.
This thread has some useful information on it:
Cross-Class setups: How do you manage it all?
I posted what my different toons do (in a nutshell) in two posts in there...
a lot like frosty, I have my pure dps on 1 for trash, full dps sequence on 2
I have a g15 keyboard so my healer is hard macroed
the bottom six keys have one for healing each character, with no mod the primary healer casts, with control the druid does, with shift the priest does.
Then I have the other 12 keys set up for specials across the board. one for eat/drink, one for follow, one for my rez macro.
I will be, very soon, changing my set up completely. I will be using macaroon for my full bar setup on the slave machines. That way when I play a solo on any character I can have the standard (server saved) bars/macro's for the solo play.
I have 2 buttons I press for my 5 box team: Pally, priest, druid, hunter, mage. Button one is my tank spam macro, my dps macros, and my healing macro. Button two is just tank threat and aggressive healing for when things go bad. I do have macros on several other buttons for other things but i can clear most instances with just those 2 buttons. Spend some time in the macros forum and all the sudden you find yourself being able to use special abilities on several classes effectively just by macroing them into something :thumbsup:
For example: My macro for boss pulls uses my arcane mage to pull while popping rage boosters for my druid tank and things like seal/judge on my ret pally, misdirect on my hunter etc.
Basically my mage hits his biggest single burst possible like arcane blast / POM 2nd arcane blast, my druid bumps up some rage and taunts off the mage before boss gets to him followed by misdirect from the hunter, judgements by the ret pally, big hits from the druid, Prayer of Mending from the priest.
All that is one button that I mash over and over for the first few seconds of a boss pull and the net result is a fully debuffed boss, huge threat lead for the tank, good damage done from the mage. I can pretty much coast through a boss after that. My goal with this complication is to raid with a 5 box of mixed classes in WotLK doing the tanking, healing, and some dps. My guild is impressed and they are going to give me a shot and we'll see how it goes when you add in the fight complexity of Naxx.
I have a key for long castsequences, two keys for different instant cast spells, a key for interrupts, three keys for cooldowns and trinkets, totally separate key for any tanking, and totally separate keys for healing. I have emergency heal keys (LOH) and totem keys and buff keys, etc. I got everything that a normal person would have on one character plus some. I match it up as best I can.
I only do 2 classes in wow but I have all kinds in EQ. You do what the class does best to your main key (healer heals, dps casts big nuke, slower slows, etc.) and then spam it.
I would not do more then one mellee class though. Although some guy on this forum suggested that if you have taruns (longer mellee range) you might be able to make it work.
I don't know why you guys actually do less when playing multiple classes than you would for just one. I don't feel good about the thought of using the ability to multibox to essentially reduce each character to a few skills on one button without the ability to devise a case-specific plan. It just seems to go against the point of having a multi-class setup.
I agree. Having said that my team is still succeeding quite well with basically a set of healer macros and one, all purpose DPS button, and a few tank macro's.Quote:
I don't know why you guys actually do less when playing multiple classes than you would for just one. I don't feel good about the thought of using the ability to multibox to essentially reduce each character to a few skills on one button without the ability to devise a case-specific plan. It just seems to go against the point of having a multi-class setup.
Reason? My team is 60 atm with a 70 lock demonology specced. Most of my fights, even "boss" encounters have been made trivial by the lock and his pet. I'll have to "learn up" to what you describe pretty soon as I start hitting Outland instances. Looking forward to it. It is a bummer right now realize I'm barely using the abilities of my disparate classes.
Don't take my short answer as it being the only keys I have set up. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'TheBigBB',index.php?page=Thread&postID=149584#pos t149584
I have MANY other keys/macros/groupings of spells, but they are all situational and organized to how I like to play. But I'm not going to try and type them all out to answer a simple question. :P
I have five classes, but I am no way a pro. I have only just started my instances in Outland (not even Heroic yet) as a MBer. It was an eye opener that's for sure. I really learned how much I actually sucked as a MBer, lol.
That being said, I have both macros that have mixed spells for all classes and some for specific classes. Basically similar to what everyone else posted.
First, my main is a prot paladin. So, I have the standard single player hotkeys/macros for this toon.
For my other 4 toons (shaman, druid, priest, mage - currently all DPS until I switch my priest to Holy)
a) A DPS spam macro for my DPSers - I think I may make this into 2 macros, one for instances other for questing/trash. Currently using both /castrandom or /castsequence in the macros depending on the class. I am continually refining and trying to make these better.
b) Heal macros for each one of the five characters and others (PoH, /targettarget macro on both my shaman and priest bound to the same key)
c) utility macros - several of these, as each class obviously has unique spells - I think this is what you wanted to know, so for each unique spell I have (or will have) a hotkey (with or without a macro). For example, polymorph, shackle undead, psychic scream, ice block each have separate keys bound to them.
I use a G15 which has 18 programmable keys on the left side. Most are bound to this (atm).
I have 2 computers, each with separate keyboards and mice - I havent taken advantage of this yet (i.e., I could use the slave keyboard independently). However, for some spells I just click the mouse in the proper windows (e.g., rez).
I am a "PVE'er". PVP would be different or at least have more macros.
Also, many people run the healer (if you have one) as the main so they can reduce the micromanagement through hotkeys since the majority are likely to be healing macros. I don't think I would be talented enough to run a main healer with a tank slave.
Hope that helps a bit.
Cheers.
For the most part I have two buttons I use for the majority of basic attacks for all my teams.
One button I use for DPS such as lightning bolt/chain lightning for my shamans...shoot for my hunters, shadow bolt for my locks, starfire/wrath for my druids, etc.
Another button is for DoTs or just quick instant shots.
Curse of Agony/Corruption for locks, shock for shamans, moonfire/insect swarm for druids.
I have a melee button, mount button that is the same for all my teams/classes.
I have 5 teams so I found I need to try and make some kind of similarity.
I think casting time should be considered when you are trying to match up spells/casts for each class. You wouldn't want to mix a spell that takes 3 seconds with a locks instant curse of agony. It can take a bit to get things working smoothly but you need to research each spell and what it does as well as the cast time.