New multi-boxer and an AoE spell question
Ahoy there. I have been multi-boxing for a couple of months, but it was not until last week that I learned that it was called multi-boxing and that is is quite a common practice. Before then I thought I was doing something unique. I also thought that I violated the EULA by playing several chars at the same time and have tried to keep it as secret as possible, by letting the slaves jump and move and put buffs on nearby players.
First I duo-boxed a warrior and a paladin. I wrote my own software. It can send keystrokes to windows that are minimized (by using the PostMessage Windows API function), and I play with my main in a maximized window and the other chars in minimized windows on the same computer. The program can send keystrokes (like pressing the '0' button) but also send macro strings (like "/cast Holy Light") to the windows. For each class I have a file that maps keystrokes to macros. If I want to change something I deactivate the program by pressing F6, edit the file and activates it again by pressing F7. This means I don't have to store lots of macros in my accounts. All the information is in the files. (I hope that this doesn't violate the EULA?)
I can also send different macros to different chars. If I press the 'E' button all slaves will cast an attack spell. Ctrl+E will only send it to the first slave, Shift+E to the second, Ctrl+Shift+E to the third and <+E to the fourth ('<' is the button next to the left Shift key on a Swedish keyboard).
I added a warlock to the group and got them up to level 40, but found out that this group was flawed and started over with a protection paladin tank, an elemantal shaman and fire mage instead. With this 3-man group I have cleared all instances up to Sunken Temple, but I had to be a couple of levels above the recommendations to handle them (for instance I cleared Razorfen Downs at level 37, Uldaman at level 42, Zul Farrak at level 47 and Sunken Temple at level 53 (hex, fear and deep slumber are real pains!))
Since I have tried to get the group to look as close to a "real" group as possible no one has accused me for cheating yet. On the contrary quite a few people has asked me invite them into the group, I guess without having a clue that I played all members. Last week one guy asked my if I was multi-boxing and I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he clarified that he meant if I was playing several chars at the same time, and I thought that was my last WoW minute had arrived and that he would report me and have all my accounts banned. But instead he thought it was really cool and wanted to know more about it.
Now I have bought two more accounts and will add a priest and a druid to the group.
A question:
1. It is a pity that some of the mage and warlock AoE spells aren't castable in macros, like Blizzard, since you need a mouse click to activate them. Before the last patch it was possible to get around this by faking a mouse click with the MiniMap::LingLocation() function. But it has been barred now. Does anyone know if there are other ways to macro these spells?
