Do you solo-play your clones?

I run Pala, Priest, Mage, Mage, Mage.

The entire time I was levelling, I never once played solo on the priest or the mages. Since hitting 70 I've favoured gearing the priest, as I figured the better healing I had, the better my instance runs would go. Lately I've been taking her into kara and ZA with guildies / friends, and today I even logged on to one of the mages on my main computer :O

This can become a pain, as almost all of the macros and spells need to be dragged back into position, and I never really feel like my fingers learn the positioning of the spells for solo play. Switching to solo play is easy enough, its the opposite which gets me. I always manage to forget one important macro.

Does anyone have a more elegant solution? ( I am running from separate WoW folders if that makes a difference. 4 on the clone pc and 1 on the main)

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Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=81947#pos t81947

Then pretty much everything is converted over.

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For a start, the macros I use for multiboxing are no good to me as (for example) a priest solo playing in a raid. Also there is something which is stored server-side to do with button positioning, as often a random macro from the clone machine will be picked out that seems to be the closest match to the name of a macro which was on the same button position for solo play.

I roam around Outlands and gank folks on my Rogue. Usually in Terrokar Forest. Probably move up when I get better gear.

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Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=81947#pos t81947

All of your config setting around in your:

Warcraft/WTF/Account/

Folder.

Mine is:
Computer 1 = Account1
Computer 2 = Account2
Comptuer 3 = Account3
etc...

So if I want to play Account2 on Compter 1..

I go to computer 2's /WTF/Account2 folder, and copy it to Computer 1's /WTF/ folder. Then pretty much everything is converted over. If that is a confusing mess, you probably shouldn't mess with your config files. (and back everything up before you screw with it!)

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I find it much easier to just have a separate WoW installed folder for each "login" type instead of copying/pasting folders each time I want to play a different style.
WoW1 through WoW5 are my team logins, with macros set up to 5-box.
WoW6 is my solo install, ready for any single character from any of my 5 accounts to play without all the previous macros.

[quote='Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=819 47#post81947]All of your config setting around in your:

Warcraft/WTF/Account/

Folder.

Mine is:
Computer 1 = Account1
Computer 2 = Account2
Comptuer 3 = Account3
etc...

So if I want to play Account2 on Compter 1..

I go to computer 2's /WTF/Account2 folder, and copy it to Computer 1's /WTF/ folder. Then pretty much everything is converted over. If that is a confusing mess, you probably shouldn't mess with your config files. (and back everything up before you screw with it!)[/quote][font='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif']Well, if you have Windows Vista, why don't you symlink your folders and store them in one place? That's what I did:

I have five different folders of WoW installations and symlink the Data, Interface, [/font]Screenshots and WTF folders (mklink /d <Name of your Folder, e.g. "Data"> <Path to the real folder, e.g. "//Server/Games/WoWData/Data">). The WTF folder has five different Names, so for my WoW1 it'd be something like "WTF1" and so on, so I don't have any troubles with the config.wtf being overwritten by the other clients. And that way it's much easier to patch them all... all at once :D

I only log in solo's for crafting. I need the full screen so I can easily read the text and sort through my inventory faster.

Other then crafting, never.

I would solo play one of them if I were level 70 but till then no. It wouldn't be hard to switch because I basically took my key bindings and altered them in a way that they would never interfere with my solo characters. It would mean a few shiftings of keys but nothing extreme. /mad love for the X-Keys!

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Originally Posted by 'Codam',index.php?page=Thread&postID=81944#post819 44

This can become a pain, as almost all of the macros and spells need to be dragged back into position

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TrinityBars has templates, which includes bar layout, macros, and keybindings.



I regularly play my "main" as enhancement for raiding sunwell, and she's resto for multiboxing.
I also play my pally and priest and ele shammies in Kara/Gruul occasionally.

Between TrinityBar templates and "Talented" (talent template mod), it takes me all of 2 seconds to switch specs and UI.

My 5box combo is Pally tank, 3 shaman dps, and priest healer.

I do arenas on the 3 shaman "slaves", i guess that doesnt count as playing individually but it is "breaking up" the group.

I also do arena with the priest solo, healing a lock or warrior friend.

And once in a while i do kara with the pally tanking or priest healing.

i sometimes have 1 or 2 mages loaded in to farm herbs and mine while i raid on my rogue. its great for down time or when in stby

All of my toons have their action bars configured with makros. If the main char is online, it will be the source for targets, otherwise the toon will target on its own, so all toons stay playable solo. I spend way to many hours to figure out a system to keep each toon playable solo, but now I find myself only solo playing them to loot quest items. It's more fun with all five anyway.