Complex setups, any recommendations?

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I'm using IS Boxer for my software, I realize you don't care about the software specifically, but it provides similar features.

I have a Repeater Region for my toons, which enables mouse broadcasting to my healer or healing toons when the mouse enters the region. Combine this with an alphabetical sort via Grid/GridCustomLayouts and Clique to interpret clicks, that covers my healing.

The software provides three FTL Functions. FTL Assist Me, FTL Target Me, FTL Follow Me. Mapped keys, basically use one of these, if FTL is important. No macros or such for FTL, just drag wow spells onto the bars. So I essentially have FTL on as many keys as I like. Can overlay this with Focus, for crowd control or PvP focus fire.

AoE is handled via a Send Next Click, on a mapped key; the chosen targets get a mouse targeting circle on their screen which moves in real time as I move the mouse on the main screen. I actually create custom Action Target Groups (a software feature); three of mine are AoE_4, AoE_5, and AoE_ShA; any toon that I want to AoE on a given key is a member of the ATG, and my "4" key sends next click to all members of AoE_4. Can also enable mouse broadcasting via a hotkey or a click bar on the screen, either of which toggles it on or off.

Depending on class, I use castsequences mostly. Some of those are specific, such as Mangle-Savage Roar, for when I want that buff. Others are general, like Mangle-Rake-Mangle-Mangle-Rip. If you're hit capped for your content, you could manage each spell, a lot of the successful PvP boxers do that. You can also use a variety of methods to create a weighted random chance.

I use a lot of Round-Robin effects. Shammy totems is an example, for staggering. But Death Grip or Hungering Cold on the DK's is used too. Druids have Innervate and BattleRez on round-robin. Basically I create a mapped key, pick the hotkey for it (same as my wow keybind for whatever ability) then give it a Step for each character, and send that keybind to only that toon on that Step.

Talents are generally very similar, but not necessarily exact across toons. My five druid group have slight variety, so one has the Faerie Fire talent and glyph, another has Infected Wounds and the Rake glyph (PvE use), another has all the relevant bear talents (for PvE again) and a PvE glyph, the last two have Brutal Impact and B.Rez glyphs. They each have all the "core" Feral Cat talents I want, and aside from slight variation of Major glyphs, match across the remaining 2 Majors, 3 Prime and 3 Minor glyphs.

Conversely, my 5x Frost DK's (will be 4x Frost + 1x Pally, eventually) are identical as far as talents/glyphs go. Similarly, 5x Disc Priests, 5x BM Hunters, 5x Elem.Shamans, etc are all identical. My mixed caster team (five different classes) and my PvE progession team (five classes too) obviously have different specs and glyphs.

This expansion I'm running seven teams, but will probably add an eighth. The focus is on three primary teams and two secondaries.
A) 5x Feral Druids (Alliance PvP)
B) 1x Holy Pally & 4x Frost DK (Horde PvP)
C) 1x Blood DK, 1x Resto Shaman, 1x Disc Priest, 1x Arcane Mage, 1x Demo Warlock (PvE Heroics)
D) 4/5x Elemental Shaman (Alliance PvP)
E) 1x Disc Priest, 4x Affliction Warlocks (Horde PvP)

I'm running five accounts, on one system with a single 30" widescreen monitor. All my wow's are rendered at 1680x1050, but IS Boxer resizes them. One is large and four are small (along the bottom of my screen). Because each is rendered at full size, switching between them is literally instant (under 1 millisecond) and mouse broadcasting is absolutely perfect; can select talents and configure UI elements with broadcasting on. I run a mapped key, which turns visual effects up (to roughly 3/4's) on the main and down (minimum except view distance) on the slaves. Jamba forwards chat messages, so I don't need the slave windows visible aside from occasional visual checks that they're around; can instant swap to any, if I need them for anything.

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Firstly, thank you!

It’s too easy to get stuck in a “My way works so I won’t change it” sort of mentality, so this is wonderful info to get.

I have a few questions,

I have a Repeater Region for my toons, which enables mouse broadcasting to my healer or healing toons when the mouse enters the region. Combine this with an alphabetical sort via Grid/GridCustomLayouts and Clique to interpret clicks, that covers my healing. .

This is a cool idea. If I did any PvE or large scale healing this would without a doubt be how I would do it! On the same note, have you been able to find any good way of filtering your group by name? Pitbull is supposed to be able to do it, but the functionally is extremely bugged. I would use Grid to show my teams HP if it shoed cast bars as well. I don’t believe it does?

The software provides three FTL Functions. FTL Assist Me, FTL Target Me, FTL Follow Me. Mapped keys, basically use one of these, if FTL is important. No macros or such for FTL, just drag wow spells onto the bars. So I essentially have FTL on as many keys as I like. Can overlay this with Focus, for crowd control or PvP focus fire.

So I’m a tad confuse how this works? (Although it sounds exiting!) The software automatically knows what modifiers to send to each window, and each wow windows has a universal Modifier? This does not allow you to… say Hold Alt and cast a FTL spell though does it?

AoE is handled via a Send Next Click, on a mapped key

So you can bind 2, 3, 4 to all start send next mouse click?
I have 2 main problems with AoE right now…

When I “Click” all the accounts there is some lag as the software literally moves your curser to each window and clicks on it. (You can see the mouse jerking over each screen). Does this have a similar problem?

I cannot always consistently hit the same spot on the screen. In the heat of battle I sometimes click a little too high / low. Is there a way to bind a key to a “click this spot for all accounts” so to speak?

I use a lot of Round-Robin effects. Shammy totems is an example, for staggering. But Death Grip or Hungering Cold on the DK's is used too…

This part has me the most exited. I used a lot of round robin for things like Thundershock with cast sequence macros and blank commas. Are you saying this can be done on the software side aswell?

Because each is rendered at full size, switching between them is literally instant (under 1 millisecond) and mouse broadcasting is absolutely perfect;

THANK YOU! This is why I have mismatches on clicks!!! By what you’re saying here, I’m assuming that the mouse is being emulated across all the accounts at the game level, not the OS level? (You don’t see the mouse move from account to account?)


Also, has anyone found a faster way than keyboard turning to turn all the accounts?



Some wonderful info already guys, thank you!