[Keyclone] how to not get wiped when your main dies...

[Tizer]

I've given up with PiP the time it takes to swap in the heat of battle on my machine means its not doable. Chances are i need to upgrade my 8800 GTS as its a little old now and it might work ok but i cant afford to take that chance at the moment really. Well, i can, but im not going to, just to get PiP working. I prefer to have 4 x 1024 x 768 screens spread across my 2 x 22" monitors then its simply a case of hovering over a new window and pressing a key to set it as my main. ;x

[Naysayer]

I planned to do this on my warlocks so I could rotate through shadowfuryx5 easily, but I'm having trouble with PiP. Sometimes I'll hit the hotkey to rotate to the next guy (main numb 0, alt1 numbperiod, alt2 numb1, ect) and sometimes it just won't switch. feels like it locks onto the main and won't go from main to alt1, but it can be fixed by trying alt3's hotkey and then going back to alt2. Just seems to lock up once and a while and won't let you switch unless you try a third option. I haven't bothered trying to figure out what is going on at the moment, but it's something I planned to look into when I close in on 70. Have any suggestions?

I investigated it a little more and apparently the problem only occurs between the Number pad 0 key and the number pad decimal key. Pretty odd if you ask me. I guess I'll just find a different set of keys to place those PiP hotkeys on for now.

[BigSmitty]

I have a G15 and my bottom six keys are the five "Focus 1-5" macros like Keyclone added with a "follow focus" macro on the sixth button. I have them mapped to my PiP swap and I also add the following line on whichever becomes the new "main":

/rw TOONNAME is now FOCUS (just on one).

That way when I switch, just two buttons pressed, the focus name pops up in the middle of the screen from the raid warning (after PiP resizing) and off I go.

[Thulos]

i think we should try to petition blizzard for more macro spots... and maybe a better key-macro mapping capability (like the macro name.. next to the key.. similar to the key bindings)

It takes a lot of getting used to but this is why I use trinity bars. You can write your macros directly into your bar buttons and you aren't limited by blizzards macro system.

[Meeo]

TrinityBars = A MB'ers Holy Grail for Macros and Buttons

Will not ever max out in buttons of macros as far as i have been so far, i have yet been able to, the ability to direct edit macros into keys is amazing, but it does take some time to setup and does take some getting use to of course, once you get through your 1 to 3 day break through in using it you will not be able to live without it...for multiboxing... I still use bartender3 for my mains when i solo play my old 70s.

As for my setup i have my follow/focus/assist command setup as my 0 numpad key for whos in focus at that time, but i have 5 keys on my xkeys pro that set the focus for main and each of the my 4 slaves, my old issue is the transition from my main over to a slave pc, is where i have issues since im running my main on pc1 and 4 slaves on pc2, i need to come up with a better way to handle the slaves on the second pc so i can transition better.

[Talamarr]

Also, check out BindPad. Freaking awesome and gives you more macro slots. It has a seperate window that you can add macros/spells/items to so you dont' have to clutter you action bars with items you don't actually need to see.

My two slaves (hunter and shaman) have like 2 things on their action bars; the rest is stored on BindPad for which I know the hotkeys for.

[Bradster]

I've given up with PiP the time it takes to swap in the heat of battle on my machine means its not doable. Chances are i need to upgrade my 8800 GTS as its a little old now and it might work ok but i cant afford to take that chance at the moment really. Well, i can, but im not going to, just to get PiP working. I prefer to have 4 x 1024 x 768 screens spread across my 2 x 22" monitors then its simply a case of hovering over a new window and pressing a key to set it as my main. ;x

That's ok you have two options at this point. Do not release and continue to use your main for targets, unless your using shamans and require LOS, then well uhh ask Ellay lol. I'd really like to know how he handles that, as i'm playing shams now.

other option is place 1 toon on another machine, make a macro to switch to a 2nd "main". For cases such as that. Thats basically what I do, the 1.5/2sec delay on my 2nd KCM switch seems forever during PVP, so after you down my 2nd main I use it for targets to kill what I can before I go down.

[wougoose]

Another nice option with this is to use party1 instead of focus, and on your "switch toon" button, make them the leader as well. Having the focus free is quite handy for classes with pets/etc.

I really love not having a true "main." It gives me the element of surprise

[keyclone]

hmph... you can change party1 in a macro? i didn't know that.... hmmm

what does the macro look like?

is your targeting the same, except instead of focustarget its party1target ?

[wougoose]

I use a combination of using party1 and the following addon (for auto following/following leader): Multiboxer

This is how I target (Using a similar approach that Vyndree posted in her hunter post):

#showtooltip
/target [target=party1target,harm,nodead]
/cast [nomod] Lightning Bolt; [mod] Chain Lightning

I bind F1-F4 with the following, setting them to the appropriate PiP window as well:

/script NewLeader("Illii")

And the following for following:

/script FollowLeader()

So, upon hitting F1-F4, I get an immediate switch of PiP, party leader, and the new alts immediately follow the new leader. So far this has proved effective for me, and I actually don't hate collection quests anymore! I can always switch to the next character when one fills up on their items

I also fixed Zanthor's Quest Broadcaster and added that into my setup for finishing touches. I'm lazy and try to maximize efficiency hehe...