How do you plan on staying under 36 macros in WotLK (with multiple 5-box teams on a single set of 5 accounts)

[raz]

can't you just consider combining macros with the modifier keys ?
I've got my invite macro on my main, but you can mix several macros like your

for the mounts :
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Flying Mount; Land Mount

For auto accept of group invite . just install Automaton, it will do it for you without the need of any macro.. and much more !!!

I don't use modifiers because I'm already using modifiers for all spells used while multiboxing. I have the xKeys (I use a hardware setup with 5 computers for multiboxing) using very strange combinations of keys so that my "normal" bars are still mapped so that I can play any individual character as a normal single-boxer would when not at my home rig. I have to admit I've only done this a very small handful of times, but it was very nice to be able to log into a default UI machine and play without any modifications to the UI.

[Ken]

can't you just consider combining macros with the modifier keys ?
I've got my invite macro on my main, but you can mix several macros like your

for the mounts :
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Flying Mount; Land Mount

For auto accept of group invite . just install Automaton, it will do it for you without the need of any macro.. and much more !!!

I don't use modifiers because I'm already using modifiers for all spells used while multiboxing. I have the xKeys (I use a hardware setup with 5 computers for multiboxing) using very strange combinations of keys so that my "normal" bars are still mapped so that I can play any individual character as a normal single-boxer would when not at my home rig. I have to admit I've only done this a very small handful of times, but it was very nice to be able to log into a default UI machine and play without any modifications to the UI.

You're doing it wrong then ;) Or at least: it can be done better.
My multiboxing macros also work when playing solo. They have the same key combinations also.
Anything that you can combine should be in 1 macro, group stuff together like:
- different heals
- different shocks
- different pet attack types
- different buffs
- all mount types

Use modifiers then to select the specific heal/shock/petattack/buff/mount type.
Make the scripts so that if you're not multiboxing, that they still work like this:
/cast [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [exists,harm] Lightning Bolt
This will cast a lightning bolt to the target of the focus that is set. If you 're not multiboxing, it will just cast at your current harmful target (if any).
With this focus, you can also easily switch focus(and thus switch team) which makes your setup even more flexible.

[Mercurio]

I had the same problem, then due to someone else on these boards recommendation, I downloaded BindPad, an add-on that gives you room for over 150 more macros.

Quite the lifesaver if you aren't Fur :thumbup:

[Ken]

I had the same problem, then due to someone else on these boards recommendation, I downloaded BindPad, an add-on that gives you room for over 150 more macros.

Quite the lifesaver if you aren't Fur :thumbup:

Sure, but then the question becomes: Will that still work in WOTLK?

[raz]

Fortis[/url] provided the following macro which provides a method of assisting without using focus, freeing focus for CC tasks

• Assist without focus

This looks interesting, but I'll have to do some experimentation. I like using focus since I don't have any CC with the shammy team, but with that changing in WotLK I may use assist rather than focus. The main problem with this is that I can't choose with a different button press to skip my 2nd character as the main assist if he's CC'd. It limits me to only a predefined priority of which characters are my "main" if they are alive.

The IT Monkey provided the following macro which sets the focus to the first live character in a predefined list of characters

• Focus Live toon

This has the main disadvantage of the first as well where I can only have the preset list of leaders in one order based on who's alive. This also would not fit into a 255 character macro if you add in more character names.

Djarid provided the following macro to set the focus to a specific character based on key modifiers

• Focus with modifiers

This looks the most promising, but I'll have to remap my Xkeys. If I can fit it into 255 characters for all the teams this would still allow me to use 5 separate buttons allowing me to choose at random who is the main.

Vyndree
uses party assignment for determining the "main assist", which allows
use of focus for CC/interrupt/pet assignment. A focus can be used to
force a party leader assignment in battlegrounds, or when your main
dies.

• Assist via Party assignment or Focus

This one only defaults to the party leader and then would require other macros to choose a focus different from that. In BGs this wouldn't work when I'm not in one group or the leader.

Another way to allow the use of focus is using action bar pages to assist.

• Assist using Pages

This would simply eat up all the pages way too fast. I have separate bars set up for solo playing when I've respecced a shaman to heal in the past so this would be limiting me quite a bit.

[raz]

/cast [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [exists,harm] Lightning Bolt
This will cast a lightning bolt to the target of the focus that is set. If you 're not multiboxing, it will just cast at your current harmful target (if any).
With this focus, you can also easily switch focus(and thus switch team) which makes your setup even more flexible.

I'll add in the extra check. My current macro's for combined spells look like:

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use Icon of the Silver Crescent
/use Xi'ri's Gift
/use Glowing Crystal Insignia
/cast [help, nodead, target=focustarget] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=focustarget, harm] Lightning Bolt

My problem is that I set all this crap up way before I'd heard of dual-boxing.com about a year ago. I've got a number of what is realistically "bad" or less than optimal playstyle habits that I'll have to wean myself out of to make things more efficient macro-wise when moving to more teams.

[Ken]

/cast [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [exists,harm] Lightning Bolt
This will cast a lightning bolt to the target of the focus that is set. If you 're not multiboxing, it will just cast at your current harmful target (if any).
With this focus, you can also easily switch focus(and thus switch team) which makes your setup even more flexible.

I'll add in the extra check. My current macro's for combined spells look like:

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use Icon of the Silver Crescent
/use Xi'ri's Gift
/use Glowing Crystal Insignia
/cast [help, nodead, target=focustarget] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=focustarget, harm] Lightning Bolt

Even though it combines multiple things, it does not combine them as effective as it could. I was more thinking about things like these:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...ro_set#Healing
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...macro_set#Fire
(more here: http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...aman_macro_set )

My problem is that I set all this crap up way before I'd heard of dual-boxing.com about a year ago. I've got a number of what is realistically "bad" or less than optimal playstyle habits that I'll have to wean myself out of to make things more efficient macro-wise when moving to more teams.

I know it sucks to reorganize everything, but can really be helpful, as:
- you will reach buttons more easily with your keyboard, as you will have to move your hand less far (less buttons = more things grouped within range)
- the whole setup will feel more logical and it will be more easy to fit your keyboard scheme with other classes. Example setup of mine:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/...bb107ab2_o.png
- because you use less buttons, you will be quicker in our actions

[raz]

I think tonight will be spent redoing everything, but I'm still not sure if I'll be able to integrate a single player setup well with the multiboxing teams at the same time. My problem is that single boxing I don't use modifiers embedded in macros, so I have a stack of 3 bars with the first bound to 1 though backspace, the 2nd mapped to shift-1 through shift-backspace, and the 3rd to alt-1 thought alt-backspace because I'm just used to it after almost 4 years of playing single classes this way (I have all classes singple leveled to 70 other than a mage which my wife refuses to let me level on the premise she needs a character I don't have......).

In order to set up modifiers I'll have to use keys other then my normal 1 through backspace if I want to maintain the current single player defaults so I'm not sure what I'll use yet. I also have a sidebar stack with F6-F12 used taking up modifiers on those as well, lol.

[Old Dirty Bathtub]

Take a look at the addon Bindpad if you are running out of macro space. It has a function (similar to Trinity Bars) that gives you a pretty large number of additional macro slots.

Bindpad is actively being developed and already has a beta for 3.0.

On a related note, I hope Maul turns up and fixes Trinity; I can't bear the thought of going to Domino or Bartender.

[Fortis]

In really hope there will be a trinity version for WOW 3.0! Redoing all stuff for my teams would be REALLY annoying.....