My brother asked me for help to get started with multi-client and I drafted this email for him – so I modified and am posting here if useful for folks getting started. This is capturing about two months now of my experience, this is my complete configuration for single box (not multi-hardware config). I use a single PC that is a year old with a decent but not uber graphics card (also over a year old) and 2 gig memory. Not a rocket monster but good enough to five man on one box. Hope this is helpful. Of course, I borrowed very heavily from all the great folks from this site, and this is largely a compilation of many stickies and other valuable posts -- too many to capture all those who deserve credit. Thank you all in this community for making my gaming experience great!

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Ok, so you are ready to have a blast?

I’m compiling this email for you based on my experience. If you are willing to invest a few hours of reading and testing macros, dying a few times while learning, then you can rise to the next level of gaming It will completely change WoW for you – warning, you are likely to quit your current main and start your own 5 man group after trying a 2 man and learning the ropes.You will need to choose a key emulation program. I use “keyclone”. It costs one time $20 or so with paypal, but it’s worth it imho. I haven’t tried any of the others (like mouse emulation, keys alone are enough for me). I suggest you start with keyclone, then explore others as you advance. The basic idea is keyclone passes every keystroke into the other WoW clients you have running. You can exclude some keys (you can fully configure) like bag opening, map look, etc. This way, you can play just one ‘main’ screen, and don’t even have to look at the ‘slave’ screens. You’ll notice on dual-boxing that some folks are very serious about this, and have full 5-man hardware setup for each character to have their own PC! I don’t want to spend $10k for this, so I run everything on one machine and I’m totally happy with performance. Yes, you will have to tune down your graphics on your main and run in a windowed mode, so it does detract a bit – but not much imho.

Here is a complete WoW macro guide – very useful. If you ask basic macro questions at the dual-boxing forums, you’ll get this answer almost everytime: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...picId=96143900

Save posting on the dual-boxing forums for when you are not getting an expected behavior from a macro. The folks here are very knowledgeable and really eager to help – I’m amazed how fast I get responses.

Ok, so you are ready to get started. I recommend doing INSTANCE only leveling for new multi-boxers (of course you’ll have to grind initially, for horde you can start 5 man in Ragefire by lvl 11, for Alliance you can start Deadmines by 16, maybe earlier if you are bold), so this guide below will focus on configuring for that. You can explore other tools/macros for completing quests, but I’ve found the fastest way (and most painless) is pure instance leveling. I also skip herbing/mining/skinning and just have one enchanter (easiest on main) to disenchant stuff you collect in instances, then sell all enchanting components to make money. I’ve never had to buy a thing on AH for any of the five man, you will get plenty of gear in instances for them.You will want to use a couple of mods, these are the only three I think you should use, others optional.

For the action bars. I use dominos:

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...5-Dominos.html

Dominos is great because it is the easiest mod to help you bind keys. This is super important for your macroing strategy.



For ignoring others (like duel requests) and auto-repair when talking to vendors (very handy for quickly repairing slaves) I use minimalist:

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...inimalist.html


For general UI, I like pitbull – it allows you to easily move all of the UI elements (like targets, player, group etc).

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...itBull3.0.html

NOTE: you only need to install pitbull for the MAIN Wow interface folder and can remove from your slaves for performance.

The cartographer series is awesome for maps, tracking herbing/mining, and instance maps inside dungeons, but is optional. I use auctioneer/enchantrix etc for my auction alt to buy/sell – this is a hugely valuable mod but outside of scope of this writeup. I also like arkinventory for consolidating bags on main and slave UIs, but it is not essential. I absolutely LOVE autobar on mains and slaves, but I’ve found its finicky and takes a lot of patience to configure. I use a lot of other UI mods, but these four above are more than enough for you to get started.