LoTRO

[kurp]

I am trying to 2 box LOTRO for the first time, and all the tutorials and instructions seem to be for wow.

Can anyone give me some basic idea of what to do, and how to make movement.

Just loaded everything, and cant even move both at one time right now, I was thinking when I hit W, they would both walk, after adding the 2 computers with keyclone. So can anyone help a total noob?



dont have a follow or assist macro yet, but I do use a belkin n52, and mouse move most of the time.

[saris]

Hey kurp.

Please tell me you joined the landroval server? if not you should, and then join me in Vae Victus on your dual box

anyhow, I am still here, and still dualing in LOTRO. some suggestions.

the best way I have found to get both characters controlable, is to change the Key mapping in the game (this is how I have it setup):

two computers, one keyboard, one mouse.
using Multibox to transfer the key strokes to the slave computer.
on my main, I have Shift+WASD to move around.
on my Alt, I have Ctrl+WASD to move around.
I stopped the transfer of Enter and the transfer of the ` key so that I can easily press the ` key to toggle the mutlibox key broadcast.

I add things like, the second character uses F1-F5 in order to select the group members (she is a minstrel, so I need this for quick healing). and I disabled the F1-F5 keys on my main, because I found I never used them anyway, so I just click on the people I need to select.
I made it so that 1 - = is my Mains primary skills, and Shift+1 - Shift += is my alts(min) primiary skills.
other keys I have slowly unmapped in game and changed, due to things I use Often on one character I moved skills around in the quick bars etc, so that I can access those 'Key' skills I need on both characters without mouse clicking, everything else I just Key click for, things like buffs and raise dead, summoning pets etc.
I found it easy to setup (the only macro I could really find) "/shortcut 58 /follow" which maps the /follow command to quickbar button 58, I then set on my alt button 58 to the Q key, so that I can easy press F1 and then Q and the alt will follow.... The follow command breaks easily, but the pathing is quite powerful.

other suggestion:

Just started a Burg dual, and I found some of the same options apply, but the keymapping had to be different, so I copied the Key.mapp file in the LOTRO folder (my documents) on both computers. and then in game set the keymapping back to defaults, changing again the WASD to shift and crtl, as well as some other minor things, but I found that two of the same class, you can be casting the same spells, and using the same skills MOST of the time (save riddle which only effect a person once)... so when I want the burgs to stealth I simply press the stealth button and they both dissapear...

It shouldn't be that difficult to come up with your own little setup.
At this point I am messing around with AutoHotKeys to see if I can make some macros, going to start of basic, like putting F1+Q into one macro, so that I can maybe move those buttons off to the side, allowing me to move more used commands under may hand.

Just waiting on the release of the n52te right now, hoping that the macros and such that that offers, as well as the extra buttons will make my job easier.



Also, starting up a website for my kinship (dual boxers primarily) on landroval. this website will also be open to anyone that plays the game as a dualboxer, in order to share things like this with other LOTRO players, I love dual-boxing.com, but the LOTRO communty is not strong here, and a lot of the boxers I have talked to in game DON"T use this site. Let me know what you think, and if you want into the kinship

[Ellay]

for anyone playing LotRO how well do you feel dual-boxing is in the game past lvl 20? it is quite effective or do you find yourself playing below par?
Just wondering how it panned out in terms of how much what we do can maximize it.

[saris]

You dual box in LOTRO! that is fantastic, I think that I am the only one left here on this forum that still plays ... or at least still posts and checks this site

I have two duo's on LOTRO, the first is cpt 50/min 40 and the second I just started Burg/Burg 9

I find that the Burgs, are best suited to dual-boxing, mainly due to the fact that they have the same skills so I don't really have to worry about changing keymapping and thing that much )(see my above post)

but I LOVE the Cpt/Min duo, in my opinion one of the best ones that you could get. Gaurd/min I heard was good, but if the fight gets out of control Gaurds need healing and the mins can no longer DPS (not that they were god at that to begin with). Where as my captain, he can't tank as well (though I put a sword and board on him sometime, if there are mutli mobs, the block chance helps mitigate damage) and when push comes to shove, NOT only can the cpt, heal the min, but he can also preven t damage on her, and he Still gets to DPS to bring them down, which I step the min out of artilery mode(war speech) and turn her attention to healing.

I haven't at this point run across a quest that my dou (along with my 44 Gaurd friend, if it is a group quest) that we have NO been able to handle, save chapters, and end chain group quests (which even playing on character with a great group are often impossible).

Let me know what server you are on Ellay, I am Landroval, I would love to group with another dualer......

Also starting my own kinda dual-boxing site, Mainly for my kinship, but hoping to make it the dualing kinship, so there will be some helpful hints on that site to deal with the woes of LOTRO's limited macros...... Don't you worry though Ellay, I WILL NEVER forget what this site has done for me, OR that it is a GREAT place to get/give help to dualers, I will be sure to Mention you EVERY CHANGE I GET on my forum, and I hope that once it gets going that people on here, will show up there for the LOTRO side of things>!

[Heenan]

I played on Landroval. I am highly considering starting again so that I can 3-box it. I was planning on playing a Guardian-Minstrel-Hunter (Tank-Healer-DPS) combo.

For anyone that is interested, they are offering the game for $9.99/month. The only catch is that you have to sign up for 3-month intervals, so it would be $29.99 every 3 months. It's a pretty good deal. Check it out. But hurry, because this deal ends 2 days from now on Thursday, January 31, 2008.

Also, you can pick up the retail version of the game right now for $19.99. And you can get the collector's edition for $5 more. Prices here.

I'm not trying to sell it, honest! I quit WoW about 2 months ago and have been really bored with my gaming. I devoured tons of games like CoD4, Orange Box, Prey, etc. Nothing could satisfy that MMORPG thirst. So I cranked up my LOTRO accounts again and started realizing how great this game is. And then I saw the holiday special and it made the deal even sweeter. I'm sure I'll be back in WoW when WotLK comes out. But this should keep me busy until the summer.

I'd recommend checking out the next free content update as well. It's scheduled for February and is adding a barber shop and clothing sets that can be placed on top of your armor sets without screwing up your stats. Purely cosmetic, but great features. I believe they added player housing in the previous update or 2. So there are some really great things coming from Turbine.

[saris]

Hey Heenan, the offer stands to invite you into the kinship that is starting up, for Daulboxers and others. we are at this point a casual group of players looking to build a base that is big enough to do some raiding. you know, experience the rest of the games.

Buffz, is my characters name, give me a shout, here, or on the Lotro forums, or in game, or drop me a line on Vae Victus's site

vaevictus.mine.nu

Great times.

[Ellay]

Ah I haven't played LotRO in quite a long time, tried it out when it was first released. I think I might of been on the same server, not too sure though only hit lvl 10 ><

[saris]

to answer your question directly ellay..... the only real time I feel below par, while dualing above 20's.... is I imagine exactly when even the Wower's with all their macros do....

When *&^% hits the Virtual fan. you know how it goes.

Pull Two mobs, OK just what I wanted, we kill thi----Add!.... ok I am fine, stunned back to the two..... he is almost dea---ANOTHER!, man.. ok, I have done this before.... don't let it overwelm you, just remane focused, scare him away, take agro of the Healer, Heal the tank. ..... more healing, stun again, Woot one is down, three more to go, this guy is hurt most, stun that guy...... ANOTHER.. oh man, ok, Tank is almost spent, healer low on mana, Heal tank heal tank heal tank, gain agro, stun ......... one more down, three more to go.... ok almost out of mana, HEALER DOWN>>!!!!! quick in combat rez, Woot back up.... On no, tank is almost--use potion...... ok we are, good, Heal tank heal tank heal tank heal tank healer has agro again, dammit, you have to use those skills... man This is Crazy...... tank is almost dead, out of mana, it is time to call it quits, third one down RUN!!!!!!!!! tank DOWN..... Healer gets kicked in the A88 bounces off rock, FLIES into the air, and dies due to failling damage.

-----GGRRRRRRRR--------- OK!!!... woooooooo calm....... DAMMIT I should have used the skill that saves the healer and makes me immune to damage... and the healer had that instant party heal spell that I just got... MAN I could have had that.....



so basically (if you read all that, which is what happened the last time both of us died ) then I am pretty sure that things like that happen in wow ....

but other than that, I don't really find it below par, infact there are a lot of times that you need to know EXACTLY what the other people in your party are thinking, and as I primarily PUG, that just isn't possible.... so it is nice to know what my healer is doing, when MY main runs into pull the boss, as the timing is perfect.

[Slats]

Heya Saris,



Well I keep falling in and out of love with WoW, I didn't really like EQ2 and nothing else thats multiboxable seems to be coming out anytime soon (AoC does not seem to be multiboxable). Anyway I went to order LotRO just to gave a play aroudn with it. I checked my gmail (oh search function how I love you) and noticed my Turbine account. Went and checked it and bought the digital download.



I seemed to have made a boo boo somewhere and I ended up with two copies and two CD keys. So looks like I'll be giving this a shot at dual-boxing wether I wanted to or not haha. One feature I fucking LOVED about the account system is I can have the one account but multiple subscriptions under it. I am hoping I havn't fucked up and somehow have two subscriptions but cannot be logged into that Turbine Account on multiple PC's... anyway guess I'll find out.



-Slats

[saris]

Sorry to hear abnout you mess up. But glad you are triing LOTRO.



I have a bunch of wow fans and friends, that have switched over, and the general consenous is.... you LOVE, or you like it but think that wow is better...

people that come from wow, generally don't have anything bad to say about the game, but generally those people that don't like it think that it is to similar and those that love it think that it is completely different... so you will have to make up your own mind

HOWEVER.

Join Landroval, and contact me in game, or mail me, and I can answer any questions that you may have and help out