five questions from a new multiboxer

[cherzra]

I'm trying multiboxing with 5 shamans and now have basic group / accept quests / set focus / follow focus / assist focus macros. I'm sure some of the questions below have been asked and answered already, but please forgive me as I don't remember finding an answer. I've gone through the wiki and the guides listed and don't recall seeing these addressed.

1. What is the best way to turn my guys when mobs are behind them? I find myself keyboard turning, which is very slow, and this will definitely not work in pvp... having them follow and running my main around takes too much time too as he needs to double back around before they start to turn. I have a hard time killing mobs that aren't directly in front of me.

2. I have WASDQR and other keys on my Keyclone do-not-pass list. Is it possible to turn do-not-pass off when I want to log in (my WoW passwords are identical)?

3. Is there a way to turn on (and off) replicating mouse movement in all my 4 "slave" characters, e.g. when accepting a quest that can't be shared? I have to do those individually now, as well as all turnin quests, and it takes a long time.

4. Right now, I attack with my main, and then hit a macro for my slaves to assist. Is there a way to attack with my main and have the slaves automatically assist? I've thought of mapping my ` key from just "attack" to a macro which does "attack;assist focus" or something like that. Edit: just fixed this one I think, never mind

5. I'm just lvl 10 now, and I've already stopped bothering to accept collection quests, and trying to loot with my alts. Both take too much time. In fact, I find killing mobs to be so fast that I'm considering changing my leveling strategy from doing quests to just killing non-stop, and gathering some new eq every other 10 levels or so by means of instance. What's your advice on questing or killing to level?

Thank you!

[Jamien]

1. If you need to turn around fast, make your main run through your slaves. Faster than KB turning and less difficult than trying to turn via keyboard + cast. You may lose out on some cast time on your main, but if 5 can now cast instead of 1 thats a lot more pain.

2. There is a section, my memory is failing me at the moment but it's there, where you can bind keys to bypass D-N-P. Have a look through the options window, it has options for bypassing everything, from memory the first option at the top is to pause keyclone.

3. Cloning mouse movement I believe can't be done via Keyclone (or at least very well?). Your best bet is to get an addon such as Multiboxer V2, talk to the NPC on all characters and then go through the chat stuff on your main character. When set up to follow prompts from your main, all your slaves will hand in quests/accept quests/accept flight points/etc.

4. What type of attack? Melee? If so you're probably stuck with pushing a macro, as automation is considered bad (removed because of bots, thus bannable). /assist [target=focus] /startattack. If I need my shamans to attack I press (logitech mx518) the button above my scroll wheel with alt held down and they go into melee mode, then press it again without alt and they follow.

5. Ignore loot quests. It takes on average 5 or 6 quests to level, aim for escort, kill quests, delivery quests or loot quests with a 100% drop chance and you only need a small amount of items. Looting is all manual, as automatic looting would be automation, thus bannable again (bloody botters).

[Jheusse]

1. As noted above, you just have to do movement with your main that your following toons end up facing the mob. When a mob runs through my lead shammy to hit the one that crit, I back up with him, spamming my cast button, if I don't get cast bar going I keep backing until I've backed through the mob. Quartz is good for this, you get a fast visual indicator that they can cast.

2. I tend to pause keyclone and manually type in all my passwords just because it feels more in control. however on the main keyclone window (the small one) there are buttons labeled dnp and rr (do not pass and roundrobin), these are override buttons, you can use them to turn off the do not pass list, as keyclone explained to me, for example if you wanted to /wave at someone with all toons but had WASD on do not pass. You could override (turn off) the do not pass list with that to enter your password(s).

3. Falkor has done some good work on this, I think he has the closest to a true automation to date, read this thread. Automation of Quests (Including Slaves)

4. You can attack with main and have your slaves assist and attack with the same keypress, the key is to make the main attack with a special attack, not to start autoattacking. For example you set '2' on your main as hamstring on your warrior, who is either the focus of your slaves or is party1 (the leader). Then on your slaves you set a macro in the 2 slot for either /assist party1 and /cast lightning bolt on the second line or use the traditional /cast [target=focustarget, nodead, harm] [] lightning bolt verbiage. My grasp on the syntax isn't good but that's the gist of things. Then you can spam your 2 button. The reason not to have autoattack as the main's 2 button is he would stop autottacking with every 2nd spammed lightning bolt.

5. At low levels the difference between killing and questing isn't massive, it's big but you can make the argument. At higher levels questing turnin xp skyrockets and mob kill xp doesn't. Long term questing is the way, mixed in with some judicious instance boosting if you have the resources and interest in boosting. People have quested to 60 with RAF in ridiculous short times, the same has been done with boosting. Pure grinding outside instances gets left in the dust apparently.

The above are comments from a noob with minimal experience hands-on but a ton of time lurking and reading.