Frankenstein's monster of macros, addons, and hardware

[Jafula]

From my reading I like the Focusless leaderless setup for PvE, it will give me the flexibility I want in changing leaders on the fly but don't have to litter my keyboard with "over 9,000" keybinds. Can also be used later when I bring in a true tank, the shammies can dps the target while the tank targets and pulls the next mob.

The hotstrings for keyclone really scare me. It seems like a lot of work; you have to build a set of hotstrings and macros (long ones!) for each team you want to run (I believe). But once setup, seems like it would be very nice.

I'm going to try and "sell" you another system and if you don't like it, I hope I've given you a little more food for thought.

I'm a relatively new multiboxer and I came in starting with the focusless "/cast [target=targettarget,harm] yada" macros. But having run with that system from 0-60; I've gotten annoyed with the toons dropping target and constantly having to hit the "target the leader" button before I can cast. Using this system I've completed every instance up to BRD (except for one encounter in RFD).

I have moved to the focus as leader system with "/cast [target=focustarget,harm] yada" macros. What I like about this system, is focus is very constant. Accidently changing focus is very hard to do. When casting these spells, my toons don't actually have a target, so this leaves target free for "other" uses. Although I don't actually use target for these "other" uses (yet). And I'm wondering why I didn't change sooner. As for shaman melee, /assist focus takes care of that. And if I need to solo on a toon, I just set its focus to itself.

I have 5 keybinds setup for switching leader. The keybinds and associated macros are exactly the same on each toon, so they all execute the same macro.

Key Macro
F8 /focus Yaswar
F9 /focus Yasprie
F10 /focus Yasmage
F11 /focus Yasham
F12 /focus Yashan

Now these keys are also setup using hotkeynet to swap wow windows around, so that when I press a key associated with a toon, I get that toons window as my main window.

Where Jamba comes in, is that it can automatically update the leader based on who has the current focus (as of 0.2b currently in testing). So my warning messages, etc, all come to the main window as well; my toons all follow the new master for quests, taxi etc. It works in combat, its pretty much instant. It's great!

Anyway, this system is simple to set up, compared with the hotstring/macro madness of the other lot. You can change leaders on the fly. Given you are RAF'ing I assume you've not hit 60 yet. IMHO just questing you really don't need focus; and I never used it for instances. YMMV.

And if you do quest and are currently managing quests individually on each toon, I do encourage you to give Jamba a go. The quest side of the addon really does take some of the sting out of questing as a multiboxer. I'm very willing to answer any PMs you may wish to send my way about Jamba.

Anyway, good luck with your "setup" endeavours.