UNCLE! UNCLE!! I GIVE!! NO MORE!!!

[mike6934]

Ok...I stopped at the 7 hour mark of researching this forum and the vboxing forum. bought keyclone, bought KaVooM, downloaded autohotkey, downloaded hotkeynet. 7 hours lost that I could simply be doing /f on my alt to my main and just killing things in WoW.

Scope: World of Warcraft - 2 high end gaming computers (duo 2, quad core, 8gb ddr2, yadda yadda yadda), 2 accounts, one wow window open each computer. different size/resolution monitors.

Purpose: Take lvl 70 feral druid on account #1 and power level lvl 60 pally on account #2. (note: /f was easy but now the mobs are getting a little harder to solo with an aggro magnet tagging along)

Action: On Druid character (first computer, wow window), click and release the left mouse button one time on icon in toolbar slot #1 (left to right on bottom of screen). Ex: empty macro or heck, Mangle even. (just choices, I know it can only be one)

Result: will tell my Pally character (second computer, wow window) to activate his icon in his toolbar slot #1. Ex: target druid and cast consecrate or Flash of Light. (just choices, I know it can only be one)

Any simple ideas to get me started in the right direction? For those that want the satisfaction of knowing I am literally banging my head on the keyboard and causing physical damage to myself, please put in a link to another thread on this forum that I have probably already read but did not understand.

Apologies to easily offended liberals, non meant.

Kenosis - Bronzebeard Alliance

[Apophysis]

First, let me make sure I understand your question:

You have accountA (70 druid on comp1) and accountB (60paladin on comp2). You want to powerlevel the paladin and also use the him/her as a buff & heal bot. Correct? Furthermore, you want to pass "actions" to accountB via mouse clicks instead of keystrokes. Correct?

Couple of questions: how many keyclone licenses did you purchase? You would need two if you use Keyclone (one for each computer obviously).

Keyclone can indeed pass mouse clicks. See this thread for starters.

HotKeyNet can also pass mouse clicks. See this thread for startes.

Basically, you need to pass a keystroke string via mouse click to accountB on comp2. So "leftmouse" would be translated to "1" for example on accountB, comp2. On accountB, comp2 you would place a macro on actionbar 1, slot 1 (the default keybinding is "1"). That macro would be some variation of:

/target party1
/cast Flash of Light

For the /target piece you can target by name, party, focus, etc. Whatever works for your setup.

Hope that helps you get started. Reply back if you have further questions or need clarification.

[gorram]

I'm afraid (virtually) everyone here uses keybinds, not mouseclicks, to use abilities. Keyclone and their ilk are based on the principle that the vast majority of what you do to control your character(s) involves the keyboard, and the mouse is just for movement. I'm not saying it's impossible to do it your way, but I suspect you're multiboxing life will be much easier in the long run if you take the time now (painful as it might be for a few hours/days) to reprogram yourself into casting with the keyboard.

[Ellay]

Ya, you need to use your keyboard instead of the mouse to send keystrokes, it's just not as effective and it's hard to emulate the mouse.

[Vyndree]

Ok...I stopped at the 7 hour mark of researching this forum and the vboxing forum.

Awws.

Just an FYI, I have a forum mostly for back & forth discussion about blog topics and articles of mine. If you have specific questions it's usually best to post on Dual-boxing (which you did, but I'm just clarifying). You'll get a must faster response time and more all-around knowledge since I only know about the stuff I've had to deal with as a hardware boxer.

bought keyclone, bought KaVooM, downloaded autohotkey, downloaded hotkeynet.

Whoa, slow down -- are you trying to run them all at the same time?

If you've bought keyclone already, I'd suggest trying to get that one set up since you've already invested. Keyclone (Rob) on the forums here is awfully good with support.

In any case -- were you able to actively get anything to transmit to both screens using any of these products? The easiest way to tell is to just start up two WoW sessions and hit "spacebar". If you see both characters jump, you've got it set up correctly.

Scope: World of Warcraft - 2 high end gaming computers (duo 2, quad core, 8gb ddr2, yadda yadda yadda), 2 accounts, one wow window open each computer. different size/resolution monitors.

You might also want to try Synergy (with broadcasting) and/or Multibox. These two products are designed for sending keypresses over your home network to multiple PCs. I've personally used Multibox when I was first dabbling in multiboxing -- it's great to get a mouse to move between screens.

For multibox, just start up one client per PC, and start up the server on one machine. Set a keybinding for keyboard broadcasting. On the two client programs, put your server machine's name in the little textbox.

Purpose: Take lvl 70 feral druid on account #1 and power level lvl 60 pally on account #2. (note: /f was easy but now the mobs are getting a little harder to solo with an aggro magnet tagging along)

Consider leaving the lowbie in one spot and dragging mobs back to the pally with the higher level alt. As long as you're killing red mobs (i.e. 5+levels higher) you will get max kill XP. That being said, quest XP is amazing these days and you will likely level faster by helping the lowbie complete quests than you will just through kill XP.

Action: On Druid character (first computer, wow window), click and release the left mouse button one time on icon in toolbar slot #1 (left to right on bottom of screen). Ex: empty macro or heck, Mangle even. (just choices, I know it can only be one)

Clicking only works (and in a very nonreliable way since mouse movement is relative rather than absolute) if you have a MOUSE multiplexer. Multibox/Synergy can do this, but it's very unreliable. Try to get used to keybindings on your keyboard, or alternately assign mouse buttons to keys in the WoW menu->keybindings interface.

Apologies to easily offended liberals, non meant.

Don't let us scare you away from honest questions. Particularly in the newbie forums. People only tend to harass those who post in the wrong forum or if their question had been asked often enough that it was present and easily found in multiple stickies.

[Coltimar]

I have a question. Why are you using 2 computers? To me it seems 1 will do what you are wanting. I think you could even run 5 copies of WoW easily on one machine like what you have.

[elsegundo]

I have a question. Why are you using 2 computers? To me it seems 1 will do what you are wanting. I think you could even run 5 copies of WoW easily on one machine like what you have.

i agree. with two instances of WoW on one computer, especially the computer he's listed, it would make great use of the ONE registration of keyclone. and that's basically all he needs. =]
no need for two computers in this case.

[mike6934]

*Bangs Head on Keyboard Repeatedly*

I am not sure how the thread digressed to why I am using 2 machines from how do I get mouse clicks to click on both screens, but alllllrighty then, lets turn this boat around cap'n and head'er back to port.

I have now turned off the other computer and am now running 2 accounts from one wow installed directory (any bets on the threads from that?)

I have turned on keyclone and for the most part I am the proverbial button clicker..... Yeah!! (well, not really yeah).

so now it seems I am going to have to go back to the beginning and learn how:

A. I only want the pally to cast a few spells (mostly buff druid, buff pally, group buffs, heal his butt, heal my butt, and a few "OH S#!+" buttons as well as follow, mount up and hearth). other than that I want him to stand there and look stupid (much like I am now, only I'm in a sitting position : ).

B. The auto logon, auto accept invite and auto accept quests are all nice frilly diabetic shock icing on the cake. I will deal with those later.

so now. my 30,124 armor, 15,600 life, 415 defense, 26% dodge feral druid (2500 AP, 33% crit) can now level with only needing occassional heals from the pally. If the aggro magnet pally gets...well....aggro, he can CHA with some "OH $#~+ buttons.

soooooooooo... I posted about noon today. so 8 hours testing + 13 hours testing other programs/configs + 9 hours of research = 30 hours. Current unofficial record to /f power level an alt from 1-70: 46 hours. <SIGH>

Remaining (known) work: get pally to ignore every single button but 1-0, -, = and get my druid to ignore 1-0, -, =.

"Did you see the body? Assumption is the mother of all F-Ups" - Travis Dane: Under Seige 2, Dark Territory ;(

[Apophysis]

To ignore: either unbind the keys altogether, don't place spells on the actionbar where those are bound, or use Keyclone with keymappings.

Also, don't worry about how long it takes. Think how difficult & time consuming it has been for thus of us that started this hobby before this site existed.

[thinus]

soooooooooo... I posted about noon today. so 8 hours testing + 13 hours testing other programs/configs + 9 hours of research = 30 hours. Current unofficial record to /f power level an alt from 1-70: 46 hours. <SIGH>

Welcome to multi boxing. Wait until you 5-box and decide to change your targeting strategy. What I learned from my own multi-boxing experiences:

• plan plan plan, a sound strategy beforehand will save you numerous headaches later on
• multi-boxing is not an easy mode fast leveling service unless you already leveled a similiar team
• macro everything
• plan your keybinds thoroughly
• editing macros x5 sucks
• trying to edit a macro on a tiny clone window doesn't work very well
• do not hold down the arrow key to move the cursor in the macro editor when you are editing the macros of all your characters at once