Two Topics: Bartender3 not supported into expansion and changing action bars from solo/multiboxer play

[Greythan]

I'm a bartender3 user and have discovered that it will a) break and b) not be supported after expansion comes out. (This, according to the author, on the ace mod forums.)

So, if you are using Bartender3 what mod will you go with? Bartender4? Trinity (which is also changing)? Another?

Also, part of what will drive my decision as to which action bar to move to is being able to switch action bars for my booster from solo play to multiboxing play. Anyone doing this today that can recommend a) a good action bar and b) how they do it? I'm trying to avoid having to remap all of my keybindings in order to switch from solo (I use 36 keys for my 'lock solo) to multi boxing (obviously, dont' want the same actions to be taken for those same 36 combinations when in multi-play).

Thanks.

[Aethon]

Well, I'll be honest, I still use the default bar.

I tried using a couple things but could never get them to do what I wanted. Maybe I just suck at using add-ons, maybe I just didn't want to have to configure yet another thing. Either way, I just use the default and set the keybinding to what I need them.

[Greythan]

I've thought about using the default before but I don't know that there is any way to switch bars/keybindings for solo vs multiboxing play with the standard bars. As I've alluded to, I don't even know how to do that with the available mods.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Default bars plus bindpad.

[Greythan]

Two questions on Bindpad. 1) Do you feel confident it will be maintained? (hard to answer, I know) and 2) Will it support a quick switch of keybindings between solo/multibox play?

[Grimgear]

Macaroon, the replacement for Trinity.

[puppychow]

i've been using bartender4 for a while now, no problems. I also use bindpad for a lot of stuff as well, hope that works in patch 3.0

[elsegundo]

36 keys!! wait... are you macro-ing any of those? are they all on several action bar? and when you multi-box boost, im guessing you're going to be using the lock as the main?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Two questions on Bindpad. 1) Do you feel confident it will be maintained? (hard to answer, I know) and 2) Will it support a quick switch of keybindings between solo/multibox play?

1) Unknown, like just about every other mod out there.
2) Yes, I copied the settings to my new accounts when I started boxing and it worked fine. There's a caveat when talking about the Bindpad "Character-specific" page of binds, but I would guess that's easy enough to overcome with a bit of text editing.

[sedory]

Frankly, I'm not thinking any actionbar addon will be viable post WotLK/3.0patch.

Bartender 3.0 won't be. I thought I read 4.0 is the same.

Trinity (I had no luck here) is moving on to Macaroon, which one cannot use pre-patch.

Bongos3 will no be, but the developer is working on another slimmer one..

I'm just going to wait till patch, then disable bartender3 and keep playing till a victor arises from the ashes.