RAF Dual boxed Shammies, just hit 60 at 5 days played

[robtest]

I started a pair of shammies on the 3.0.2 patch day, and I just hit 60 at 5 days played.

Notable achievements: just over 400 quests done, ~425g earned each, maxed skills in first aid, skinning/herbing, some skills in enchanting and mining. I did some questing in Western Plaguelands, but never made it out of Ungoro Crater to goto places like Felwood, Eastern Plaguelands, Winterspring, or Sithulus. The RAF bonus is almost too much...

I am realitively new to dual boxing. I started on oct 3, 2008, so about a month of experience. I did a pair of twinked 29 hunters on the horde side, with the support of my 70 orc shammy and 70 tauren hunter. These shammies were on a brand new realm, with no 70 support. I would however like to thank the guys at Frostmourne, who loaned me 20g a toon, which I used for my mount at 30, and paid back at 50. With the new patch, came the new profession of inscription, which made herbing a gold mine. That went a long way to paying for stuff, training, etc...

For addons/software, I used Keyclone (with no special setup or any of the advanced features); 2box toolkit, which I later supplemented with the keep following addon; I also used QuestHelper addon, and referenced Jame's Alliance Leveling guide; Additional addons were: FloTotemBar, NumPadBar, Auctioneer, and the mapmod from CTMOD(been using this for years, so had lots of key quest locations and herbs, mines, etc.) I have a dual core E6750 Intel processor, 2gb ram, Nvidia 8800 GTX with 768mb ram, running two monitors at 1920x1200, although I ran my two sessions at 1680x1050 and maximixed them.

Of the 5 days, much time was spent herbing/mining, 12-14 hours in WSG/AB at 29: bought AB boots at 40 and WSG bracers at 50, and fiddling around with macros, setup, etc. I did do a lot of the collection quests, although I have read that those should be skipped (probably more important for a 3+ boxer to skip these).

My design philosophy was to use one shammy with enhanced talents to lead the way, and the second shammy was elemental, and tuned to throw extra heals to the front shammy along with the lightning/shocks. Neither had any talent points in Resto, and though not needed now at 60, I did put my first 7 talent points on both shammies in the enhance tree to get fast ghost wolf.

I read and learned a ton here on dual-boxing.com, so to those that say things are too hard to find, I say pffffft! :P

All in all, dual boxing is great fun. Thanks for the website!!!

[robtest]

Macros and Keys:


key ______Front/Enhanced______Back/Elemental________ Comment

1 ________Flame Shock_________Frost Shock
2________Frost Shock___________Flame Shock
3________Earth Shock___________Earth Shock
4________LightningBolt__________LightningBolt
5________lightningStorm________LightningStorm
6________Clubber_______________ElleMental_________ __Main Spam Key when fighting
7________ChainLightning________ChainLightning
8________Healing Wave_________FocusHeal____________Heal the Front Guy
9________FocusHeal____________HealingWave_________ _Heal the Back Guy
0________Totematic Call________TotematicCall
-________TotemDropr1__________TotemDropr2
=________preParer______________PreParer

NumPadBar

0________ManaSpringTotem______ManaSpringTotem
.________grayElekk_____________purpElekk
1________AncestralSpririt________AncestralSpririt
2________kfollow_______________kf_stop____________ __Follow Front Guy
3________kf_stop______________kfollow_____________ __Follow Rear Guy
4 _______grayElekk
5 ____________________________purpElekk
6
7_______kf_stop
8
9_______purge__________________purge
/
*
-_______maxFPS________________maxFPS


Common2both Macros:

LightningStorm
/targetenemy [noexists]
/castrandom [exists,harm,nodead] lightning bolt(rank 1), lightning bolt, lightning shield, chain lightning
/startattack
### Comment: Lightning Shield to conserve Mana, and a little extra sparkle LOL


FocusHeal:
/target focus
/cast healing wave

preParer:
/castsequence reset=5 lightning shield, windfury weapon, lightning shield, water shield
#### think I might have a different one on the back to do the "healing bonus weapon"


kfollow:
/kfollow focus

kf_stop:
/kfollow stop

maxFPS:
/console maxfps 60
/console maxfpsbk 20



Enhanced Macros:

clubber:
/kfollow stop
/castrandom stormstrike, stormstrike, lightning bolt, flame shock, earth shock, stormstrike, lightning shield, stormstrike, lightning shield
/startattack

TotemDropr1:
/castsequence [nomodifier:shift] reset=3 searing totem, windfury totem, mana spring totem, strength of earth totem; totemic call

grayElekk:
/cast gray elekk


Elemental Macros:

ElleMental:
/kfollow stop
/assist focus
/castrandom lightning bolt(rank 1), earth shock,lightning bolt,,,lightning shield, lightning shield, chain lightning,, elemental mastery
/castrandom [target=focus] lesser healing wave,,,,
/startattack


TotemDropr2:
/castsequence [nomodifier:shift] reset=3 grounding totem, mana spring totem, totem of wrath, stoneskin totem; totemic call

purpElekk:
/cast purple elekk

[robtest]

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[Obnoxious123]

Do you accept quests on both characters, and do gathering quests on both characters? Or just use grant a level to the one you don't?

I want to do this too lol. I just started and was messin around on mages.

[robtest]

Do you accept quests on both characters, and do gathering quests on both characters? Or just use grant a level to the one you don't?

I want to do this too lol. I just started and was messin around on mages.

I did all the quests on both characters... The 2box Toolkit addon has an option to let the second toon autoaccept the quest.

I didn't grant a level, as I was saving those(I granted levels to a 49 Druid, to make it a 60)

[Ualaa]

With the current patch for WoW, you don't have a choice as far as spell ranks go.
Your toon will always cast the highest rank of a spell that it knows.

So /cast Lighting Bolt(rank 1)... will end up casting your highest known rank of Lightning Bolt every time.
The only way to force it to cast rank 1, would be to never train rank 2 or higher.

For a two-box set up, that looks decent.
I'd consider changing the Elemental Shaman from Earth Shock to Wind Shock, if the purpose of the shock is an interrupt.
Wind Shock interrupts just like Earth, but also lowers threat a little, which would tend to keep the mobs mainly on your melee shaman.
If the shock is there for your highest damage instant cast, then Earth is the better choice.

[jettzypher]

i dont want to get too far off topic, but how does RAF work? ive got two accounts currently and would like to run something similar to this with any combo of chars i could manage (or even 2 shamans, cause they seem really easy to use this way). any chance you could pm me the details on RAF? thatd be a great help. thanks.