FTL setup and 2nd bar key binds

[SpruceGoose]

I've been out of WoW for several months now, but had previously boxed a 5 man shaman team to 70 and had some good success running instances, and mixed results in PvP. After having played WoW for a couple of years though, it was time for a break. A good break does wonders, and I'm thinking about starting up again with a new team, and have been catching up on these boards for the past few days in preparation.

One of the things I was most intrigued by was the FTL set-up, so I read through the wiki and searched through the forums to get my head around it. I re-activated my main account, got a trial and started experimenting with the set-up today, and I've got it working pretty well. Took some time, but looking through the helpful information here I think I have a handle on it. I do have one question however.

Previously I played with a pretty standard set-up, 2 action bars with 12 buttons on each, the keys mapped to 1 through = and the 2nd row mapped to shift+1 through shift+=. Every character had assist focus macros for their abilities bound to these keys. When I needed to switch I'd just change the leader and make him the focus target for the others. The problem I've encountered with the new set-up is that I can't get any actions on the second bar (shift+1) to work if the shift modifier is used in a hotstring. I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and how you were able to get around it? Is there another modifier key besides ctrl, alt and shift that I can use in my hotstrings? If it's not possible to use Shift for my second bar, what are some workable alternatives that wouldn't be too much of a dramatic change?

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you can provide.

[olipcs]

Hi, i'm glad you could get the basic ftl-setup running with the informations presented on this site.

To your question:
It is possible to use your secondbar (activated by shift+1-=) as you like on two different ways:

1. Dont use 'shift' (or to be precise lshift) in the modifier order to define the team-leader.
This is possible if you have only 3 toons by simply using only alt,ctrl,alt+ctrl or by using ralt,rshift,rctrl for the modifier order, so lshift can be used on the second bar. This is only possible if you keyboard-multiplexer can differenciate betwen left an alt pressing of ctrl,alt,shift (For Keyclone this should work, but wasn't realy confirmed by any user, in HotKeyNet (which i'm using) it works great.)
If you need any further help on this method fell free to ask.

2. Don't use the same keys as 'master-key' and 'slave-key'.
This is a little bit more complicated, so i like to give an example for '1' and 'shift+1':
For ToonA you can use '1' as master-key and for example 'u' as slave-key to cast Lightning Bolt, by defining you keymaps like:

‘1’ ---> ‘lightningbold.on.ToonA.target’
‘Ctrl + Alt + u’ ---> ‘lightningbold.on.ToonB.target’
‘Alt + Shift + u’---> ‘lightningbold.on.ToonC.target’
‘Ctrl + Alt + Shift + u’ ---> ‘lightningbold.on.ToonD.target’
‘Ctrl + u’ ---> ‘lightningbold.on.ToonE.target’

To get it working you have to create another bar, and drag the normal ftl-macro (/assist [mod:alt,nomod:shift....) on a button on the bar and bind this button to 'u'.

The same you can do for 'shift+1' with for example 'o' as slave-key. The corresponding keymap would look like:

‘shift+1’ ---> ‘anotherAction.on.ToonA.target’
‘Ctrl + Alt + o’ ---> ‘anotherAction.on.ToonB.target’
‘Alt + Shift + o’---> ‘anotherAction.on.ToonC.target’
‘Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o’ ---> ‘anotherAction.on.ToonD.target’
‘Ctrl + o’ ---> ‘anotherAction.on.ToonE.target’

And again bind the corresponding action you want to happen when you press 'Shift+1' to 'o' (with the ftl-macro part).

Now '1' and 'Shift+1' schould both work leaderless and execute different actions.

I hope the above makes any sense, if you have other questions, keep them coming

[SpruceGoose]

Thanks for the reply Olipcs. Excellent suggestions. I had seen some threads with talk of different master and slave keys, but it wasn't very clear to me until I saw your example. I'll definately be giving this technique a try. Thanks again for your help, it's very much appreciated.

[olipcs]

np, glad to help! Did it worked for you?