Going for three, some insight appreciated

[shivetya]

I am going two gnome warlocks and a dwarf priest. I will probably make the dwarf priest my main session.

I guess the advice I am looking for is....

(off session == minimized follower or small window follower)

A lot of the lower level quests in this area are pickup of bound items, should I just instead go into a slag fest and just drop anything that moves and skip them all? I know I will need to do the warlock quest for the feathers so I cannot skip that.

Yet one problem I have is that I intend one of my locks to be an engineer, that requires mining. Would it best to have one of the locks be the main session? I can skin off session but I haven't found a way to mine off session.

If that configuration is used how do I get good heals out of my priest? Shields and the like? Is there some type of start up sequence of setting focus I should use or just use targeted heal/renew/shields instead?

Finally, how do many of you keep track of the icons for off session characters? Is there a plug in which I can just put a row of never used icons so I have a "friendly reminder" of what the priest has? I figure I will activate most of his heal functions using the number pad.

[junx]

While leveling I put both mining and herbalism on my main character and send all the mats to two bank alts that just ping pong them through the mail until I'm done leveling. I save some of the mining stuff for leveling mining but most of it goes to a bank alt.

I get skinning and enchanting on a second alt.

Then at 70 I usually have enough stuff in the bank to power up any professions I choose in a day with enough left over to make a pretty penny at the AH.

Unless the quest with item pickups is part of a chain that is needed or has a really good reward I skip them.

[shivetya]

Yeah, I need to decide if any of the initial newbie quest are going to be worth it... a few allow for trading the items though

[Wilbur]

Its a decent idea to keep the two professions that can't be macroed on the Primary character, if only for your sanity :-D

Personally I think its worth doing the quests everywhere as long as they aren't collection Quests as you'll probably find the Rep bonuses handy later on.

[shivetya]

my next work is setting up simple macros I can expand as they level.

My idea is to keep one warlock as my main, tow the priest and other lock. Both locks will use 1-= while the priest will be on the number pad except for his wand which will match all of them.

I have seen people mention they map "F" to their follow macro - how do you map keys to specific macros? A plug in?

[dniem]

Get Bongos and set up your interface bars like you desire for each account. Then you can bind any keys you desire to any bar slots.

For example, I use WASD to move around my main of course and then on my bars I have 12345QERT and on another bar I have FGZXCVB and on the 3rd I got M4 M5 (mouse keys on the side) CM4 CM5(same with CTRL hold down) AM4 AM5(again same with ALT this time). You can also set up Wheel up and down like me, but it doesn't work with Keyclone I realized, or unless there is a way to make it work that I do not know yet.

So whatyou do is that you write a macro like /follow focus (focus being pre set to your main, there are macro for that around the forum here if you look) and you write that macro for all your alt and place the macro into F or any other keys you want. So if you do that for all the account, you press F once, and they all follow your main.

[shivetya]

Bongos is just too cool.

Now I just have to l2p