Quote Originally Posted by Ken',index.php?page=Thread&postID=149379#post14937 9]Most of these features are already available in [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=12887
Jamba[/url], why bother making the same thing? What differentiates this addon?
Truthfully, I never saw Jamba until after I had already started on MultiTool... (I actually started it because I liked where MultiBoxer v2 was going, but found it to be a bit more broken than I'd like, and after looking at the source, I decided taht an addon so dependant upon a possibly abandoned framework (LibRock) was not something I wanted to try and dig into. (thatst not a dig on smurfy or LibRock, just personal preferences.. I figured if I was going to teach myself to write addons for wow, I was going to use a well-supported, continually-updated framework or none at all)

Jamba does indeed seem really nice, but now that I've started, I'm going to continue along the path I've taken. As far as I'm concerned, if nobody else ever uses MultiTool, it's still EXACTLY the addon I want... with the features I find most useful. In fact, I'm tempted never to download or use Jamba so that I don't just end up duplicating it... rather let the features flow from my personal preference and direction.

BettySue was correct as well: The big thing that sets MultiTool apart is the idea of being as unobtrusive as possible... that I do not have to set up my toons to recognize and follow a particular master when doing quest dialogs and flight masters and whatnot. I use a master/slave relationship with my playing like all other multiboxers (prot pally master runs in and grabs aggro, holy priest and mage slaves pew pew (and priest occasionally heal heal), but I very often find myself having my hand over on the mouse/kbd of one of my "offhand" toons, when its time to do something traditionally done with the master. I find it saves me a lot of time and clicks now that I have MultiTool doing what I want.

Also Also, I'm a software engineer... I spend a lot of time supporting existing code written by someone else. This is "hobby mode" where I get to code something the way I want and learn how to do things with LUA. It's a very nice change of pace.