Multi-boxing Part 2: How To Actually Kill Stuff

[Syro]

It has been a while but here is part two. This guide will assume you've already read my previous guide, so I will go from there.

My group consists of a paladin tank, two mages, warlock, and a priest for heals. The slaves don't have much of a customized UI as I like to keep things simple and don't want to maintain anything complicated. My main is my paladin and on him I have a customized layout so that I can keep my attention to a single window. I'd rather not have to look at any other instance because taking my concentration away from my main could cause a wipe.

Below is a quick screen shot of my main explaining some simple things.



The next image is my warlock and her simple layout.



Both mage layouts are the same pretty much.



The priest's layout.



I don't have an Xkeys yet so I have to use my keyboard. If you remember my previous guide I was using a midi controller for my healer, that was working well initially but the MIDI translator was very buggy and completely unpredictable. So the numpad is used pretty much for CC and healing.

Starting off I hit the F12 key a few times and that casts all my necessary buffs for my toons. From PallyPower and SmartBuff.

My keybinds are pretty simple. I realized that in instances, you're only casting a few spells so I tried to group them together in the three basic categories of tanking, DPS, and healing. You notice on my paladin's screen shot he has the center panel of 8 buttons, those are just his and bound to keys that aren't passed to my slaves. The four slaves using keys 1 through 4 for their main DPS, and the healer uses the numpad. Before the initial pull I'll put my guys in formation and assist the tank for the first kill target.

My basic rotation without sheeping, I hit these keys:

Tab, V, T, 4, R, 3, 2, 1

Tab = Slaves assist the paladin
V = Avenger Shield for the pull
T = Consecration to get the initial aggro
4 = Seal of Righteousness, Fireblast x2, Curse of Elements, Devouring Plauge (in instances I usually don't have the priest assist at all, in fact I take the keybind off and just have her heal only).
R = Judgement of Wisdom to get a big spike of aggro on the mob for my paladin so he never loses it.
3 = Seal of Wisdom, Ice Lance x2, Corruption, Shadow Word: Pain
2 = Hammer of Wrath (usually only used a second time when a mob is about to die), Arcane Blast x2, Immolate + Conflagrate macro, Mind Blast
1 = Paladin spam macro, Icy Weins + Frostbolt macro x2, Shadow Bolt, Smite.

The last button, keybind 1, I spam over and over until the mob is dead or I'll hit the 2 keybind for Hammer of Wrath.

For sheeping I do the same rotation but I'll set up my sheep targets prior to the pull. I have the numpad keys -, *, / used for this.

- = Assists my paladin and sets the focus for Mage 1
* = Assists my paladin and sets the focus for Mage 2
/ = This will do /stopcasting and cast a sheep on the focus target without detargeting the DPS target.

I also have my warlock and priest use this CC setup when I need it, but it's rare that I need more than two CC or need an undead CC.

The Priest has some special keybinds just for healing.

I use all the numpad keys 1 through 9 and then the + and . keys. My targets macros target the direct person instead of party1, party2, etc. I did this because I plan on running 10 mans with another 5boxer in my guild and it's usually the best way to run.

+ = /stopcasting and targets Syrodarko the paladin
9 = /stopcasting and targets Emilybates the warlock
6 = /stopcasting and targets Suzybaily the first mage
3 = /stopcasting and targets Bethfarmer the second mage
. = /stopcasting and targets herself
8 = Power Word: Shield
5 = Renew
2 = Circle of Healing
7 = Greater Heal
4 = Guardian Spirit
1 = Flash Heal

During fights I'll have both hands on the keyboard and do my Tanking/DPS with my left hand, and my right is on the numpad casting heals. It can be a bit hectic at times having to do a lot of things at once, but when you set things up from lvl 1, you get used to it after a while.

Here's a video of me doing the first pull in Ramparts. Keep in mind I am level 71 and definitely outlevel the place

Multi Boxing Part 2: Attacking

Here's the same pull but sheeping the two guards at first while killing the patrol

Multi-Boxing Part 2: Sheep Pull

Ask you can see I have complete control over this pull and it's pretty simple to pull off. Just requires a few seconds of setup. The next thing I'll show you are my my movement keybinds for my slaves.

Multi-Boxing Part 2: Slave Movement

The keybinds I'm using are the following:

Home = Move Forward
End = Move Backward
Delete = Strafe Left
Page Down = Strafe Right
Insert = Turn Left
Page Up = Turn Right

Another of my favorite keybinds are 6 and 7

6 = Hammer of the Righteous, Seed of Corruption, and Frost Nova
7 = Consecration, Hellfire, Arcane Explosion, and Holy Nova

This is very handy when I have to kill a bunch of non-elite quest mobs. Cast Power Word: Shield and Prayer of Mending on the tank, have him round up a bunch of mobs, then burn 'em down.

Macros
All Macros
Assist (only include the other character names)

/assist [target=Syrodarko, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Suzybailey, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Bethfarmer, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Joaniejames, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Syrodarko, exists]
/petattack
/script SetView(2);

Follow (and accept trade)

/script AcceptTrade();
/target [target=Syrodarko, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Suzybailey, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Bethfarmer, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Joaniejames, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Syrodarko, exists]
/follow

Paladin Macro
Spam

/startattack
/castrandom Hammer of Wrath, Hammer of the Righteous, Holy shield, Exorcism, Holy Wrath, Consecration
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Warlock Macro
Immolate/Conflagrate

/cast Immolate
/cast Conflagrate

Mage Macros
Sheep Targeting and cast macro

/assist Syrodarko
/focus

/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm] Polymorph

Spam Macro

/cast Icy Veins
/cast Frostbolt

Priest Macro
Heal Targeting

/stopcasting
/tar CharacterName

Various Keybinds
Z = Trinket 1
X = Trinket 2
F11 = One mage starts casting a snack table
F9 = All toons drink conjured mana biscuits
F7 = Mounts
NumPad 0 = follow macro
Tab = Assist macro

That's pretty much it, that's how I 5box with my PvE team in game and in instances.

If you have any questions or notice anything wrong please let me know!

[Syro]

And it's in the wiki! http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...lly_Kill_Stuff

[Fuzzy]

Awesome! Great info

[elsegundo]

this rocks! =]

[Coltimar]

Very slick and simple setup. And a well written guide. Nice UI too, btw.

[Dgc2002]

thanks man, i've been leveling my pally/mage combo(plan to add another 1 or 2 chars to the setup) and i've been wondering how i was going to sheep stuff, great solution to that =) thank you

[Gadzooks]

And it's in the wiki! http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...lly_Kill_Stuff

Awesome job - you have some great ideas in there, I may have to do some tinkering today!

[Chabs]

Are you running more than one monitor? From what I can tell you dont really need to, you seem to have complete control from your main screen.

[Syro]

I run three instances on my main ox and two on my laptop . I built a new system a few months ago and it was able to handle 5instances in old world and Outland well enough, but in Northrend it stutters way too much. So I moved two instances over to my laptop. I'm getting another computer and monitor so I can move the other two from there. That way my main box runs just one instance of the game super fast.

[eagleeyee]

Syro, Awesome work. Could you go over the addons used for your pally ? I am sure some have changed since your last introduction.