I am new to multi boxing, and have quickly jumped from 2 boxing to 5 boxing in a PvE environment. The Attraction of multiboxing came when real life prevented highend raiding, and sporadic instancing lost its attraction. Now I have a 5 man team that can go and die at the drop of the hat.

I use 2 pc's and keycone. I started out using the Leaderless, Targetless, Focus based Hydra set out in the new multiboxer section. Combined with Jamba and Macaroon it works very well.
My classes of choice so far were 1 preist and 3 mages all leveled to 20, followed by my current team Paladin Preist and 3 mages, all of whom are 15-16.
The big issue is the lack of flexibility having focus tied up to head the hydra. I had read up on the FTL setup and it seemed the way to go - however I am not confident In setting up each char and all the individual macros. It appeared as if it would take a log time followed by lots of troubleshooting.

I have followed Tynk's suggestion and it has all gone incredibly smoothly.

With regard to the keymaping - I mapped 12 buttons using the FTL key combinations, but simplified it as folows ( no referrencing spells)

Make 1 large template using hidden keys UIOP[]JKL;'# as the 12 hidden keys, and w(acct number)b(button )

ctl+sh+U..w1b1
alt+ctrl+U..w2b1
alt+sh+U...w3b1
alt+ctl+sh+U..w4b1
ctr+U..........w5b1

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>And so on for 12 combinations where the last key hotstring is w5b=

Save it and go to the keyclone folder and 5 copies of the ???.kcl, and rename them respectively to suit your accounts.

Return to the keymap editor and edit each keymap in turn by replacing the the hidden key combination with the number key. 12 pieces of editing per keymap

1.............w1b1
alt+ctrl+U..w2b1
alt+sh+U...w3b1
alt+ctl+sh+U..w4b1
ctr+U..........w5b1

In Wow, I have unbound my focustarget bar, and rebound keys 1- = to the normal bar.

As Tynk's instructions I created 1 bar with 5 buttons, my preference was to set them to action id 101 - 105, and have left the bar vsible and out of the way. The clever part that took me a while, was working out that warcraft macros can be placed on action buttons, whereas Macaroon macros cannot. This may be obvious to others but it took me a while. I created 5 Warcraft macros for assisting and have dragged them to the new bar.

I created a second bar with 12 buttons and bound the keys UIOP{}JKL;'# to it. Each of these buttons was set to a Macaroon Macro.

The Macro is the click script Tynk listed, with /click mod lines changed to actionbar101-105, and the second to last line changed to actionbar1-12

I will still be using Jamba for the party following and all the other nice stuff it does,

PLUS, I now have option of using Focus for other tasks, AND Jamba-Target fortargeting and kill orders.

Over and above that the biggest benefit is the saved Macaroon profile as I am not certain whether the current team will be my favourite, and will crertianly be trying others like the 4-5 shamen route. Whichever option I go with, all I need to do is copy the macaroon profile, create 5 Warcraft assist macros fo rthe assist bar (actionbuttons 101-105), followed by drop and drag spells.

I can also rearrange spells at will on any character without editing any of the background inforamtion.

My next challenge is to utilise the new macro system and Macaroon so that the group works more efficiently and getting around the message "Target not in front of you" which seems to be a win win for monsters and a wipe wipe for me.

Noah

Stormrage
Saurfang - Multiboxing