Update: How the 5x Boomkins are doing

[weeep]

and if adjustments could be made to compensate for the clones being 2-5 yards behind the leader in terms of AoE positioning.

HotKeyNet lets you broadcast mouse clicks to slave windows with any desired offset to compensate this.
And it IS released, and it IS working.

[Multibocks]

ya but HKN isnt user friendly (i.e. it isnt a GUI interface).

[magnu55]

HotKeyNet lets you broadcast mouse clicks to slave windows with any desired offset to compensate this.
And it IS released, and it IS working.

Octopus broadcasts mouse clicks too but it only broadcasts one mouse cursor per client. This wouldn't be a problem if I only ran one WoW instance per physical computer; but alas I don't.
Question: Does HKN broadcast a visible cursor to all WoW windows running on one computer?

[Mamut]

HotKeyNet lets you broadcast mouse clicks to slave windows with any desired offset to compensate this.
And it IS released, and it IS working.

Octopus broadcasts mouse clicks too but it only broadcasts one mouse cursor per client. This wouldn't be a problem if I only ran one WoW instance per physical computer; but alas I don't.
Question: Does HKN broadcast a visible cursor to all WoW windows running on one computer?

While it does only send one cursor per machine, i can send clicks without the cursor being sent, make sure to use focus follows mouse to make this more smooth. I regularly send clicks to 5 windows on the same machine at once using octopus.

[magnu55]

While it does only send one cursor per machine, i can send clicks without the cursor being sent, make sure to use focus follows mouse to make this more smooth. I regularly send clicks to 5 windows on the same machine at once using octopus.

Mamut, my problem is clicking on NPCs to open the gossip pane. If I can see the cursors, I can simply hold down my cursor+click broadcast key (I set it to hold and not toggle) and click a few times near the NPC to get all 5 toons to open the gossip pane - all done in the current window. Since I can't see the cursors, I have to manually go to all 5 windows to click the NPC. Do you have any tips on how u accomplish this? In any case, thanks for the earlier reply.

[Mamut]

While it does only send one cursor per machine, i can send clicks without the cursor being sent, make sure to use focus follows mouse to make this more smooth. I regularly send clicks to 5 windows on the same machine at once using octopus.

Mamut, my problem is clicking on NPCs to open the gossip pane. If I can see the cursors, I can simply hold down my cursor+click broadcast key (I set it to hold and not toggle) and click a few times near the NPC to get all 5 toons to open the gossip pane - all done in the current window. Since I can't see the cursors, I have to manually go to all 5 windows to click the NPC. Do you have any tips on how u accomplish this? In any case, thanks for the earlier reply.

I use that setview macro to reset all my guys to the predetermined camera angle, then in the case of my DK/shammy squad i run my 4 shamans to beside the npc, then back up my DK to stand ontop of them and start broadcasting clicks. I rarely miss NPC's and never have a problem with the quest log buttons like "continue" and "accept" or selecting flight paths. For my druids i just go into travel form or cat form and reset camera view then run right on top of the npc spot, never miss if the npc is centered on all 5 screens.

I also can see where its clicking on the clients without the cursor broadcasting, makes a small spot like the end of a cursor show up for a split second so i can correct if its a hard to see npc like the flight master in dalaran. (always have people standing around that guy).

Not sure if any of that will help but its what i do. last thing is you have to make sure all of your wows are same, i checked the auto gx resolution in profiles section and have not a problem with the aspect ratios or relative positioning of any of my clones.

[magnu55]

Mamut:
Great post! Lotsa info there. I'll check out your tips and see if they help me out. Thanks for sharing. I'm really glad to see fellow Octopus users. There are lots of posts about keyclone but frankly (and this is perhaps I'm not as demanding a multiboxer) I don't see any need to switch. Cheers.

[Rin]

Hey guys!

Just an update on the 5x boomkin. Holy crap they are amazing. I was lucky to roll them prior to WOTLK w/o knowing they would be getting some extreme buffs.

I'll describe some typical situations with my 5x Boomkins;

Instances: I can do pretty much every instance so far in Boomkin form with NO TANK and NO HEALERs. Huge armor, absolutely ridiculous healing power, and 5x roots, makes instancing fairly easy. Even boss fights are easy. For a boss fight, I simply toss massive HOTs on my main druid, have him attack first to get aggro (and he always maintains it), and then DPS down soo fast. For trash I just root them all and blast `em down 1 at a time. Elites with 35k hp take 2 volleys only which is fast. Not to mention I often just AOE them.

I'm sorry dude, but I need to call your bluff at this point. You haven't done more than 2 instances with your entire druid team. You have not completed any heroics with your setup (although, you have completed most heroics with ONE of characters). Quit spreading lies.

How do I know?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-a...ck&n=Evilseedc
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-a...ck&n=Evilseedb
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-a...ck&n=Evilseeda
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-a...ck&n=Evilseede

It's hard to doctor your armory profile (read: I checked out your Character Achievement dates). It looks like you run 2 of your druids on most encounters. Not to mention, your arena ratings aren't anything to be bragging about.

[Moorea]

Well we established (see other threads) Evilseed is a mythomaniac at best and possibly a scammer (his requests for people to signup for "beta" are somewhat suspicious given nothing ever materialize...) - Frankly I'm surprised he actually has 5x80 druids (even if nowhere as "powerful" as claimed)

[Coltimar]

Owned. The lot of you tbh.