Quote Originally Posted by 'Lyonheart',index.php?page=Thread&postID=174498#po st174498
i keep seeing some of you talk about doing it manually. Ok, so how? when your tanking,healing and DPSing? I have tried to do that but there is just no way in hell its better than a castrandom when your having to tank and heal as well. Please explain? I mean I'm all about maximizing my dps, even when boxing. I understand that doing it manually while solo is way better dps, but how do you manage to keep track of everything else while boxing?
Depends on what DPS classes you're using. For me, a DK tank and 4 shamans its not too bad. Mostly all I need to cast on my shamans is Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, and Flameshock. On my DK Tank mostly I just use 2 buttons, 1 for DnD and 1 for a castsequence tanking rotation.

So, when I'm fighting a boss and want to up my DPS, I spam my tanking rotation on my DK ("1" key) and then I basically do the following, WHILE I'm spamming the "1" key

hit shift+c to cast 4x flame shock
spam ctrl+alt+2 (which replaces the "1" key temporarily) to cast lava burst
spam 1 and 2 at the same time ("1" for tanking rotation, "2" to just cast lightning bolts repeatedly)
hit 1 + 3 whenever I need healing ("1" for tanking rotation, "3" to have my shamans cast lesser healing wave)
After ~8 seconds, spam ctrl+alt+2 again for another lava burst
spam 1 and 2 at the same time for more lightning bolts
as soon as flameshock goes away hit shift+c for 4 more
after 8 seconds from the last lava burst spam ctrl+alt+2 again

repeat until boss is dead, etc, but usually the boss dies after that last lava burst.

For trash I don't bother doing this and just spam a castrandom:

/castrandom Lightning Bolt,Chain Lightning,Lava Burst,Purge