3.1 PTR Testing How to Loot With Multiple/Specific Toons

This is preliminary PTR Testing, subject to change but here is how I'm planning on setting up my teams for 3.1 changes.

Here are 2 existing threads that briefly touch on the topic.
Group loot
3.1 Target/Mouseover Interaction (Slave Looting etc.,)

This thread deals with Keyclone Hotstrings .

This thread I will show how I plan to set up my team (which is a 3 shaman team) and it should be easily adaptable for a 5 man team. I run a very simplistic setup. I use Keyclone and 3 WoWs. I don't do FTL or anything. I simply have a /follow macro and an /assist macro on the 2 slaves. My typical encounter is running in range of a mob, hitting "2" to get the slaves to assist the main, and then firing off my offensive spells. I then run up and loot on whichever toon. (I always loot on the main unless it is a quest item) I try to keep things as simple as possible. My goal is to allow my main to press a key combination and trigger a specific toon to loot a mob / interact with an object. I'll use Keymaps in KeyClone to accomplish this.

To set up the new Interact functions:
Open up the Options Window and click on Key Bindings, scroll down to Targeting Functions

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From the screenshots you can see mine are set to Shift +z to interact with Mouseover, and Alt + Z to interact with target. What this allows me to do is run into range of a mob, kill the mob, and then have my slaves target the mob hit alt+z and the slaves will loot the mob. As far as looting goes, I set free for all looting. With this in mind I could just spam 2 to assist and alt+z and let lag determine who gets the loot/quest item. A better option would be to setup a keymap in KeyClone for each toon to loot. This would allow your main to have binds set to tell a specific slave to loot.

Here is how I accomplished telling my slave to loot. I only used a 2 toon setup here, but easily expanded across 5.

First keymap for the Master


Second Keymap for Slave(s)


Right click on the Main WoW instance in the keyclone window, and select Load Keymap, load your MasterTellsSlaveToLoot.kcl, and do the same for your slave but load the SlaveLoot.kcl.

Now what I can do is target the corpse, hit Shift + C, which does nothing on the main, but tells the Slave to Alt + Z to interact with the target, thus looting the corpse. I know I'm only using 2 toons in this example, but it scales the same for as many toons as you run. Lets say you want Control + C to tell the 2nd slave to loot. Just load your MasterTellSlaveLoot.kcl, click in the key box, Control + C, then in the hotstring, put in Slave2.Loot. Create a new keymap called Slave2Loot, Use the alt+x for the key, Slave2.Loot for the hotstring, click Add, click save. Load this into your 2nd slave and now Control + C will tell the 2nd Slave to loot the target. Rinse and repeat for each toon you have in your group.

Below is the result of the main pressing Shift + C, telling the first slave to loot:


There are a few different ways you could do this. Simply bind alt+Z to Round Robin and spam it on a corpse until everyone got their item, or you could just blindly let everyone loot everything, lag would determine who gets the loot/quest item first. I'm setting up keymaps because I'd much rather tell tell X toon to loot until he has Y of Z for the quest, then tell the next toon to start looting.

So in practical terms. You can use the Interact With Target to loot, and you can use Interact with Mouseover to gather herbs, mining nodes, realistically ANY interact able unit in the game, even quest NPCs and walls / doors / objects. This is also easily done with any boxing software that supports keymaps / strings /etc. Please remember this is tentative and may not actually make it into the live build as it is currently shown here. I hope this helps explain this wonderful, groundbreaking feature for multiboxers.