PTR 3.1 Interact UI Changes - How To Use Keyclone to tell Slaves to Loot From Your Main

[lans83]

finally got around to messing with this a bit more yesterday. made a couple changes now. replaced the -, =, shift+-, and shift+= (last two default buttons on key bars 1 and 2) unbound these buttons and replaced with Q and E keys on 1 (both lowercase) and shift+Q and shift+E. put my /assist macro on E, Mend pet for hunters on Q (again, both lowercase), /cast skinning macro on shift+E, and nothing yet on shift+Q. the new interact buttons are now `(console key) on all as main key for Interact with mouseover, Tab as main on all as Interact with target. On secondary keys for each action, i added modifiers for each toon, so main has those keys unbound for now till i need to add them, slave 1 is Shift+` and Shift+tab, Slave 2 has Control+` and Control+Tab, and Slave 3 has Shift+Control+` and Shift+Control+Tab. this way i can easily control who loots what and when. I'll add some screenshots probably tomorrow or soon this week. this new option + click to move = easier life

[SpruceGoose]

Thanks for the how-to Supernova. Got this working on my mage team today and it's very nice. About to hit Northrend this week and have been dreading all the collection quests; this should make it a bit less painful.

[Tonyx]

I don't know.. I found that on normal quests/looting, this actually hinders me as I have to target the body, hit assist, wait, spam interact. And when there are a bit of bodies (more than 3) expecially if there are big ones, checking that you aren't skipping a body is quite slow. I found that going on the slave window and looting as usual is way faster.

I only use interact to loot when everyone has to loot a single body (i.e. the quest item is available for everyone).

Of course, when talking to quest givers/blacksmiths/flight master, interact is the king.

[ghonosyph and the moocrew]

another thing to note for you skinners out there, you DO NOT NEED A SEPARATE MACRO TO SKIN!!!! Put all your toons on click to move as well... use your assist macro, hit your interact keybind and it does all the work!

I love love LOVE this as a melee boxer, it's made my dps and gameplay a MUCH smoother experience... i've even found that i can do collection quests with my druid in tow(he's my skinner) and when i kill a mob i can target it, assist macro for my druid to assist, then press interact target key and my druid(cuz of click to move being on) will run over to that mob, loot it, then another click of the button and he skins it(by interacting it counts as skinning if the mobs been looted. then just target the next mob that i'm already running up to on the other three dks, and hit interact again and all my toons run to the target! romg so awesome lol!!

On a side note, when instancing or fighting in open world i hardly EVER use follow anymore. With click to move just spamming interact every couple seconds, and not moving around on my tank*(if you move the mobs move then you have to re-interact to get correct facing and position) you get a sticky follow to the next target when interacting! i can even manually target with the other toons in my group, click the interact target (for melee this is awesome) and the dks run to the mob they had selected, so fun because the slaves pretty much go off on their own it can almost look at times (thru creative targeting) like you're not multiboxin at all lol

so in summary, CLICK TO MOVE, ASSIST MAIN, INTERACT TARGET KEYBIND = Slaves will run to the target you have forced them to select, loot and or skin, and open quest/flightpaths RINSE REPEAT AD INFINITUM! -woot! ^.^

[Drew]

I've been dual-boxing for a week now (yup, total noobie), and have gotten lots of great info from this site. This topic in particular seemed like a godsend, as it'd keep me from mousing back and forth between windows. Seemed like that, anyways.

Except that it didn't work!

I checked and double-checked my keymaps, made sure everything was typed correctly and that I was loading the right keymap to the right copy of WoW. Still nothing. So I just suffered along with the mousing back and forth. (And there was quite a lot of that, what with all the collection quests in Mulgore!)

Then I gave things in the topic another read. Keymaps - check. Load them up - check. Mouseover - check. Keybinds - check. Click assist macro - wha?

Wait, I click my assist macro?

DOH! :wacko:

Thanks again to the topic creator and everybody on this site who's put up good info for all of us new to dual-boxing.

And for your patience.

[Redbeard]

Ive played wow since release but ive never used auto loot... what are the consequences of turning on Auto loot? I am just testing out this interact with object thing now and of course it wont work that well without auto loot on. I would just hate to have some awesome bop item drop and i have auto loot on and my shaman gets a nice 2H sword or something haha. I am assuming that if i have it on master looter that I wont have any issues, but just looking for verification.

Edit: nvm on this i found it (stupid me, lol)

[Svpernova09]

Ive played wow since release but ive never used auto loot... what are the consequences of turning on Auto loot? I am just testing out this interact with object thing now and of course it wont work that well without auto loot on. I would just hate to have some awesome bop item drop and i have auto loot on and my shaman gets a nice 2H sword or something haha. I am assuming that if i have it on master looter that I wont have any issues, but just looking for verification.

Edit: Additionally, id like to try out the click to move option, but I cant for the life of me find it under the options anywhere. I dont see it on any interface sub menu, on the video menu, etc..... i feel dumb.
Thanks.

You can't loot a BoP item without getting the pop up dialog warning, so no one is getting any epix without seeing a dialog if it's BoP.

[Darelik]

3. Also, you can miss recipes that drop.

easily solved by setting loot to FFA :thumbsup:. your main/activetoon will see the recipe but will appear as 'red' and unlootable (coz its only lootable by the toon with the relevant profession).

[hendrata]

Hello,

If I'm reading this correctly, so
1. when you set Alt-Z to "interact with target", you only set them on your slaves
2. Alt-Z is not bound to anything on the main account
3. Pressing Alt Z does nothing for the main but tells slaves to loot.

Now the difficulty is this, I have several trios and the "main" for each of them are on different accounts. I'm retarded I know, there's a long story behind it. I do change from one to another trio quite frequently. That means before each triboxing session I need to readjust who has Alt Z bound to interact with target and who doesn't?

I'm thinking of the following approach, please let me know if this wouldn't work. Gonna try it this evening:
1. Mouse shift-right-click maps to Alt-Z to slave1, alt-right-click maps to Alt-Z to slave2, and the mapping is done via keyclone
2. I never really press Alt-Z itself on master.
3. Therefore I can leave Alt-Z bound to interact with target on ALL accounts.

[keyclone]

personally, i have one key for the '/assist focus' macro and another key for 'interact with target' (bound via wow/keybindings)

when i have an object i want all to interact with, like a quest giver or vendor, i click the target once, hit my assist key and then hit the interact key. nice for junking greys and auto-repairing as well as making sure they all loot the body for a quest item (you have to hit the interact key numerous times... as only one will be allowed to interact at a time)