Dual boxing wow

[Ageary]

Hey all, I have had two computers (a Laptop and desktop) and two wow accounts lying around now for a while, so I have decided to level two characters from 1 together. I think my choices are more or less ideal, A priest and paladin, both have pretty simple play styles and it gives me boat loads of room for error.

So far I have this set up, my laptop is on my desk next to the desktop monitor, My Desktop is the master, I play the paladin on that with a keyboard + mouse. Then for the laptop I have a N52 with some keys bound to macros, such as /assist paladin /cast smite (hey its a lowbie !) and /heal paladin. I also have a key to follow the paladin.

Im finding it a bit tricky at the start, the main trip ups are the fact that if the priest is on autofollow, which it always is, it cant cast smite as my paladin is running into melee. The other one is when i have to do stuff that needs the mouse on the priest, such as loot.

So, are there any improvements to this scheme ? Id rather not try any 3rd party programs in case blizzard goes crazy with the banstick.

[Xzin]

Yes, there are tons. I encourage you to read the many discussions on these forums to get a feel for others methods.

[hapiguy314]

Hi Ageary.

Welcome to multi-boxing

As far as the issue with your paladin running to mobs which prevents your priest from nuking - dont worry too much about it. If you have 2-3 mobs on your paladin (or even just one) you wont be interrupted too much. You'll be unable to cast initially when charging the mobs. But when you've planted yourself and start whackin/concecrating - u'll be able to nuke away with ur priest. I 5 - box and I use a Paladin + Priest + 3 DPSers so I know where you're coming from.

When just grinding, use this sequence:

/castsequence Smite, Shoot

If you only keep on nuking with ur priest - u'll run out of mana pretty fast.

As far as looting, since I also use the Nostromo N52, I just position the mouse cursor a little bit right of my priest who is on autofollow (in your case on your laptop). Then I have the N52 software create a macro to keep repeating a Right Click macro. So all I have to do is walk over the corpse and it'll loot for me. You can normally kill mobs you're facing and usually the cursor is already on top of them. Set your interface on Auto Loot and you're money.

Hope this helps. Keep on truckin'