I never switch screens, personally. Since my husband plays the tanks in my groups, I only ever have to worry about DPS and heals. If my main screen dies, usually due to stupidity, I just play through. Most healing classes have an in-combat rez. You will also have death prevention tools at hand. You'll avoid a lot of switching due to that alone. CC is big business. My CC buttons are all set up as Mezzer > Stun & Mez, bard > stop attack & charm, everyone else > stop attack, pet backoff. This gives 2 chances to avoid a wipe from a loose mob.

I use some very primitave macros for the moment, breaking things up into spell effects. Debuff, DD, AOE, heals/wards, triggered buffs and such. Having the ability now to create hotkeys for all 10 banks of buttons will make things much cleaner. I am so very bad at making use of multiple modifiers and I just can't seem to "see" things when my buttons are all crammed together, so this will allow me to break things up better, both macro-wise and space-wise. Now if they would just fix the "abillity queue off" thing {I've /bugged it twice now} we could make something more in line with /castsequence. Ability queueing will take some getting used to for anyone coming over from WoW.

Like Noxxy says, information is hard to come by, which is rather odd because multi-boxing in some form or another is very, very common in EQ2. We are not a rare sight at all. Well, maybe we are in that we box full or near full groups, but a LOT of people 2box the alt-tab way. But we don't have the number crunchers and theory-crafters that WoW has. All you'll really see is people spitting out the info they get from ACT, and as Noxxy pointed out, that's all about parsing the big DPS numbers and not about utility and group synergy. Figuring out that stuff is the hard part...learning to play better.

I'm putting off a lot of my own digging until I hit 80 since we're not in dungeons right now. After WoW, I just want to romp around in the world and not worry too much about details. And there's a lot of details to go into with so many AAs to play with and dissect. Running a full group on regular quests doesn't give me enough info to look at for my own inept theory-crafting. :whistling: