Multiboxing in LOTRO

[Ellay]

Oh ya, enjoyed the movies that was some sexy stuff.

[MonkeysUncle]

Thats so cool, I two box LOTRO atm. I was thinking of starting up a third account to knock out those 3 mans, good item XP etc. I'm on the Brandywine server. If you are in 21st you'll often see my Main RK, Laoniitas, or my hunters Iaoden or Laoborn. Shoot me a tell sometime. I'm part of the Brandywine Brewing Co. Our kin has a lot of dual boxers in it and infact our kin leader is a dual boxer (HIyde, Hanfor).

I've been searching the forums here for new ways to dual box on LOTRO. Currently I use Input Director between my Laptop and my Main desktop. I then use the Logitech G15 software to setup macros etc. Works pretty good for two accounts but three or more I can see will be a problem, or a lot harder.

[Ellay]

Do you have an effective way of assisting? or targeting?

[MonkeysUncle]

Yeah I just make sure Target Forward Assist is enabled on both accounts. I then use a macro I made that auto selects fellow 2 and follows them. From there I just quickly move my mouse back and forth between my screens to do attacks etc. I have a bunch of other macros as well that help.

I was just wondering also what software do you guys use. I heard Isbox was a good one.

[Ellay]

Hmm from the videos, there has to be a more effective approach to /assisting than clicking on each screen

[MonkeysUncle]

Yeah not sure, still trying to figure out how other people do it. I just have two accounts so the way I do it is pretty simple.

[Xtremepayne]

The key to making you characters target thru another is that the one they are focusing thru will be fellowship leader and do all the invites to the others. What happens to the others is that the group leader becomes the 2nd character in on each of the other characters lists. This way all you have to do it hit F2 to get them to target assist thru group leader

[Ellay]

This worked on offensive spells, but what about heals.

[Xtremepayne]

Well even I would like to know that one. I keep thinking that it would be a matter of making a keymapping that only the healer uses. What I mean is the use of F Keys. If using Innerspace, keymap those keys to your healer only. Then if more then 1 keystroke can be bound to the F Key, 1st part to select your target to heal and then the second part would be doing the heal itself. As you can see I have thought about but have yet to try it.
If using ISBoxer Toolkit, it is much easier to build your team now. with the release of Beta 33. And also keymap your keys. This is what I use currently and its the best I have used for boxing Lotro. I currently run 3 instances on 1 machine. All hunters, but I do have a 60 minstrel I would like to include in the place of a hunter. This is where I have been giving it some thought and how it could be done.

[MonkeysUncle]

True, you could go through the F keys to map for the min. If you have a Logitech Keyboard (G15,G19 etc) you could use the G keys and map a set of them to select certain members of the team and then do one or two heals such as Raise the Spirit, or Bolster Courage. You could even map one to use Soliloquy of the Spirit, if you get in trouble and you whole team needs heals. For the buffs and stuff I think you could easily press on the quickslot bar instead of mapping keys. Or use one or two keys and macro in a combination of your buff skills. So you press one and it gives more morale or power and then allows you to do more damage. Whatever combo of Minstrel buffs u want.