So.. need advice on how to proceed.

[olipcs]

I like to suggest two things here:

1. For 'specifiying a leader' use an FTL-Approach

2. For simple change-of-team-make-up use either ISBoxer or HKN+Jamba0.5-FTL-Helper

My reason for the FTL / What is an FTL :

An FTL (focusless, (targetless), leaderless) - Setup to specify the current 'leader' (so the toon the slaves assist/follow) doesn'T use focus or target to specify the 'leader' but the active window you are playing.

This is done by simply evaluating, when you press a key like '1', which window is active, and then send a predifiend combination of alt/ctrl/shift (a modifier-combination) to the slaves, identifying the leader.

So as an example if WoW1 is the active window, all slaves get a 'shift +1', if WoW2 is the active Window all slaves get a 'ctrl +1' an so on.

This is combined with a corresponding macro on each toon, that the reads like this:

/assist [mod:shift,nomod:alt,nomod:ctrl,target=Toon1][nomod:shift,nomod:alt,mod:ctrl,target=Toon2]...
(with Toon1 beeing the toon on WoW1, Toon2 the toon on WoW2...)

This macro is then bound to a button, and this button could be called in every 'cast' to automaticaly assist like:

/click ActionButton10 (the butto the FTL-Macro is bound)
/cast ...

What is realy nice in this setup is:
- You don't have to press a seperate-key if you want to switch the leader (like in the focus-approach), you simply only click on the window you want to use as a leader

Why do I suggest ISBoxer / HKN:

Although keyclone is fine and it can handle an FTL, the setup is quite complicated, as you have to define alot of keymaps/hotstrings to do so. (for KC and FTL in general see: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=10968 ) (the con here is the price, the pro the quick setup (and superfast windowswitching))

Of course, this more doable in an PVE-enviroment, where you can use simple castsequences for dpsand so on, than in PVP (but for PVP i wouldn'T switch my teams often )

ISboxer has an integrated FTL-Helper, so setup there is realy simple (see this viedo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZG6b9HjnM)
For HKN there are FTL-Templates, which help you with the configuration (see: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=17555 and http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=16177 ) (the 'con' here is that it has no gui, but uses script (which for me is a pro not a con), the pro is, that its free (and can do alot kc can't)

How to handle changing teams in an FTL:

- If you use ISBoxer, you can simply do the updates with the ISBoxer-profiles and the integrated Addon (there you would have to ask Lax how exactly to do it, as I'm not using ISBoxer)

- If you use Keyclone/HKN you would have to change the ftl-macro.
For this I suggest to have a look at the upcomming Jamba-0.5-FTL-Helper module.
With this you can, after specifying which modifiers to use for which char once, simply update your ftl-macro by typing '/jamba-ftl update' on one of your toons.
For the Jamba-FTL-Helper see: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=23377
and: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost....&postcount=114

(I know the last part of HKN-Templates+Jamba-FTL-Helper smells a littlebit like 'self-promotion', but as I 'developed' both, the FTL-Helper and HKN-Templates exactly for the reason of often changing-teams I think it might be interesting for you).

General thoughts, when often switching teams/members:

For switching member often, what I found important, is that you use the same general keys on all of your chars for te same functions:

I do this for example with the following keys:

^ (left of 1) - follow
1 - assist the leader
2 - dps-spam-button (healers havn't bound anything here, tank only simple-tank rotation)
3 - healer-button1 (3 = most used heal / shift + 3 = hot / alt + 3 = some way to heal the healer) on tank or focus
4 - healer-button2 (other healing stuff) on tank or focus
5 - AoE-heal-button
6 - AoE-Dps-Button
8 - Interrupts (this is not positioned good)

- for more advanced tank-skills I normaly use my mouse and click the abilities old-school-like
- for group-healing I use virtualButtons alligned under my grid, to induvidual heal group members, by simply clicking (with mouse-over-macros)