EQ2.. Keyclone or ISboxer?

[Grimgolem]

What are most people using now days? I used to 6 box about a year and a half ago and am just now trying to get back into it. I used to use the old keyclone/innerspace combo, but i'm intrigued by the new ISboxer.

I boxed in DAoC with HotKeyNet, and from what I understand so far, ISboxer is kind of similar. I like the fact that it has the custom keymaps, mouse repeater, etc. seems as if it has quite a few neat features but difficult to setup.

Anyways, just curious peoples opinions and what other fellow boxers are running now days I have all 6 of my accounts setup ready to go with RAF activated.. just waiting on my new HD to come in the mail to get started (died a few weeks ago, had one of those raptors =\)

I think I'm pretty set on: Paladin, Fury, Templar, Illusionist, Troubador, Warlock..

suggestions?

[Captive2]

I use ISBoxer and have been pretty satisfied. I run all six characters on a single machine, but I think ISBoxer can handle multiple machines as well. I use it simply to broadcast keystrokes to one or more other instances (some keystrokes only go to my healers, for example). I don’t do any automation by assembling multiple actions into a single keystroke – I think that kind of thing is frowned upon.

Setup was a fairly straightforward process, and I believe there are setup wizards now available that may make it even easier. The screen layout facility is really slick, in particular. Since EQ2 doesn’t have any mouse-positioned AOE spells (as opposed to WoW), I don’t have any need for mouse-pointer broadcasting. It took me several hours the first night to get things figured out. I watched the walk-through videos on their wiki site, and eventually it all made sense.

That looks like a pretty tasty group to me. I haven’t played a Paladin tank – but I do have an Illusionist / Troubador combo in my current team. You won’t run low on power very easily, and since your DPS will mostly come from casting you should do very well with that combo’s buffs. I believe Paladins and Shadowknights hold multi-target agro more easily than Guardians, which should come in very handy with your Warlock pumping out lots of AOE damage. The Paladin’s healing ability should be a nice complement to the Fury’s dps-centric healing, as well. It looks like a very solid group to me – lots of AOE damage, a trio of potential healers, run speed buffs, ports, group invis, stacking power regen, etc.

I’ve been playing EQ2 and WoW in roughly equal parts over the past 5+ years (since their release, basically). I came back to EQ2 earlier this year to 6-box for the first time after 5-boxing WoW for the prior year. I like both games, but don’t see myself getting tired of EQ2 any time soon.

Have fun and welcome back!

[Grimgolem]

Hmm I guess thats something I should've mentioned. I plan on doing using 3 separate machines. I wish i could utilize one, but my computer isn't that spectacular. I can run about 3 reliably, 4 is pushing it (only 4gb mem). How would it work broadcasting to other machines? (I know you can with keyclone) From what I've read it seems like its single pc only.. unless I'm missing something.

[Captive2]

I could be wrong about multi-machine support. I'm at work so I can't check my setup just now - but I thought there was an option during setup to specify the machine(s) included. I'm almost positive it supports broadcasting to multiple machines - much like Octopus or other similar tools. Their website would contain that information, I suspect.