Characters you also solo play

[Perrigrin]

Guys,

I've been boxing for a long time now, but this anoys me still and I have no good workaround.

I have 2-3 chars I also play solo, all of them in at least 2 specs and raid environments - Right now it's a lot of manual work to swap between "box" mode and "solo" mode, in terms of buttons and replacing macros (in solo I use very few macros).

This is specially difficult on characters that are played as slaves when boxing.

What addons / tips / tricks do you guys use? Right now I'm simply moving buttons around to support it.

Thanks!

[Zugdud]

I use an addon called Macaroon which allows you to save and load keybinding/macro profiles on a whim. Great addon, though sadly the original author Maul has lost interest in WoW so future support seems kind of up in the air. I haven't been able to find anything else out there which offers the ability to save and load keybind and macro profiles

[Perrigrin]

I tried getting that working a while back, but couldnt seem to get it to float - and if it isnt updated I rather not swap to it -- any other ideas?

[Toc]

i jump between both all the time, solo and box mode. all i do is keep one action bar free, and use the standard blizz ui,
So that when i want to solo play all i have to do is hold shift + mousewheel down and hey presto. my solo setup.

[Perrigrin]

Yea Toc, that's what I've been thinking - Main issue then is that I tend to use many more buttons than that...

[Talos]

try out this addon, Action Bar Saver 2
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...BarSaver2.html
ive used it in the past, quite usufull in saving and restoring preset bar's

[Niley]

I have the same problem!
I raid solo on 2 toons, and 2 box warlock/shaman combo for a 3rd raid. I absolutely hate switching between solo/box mode.
I need to try all the suggestions here.

[heyaz]

I mostly eliminated this problem by switching to ISBoxer, since most of the essential macros are defined in ISBoxer and hidden in the interface (and the actual hotbars are just the spells without macros in many cases). When I play solo, ISBoxer and Jamba are disabled in my main config.wtf so they play solo just fine. For some uses I just use the second hotbar (for example one that doesn't have wind shear bound to every key like I use in arena).

I also moved away from macros with named characters, or ones without a target fall-through (having open brackets at the end). That helps the spells cast even if the other toons or targets aren't present.

[Gormand]

It depends how many bars you need to change. On my healer main (Solo play only) I have dominos as my bar mod and setup quick paging on my bars, then I have a macro that switchs my bars around (Same as shift + mousewheel) This switchs me between my solo spells and my healing macros. Only switchs 2 of my bars but could do more.
With dominos you get 10 bars, so if 5 is enough for boxing and 5 for solo then you can have 1 button that switchs the entire bar to solo mode.
When it switchs the bars it keeps the keybindings.

[Smoooth]

I do the same thing that Toc does. Action bar 1 is my boxing bar and 2-4 are always shown for both boxing and solo play. I just shift-5 to change bar 1 to bar 5 for solo play.