Class setup

[Redbeard]

Are all of you guys hardware boxing? I am a software boxer, only have 1 machine, though im confident it should be fine with multiple instances.

When you talk about cycling through skills with a keymap... is that setup with ISboxer? I didnt use any keymap stuff in wow, i did most of my stuff through in game macros so im kind of struggling in that department.

What exactly does a keymap do, and how do you use it to make a sequence?

Appreciate any comments, and will also try to dig up some more info on my own (but theres not much lotro info on here =\ ).

Thanks.

[TheKeeperofTime]

Are all of you guys hardware boxing? I am a software boxer, only have 1 machine, though im confident it should be fine with multiple instances.

I am software boxing, I run all 6 accounts on one computer with 2 monitors. I use Inner Space and ISBoxer and have window regions set up for my 6 characters, I run my guardian on one monitor and the other 5 on the second monitor. I use the G1 - G6 keys on my G15 keyboard to swap each toon into the main window region, I mostly only need to do this to select a specific reward for quests.

When you talk about cycling through skills with a keymap... is that setup with ISboxer? I didnt use any keymap stuff in wow, i did most of my stuff through in game macros so im kind of struggling in that department.

What exactly does a keymap do, and how do you use it to make a sequence?

Yeah all that stuff is set up in ISBoxer. The section is called Key Maps. Basically it allows you to set up a key to broadcast keys to one or more toons, and steps allow multiple presses of the same key to do something different. So for example, I could set up my "1" key to send "1" to all 6 of my toons on the first press (step 1), "2" to my guardian and "3" to all the other toons on the second press (step 2), and so on (step 3 and beyond). You can set the key to reset to step 1 after not being pressed for a set amount of seconds.

[MonkeysUncle]

For a more serious post, just some tips that I've learned. Always put pots in the same quickslots on all toons, this way you know where they are in a hurry and if you have key maps set you can press one key and dispel that nasty fear or poison that plagues your group. The other thing is do all the book quests, may take a lot of time but when leveling its easy to run out of quests in a an area, due to always being in a fellowship and owning the content. The book quests are also good training grounds for dual boxers.. allowing you to run instances and learn your group. I would suggest going into Uru and CD at least a few times to learn them but also once again learn the group and what to do in oh )$)#@# moments lol.

Crafting wise have each of your toons a different proffesion, this way you can trade mats to the ones that need a given mat, and save inventory space... also you can make bank doing crafting once they are SM in the teir. Jeweler, Tailor and Metalsmith tend to bring home the bread and butter...

Another tip is be prepared for trollers in game.. some people hate boxers due to the Moors, and their lack of being able to kill a dual boxer that one shots them.... I personally don;t go to the moors on more then one toon. But year just know that people will send you tells trying to grief you... it happens.

Any way let me know if you guys have any questions.. we have a lot of knowledge amongst us, especially from the four and six boxers... now thats an art.

[MonkeysUncle]

I use a G15 keyboard and through that software I make my macros, you can do word strings on it.. so for instance I can bind F2 /follow Enter.......... or any combination of words and commands. I can even put timing intervals between them. Just don't get to complicated with times etc because Turbine does watch for that stuff, where someone is always using a macro that automates most of the skill rotations.... they another wards may think your a bot. I personally haven't heard of any one getting banned for it.

I don't use ISBoxer but am thinking of starting to use it. I use Input Director, its like a software KVM between computers. Theres some info on the forums here about it.

[Redbeard]

Thanks keeper id appreciate that.

[TheKeeperofTime]

The ISBoxer Wiki has some good information on setting up Key Maps, here is a link to the section on Key Maps.

For a follow macro here is what I do. On all your slaves enter the following chat commands:
/alias ;follow /follow
/shortcut 9 ;follow

Replace the number 9 with the quickslot bar # you want the shortcut to appear in.

In ISBoxer I have a mapped key set up that sends F2 and 9 to all other windows.