Jamba - Getting Started

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Macro, Macro: Variables and Macro: Macros

An integrated macro builder that uses tags to create macro sets for your team. Please see Jafula's thread here for how to make use of this set of modules.


Item Use

A wonderful way to get your whole team to use items at the same time. Some examples of the awesomeness of the Item Bar are :

• Using Quest Items. Some quests can get done much faster if you use an item at the same time on everyone. There are even quests where 1 kill can get you credit up to 5 times if everyone does it at the same time.
  
  
• Equipping items. If you run a team that is all the same class, you can drop a quest reward in the Item bar, use the hotkey and your whole team will find and equip it. No more searching your bags on all your toons to find a new piece of gear, quest "Armor", Argent Lances, etc.
  
  
• Using consumables. Got a slew of alchemists in your team? You can drop pretty much any consumable, from food to potions to bandages, even your hearthstone in the Item window to get everyone to use them at the same time.

To configure the appearance Item Bar, use this section. Once you have it set up the way you like it, open your Key Bindings {ESC > Key Bindings}. Scroll down towards the bottom & look for the Jamba-Item-Use section. Assign your keybinds for the bar on EACH team member.

To use the Item Bar, drag the item from your bag on your main toon & drop it in the proper spot on the bar. Your slaves will automatically receive this information from your main & put the item in the same place on their bars. Now all you have to do is press the hotkey you assigned & everyone uses the same item at the same time.

To remove an item from the bar, just drag it off the bar. Your slaves will automatically do the same.


Proc

This section is where you can set up announcements for various procs from your slaves to your main so you won't have to miss out on DPS boosts or talents because they are proc-related. Simply enter the name of the spell that procs & the text you want to display. Then choose where you want the display & set up your tags.

To move the Jamba Proc bars, you must enable Test Bars FIRST. Once they are enabled, you can move via Alt+drag.


Purchase

Set your team up so that they automatically restock any items they need from vendors. This means you never have to worry about anyone running out of things like food, drink or reagents as long as you visit those vendors. See my examples in Core: Tags to see how to make sure all the right toons are buying all the right things.

To add an autobuy item make sure "Auto Buy Items" is checked, then simply drag it from your bag to the text box. Enter a new tag if applicable & the max number of that item you want to have. This is a total number, you will not buy 200 Sweet Nectar every time you go to the inn keeper. Now click Add.

Scroll down a little further to configure your Purchase message.


Quest

This section makes picking up quests a lot less frustrating. There are 2 ways to pick up quests for multiboxers.

Sharing Quests

• This method has your main pick up all quests & then shares them with the rest of the team. If you use this method, you will want to look at the Accept Quests section, and make sure your team is configured to auto accept quests that your master is sharing. You will also want to enable "Master AutoShare Quests When Accepted".

Interacting

• With this method, you will have to make use of the Blizzard Click-to-Move and Interact With Target functions. Because not all quests are sharable, this is often the preferred method of quest gathering.
  
  
• To enable these features, go to your Blizzard Mouse Options {ESC > Interface > Game > Mouse} & enable Click-to-Move on your slaves {Enabling click-to-move on the master is not advisable...nothing is more annoying than trying to click a mob and running off into the distance}.
  
  
• Now go to Key Bindings again {ESC > Key Bindings} and look for the Targeting Functions section. Near the bottom of that section, you will find Interact With Target. Set this for everyone. I use ] for my team.
  
  
• Finally, create a macro on all your slaves to assist your main {such as "/assist MASTERNAME" or "/assist focus"}. Put that on a bar and set a hotkey for it. I use [.
  
  
• Now, whenever you go to a questgiver, you target it with your main, tell your slaves to assist, and then hit your interact button. Everyone should open the quest window at the same time.

NOW, back to Jamba. Enable "Toon Select & Decline Quest With Team" or "All Auto Select Quests". The first option makes your slaves mirror whatever action you take with your main in a quest dialogue window. The second always automatically accepts the quest.

A note on Escort Quests. Because Escort quests automatically pop up a confirmation box to the whole group when the first person accepts it, you will want to avoid having your slaves start and confirm an escort dialogue. This will cause the quest to glitch & not everyone will get credit for completion, even though the quest log says they all have the it.

Instead, make sure "Toon Auto Accept Escort Quests From Team" is checked and initiate & accept only from your main. This will allow your slaves to auto-confirm the popup & get proper credit upon completion.

Scroll down a bit for more stuff. The Jamba-Quest Log is a nice way to be able to actually manage your quests across the whole team. After you enable it, you should see a new bar in your default quest log.

Anything you do on the Jamba bar is automatically copied by your whole team.

• Select - Highlights the selected quest in your log on your whole team.
• Share - Shares the selected quest with your team.
• Track - Tracks the currently selected Quest's objective on your team.
• Abandon - Abandons the currently selected quest on your whole team.
• Share All - Attempts to share every quest anyone on your team has.
• Track All - Attempts to track all Quest Objectives on every team member.
• Abandon All - Purges all quests from all team members.

Quest Completion

You've done all the work, now it's time for rewards. This section allows you to configure easy quest completion.

Enable Auto Quest Completion

• If the quest offers no reward or only a single reward, you can opt to have everyone wait for you to manually accept the reward/completion, have your slaves mirror whatever your master does, or autocomplete without asking.
  
  
• If the quest has multiple rewards, you can have them wait until you manually choose & complete the quest on each toon, or you can have them mirror the completion with the master. If you have the slave mirror the master, you can opt for manual reward selection, everyone always takes what the master takes or you can use a modifier action. If you choose the modifier, you can hold down that key while you press accept or complete to make everyone choose the same reward. If you do not hold down the modifier key, everyone will choose whatever they have highlighted. This option is very useful when no rewards are usable or upgrades and you want everyone to select the same higher-value item for vendoring.
  
  
• The override is pretty self explanatory.

Sell: Greys

This allows you to autovendor any grey item without having to go through your bags.
You can also enable "Hold Alt While Selling An Item To Sell On All Toons". This works for any vendorable item, not just greys. This allows you to easily get rid of those stacks of Mystery Meat, Vyrkul Bones or even unwanted quest rewards with one click.

There is also an option here to toggle a list of what your team sells.


Sell: Others

This section allows you to add other commonly acquired, yet unwanted items to an auto-sell list. Don't have a need for all that water you pick up because you run a warrior? Add it to the autosell here. You can also add tags to items so you can vendor the water on your warrior but keep it on your priest.


Talk

This manages whisper forwarding, so if people send messages to your slaves, it automatically forwards to your main, so you don't miss any foaming nerdrage, grammatically painful gold spam or notices that you have may be lucky Blizzard mounts. Oh, and if you get a real message, you can even reply back from your main.


Taxi

Allows all your toons to end up in the same place when taking a flight from a flight master.


Warnings

This allows you to configure notices for various status updates on your slaves. You can set this up so you receive messages when you enter combat, when a slave is attacked, when health or mana fall below a certain threshold or if your fill up your bags.


Requests

Autodecline for duels and guild invites. You can also Auto Accept Rezzes without having to deal with clicking the popup boxes.


Toon: Merchant

This is where you can set up autorepair for your team when they go to a vendor with the option. You can also choose if your team repairs from their own funds or uses money from the guild bank to make repairs.