Switching to ISBoxer, tips wanted.

[ghonosyph]

i did this as well, swap from keyclone over to isboxer. I had the cash left from a paypal transaction and figured i'd give it a shot. I had ONE HELL OF A TIME moving over from focus based systems and ftl, and i still to this day use the focus based system to a certain extent. The trick to doing it, is to turn isboxer into keyclone for repeating, (provided you don't wanna take full advantage of keymaps right away and the auto ftl)

The way i did it was to add a separate key for toggling repeating(keyboard) and repeating(mouse) so that i could use my pause keys button just like keyclones pause button. the mouse repeater part can be handy to click on targetted spells and stuff but you dont always want it on, it makes for messy mouse movement issues lol.

The next thing i did was to set up how my focus making would work. Since i already had my macros on a bar for focus toon 1, focus toon 2 and so on, already had keybinds set up this way on f9 thru f12 and shift f12, there was an EASY way to make it transfer over in isboxer. If you click into your character sets, for example i have a character set called paladins, click on that you'll see in isboxer toolkit, on the left hand pane, a box that lists all your toons in that set. click on the number one, in the right hand pane you're going to see on the top line "hotkey to switch to this character" make this hotkey whatever toon one's hotkey to /focus toon one is. IE i had it set up for F9, then the next /focus toon2 was on F10 and so on.

One more thing to do before you click outta this area, is to check mark "when i switch to this character, check mark the dot that says "broadcast this keystroke" and make it match the above hot key to switch to that toon. This way if you switch by clicking on the other screen instead of pressing the button, it will press the button for you anyway and you'll have the correct toon focused!


I had a rough go setting up keymaps, i use them now, as i've started to figure everything out, however its tricky if you're coming from a focus based system and swapping over to a ftl with keymaps, as you're going to have to "relearn" everything you've taught yourself about playing. Old habits die hard and it can get complicated

Good luck tho! if you'd like more info i'll be glad to answer any questions to how i have my focus system set up lol just pm me !

[dRiN]

I switched the day before last and tried to setup using the wizard. One thing that got me stuck was that I used a copy of an instance I had. I previously used different folders for different accounts so my setup would stay solid and the same over time for my characters. I used a focus based system with octopus. So after using the wizard I had some double bindings and some trouble figuring out how the parts are connected. Innerspace itself, ISBoxer, ISBoxer WoW Addon, Jamba, etc.

So after a few minutes of help from Jax looking at my ISBoxer exported profile on IRC I had the thing running with FTL for most of my bindings and I changed a binding so my chars would follow on every active screen.

Only thing I wished I would have done was start all clean so I did not have conflicting stuff from the transition and using the old instances of WoW because it can get a bit confusing if you try to do it all at once. So start as clean as possible and see where it takes you with the wizard and work from there. Recreating what you already had is reusable over all characters if you manage them well and name items properly.

Yesterday I got my different character sets going, with ISBoxer it is much easier to control this in a right fasion. Play two shammies, three shammies, a tank and a few shammies, a pala and a mage with some guildies, etc. Its all ready to go when you start them up.

Today I setup my healer region in combination with Vuhdo and alfabetic name sorting, LOVE IT!

Tomorrow I will start to tacle some of the things I did not felt up to doing, like oculust and its macro hassle. Now I will just setup some custom mapping with action steps that make sure I handle my rotations well. And for my PVE team get a dedicated healer in the mix so I can do the new ICC 5 man instances properly (4 elemental shammies healing is not cutting it anymore).