Which UI mod for Multibox?

[cookcpu]

I am looking for a set of UI mod for multibox. At present, I am using individual addon and I have to adjust the position and setting of all the addon for each individual character.

I am looking for a standard UI mod that will have default setting for all chars. Any recommendation will be appreciated. Thank you.

[Khatovar]

I Think you'll find most people use individual mods. UI Compilations have too much excess stuff, and many people use far less on their slaves than they use on their mains. Some don't use anything at all on the slaves.

Just lay out your main the way you like, save it as a specific profile and copy/paste the settings from your main's saved variables to your slaves. Then load that profile on your slaves.

[Ualaa]

About the only addon I use as a boxer, that I didn't before boxing is Jamba.
But there are some nice ones, like Altoholic which can be configured to share information between your accounts.

[cookcpu]

I guess I have to set up a standard profile and copy and paste it over all the other chars. Yes, I have high latency problem when I have too many addons.

I like altoholic but I have to uninstall it as I find it to be one of the reason that cause high latency. (I might be wrong too).

Altoholic need to have each account to be present near each other before you can updated all the content in each char.

Thank you for the advise.

[Daeri]

The issue you describe often lies in addons which make intensive use of the communication channel. You might want to check if it's the case for you with this addon : spamfu

Also, altoholic is a very nice tool but I unfortunately find it a bit too much cpu intensive for my computer, even when running on a single account (it keep scanning everything all the time) so you can imagine how worse it can get when I start running several accounts at once. Not to mention that syncing between accounts must be done manually and can take a while and I would always forget to do that step before logging out :P

[JackBurton]

One important question no one has brought up is what addons should we be staying away from? What addons only the primary master should have loaded.

[Khatovar]

I think that's all rather personal preferance and/or common sense. What good does running MikScrollingBattleText do on slaves? Do you really need Auctioneerx5? Do you need really need an alternate map on all your toons when you drive form the main? Do your slaves really need custom name plates? I could get by with Pitbull only on my main and my healer, but I'm not sweatin' the resources, so why not run it on everyone?

I just load up a resource monitor like sh:Performance and look at what the various addons are taking up. Aloft was a huge pig, so I dumped it in favor of Tidy Plates, which only my main needs. FuBar was a waste of resources, when I can just let Bagnon handle my docking. Gathermate and Lightheaded were a tie for "OMG WTF?" so Lightheaded got the boot and Gathermate runs only on my main. And I use Addon Control Panel to enable and disable mods on a need-to-use basis. Things like Gathermate, Silver Dragon, Questing Mods, Tradeskill mods do me Zero good if I'm just using the dungeon finder to auto-port from Dalaran to the dungeon and back again.

[zenga]

On my slaves I have
- bagnon,
- jamba
- bartender (since i want to keep the same keybinds / layout for every toon when I raid one solo)

On my main:
- atlas (for dungeon maps)
- auctioneer (to become rich)
- bagnon (to find my stuff)
- buttonfacade (really handy, as I give each actionbar a different look, means I can easy recognize the set of spells when i play a new class/toon)
- chatter
- decursive (pally)
- enchantrix
- grid (fell in love with it while raiding)
- jamba
- lightheaded (saved me lots of switching to my browser to look up certain quests / comments)
- mapster (i want to resize the big map so when i'm flying i can still turn around when i have the map open)
- msbt
- minimap button frame
- omen3
- postal
- quartz (very nice cast bar)
- recount
- shadowed UF (every time i try out pitbull or x i switch back to shadow after 30 minutes)
- spamsentry (does an amazing job with blocking all gold spammers, zero configuration needed)
- tidy (threat) plates (i was fine playing without name plates till i started to team up with other players)
- titan panel (displays some key info for me on top of my screen)
- tomtom
- uberinventory to search my guild banks
- dbm + spelltimers

I got so used to the comfort that these bring, that i'd have a hard time removing one. And my system is still running fine.

[Ualaa]

I generally run with one toon as the leader, the others on follow.
But like things to look the same, no matter who I switch to.

I only have auctioneer/quickauctions on one account.
But otherwise have all addons on all accounts.

[cookcpu]

I use a single wow folder for multi-box but all the addon will be the same for all the account and chars. So I have to turn off each addon individually for those slave account, am I right to say that.