Mecurio's Cataclysm Multiboxing Macros

[Coltimar]

These macros need a disclaimer. I was doing WG solo on my mage the other day and my damage was really bad. Then I realized I was ONLY running WoW, no ISBoxer, lol.

Disclaimer: Use of these macros without multiboxing software could result in the need to press TWO buttons *GASP*.

[remanz]

Hey Tranz, you may already know this, but the ";" that you get ISBoxer to send half the time won't do anything unless you associate the ";" keypress to a button on your quick bars that fires off the Proc Macro for whatever toon you are running.

Once you associate the "2" key with the Sequence Macro and the ";" key with your Proc Macros, you never have to keep track of any procs for any of your toons. The macros are set up to optimize your DPS when you simply spam "2" on your keyboard. ISBoxer alternates your keypresses and you end up with great DPS.

Hmm I am still not very clear on how ";" will fire off and where the "alternating" happens. The toggle we setup as "insert" is not part of my DPS spam right ? It is there for me to disable to function or enable it.

when it is enabled , it is not a 2 step key spam as shown in. For 2 steps, you need to have 2 steps each send 1 key stroke, not 1 step that send 2 key strokes.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

So question NO.1

It is 1 key spam that sends two key strokes. So when I spam "2", it will fire off both "2" and ";" and sending them to all windows at the same time? And this is equivalent to spam "2" and ";" at the same time , not alternating between the two.

question NO.2

How would the proc ever fire off ? If "2" is always spammed, by chance, it might always fire Lightning bolt, not lava burst.


I understand this 2 step macro works as many have tested. Just trying to understand the mechanism behind it.

[Heenan]

I must also be doing something wrong. I have mine set up like this:

• 2-step set to toggle between hotkeys 9 and 10
• 2-step bound to hotkey 3
• Insert toggles 2-step on/off
• Spell macros copied to 9
• Proc macros copied to 10

Doing the above I dropped from 4.5k dps to 1.9k dps on the one shaman that I did it for. It looks like the toggle is working fine, and I see the spells rotating between each hotkey.

Am I missing something?

[Coltimar]

A couple of things i see remanz. You don't have ' setup in your macro, you have ; instead. So when your toggle is on you are spamming 2 and ; Also, the way this is setup, it looks at least, like it will spam both keys at once, not alternating. So 2 and ; will be spammed over and over. Sometimes your ; gets through and your procs fire off. I use this system and almost doubled my dps on 4 of my 6 dps toons and the other two showed slight improvement (both shaman).

All of that said, the macro that you put on your action bar in the 2 spot and the key that you have ; bound to will fire off. If you don't bind the right key to your proc marco it will never fire off.

[Coltimar]

I must also be doing something wrong. I have mine set up like this:

• 2-step set to toggle between hotkeys 9 and 10
• 2-step bound to hotkey 3
• Insert toggles 2-step on/off
• Spell macros copied to 9
• Proc macros copied to 10

Doing the above I dropped from 4.5k dps to 1.9k dps on the one shaman that I did it for. It looks like the toggle is working fine, and I see the spells rotating between each hotkey.

Am I missing something?

What is hotkey 3? Is this your action bar button 3? You copy your existing FTL DPS Keys DPS 9 and rename it 2 step (or whatever) then modify it to ALSO spam 10. Then make sure your toggle, Insert key in this case, is set to activate the 2 step FTL DPS Key that you made. So when you press Ins it will activate that keymap and pushing the 9 key on your keyboard will spam the macros on 9 and 10.

[Heenan]

Ah, I see. Yes, hotkey 3 is just action bar 3. I was leaving it blank, and letting it spam hotkeys 9 and 10. I'm assuming there's something with that that's giving the DPS drop.

I'll try it again tonight.

[Johalak]

I have used this method quite successfully, thank you to all who contributed to this, however I just have one question I would like clarified.

In the original instructions, you have stated that the hotkey will require two steps. I took this to mean that when I press my spam key, the first press sends a 2 to all windows (or whatever we have setup as our dps macro key) and the second press will send a ' (or whatever we have setup as our proc macro key) to all windows. So, if we were to do slow, deliberate key presses we would get alternating 2 ' 2 ' 2 '...

However, I just happened to notice in one of the submitted screen shots, it is setup as one step, sending both keys on one key press. Am I reading this correctly? Is the original intent of this method to send both keys on one key press, or alternating keys?

[ebony]

I have used this method quite successfully, thank you to all who contributed to this, however I just have one question I would like clarified.

In the original instructions, you have stated that the hotkey will require two steps. I took this to mean that when I press my spam key, the first press sends a 2 to all windows (or whatever we have setup as our dps macro key) and the second press will send a ' (or whatever we have setup as our proc macro key) to all windows. So, if we were to do slow, deliberate key presses we would get alternating 2 ' 2 ' 2 '...

However, I just happened to notice in one of the submitted screen shots, it is setup as one step, sending both keys on one key press. Am I reading this correctly? Is the original intent of this method to send both keys on one key press, or alternating keys?

ya same i think its alternating keys after reading it a few times over and over i find out a 2step is two steps.


more like this SS

[Bollwerk]

At least one of the screenshots in the OP is not setup correctly, from what I've found.
Also, make sure you include the FTL assist step when creating the 2 step macro (unless you have an /assist command in your macro already)

[remanz]

Ok that answered my question number 1

it is 2=> ; => 2 => ; => 2 => ; spam, and the initial screen shot was incorrect

The toggle confused me quite a bit. I thought I have to toggle on the fly while I was spamming.



I still don't quite get number 2. But I guess it is just like click macro, which I never fully understand how it fires off.

i.e. I am half way through my lightning bolt, I spam 2=> ; like no tomorrow. When lightning bolt done, how do I know if the next spell is lava burst, not another lightning bolt.