how to play wow. mash 1 button + /castrandom

[TEEJ]

this might work (again, tank/main is set as focus)

/castrandom [target=focustarget, help] Regrowth, Rejuvenate, Lifebloom; [target=focustargettarget, help] Regrowth, Rejuvenate, Lifebloom

if i target an ally it should cast 4 random heals on them (1 per nontank druid). if i target a mob, it should cast 4 random heals on that mob's target.

i just had another cool idea; have 3 druids do the random heal on the mob's target, while the 4th druid cyclones that mob. a good "oh shit heal that guy and cyclone the guy hitting him" effect.

i'm thinking i should have a button that does /cast [target=Ghostbusterz] Lifebloom
that is, later on, when i'm tanking heroics and such, i'd have to be more deliberate with stacking hots.

[Notes]

I don't think it's a good idea to go and tell new people about what you do. I eplxain multi boxing as controlling a few chars (2 till as much as you like) and the way you do it, isn't it just about smashing a few buttons ?

It's not mana efficient, no skills needed and it also might get boring very soon ...

Play the way you like but don't think it's the perfect multibox way, because I'm 100% is't far from perfect. I also like to check dps done by your party using random stuff against any MB's damage meter usiong skills and well times spells / CD's abilities.

[TEEJ]

here is a youtube video i found of a shaman with every key bound to frost shock for your enjoyment ^


http://youtube.com/watch?v=QhJeP1BT2JA

as a slight play by play, 80% of the screen is covered by frost shock buttons, and you can barely see anything in the center viewing window! i find myself showing this video to lots of people i meet that play wow at work (in the navy), heh.

i used to joke about binding every key to frost shock and rolling my face across the keyboard on my pre-TBC shaman!

I read this yesterday and I'm still laughing about it.

best.post.ever

[TEEJ]

it is my goal/enjoyment/challenge to dumb the game down to pressing 3 buttons that control 5 players well enough to farm heroics. play it how you want, i'll continue playing how i want. also, i think it's a great idea to go and tell new people about what i do. isn't that the purpose of this entire website/forum? for people who want to multibox to get tips and have a community to belong to? i've tried it your way, even without the use of keyclone. yea it was neat controlling 4 characters with 4 keyboards near eachother, kind of like playing 4 pianos at the same time.... but keyclone and macros make it a lot more managable/enjoyable. and the more people that find stuff i do/post about useful, the better.

one time i bought 3 usb numpad mouse combos. (mouses with a numpad on top). i got a piece of plywood and mounted them side by side next to eachother, after removing the mouseballs. i plugged one into 3 separate computers. i dumbed down the warlock class to 10 buttons (harder than you think), most of which weren't even macros aside from /follow and /assist which were both bound to mousewheelup. this was back in the day before "focus" stuff. having 3 numpads next to eachother, making the "rock on" symbol with my hand, so i could hit 1-0 on all 3 numpads at the same time with my thumb, index finger, and pinky. yeah, that's the hard way, yeah that sucked. yeah, when a pull went bad it was very hard to react and survive, which now changes with keyclone and smart/creative use of macros. i prefer keeping up with the times.

I don't think it's a good idea to go and tell new people about what you do. I eplxain multi boxing as controlling a few chars (2 till as much as you like) and the way you do it, isn't it just about smashing a few buttons ?

It's not mana efficient, no skills needed and it also might get boring very soon ...

Play the way you like but don't think it's the perfect multibox way, because I'm 100% is't far from perfect. I also like to check dps done by your party using random stuff against any MB's damage meter usiong skills and well times spells / CD's abilities.

wouldn't the perfect multibox way be the way that allows you to have any of the 5 characters do any action you choose on a keypush's notice? that takes a lot of preplanning and creative use of binds/macros. i'd hate for everyone to have to learn the hard way, so i share what i figure out. and yes, it is mana efficient, once geared, if properly played. i play on having 4 spellsurge enchants on my lvl 70 epic caster staves once i'm up there, that gives 50 mp/5 per character per proc. if all 4 proc, 200 mp/5 times 4 is a cummulative 800 mp/5 across the 4 casting toons (if main is tanking via swipe/mangle). not to mention dreamstate (regen mana equal to 10% of your int every 5 sec even while casting) and intensity (allows 30% of mana regen to continue while casting). the cheap mana cost of 4 lifeblooms (1 per character) and effective burst of 4xstarfire/wrath/moonfire will not only make healing the tank super easy and bursting down the tank's target super easy. the only thing that i will have to work on (other than gearing the toons via quests and 5mans and pvp epics) will be managing threat, which i have a plan for already. the caster druids will be something like 43/0/18, which takes both mana regen talents, and the 20% less threat from both heals and nukes (subtlety) in resto tree. bear tank will need enough attack power for swipe to keep more aggro than 1 druid's worth of lifebloom on the extra targets. then, i just have to ensure enough threat to outdps 1 druid's worth of caster dps on the kill target. mangle every cooldown (6sec) is great threat, swiping between mangles should be more than enough even on main target, considering white dps.

if you have any constructive tips, then please by all means share them, but if you're just gonna "naysay", please take it to a different thread/person. that being said, i do see and understand your point... i just come from a different perspective. i've been multiboxing the hard way since around 1999 in everquest 1. did a lot of daoc boxing also. before that i multiboxed diablo 2, kind of... i had a barb buff me, and a sorc enchant my weapon, with max buff effect and duration skills/items. then i'd play a different character on ezmode. speed run challenges were fun. especially forcing yourself to choose a crappy class or spec, despite barb/sorc buffs.

i much prefer the easy/methodical/efficient way, this new way i am trying to implement/learn with the help of others, some of whom are already doing it similarly.

[Nixi]

When I first got into multi-boxing I didn't take the time to plan out my keybindings and I 'boosted' my clones with my 70 main. Once my clones got to around 50 they were powerful enough to start contributing to the bottom line DPS and efficiency of the group. But going from 10 abilities per character to like 60 abilities per character was overwhelming, and I didn't really know what half the shit did anyway.

I just used /castrandom for my 'open fire' dps button just to work in new abilities i've never used before. Loved it and found it to be a very effective way to reduce the monotony of seeing fireballs and shadow bolts pelting the target over and over.

I'm happy to see there's others out there taking this to an extreme. Every time I think of a new macro where I want to use castsequence i pause for a moment and consider how castrandom might work better. With a lock using conflagerate, i think the cast random is great because the cast sequence can jam up if the immolate wore off. Plus with my warrior I put victory rush and sweeping strikes on the mousewheel down key (along with cleave but it's not on the GCD so it always tries to cast). This let's me do multi-target dps without wasting another key for sweeping strikes and everytime victory rush is up i'm punching the guy with the free attack. Great stuff.

:thumbsup:

[Notes]

Well TEEJ you got me, I'm gonna use 2 buttons for the random cast ... :thumbsup: ^^

In a shorter fight it might be fun and the way Nixi used it, is even more nice(just to see what's what)

I'll post my findings later on lol

[Blokus]

Six walls of text (so far) crit you for 2000 damage!

[TEEJ]

anyone else out there do 1 feral 4 balance/resto hybrid and solo heroics?

[yarr]

this wouldn't be bad for multi-warlock teams in pvp.

You don't want all 4 to fear at the same time. But you wouldnt want a separate button for fear on each lock (WAY too much work ).

So you could have this kinda macro: /castrandom fear, searing pain, searing pain, immolate giving each lock a 1/4 chance to fear 3/4 chance to use a different skill. Each skill is 1.5 second cast. (immolate 1.5 with destruction talents) . Gives you a good chance for at least 1 fear on each button press, and some dps with the same button.


Could do the same kinda thing with instant dots, wouldnt be as efficient though since you have the chance to cast 2 of the same dot in a row thus over-writing the dot.

If you are too lazy to assign one curse to each lock, could just copy and paste a /castrandom [List all curses here] macro for each lock. Odds are you will end up with at least 1 useful curse on the target ^_^